Location: Preference for Brisbane-based candidates, but highly qualified candidates in other locations will be considered
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Lead is responsible for providing overarching management of a large multi-country and multicultural team of MERL specialists, coordination of MERL inputs across PLMSP and quality assurance of MERL team products. As a member of PLMSP’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the MERL lead also helps guide PLMSP’s strategy, operations, and engagement with DFAT, partner governments in the Pacific and Timor Leste and Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR).
While the role requires a level of MERL expertise and experience, the successful candidate’s most important attribute will be an ability to lead and motivate a large and diverse team.
The MERL Lead will focus on achieving two main outcomes:
- implementing PLMSP’s MERL plan to ensure PLMSP and DFAT get the information they need to manage PLMSP’s delivery against the Program’s end-of-program outcomes (EOPOs); and
- supporting DFAT’s stakeholders in the Pacific and Timor Leste (particularly partner governments) to improve labour mobility policies and practices through access to more and better information.