EOI - Coordinator - Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) program

⁠⁠⁠Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) are calling for interested and suitably skilled applicants to tender for the position of Coordinator for Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) program.

Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) is one of Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) flagship adoption programs which drives measurable, improved business performance outcomes for participating red meat producers. The MLA Adoption Strategy outlines an increased focus on long-term practice change programs, new awareness and learning channels, ensuring adoption is embedded within applied on-farm R&D and building the capacity of and attracting the supporting advisory network.

Purpose and description

MLA is seeking expressions of interest from suitably skilled applicants to perform the role of PGS Coordinator, supporting the MLA Project Manager. The aim of the role will be to continue to drive the successful delivery of PGS nationally.

Background

Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) is one of Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) flagship adoption programs which drives measurable, improved business performance outcomes for participating red meat producers. The MLA Adoption Strategy outlines an increased focus on long-term practice change programs, new awareness and learning channels, ensuring adoption is embedded within applied on-farm R&D and building the capacity of and attracting the supporting advisory network.

The PGS program uses a supported learning methodology to develop skills of red meat producers and supports the implementation of these new skills into businesses, improving profitability and productivity. The Profitable Grazing Systems program has been in place for nine years, with the program in a maturity phase, the Coordination Officer is required to support this stage and its continued growth.

The PGS vision is to be a financially sustainable adoption program aligned with MLA’s strategic goals for Research, Development and Adoption (RDA) output resulting in increased producer skills and capability, practice change and whole farm business improvement through increasing producer understanding of:

Business profit = management capability + evidence + value chain approach

PGS has a focus on achieving adoption through high quality delivery underpinned by robust monitoring and evaluation and a commercial approach to the user pays model.

The Profitable Grazing Systems guiding principles are:

1. Support producers adopting practices that deliver whole farm business performance improvements through evidence driven decision making, embracing a culture of monitoring and measuring, and managing,

2. Be driven by market outcomes and encouraging industry to be customer focused,

3. Work with producers that are willing to invest in improved business performance and professional development,

4. Support capacity and capability building of the service sector to enable development and delivery of effective, high quality, regionally adapted supported learning programs using sustainable, commercial business models,

5. Be built on robust monitoring and evaluation systems to enable skill development, practice change and industry impact to be measured,

6. Complement and value-add to existing programs and services,

7. Provide commercial value to both producers and deliverers - user pays model, and

8. Provide extension of MLA beef, sheep and goat research and development outputs, and utilise previous extension programs and packages.

For further details, please see the request for tender.

Expressions of interest must be lodged electronically to ethelander@mla.com.au

Applications close 5:00pm (AEST) 22 May 2026.

For any questions regarding this tender, please contact:

Elizabeth Thelander

Project Manager - Producer Led Adoption

Email: ethelander@mla.com.au

0428 472 983