Leadership Group member - Rural Direction

Summary

Overarching Profitable Grazing Systems Project Objectives 

The overarching objective of the PGS program is to encourage and support red meat producers to improve their management skills, to increase profit. The program objectives to be completed by 2022 are:

• To increase the average profitability of participating red meat producers by 2.5% ROAM by improving their skills and capability.
• A commercial model which involves user pays for the private good component of the activity (generally the delivery), with MLA contributing a maximum of 30% of the delivery cost of supported leaning projects.
• 5,000 producers attend feeder activities with 10 -15% of them going on to participate in a supported learning program.
• 2,900 producers participate in supported learning programs to increase their skills and knowledge:
• 2150 producers increase their skills and knowledge above a skills audit score of 75% (competent);
  50 deliverers have increased capability to a point where they can deliver effective high quality supported learning programs;
  Increase the average confidence rating of participating producers to use key skill sets or do key tasks to greater than 8/10;
  At least 70% of participating producers have made practice changes underpinned by a change in skills.

PGS Leadership Team Objectives

• The engagement of the leadership team was intended to provide support to the national and state coordinators in performing their roles.
• Further to this, the leadership team provided some mentoring (where relevant) to deliverers to assist to improve the capacity of service providers to develop and deliver supported learning projects (SLPs).

The Leadership Team members participated in the following activities:

• Participate in the delivery of feeder and recruitment activities on behalf of the delivery network
• Support state or national coordinators in reviewing supported learning projects developed by MLA or deliverers, as required
• Deliver supported learning projects under the proposed adoption program banner (minimum of one per year)
• Mentor PGS deliverers where identified a need
• Provide support to the PGS national coordinator by providing feedback and recommendations for overarching program improvement and individual supported learning project progress
• Act as a champion for PGS
• Support good governance of PGS Program

The Leadership Team have been successful in providing strategic feedback and advice to MLA regarding the running and development of the PGS program.

Leadership team Contracts: L.PGS.1808; L.PGS.1809; L.PGS.1816; L.PGS.1811; L.PGS.1812; L.PGS.1813; L.PGS.2001; L.PGS.2002