Special Projects Senior Manager – PLMSP

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) builds on the successes of the Pacific Labour Facility (PLF) program, with a renewed focus on the provision of 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).

PLMSP will need to respond at short notice to ad-hoc requests on specific policy, thematic and cross-cutting issues relating to the PALM scheme.  These requests will generally take the form of Tasking Notes identifying specific research, monitoring, and reporting deliverables as well as required short term coordination functions. The PLMSP team may also initiate high impact special projects in dialogue with DFAT.  The Special Projects Senior Manager will oversee these activities, ensuring they are properly scoped, high quality outputs are produced, outcomes are met, and political complexities and risks are effectively managed.