Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)

• Locally Engaged Employee - contract up to 31 December 2027
• Based in Suva, Fiji 

Full-time opportunity in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Full-time Management opportunity in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Full time management opportunity in Port Moresby, PNG.

Full-time opportunity, based in Honiara, Solomon Islands

The Australian Government, through the PNG-Australia Transport Sector Support Program Phase 3 (TSSP3) implemented by DT Global, is supporting Papua New Guinea to achieve a more effective, efficient, and inclusive transport system, enabling the economic and social development of PNG.

The objective of this Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to engage a supplier to deliver construction materials to the TSSP3 Bougainville Project Management Office (BPMO) in Arawa to assist with the ongoing Bougainville Trunk Road maintenance, rehabilitation, and emergency works.

The construction materials will include items such as culverts, gabions, reno mattresses, guardrails, geofabric, bridge components, and pavement materials.

Background

The Market Development Facility (MDF) is a multi-country Australian Government funded initiative, with locations in Fiji, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. MDF aims to stimulate economic growth to create improved employment and income earning opportunities for the poor by making selected sectors of the economy more competitive and stimulating business innovation. MDF is implemented by the Palladium Group and Swisscontact and started operations in Fiji in July 2011.

Investment Fiji (IF) is the official Investment Promotion Agency of the Fijian Government and focuses on attracting foreign direct investment into Fiji. The two key aims of Investment Fiji are (1) To increase the success of Fijian businesses globally and (2) To match high value capital investment with Fijian businesses and opportunities.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between MDF and Investment Fiji on 12th February 2021 to further strengthen collaboration efforts to support Investment Fiji’s capacity to promote foreign investment into Fiji and Fijian exports globally. MDF and Investment Fiji are now seeking a suitable service provider to develop an investment prospectus for Fiji’s mahogany sector.  The investment prospectus will be a key document to enable Investment Fiji to effectively market Fiji’s mahogany industry and potential to foreign investors.

Mahogany was one of Fiji’s first forest plantation crops that was introduced in the 1960s and is grown in the Central/Eastern areas of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, covering approximately 50,000 hectares. These plantations are managed by Government’s commercial company, Fiji Mahogany Corporation Limited (FHCL) and sit on “iTaukei” (indigenous) land, with around 200 “Mataqali” (clans) involved in the industry as landowners.

Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP) 

• Seeking one (1) qualified Infrastructure Senior Project Managers (SPM)
• Long term personnel – commencing August/September 2025 – 30 June 2027 with possible extension
• Open to Fijian nationals only
• Suva, Fiji with travel to Divisions 

*Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM AEST on Monday, 25 August 2025. We encourage you to apply early as the position may close sooner if a suitable candidate is found.

• Position: Short Term (up to 20 days per year)
• Reports To: Team Leader
• Location: Ideally Australia or Pacific Islands

REnew Pacific

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 4,000 employees operating in 90-plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies, and, most importantly, people's lives. 

REnew Pacific is a $75m investment by the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) under the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership (PCIFP), that will help deliver off-grid and community scale renewable energy in remote and rural parts of the Pacific. It is to be delivered over a five-year period from 2024-2029. The goal of REnew Pacific is to demonstrate Australia's role as a climate infrastructure partner of choice in the Pacific. This will be achieved by increasing access to affordable and reliable electricity, which will create opportunities for improved human development.  

Through the program, Australia will also support Pacific Island countries (PICs) to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by electrifying rural communities and avoiding Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions commensurate with the program’s capacity. The program will run a grant application and management process for projects that will enable lighting, access to water, improved agriculture, better food security, quality education and health services, reliable communications connectivity and enhanced incomes. The program covers all Pacific Island countries eligible for overseas development assistance and Timor Leste. 

About the Program 

Investing in Women: Women in Inclusive Sustainable Economic Recovery (IW) is a multi-country Australian Government initiative in Southeast Asia that seeks to accelerate women’s economic empowerment through increased and equitable opportunities in the private sector, contributing to inclusive, sustainable economic recovery and growth in targeted countries. Our objective is to support women to thrive in the workplace and succeed in business.

Building on the results, partnerships and lessons established under the first seven years of the program, IW’s new phase will extend and deepen Australia’s contribution to advancing gender equality in Southeast Asia through influencing and growing an ecosystem of policymakers, business leaders, capital providers and women’s economic empowerment actors. 

Positioning women at the centre of economic resilience and accelerating their economic empowerment is critical to achieving a wide range of sustainable development objectives in Southeast Asia. As the region recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, gender-sensitive economic recovery strategies will be critical to prevent further deterioration in women’s economic empowerment indicators as seen during COVID-19. Focus on an inclusive recovery seeks to harness the productivity, skills, capacity, talent, innovation, and leadership that women offer, and realise the benefits of women’s economic empowerment for themselves, their families, and their communities.

IW continues the ambitious agenda of advancing women’s economic empowerment through:

• Workplace Gender Equality (WGE) – We support Business Coalitions that work with influential businesses on shifting workplace cultures, practices, and policy barriers to achieve workplace gender equality, with member companies together employing more than one million people;

• Enabling Policy Reforms – We support locally identified reform agendas that promote women’s workforce participation, generate support for the business case for WGE, and build the case for the value and importance of the care economy to business, the economy and women’s economic empowerment; 

• Campaigns and Communities of Practice – We support locally driven campaigns in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam that highlight positive examples of gender equality to strengthen public support for women’s economic participation. Through fostering a community of gender equality advocates, IW will continuously build evidence that supports the broader adoption of progressive attitudes and behaviours; and

• Gender Lens Investing – We work to increase investment in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that disproportionately benefit women in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. We do so by increasing capital providers’ demand for Gender Lens Investing strategies and products, catalysing the supply of financial instruments available to small businesses owned or led by women, and investing in the growth of SMEs that support women through a ‘fund of funds’ strategy. 

In collaboration with corporations and business leaders, policymakers and implementers, capital providers, entrepreneurs, and advocates, we are working with those who are driving change for women's economic equality in our region.

Investing in Women supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 Agenda and the leveraging of private sector investments to achieve the Goals. The SDGs recognise that gender equality is not only an essential human right, but a necessary foundation for peaceful, prosperous and sustainable societies. 

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has contracted Abt Associates Australia to implement Investing in Women. Abt Associates Australia is a mission-driven, global leader in research, evaluation and implementing programs in health, social and environmental policy and international development.

Investing in Women’s new phase is anticipated to be up to AUD 80 million in value, initially for four years (from January 2023 to June 2027), with an option to extend for a further six years. Initial countries of focus will be at least Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, with some activities engaging at a regional level. Further information about Investing in Women can be found on the website: www.investinginwomen.asia.