Family Accompaniment Enumerators

**Family Accompaniment Enumerators**

**Project Overview**:
The PLF works with DFAT to support the administration of the PALM scheme and facilitate opportunities for Australian employers to connect with workers from the Pacific and Timor-Leste. The PLF is managed by Palladium and has been established as a trusted intermediary in supporting Australia-Pacific circular labour mobility.

**Role Overview**:
The purpose of the **FA Enumerator** position is to work with the FA Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager to conduct key informant interviews and household surveys with PALM families settled in Australia under the pilot.

Field work will be conducted within a five-day research window on up to four occasions throughout 2025. Fieldwork will be conducted no less than quarterly.

FA Enumerators may be required to travel away from home during the five-day research window. FA Enumerators will return to the same community of families on each occasion to build familiarity and rapport with participants.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Under the direction of the Family Accompaniment M&E Manager, the FA enumerator will be responsible for:

- Complete mandatory data collection, ethical and safeguard training prior to field work
- Work within an ethical protocol to conduct key informant interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire
- Work within an ethical protocol to conduct a household expenditure survey using a device for the collection of data in Qualtrics
- Collect data in a timely manner and in accordance with the prescribed data management protocol
- Attend and participate in data sense-making activities with the FA M&E Manager
- Escalate issues arising from surveys and interviews to the Pilot Manager, as required by the research ethical protocol
- Liaise with the Family Liaison Officer (FLO) for logístical support and management of field work.
- Other tasks as reasonably requested given the pilot nature of the project.
- Travel within Australia, as required.
- Operate with high levels of integrity, consistent with the intent of Palladium’s Ethics, Integrity and Professional Standards.

**Required Qualifications**:

- Demonstrated experience in interviewing people of different cultures and genders, with specific experience of Pacific and Timorese cultures preferred
- Post-graduate degree, or working towards, in social science, economics, international development, gender, human-rights or related field
- Enumerators must have their own driver’s license

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 fulfill the duties.
- This arrangement will be short term in nature.

**Benefits**:

- Work with a friendly and supportive team with diversity of skills.
- Great organisational culture in CBD location
- Working for a program that is making a positive impact.

**Applications close on 20 December 2024 and will be assessed on a rolling basis.**

**About Palladium** - 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 3,000 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.