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Project Description:

The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a signature initiative for the Australian Government that enables workers from 9 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and Timor-Leste to work in priority sectors in Australia. The Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program (PLMSP) provides tailored support to worker sending countries to address their specific needs and priorities. Palladium is contracted to deliver PLMSP on behalf of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 4,000 employees operating in 90-plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies, and, most importantly, people’s lives.

PLMSP’s role is to provide DFAT and governments in 9 PICs and Timor-Leste with support to enable workers to access PALM scheme in inclusive ways that maximise the benefits for the workers and national economies while minimising risks from labour mobility participation. PLMSP’s primary functions include capacity building for PALM scheme labour sending units; skills development and training for PALM workers; support for returning PALM workers and their families; information system management; monitoring, evaluation, research and learning; and communications.

The PALM scheme family accompaniment pilot (2024-2027) is an initiative to allow up to 200 long-term Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme workers to bring their families to Australia. The pilot aims to reduce the negative social impacts of long periods of family separation and strengthen ties with the Pacific and Timor-Leste. Families from 5 PALM countries are participating (Fiji, Kiribati, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu).

About the work:
 

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Coordinator – Program and Pilots will be responsible for designing and delivering high quality MEL support to the PLMSP program, including discrete pilots and sub-programs.

The Role:

The primary responsibilities of the MEL Coordinator – Program and Pilots can be broadly described as follows:

• Coordinate and contribute to data collection, analysis, validation and reporting for priority reviews and evaluations, particularly six-monthly rolling reviews and a final evaluation of the family accompaniment pilot.
• Coordinate and contribute to program-level monitoring and reporting, including routine data collection, analysis, and reporting against the PLMSP results framework.
• Support planning and delivery of program level reflection and reporting processes.
• Data collection activities, including creating and/or administering data collection tools (e.g. surveys, semi-structured interviews).
• Analyse quantitative data with Microsoft Excel or Power BI and qualitative data with Nvivo.
• Visualise data with Microsoft Excel or Power BI.
• Promote and follow PLMSP guidelines for ethical research, monitoring and evaluation and ensure MEL processes are culturally responsive.
• Ensure that cross-cutting priorities, particularly in relation to gender equality, disability inclusion and social inclusion (GEDSI), are mainstreamed in all activities and outputs.
• Understand how innovation and technology shape the way we work and introducing new ways of working through AI, data and technology.

Relationships, Communication & Development

• Develop and maintain client and stakeholder relationships across assignments and maintain professional, respectful and effective relationships with your colleagues.
• Proactively lead internal initiatives to seek improvements, encouraging team participation and sharing of new ideas.
• Focus on self-development by assessing individual contribution against the capability framework, welcoming and embracing regular feedback from others and developing skills in providing balanced feedback to others.
• Create, promote and maintain an equitable, diverse and inclusive work environment through respecting the views of others, listening with empathy and resolving differences in a positive and constructive manner through applying effective conflict resolution techniques.

Other

• Other tasks as reasonably requested by the MEL Senior Manager or Manager – Program and Pilots.
• Travel locally and internationally, as required.
• Foster equality, diversity and inclusion, drawing on capabilities from within the country/region wherever possible.
• Comply with, and advocate for, DFAT’s policies in all aspects of implementation, including gender, disability, fraud and anti-corruption, PSEAH, child protection and environmental and social safeguards. This includes incorporating policy principles into planning and everyday work, promoting process improvements, and reporting concerns to your Line Manager or Palladium’s Integrity Hotline (details on Palladium website).
• Operate with high levels of integrity, consistent with the intent of DFAT’s Ethics, Integrity and Professional Standards Policy Manual.

Reporting Requirements

This role reports to the MEL Manager – Program and Pilots. Reporting requirements may include but are not limited to:

• Attendance at team meetings, other requested meetings and regional meetings (e.g. townhalls).
• Regular (minimum of monthly) one to one meetings with your line manager on the status of personal Key Result Areas (KRAs), career development discussions and any other matters.
• Palladium encourages flexible work practices to enhance wellbeing, productivity and team culture. For this role, we require that employees maintain an in-office presence for at least 50% of their working week. For example, if an employee works five days a week, they must spend at least three days physically in the office.

Required Qualifications:

Minimum Education and Experience Required:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of MEL systems and evaluations for international development programs.
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant social science, supported with demonstrated experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Excellent organisational, project and team management skills, including an ability to initiate and follow up tasks, delegate, prioritise and monitor progress, manage a team to achieve targets and outcomes.
• Experience working with DFAT and/or on DFAT funded programs, and experience working in the Pacific, will be beneficial.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills including internal and external stakeholders in Australia and in partner countries.
• Demonstrated quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, preferably including experience using Microsoft Excel and Power BI to analyse and visualise survey data.
• Strong training and facilitation skills, including ensuring that learning events are engaging and dynamic, and achieving desired outcomes.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to communicate with diverse audiences using multiple channels (infographics, written, workshops, reports, etc), and to communicate results to people without technical backgrounds.

Due to the evolving nature of our program, it is possible that the incumbent may be expected to undertake duties that fall outside the remit of their original Terms of Reference as reasonably required to ensure the ongoing success of the program.

Where this is required, the following will occur:

• The adviser has the skills and experience to fulfil the duties.
• This arrangement will be short term in nature.

Core Capabilities

Palladium’s Core Capability Framework outlines the standard of performance and behaviours expected at each level within the organisation. It also provides a benchmark for assessing areas of potential strength as well as the identification of potential skill gaps or areas for development and improvement.

The project Capability Framework forms the basis of how we recruit, how we lead and the behaviours we exhibit, how we manage performance excellence and develop our future workforce.

Our capabilities link to a number of other processes, policies and guidelines including:

• Performance management/ performance excellence - setting and maintaining standards and helping employees excel and develop
• Career Pathways including our Career Progression Framework
• Organisational design – identifying any skills gaps, outlining job roles and responsibilities
• Development, growth, learning, and training
• Sustainable business – going beyond compliance to ensure sustainable and ethical considerations are woven throughout everything we do. This aligns equity, diversity and inclusion; safeguarding; and environmental objectives