Team Leader - Overseas Territories Climate Finance Support Programme

About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 2,100 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
Palladium is part of GISI’s Consulting Group, which aims to create solutions for the world’s most complex challenges. With annual revenues of $14 billion, GISI’s approximately 15,000 employees are engaged in projects across 100 countries worldwide providing construction, program/project management, and engineering consulting services.

About the Climate Finance Support Programme: 
The Climate Finance Support Programme (CFSP) is a proposed FCDO programme designed to support UK Overseas Territories (OTs) to strengthen climate resilience, address infrastructure vulnerabilities and improve access to climate finance. The programme is expected to provide technical assistance, project preparation support and advice on the strategic use of a capital allocation for climate resilient infrastructure.
The programme is expected to support priority investments in energy security, water security and food-system resilience, with nature-based solutions and biodiversity safeguards embedded where relevant. It will aim to strengthen local project development capability and support OTs to develop investible propositions and sustained public, private and philanthropic finance relationships.
The Opportunity: 
Palladium is seeking an experienced Team Leader for the CFSP. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile programme at the intersection of climate finance, resilient infrastructure, blended finance and technical assistance. The Team Leader will provide overall strategic direction and delivery leadership for the Programme Delivery Unit (PDU), working closely with FCDO, OT governance, technical experts, investors and delivery partners to develop investible climate-resilient projects and support decision-making on capital allocation.
The successful candidate will bring senior programme leadership experience, strong climate finance and infrastructure expertise, and the ability to manage complex donor-funded delivery in politically nuanced, multi-stakeholder environments. This role will be subject to project award.
Location:  
The position is hybrid based in Palladium’s London office.

Key Responsibilities 
Strategic Leadership, Client Engagement and Representation 
-Provide overall strategic leadership and accountability for delivery of CFSP, ensuring the programme meets agreed objectives, milestones, quality standards and contractual commitments.
-Act as the senior point of contact for FCDO, OT stakeholders, consortium partners and technical experts, representing the PDU in programme governance, advisory and stakeholder forums.
-Build strong relationships with OT governments, Governor’s Offices, delivery bodies, utilities, project sponsors, investors and funders, while respecting OT government ownership, local political context and the constitutional relationship.
Programme Management, Governance and Adaptive Delivery 
-Lead rapid mobilisation and delivery of the PDU, including the inception phase, delivery plan, tasking arrangements, governance systems, annual work planning and front-loaded technical pool mobilisation.
-Ensure delivery is adaptive, politically informed, evidence-based and responsive to emerging priorities across participating OTs, including differing levels of readiness, ODA eligibility and capacity.
-Oversee high-quality, timely delivery of core outputs, including reporting, risk management, stakeholder engagement, capacity building, benefits realisation, technical assistance missions and investment pipeline development.
Climate Finance, Project Preparation and Capital Allocation Advice 
-Oversee climate finance mobilisation, blended finance structuring, investor engagement and project preparation activities, ensuring these remain within the regulatory and contractual parameters agreed with FCDO.
-Guide the development of a prioritised pipeline of bankable, climate-resilient investment projects across energy, water and food security sectors, including through concept screening, business case development and investor-facing materials.
-Ensure high-quality recommendations, due diligence, environmental and social safeguards, fiduciary controls, arrangements and reporting are in place to support decision-making on capital allocation.
Team Leadership and Management 
-Lead and motivate a multidisciplinary programme team and flexible technical pool, fostering a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing culture.
-Ensure the programme has access to the right technical expertise, including specialist climate finance, infrastructure, and sector expertise, with clear ways of working, decision-making and quality assurance processes.
-Ensure delivery meets FCDO requirements, Palladium policies and relevant UK Government standards, including safeguarding, modern slavery, fraud prevention, anti-corruption, data protection, subsidy control and EDI.