Location: Remote

Abt Global is seeking a highly qualified individual to fill the Capacity Development Advisor- Commerce Trade Industry and Economic Development role on the Australia PNG Subnational Program. This role is based in Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and open to PNG Citizens only. 

Full time opportunity in Suva, Fiji.

Job description

This is an assignment for Strongim Bisnis, an initiative of the Australian Government in Solomon Islands.
 

Dates & duration: September 2025 - February 2026

Location: Remote with Travel to the Solomon Islands

Reports to: Steve Porteus, Director – Engineering and Projects at SolTuna

Intervention/area of focus: Timber

ASI contact representative: Danya Salinas, Strongim Bisnis Program Manager

Background to the Strongim Bisnis program

Solomon Islands Australia Partnership’s Strongim Bisnis program is an economic development initiative to increase economic opportunities and participation for people and businesses in Solomon Islands.

Recognising that Solomon Islands has a small consumer market and economy, dispersed population, and high cost of doing business, Strongim Bisnis identifies and analyses specific sectors that have a high potential for growth and can create new employment and income

generation opportunities.

We facilitate strategic partners (including businesses, government, civil society, and associations) in those sectors to address the root constraints to growth and inclusion (Women, Youth and People living with disabilities) through innovative solutions.
 

Background to the Assignment

SolTuna Limited, based in Noro in the Solomon Islands, is the country’s leading tuna processor and a major contributor to local employment and economic activity. The company currently depends heavily on diesel-generated energy for its steam and electricity needs, leading to high operational costs and significant carbon emissions.

A 2024 study confirmed that woody biomass from local sources presents a technically viable and sustainable alternative to diesel for process heat generation. Building on this analysis, the next phase will deliver a detailed technical, logistical, and financial design for a biomass boiler system that meets SolTuna’s current and future energy needs.This will include evaluating biomass fuel supply options—both primary and backup sources—assessing infrastructure and site readiness, and designing systems to reduce energy waste. The study will also explore staged integration of biomass-powered electricity generation and provide initial recommendations for integrating solar energy in a hybrid setup.

This work supports SolTuna’s long-term goals to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, improve operational resilience, and transition to cleaner, locally sourced renewable energy.

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Palladium International, the Managing Contractor for Australia Awards Myanmar (AAM) requests tenders for the design and delivery of an Australia Awards Short Course on the topic of Grants Ready. Prospective tenderers must be Australian Registered Training providers and/or Australian tertiary institutions. 

If your organisation intends to submit a tender for this opportunity, please register your intent to tender by emailing  tenders@australiaawardsmyanmar.org by 5:00pm AEST time on 15 August 2025. 

If a Tenderer finds any discrepancy, error or omission in the RFT or wishes to make an enquiry concerning the RFT, it is to do so in writing by emailing tenders@australiaawardsmyanmar.org by 5:00pm AEST time on 15 August 2024. Where appropriate, answers to any such notices or questions will be given in the form of addenda and will be issued to all registered Tenderers.  

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea based role for the Incentive Fund 5 Program

The Finance Coordinator manages payments, maintains accurate financial records and produces timely reports.

Full time opportunity in Suva, Fiji.

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), Workstream 1 – 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, Workstream 2 – 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, Workstream 3 – 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, Workstream 4 – 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.