Data & Impact Senior Officer, Partnerships for Forests
Job Title: Data & Impact Senior Officer
Palladium grade: Senior Associate
Location: London or Bristol, UK
Reports to: Impact Data Lead, Partnerships for Forests
Contract Type: Full-time fixed term contract, 100%
Applications without a personalised CV or cover letter are unlikely to be successful.
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 3,200 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.
The Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use Programme – Phase 2 (Partnerships for Forests, P4F) is the flagship programme in the Climate and Environment team at Palladium. P4F is split into three components, this position is primarily focused on Component 1, with collaboration and coordination opportunities for working with Component 3. P4F is a grants and technical assistance facility that supports businesses and investment models in which the private sector, public sector and communities can achieve improved returns from forests and sustainable land use whilst protecting existing forest, restoring degraded land and improving agricultural land management and production practices. All this work is focused across the tropical forests belt.
P4F will run for 5 years from February 2025. Depending on performance and subject to funding, the programme may be extended for a further 5 years (up to 2035). The programme is funded by the UK government.
The Data & Impact Senior Officer will support in the delivery of P4F systems strategy, PMIS development, insight and analytics, security and compliance. They will work closely and collaboratively with the P4F teams and across Palladium to understand user needs and assist colleagues in the design and implementation of information systems, data and analytics. A strong communicator, they will collaborate with colleagues to navigate change, and adopt and make better use of tools, while also clearly and coherently communicating findings and results. In all cases, the primary focus is on programmes and activities in the tropical forests and sustainable land use space, although there may also be opportunities for those more focused on temperate environments.
The position is based in our London or Bristol office, and it is expected the person works from the office at least 3 days per week.
Reporting and supervision
Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships across teams, gather and respond to feedback, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical solutions for non-technical audiences.
Commitment to positive impact, ideally with experience in environment, tropical forests, sustainable land use or agriculture systems development programmes.
Understanding of current relevant legislation and its application to the safe use of data, organisational data and information security standards, policies and procedures relevant to data management activities, principles of the data life cycle and the steps involved in carrying out routine data analysis tasks.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made during the recruitment process (due to disability, neurodiversity, or for any other circumstance), please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
