The Ian Potter Foundation Evaluation Panel (TIPFEP) 2022

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The Ian Potter Foundation Evaluation Panel (TIPFEP) 2022

Tender ID: 486015

Tender Details

Organisation:

The Ian Potter Foundation

Tender #:

Status:

Closed

Publish Date:

25 February 2022

Closing Date:

1 April 2022

Tender Description

The Ian Potter Foundation is a major Australian philanthropic foundation that supports and promotes excellence and innovation. Since 1964, The Ian Potter Foundation has contributed over $325 million to thousands of projects that respond decisively to key issues and develop our creativity and capacity as a nation.

Based in Melbourne, the Foundation grants nationally to support charitable organisations across four pillars:

Vibrant (arts)
Fair (e.g. employment for marginalised youth/people with disabilities and early childhood development)
Sustainable (biodiversity, land and water management)
Healthy (population-level health research and medical research equipment)

To learn more about the Foundation’s work please refer to our website: ianpotter.org.au

While each program area has its own grant-making priorities and objectives, the Foundation’s general principles are to fund prevention rather than cure, and to support and encourage excellence. We also look for innovative solutions and ideas and assess the long-term sustainability of the projects we support.

As such, many of the projects that we fund are evaluated, and often grantees approach us enquiring for evaluators. To this end, we are issuing our annual call for evaluators interested in being listed in The Ian Potter Foundation’s Evaluator Pool (TIPFEP). We use TIPFEP to recommend evaluators to our grantees with the objective of producing high-quality evaluation reports that will lead to projects leveraging ongoing funding (from government, social enterprise or other foundations). While we welcome applications across all our areas, current needs are particularly high for systems-change evaluations.

Ultimately, we may ask grantees to use only TIPFEP evaluators, but at this point we simply wish to be able to make recommendations.

If you are interested in being a member of TIPFEP, please send in the following:

Your CV/website link
A sample of your work

Essential:

Experience writing for Government (state/commonwealth) audiences
Error-free, clear writing
Financial/economic/SROI skills (can be subcontracted)

Desirable:

Sample clearly meets Level 2 on NESTA evidence standards, and ideally Level 3
Example of capacity building
Evidence of racial equity (e.g. in terms of staffing, mentoring)
Home office location. Please include your interest in accepting interstate jobs.
Your general availability in 2022-3
Your fee range. Please select at least one of the three options listed in the attached document.

To select TIPFEP evaluators, we use a rubric to grade the submissions. Please see attached document (below). We seek to include those evaluators who score highest across the criteria. Material should be sent to Squirrel Main at squirrel.main@ianpotter.org.au. Please be aware that (unless specifically noted as confidential) your work samples/CV may be shared with grantees and other foundation staff who use TIPFEP.

If you are already on TIPFEP, you will receive a proforma email enquiring about your interest in re-applying. As the quality of applications improves from year to year, prior applications will be re-assessed against the current submissions.

Deadline Friday, 1 April 2022, 4:59pm AEST - Please note email can be a maximum size of 10mb. (Dropbox is an option). This is a hard deadline.

Announcements Wednesday, 1 June 2022. Limited feedback may be provided upon request, and evaluators whose work is not chosen in 2022 are welcome to re-apply with new material in subsequent years.

To apply:

Material should be sent to Squirrel Main at squirrel.main@ianpotter.org.au- Deadline Friday, 1 April 2022, 4:59pm AEST

Location

Victoria : Melbourne