The Asia Foundation (TAF) Philippines Office is seeking a qualified professional to serve as a Communications Officer (Consultant) for the Promoting Growth, Resilience, Economic Stability and Sustainability (PROGRESS). This five-year program is funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and implemented by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with TAF serving as a subcontractor. 

The Consultant will develop and implement PROGRESS program communications plan, produce stakeholder engagement materials, and ensure the program’s visibility meets DFAT’s branding and communications standard. The position supports effective internal and external communication across the program, including with Philippine Government counterparts, development partners, and DFAT. 

The Asia Foundation (TAF) Philippines office seeks an experienced professional to serve as a Finance and Contracts Officer for the Promoting Growth, Resilience, Economic Stability and Sustainability (PROGRESS) project. This five-year program is funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and implemented by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with TAF serving as a subcontractor. 

The Finance and Contracts Officer is responsible for the day-to-day financial management of PROGRESS in-country operations under TAF’s subcontract with BCG. The role ensures that all program expenditure is accurately recorded, compliantly managed, and fully auditable in line with DFAT’s reimbursable cost model, and that BCG receives timely and accurate financial data to support monthly invoicing to DFAT. The position supervises the Finance and Contracts Assistant.

The Asia Foundation (TAF) is seeking an organized Program and Administrative Assistant for the Promoting Growth, Resilience, Economic Stability and Sustainability project in the Philippines (PROGRESS). This five-year program is funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and implemented by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with TAF serving as a subcontractor. 

The Program and Administrative Assistant provides day-to-day programmatic and administrative support to the project team, ensuring smooth office operations, effective coordination of program activities, and compliance with organizational and donor policies. This role serves as a key point of contact for scheduling, logistics, procurement support, and documentation, enabling technical and management staff to focus on program delivery. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven international development environment. 

This role is open to suitably qualified PNG National candidates only.

Summary

• Duration: 1 year with possibility of extension
• Location: North Kalimantan
• This position is open to Indonesia nationals and permanent residents with authority to live and work in Indonesia. This is a full-time national position.

About Palladium

Palladium is a global development and consulting firm, part of the GISI Consulting Group, working alongside some of the world’s leading project management and engineering organisations. We partner with governments, businesses, investors and communities to design and deliver complex programs that create lasting impact. With a presence across more than 90 countries, Palladium offers the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges, alongside talented colleagues, in environments where your work can truly make a difference.

Background

Indonesia’s Vision 2045 sets the goal for Indonesia to transition from a resource-based economy towards an advanced service, technology, and knowledge-based economy by the centenary of its independence (2045). The 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Plan emphasises the urgency of Indonesia’s human resource development to fully realise 2045 goals.

Faced however with persistent low student performance that is emblematic of a learning crisis, significant improvement in student learning will be required to reach Indonesia’s 2045 goals. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has started an ambitious program of education reforms. Successive education ministers have set out to modernise the education system through reforming the national curriculum and teaching and assessment approaches, to produce citizens with strong foundational skills, open minds, and inclusive values.

Australia is a long-term supporter of the Indonesian basic education sector, with continuous investments supporting education quality improvements for the past two decades, including through the INOVASI program (Phase 1 2016-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023) that focused on supporting acquisition of literacy and numeracy foundational skills in early grades classrooms; exploring local problems and solutions; and generating evidence to inform government policy development and practices.

This third phase of INOVASI (2024-2027) builds upon the existing program’s approach and lessons learned and takes the focus on the development of foundational skills through to the end of the primary grades. Phase 3 will engage with priority issues of Australia’s development policy: gender equality, effective inclusion of children with a disability, responses to the climate change challenge in education. It will focus on the challenge of policy implementation and the gaps that exist between national policies and practices at district and school levels, and use the well attested-success of INOVASI’s local problem-based approach to continuously support policy development for effective fit between policy and implementation context.

The Program is implemented by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.

Purpose of the position:

The District Officer is responsible for strengthening district-level education ecosystems by enhancing stakeholder collaboration, policy alignment, and capacity-building. The role combines support for inclusive teaching/learning practices, instructional leadership, and climate-responsive strategies while ensuring effective implementation of INOVASI’s goals.
Working with children

The PNG–Australia Strongim Wok Long Technical and Vocational Education and Training (SWLT) program is a four-year, AUD 80 million investment by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to support Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) efforts to strengthen its technical vocational education and training (TVET) sector. Aligned with PNG’s national priority to build an educated and skilled workforce for resilient economic growth, SWLT aims to enhance the quality, relevance, and inclusiveness of skills development. The program supports improvements in national quality assurance systems, technical college standards, graduate employability, and Australia’s visible and trusted development partnership with PNG.

The program aligns with the broader goals of the Australia–PNG Development Partnership Plan 2024–2029, which emphasizes locally led development, education investment, and inclusive growth, as well as PNG’s Higher and Technical Education Reform Act 2020.

The Manus Training Centre (MTC) is the sole provider of technical and vocational education in Manus Province. SWLT is supporting the Manus Training Centre (MTC) through a program of infrastructure upgrades aimed at improving safety, functionality, and long-term sustainability. This includes priority works such as perimeter security, lighting, and the refurbishment or development of core facilities to ensure the centre can deliver quality, inclusive TVET services.

Tetra Tech International Development is seeking an experienced and highly capable Delivery and Relationship Lead. We’re looking for a strategic leader with strong delivery, relationship management, and team leadership experience, to work under the Technical Services and Support Program (TSSP), part of Aus4ASEAN Futures.

• Location: Jakarta, or remotely from another city in Southeast Asia.
• Full-time.
• Fixed term contract with possibility of extension.
• Local contract

The Program Manager is expected to collaborate effectively with technical leads, advisers, subcontractors, DFAT, Government of Indonesia counterparts, KINETIK Partners, and other stakeholders to foster a high-performing team.

Background

The Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP, also referred to as the ‘Platform’) is an Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) funded initiative. Commencing in January 2025, it contributes to the delivery of Fiji’s national development priorities, in line with Australia’s International Development Policy, the Fiji–Australia Vuvale Partnership and the Development Partnership Plan. 

The Platform delivers key bilateral programs across health, education, scholarships, social infrastructure, governance, and emergency preparedness and response. Platform activities also address climate and disaster resilience, gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI), and localisation across and beyond sector programs. 

Through the Fiji Social Infrastructure Program (FSIP), the Platform is delivering the 45 Schools Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Development Program, which will improve access to safe, functional and climate-resilient WASH facilities across selected schools in Fiji. 

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