About PARTISIPA
Australia is working in partnership with Timor-Leste, through the Partnership to Strengthen Village Development and Municipal Administration – known as PARTISIPA – to strengthen policies, systems and skills to improve the delivery of decentralised services and basic infrastructure across the country.
Building on Australia's long-term technical support to the Programa Nasional Dezenvolvimentu Suku (PNDS), we are working to strengthen local institutions, infrastructure, and service delivery at the subnational level (municipal, postu and Suku) with a focus on inclusive governance and community resilience. PARTISIPA integrates support for rural water with a focus on operations and maintenance and roads and road network management.
PARTISIPA mainstreams GEDSI across all components to ensure that government policies, planning and implementation processes continue to increase the visibility, voice, participation and agency of women, people with disabilities and other marginalised groups.
The Role
The Program Performance Strategic Adviser will provide strategic technical advice and quality assurance for the implementation of PARTISIPA's MERLA Framework and Plan, helping to ensure program impact, effectiveness, relevance, sustainability and continuous improvement.
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Timor-Leste
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic technical advice and quality assurance for PARTISIPA's MERLA Framework and Plan
- Ensure program impact, effectiveness, relevance, sustainability and continuous improvement
- Quality-assure MEL products, including six-monthly and annual reports, quarterly government reports, evaluation products, and technical briefs
- Support program closure planning, including building evidence bases for end-of-investment reviews, external evaluations, and final reporting
- Facilitate internal reflection, planning workshops, and learning processes
- Support donor and government partners in evidence-based decision-making
- Provide capacity development and coaching to national MEL team
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and/or program performance across complex governance, resilience, or infrastructure programs
- Demonstrated expertise with DFAT M&E Standards, including experience designing, reviewing, and quality-assuring MEL systems for DFAT-funded programs
- Proven experience developing and reviewing program indicators, baselines, targets, and performance narratives, preferably within adaptive, multi-pillar programs
- Strong track record facilitating internal reflection, planning workshops, and learning processes, and supporting donor and government partners in evidence-based decision-making
- Experience providing high-level technical advice to senior program leadership, donors, and government counterparts, including navigating politically sensitive or technically complex program adjustments
- Demonstrated ability to quality-assure MEL products, including six-monthly and annual reports, quarterly government reports, evaluation products, and technical briefs
- Experience in program closure planning, including building evidence bases for end-of-investment reviews, external evaluations, and final reporting
- Technical experience with knowledge management systems, including the integration of learning, analysis, and evidence into knowledge repositories and program decision-making cycles
- Demonstrated capacity development and coaching experience, especially building national MEL team capabilities in analysis, reporting, outcome measurement, and data use
- Strong understanding of GEDSI integration in MEL, including indicator disaggregation, inclusive MEL practices, and safeguarding-related reporting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including producing analytical reports and presenting findings to diverse audiences
- Demonstrated commitment to DFAT policies including child protection, disability inclusion, PSEAH, environmental safeguards, and anti-fraud/anti-corruption
Why Join PARTISIPA?
PARTISIPA is a friendly, cohesive and supportive workplace with over 150 staff working as technical advisers, engineers, finance specialists, operations, administration and logistics personnel. The team works directly with national government counterparts and subnational government partners across all municipalities, with staff permanently based in 12 municipalities.
Women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Please submit:
- An updated Curriculum Vitae, and
- A maximum two page expression of interest responding to the selection criteria
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Applications close: 13 March 2026 – 5pm Dili time (GMT+9)
Should this role be of interest, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Kindly note only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
