Duration

6 months

Location

Manila, Philippines

Reports to

Oliver Redrup, P4I

Closing date

10 Apr 2025

About P4I

Partnerships for Infrastructure (P4I) is the Australian Government’s flagship infrastructure initiative for Southeast Asia. It partners with Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to foster inclusive growth through sustainable economic infrastructure (i.e. transport, energy, telecommunications, and utilities).  

Delivered through a single cohesive team, the initiative is led by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in collaboration with EY, Adam Smith International, The Asia Foundation, and Ninti One. The Program’s Head Office is in Bangkok (the Hub).  

P4I focuses on infrastructure prioritisation and planning, policy and regulation, and procurement and project preparation (P4I does not finance the delivery of infrastructure). All services aim to address gender equality, disability, and social inclusion, and disaster risk reduction and climate change issues. P4I can respond to rapid requests but ultimately aims to develop longer-term infrastructure engagement.

Scope of Work

The selected contractor will be responsible for the following tasks:

Task 1 – review and analysis of current state

• Review and analysis of current state i.e., relevant DOTr functions, project development processes and roles and reorganisation initiatives to inform inputs to designing strawman structure/s, roles, skills and staffing needs for the internal investment mechanism
• Delivery team will review DBM submission prepared by DOTr. Consultant will be expected to input into this review by reviewing the outputs prepared by the delivery team.  

Task 2 – review and provide comments on the interim and final deliverables

• Review and provide comments on the interim deliverable – expected to be a structure/s of the mechanism including but not limited to functions, roles, skills and number of positions (and their descriptions and justification), processes, analysis required by the mechanism and governance.  
• Review and provide comments on the final draft deliverable – full report detailing final structure and recommendations.  

Task 3: Attendance at meetings  

• As required (given suitable lead time) the selected contractor will be expected to attend and contribute to project team meetings. This may include answering ad-hoc questions based on experience (no preparation required).  
• At the discretion of the project team, the selected provider may be required to attend meetings with DOTr officials and/or other government stakeholders.