KEY INFORMATION
Job Title: Investment Facilitation Specialist
Sector: Customs, Trade and Investment Climate
Position Type: Part-time
Duration/Level of Effort: Full-term
Position Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Contractual arrangement: “Eligible for individual (local or international) expert”
 
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
The CAPRED Facility is Australia’s flagship bilateral economic development program in Cambodia, focusing on economic recovery and resilience over the next four years, with a possible three-year extension.
 
The Facility supports Cambodia in implementing a range of necessary economic interventions and reforms to maintain the country’s economic transition. These interventions and reforms are primarily aimed at encouraging more productive and inclusive public and private investment, which promotes a resilient, inclusive and sustainable economy (RISE).
 
CAPRED interventions fall under three technical components including: Agriculture and Agro-processing; Trade, Investment and Enterprise Development and Infrastructure Development; and one Cross-Cutting component comprising: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Climate Resilient initiatives, and policy support. and policy support. GEDSI is at the heart of all that CAPRED does.

The Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Disaster Risk Management Phase II (SIAP SIAGA II) invites qualified Civil Society Organizations in implementing the SIAP SIAGA Program to strengthen disaster resilient villages through the following activities: Capacity Building of Village Facilitators/Assistants for the Convergence of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in village development programs. Detailed information regarding the objectives and scope of work of the program can be seen in the Terms of Reference document.

Cowater International is recruiting a qualified company or consortium to deliver rooftop solar integration training in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Our Team Up program is seeking a Social Inclusion Specialist based in our GHD office in either Suva Fiji or Port Moresby Papua New Guinea, for a fulltime fixed term position until 30 September 2026. This position will suit someone with strong technical expertise in disability and gender inclusion and/or protection who is comfortable with challenging existing norms and current discriminatory practices. 

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe.  We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of more than 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.  We are seeking three Business Service Officers for The Australia Awards Global Support Mechanism (AAGSM) located in Canberra.

In-country, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)

• 2 positions open for recruitment 
• Locally Engaged Employee - commencing March/April 2025 to March 2026; 12-month contract with possible 3 month extension 
• Renumeration for these positions will be in line with the Civil Service Salary Band G
• Based in Suva, Fiji with travel to Divisions

Abt Global is seeking a highly qualified individual to fill the Provincial Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator (MELC), West Sepik role on the PNG-Australia Transition to Health (PATH) Program. This role is based in Vanimo/WSP, Papua New Guinea and open to national applicants. 

Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)

• Short term personnel 
• 15 input days between 1 April and 30 May 2025
• Based in Suva, Fiji 

Program Overview:    

FPSP, also referred to as the ‘Platform’, a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) investment, will contribute to the delivery of Fiji’s national development priorities, in line with the Australia’s International Development Policy, the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Partnership and the Development Partnership Plan. 

The Platform will deliver key bilateral programs, such as health, education, scholarships, social infrastructure, governance, climate and emergency preparedness and response. Platform activities will identify and address climate risks, promote climate action, and gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) across and beyond the sector programs.

The Platform has three functional Outcomes: 

1. The Platform has delivered its sector program outcomes, including through supporting strategic coherence, planning, partnerships management, data and learning across the portfolio of investments.
2. The Platform has prioritised gender equality, disability-inclusive development, and climate and disaster resilience, in its systems and practices. This includes in how it undertakes sector programming and its engagement with selected Government of Fiji (GoF) agencies.
3. The Platform administers timely and efficient programming that is: value for money; maximises use of local supply chains; and supports good governance, and public diplomacy, effective decision making and risk management.

The Platform implements over fifty percent of Australia’s bilateral development support to Fiji across a range of sector programs in education, health, Australia Awards, disaster response, cyclone recovery, social infrastructure and technical assistance to improve public sector governance in Fiji.   

The Platform integrates cross-cutting themes, including gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI), climate and disaster resilience, across sector programs. In particular, the Platform seeks to strengthen program outcomes by better addressing the needs of targeted populations including those who are often marginalised. 

The Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) is Australia’s largest and most significant infrastructure investment in the Pacific. This $4 billion infrastructure initiative is actively engaging with countries in the region to significantly boost Australia’s support for infrastructure development in Pacific countries and Timor-Leste. The Facility uses grant funding combined with loans to support the development of high priority, quality infrastructure.

Over the next 5 years AIFFP plans to finance over $1 billion of Ports, Roads and Electrification infrastructure projects requiring expertise including skilled engineers, builders, electricians, plumbers, environmental scientists, accountants and project managers.  AIFFP intends to open up job opportunities for young Pacific Island professionals to develop their skills and experience in delivering the large-scale infrastructure works it finances. This is in addition to the opportunities which have been available during the project design and preparation phases i.e. with consulting teams contracted by AIFFP to undertake feasibility studies and deliver infrastructure designs.

AIFFP, through the AIFFP Support Unit (SU), requires external assistance by a PNG-based consultancy/service provider to identify, screen and create a database of potential recent and near graduates to supply a pool of work ready candidates to the contractors/consultants responsible for AIFFP project delivery.

AIFFP is seeking delivery of services through a PNG-based or substantially PNG-based firm or organisation to ensure local knowledge and insight in the identification of relevant graduates from both a location and sectoral basis.  The services and this requirement are to advance delivery of the AIFFP Local Content principle of maximising the use and upskilling of local labour and the private sector.

Interested suppliers are invited to respond to the attached Request for Proposal (AM11998), noting the conditions and scope of work within it, along with the following timeline. A Word version of Part E Suppliers Response From is provided for ease of response.