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 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
About the Program:
The New Colombo Plan (NCP) is an initiative of the Australian government which aims to lift knowledge of the Indo Pacific in Australia by supporting undergraduates to study and undertake internships in the region, ultimately helping to strengthen Australia’s regional standing by building a diverse cohort of Australian alumni with deeper Indo-Pacific knowledge, capability, and connections.
Palladium is the Service Provider appointed to deliver the NCP Managed Administrative and Support Services (NCP MASS) program, reporting to and working closely with DFAT’s NCP Secretariat team, who have overall responsibility for program strategy, policy and oversight. Palladium provides an integrated suite of services to enable the NCP operational delivery and support achievement of the program's strategic objectives, across three programs: scholarships, mobility grants, alumni.
The NCP Scholarship Program awards scholarships to undergraduate students to undertake immersive programs of up to 19 months across 40 Indo Pacific host locations, involving university study, language training and internships.
The NCP MASS team provides administrative and support services to the Scholarships Program across its lifecycle phases, from promotion and selection of new awardees, through to pre-departure training and on-award case management support. This includes administration of scholar grant-based benefits; risk and incident management support; and contributing to communications, stakeholder engagement and monitoring and evaluation processes relevant to the Scholarship Program.