Team Leader

The Team Leader (TL) is responsible for the delivery of quality services, including strategic and annual planning, high level stakeholder engagement, and management and leadership of a program team of Short-Term Advisers and national staff.

The TL works in close consultation with DFAT Dili Post and other key stakeholders, including other Australian Government departments, alumni, Australian universities, private sector organisations and associations, and civil society actors, to drive progress of Australia Awards Timor Leste against the Australia Awards Global Strategic Framework and Australia Awards Global Monitoring and Evaluation Framework towards end-of-program outcomes. The TL also works to enhance the Australia Awards’ prestigious reputation in Timor Leste.

Location

The role is based in Dili, Timor-Leste on a full-time basis.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the position will be to:

• Advise the Australian Embassy/DFAT on the most effective use of a range of education and training options including scholarships and short courses, in line with DFAT’s priorities and in response to human resource development needs
  
• Lead development of Annual Reports, Annual Implementation Plans, progress reports and exception reports
  
• Lead development of strategies and other required operational documents
  
• Actively and strategically engage and work with senior DFAT and other partners (including through the use of the Scholarship Advisory Committee and Alumni Board in defining strategies and implementing activities)
  
• Provide technical, strategic, management and operational advice and support to DFAT on all aspects of the Program
  
• Participate in discussions with DFAT and respond to all requests in a timely fashion
  
• Lead Program staff in the pursuit of social inclusion, equity of access and ethnical standards, including attention to gender, disability, anti-corruption and participation
  
• Lead and oversee the identification of pilot initiatives to improve identified disadvantage group’s access to Australia Awards Scholarships
  
• Ensure the Program aligns with relevant policies and overarching strategies
  
• Be accountable for effective and efficient management of the Program and the team:
  

- Implement and oversee administrative systems and procedures to ensure that financial management, record keeping, procurement and reporting requirements are met

- Supervise day-to-day program management and administration, to ensure acute, timely and transparent delivery of activities

- Manage the Program team, including providing mentoring and capacity development opportunities for national staff, and dealing promptly and professionally with any performance issues in order to maintain the integrity of the Program

- Ensure the Program team maintain positive and professional communications with Program partners and stakeholders, in keeping with the importance and profile of Australia’s broader bilateral relationship

- Support opportunities to find synergies and value for money solutions with other Australia Awards programs, including in relation to Short Course options

• Ultimate responsibility to coordinate and ensure the timely submission of high-quality deliverables as per the requirements of the head contract
  

Reporting/Working Relationships

The Team Leader reports to the Contractor Representative, Australia Awards Timor-Leste (Director, Higher Education at Palladium). The Team Leader supervises the Program team, including the:

• Finance and Operations Manager
  
• Senior Coordinator
  

The Team Leader is the direct report for the program’s Short-Term Advisers and consultants and manages their input in collaboration with other members of the leadership team.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

The AATL Team Leader will:

• Have a relevant tertiary qualification in development, program management or other relevant field
  
• Have experience leading or implementing programs and activities in donor settings, preferably related to education, skills development and capacity building
  
• Have proven experience leading and motivating high performing teams and building their capacity
  
• Have high level written and spoken English language skills including report writing and public speaking
  
• Have proven experience working with overseas government stakeholders at a strategic and/or policy level
  
• Have experience working on GEDSI issues at a strategic level
  
• Have experience with leading and/or implementing/supporting media, communication and/or public diplomacy efforts in a government, education or development organisation
  
• Have knowledge and experience of implementing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plans in a development (or similar) program
  

Desired

• Experience working on an Australia Awards program
  
• Experience working in Timor-Leste or with Timor Leste organisations
  
• Tetun Language proficiency
  

Special Conditions

Palladium is an Equal Opportunity Employer which requires all staff to read and comply with our Corporate Policies including Code of Conduct, Work Health and Safety, Child Protection Policy, Fraud Prevention, Detection and Investigation Policy and complete Police and security checks where required under the policy.

Choose Palladium for

If you are looking for an opportunity that will allow you to create a positive impact in the international community development space, then this is the place for you.

The close date for applications is Monday 15 April, 2024

For more information about the role, please send your inquiry to: [email protected]