Asia Regional Lead, UK PACT

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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 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Palladium is recruiting an Asia Regional Lead to join UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme. UK PACT is a UK Government initiative funded through International Climate Finance (ICF), operating since 2018 and currently active over thirteen countries.

UK PACT is a flexible technical assistance programme designed to support ODA‑eligible countries in raising their climate ambitions, reducing emissions, and accelerating just transitions to clean growth. The programme’s overarching objective is to alleviate poverty, primarily by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The UK PACT Asia Regional Lead is a senior manager‑level leadership position, providing the core point of engagement between the UK PACT Project Management Unit and the UK PACT Funds operating in the Asia region. The Asia Regional Lead will offer leadership, provide strategic direction, operational and financial oversight of the delivery of all UK PACT Asia funds, and play a pivotal role in guiding the successful delivery of UK PACT’s ambitious climate and development objectives across Asia.

Asia funds currently include the ASEAN UK Green Transition Fund, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines Funds are designed to support responsive, demand‑led, technical assistance projects with high mitigation potential in any of the UK PACT sectors.

The ASEAN UK Green Transition Fund is designed to support the ASEAN Secretariat and its 10 Member States on net zero and supporting access to green finance, accelerated energy transition, mobility, and nature‑based solutions as part of a just economic transition. This programme will complement the UK’s large portfolio of bilateral climate work, e.g. JETPs in Vietnam and Indonesia, across the 10 ASEAN countries.

• Support Fund Managers to implement an adaptive strategy for UK PACT‑funded activities in the regional countries drawing on the various types of funds and technical assistance available under UK PACT;
• Collaborate closely with the FCDO Regional Lead to design and implement the UK PACT regional strategy, ensuring that each country implementation plan contributes to a collective impact greater than the sum of its individual parts;
• Identify specific synergies between ASEAN UK Green Transition Fund activities and bilateral activities in UK PACT countries that are also ASEAN Member States – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand & Vietnam;
• Identify regional synergies within UK PACT portfolios and complementary existing programmes (funded by the UK and other donors) to feed into UK PACT country implementation plans within the region, theories of change and log‑frames, enhancing potential impact and avoiding duplication;
• Work with Fund Leads to maintain an excellent working relationship with teams at Post and FCDO Country Leads in all countries within the region; supporting them in engagement with partner country government agencies, civil society groups, research agencies, (green) financial institutions and relevant private sector firms in order to collaboratively design and generate buy‑in for the programme’s strategy, plans, and resource requirements;
• Act as an ambassador for UK PACT in Asia, promoting funding opportunities to potential implementing partners, project and programme outputs to intended beneficiaries, and broader UK engagement on low‑carbon development where relevant, and as agreed with FCDO; and
• Be the main regional focal point supporting the PMU to roll out and…