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Location: Jakarta
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Supporting Effective Landowner Participation in Plantation Forestry Ownership
Position: Governance and Stakeholder Engagement Adviser
Program: Strongim Bisnis
Location: Honiara, Solomon Islands, with travel to Kolombangara
Start date: 1 May 2026 (approximately 50 days, as required)
Works with: Team Leader, Partnership Managers, and stakeholders
Position Summary and Justification for the Role
Kolombangara Island Investment Limited (KIIL) holds a minority equity share in Kolombangara Forest Products Limited (KFPL), representing the interests of landowner groups associated with plantation forestry operations.
Recent changes in KFPL’s ownership structure have increased the importance of strong governance, financial literacy, and shareholder capability within KIIL and its constituent land group entities.
KIIL comprises multiple land group businesses, each representing customary landowners. With KIIL holding a 20% equity stake in KFPL, there is a need to strengthen governance systems, clarify shareholder roles and responsibilities, and build commercial capability to support effective participation as an equity holder.
Strongim Bisnis seeks to engage a suitably qualified consultant to assess and strengthen KIIL’s governance and shareholder capacity in a culturally appropriate and commercially sound manner.
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Cowater International is seeking expressions of interest from individuals & companies to provide services to the GBV Prevention Platform in SE Asia
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Location: Remote
Consultancy position, up to 20 days input.
Make a difference in disaster response across the Pacific.
Tetra Tech International Development is seeking an experienced Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) Specialist to provide short term technical expertise to the Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC) program. This is your opportunity to play a role in Australia’s humanitarian responses, supporting communities affected by disasters across the Pacific and beyond.
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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.
INOVASI Phase 3 is implemented in 25 districts and cities across Indonesia, in the provinces of West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, East Java, West Java, and Maluku. The program also works in Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN).
The Program is implemented by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.
Purpose of the Position
The Deputy Program Director – Operations will be responsible for overseeing the effective and efficient management (HR, Finance, Procurement, Grants, Administration and IT functions) of national and sub‑national operations, ensuring that project implementation is aligned with approved program plans; support systems operate smoothly in accordance with Palladium, DFAT, and Government of Indonesia (GoI) policies and regulations; and remain responsive to evolving program requirements.
The Deputy Program Director – Operations is also responsible for overseeing the INOVASI Operations Manager, Finance Manager, HR Coordinator and Budget & Implementation Coordinator for performance management purposes. The Deputy Program Director – Operations may serve as the Acting Program Director, as assigned by the Program Director, on specific issues or during periods of absence.
Working with children
Is this position likely to come into contact with children? ☒ Yes☐ No
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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.
INOVASI Phase 3 is implemented in 25 districts and cities across Indonesia, in the provinces of West Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, East Java, West Java, and Maluku. The program also works in Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN).
The Program is implemented by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.
Purpose of the Position
The Operations Manager will be responsible for providing operational leadership and management of the national and provincial Operations teams to ensure that project implementation is flexible in responding to changing program requirements and is aligned with Palladium, DFAT, and GOI regulations.
The Operations Manager is also responsible for overseeing the INOVASI Procurement and Grants Coordinator, Activity Coordinator, Administration and Office Coordinator, and IT Specialist for performance management purposes.
Working with children
Is this position likely to come into contact with children? ☒ Yes☐ No
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Location
Apia, Samoa
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Play a key operational role within Humanitarian Logistics Capability, supporting the delivery of humanitarian responses through end‑to‑end procurement, service order management and logistics coordination.
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Cowater International is looking for Grant Partnerships Advisers (1 x international STA; 1 x national STA) to support the SPRING program in the Philippines.
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About the Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program
The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a signature initiative of the Australian Government that enables workers from nine Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and Timor‑Leste to work in priority sectors across Australia.
The Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program (PLMSP) supports the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and partner governments to ensure labour mobility delivers inclusive, sustainable benefits for workers, employers and national economies, while minimising risks associated with labour mobility participation. Palladium is contracted to deliver PLMSP on behalf of DFAT.
This Opportunity
The Talent and Organisational Development Manager plays a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering PLMSP’s end‑to‑end talent management approach. Reporting to the Project Human Resources Senior Manager, the role ensures the program has the right capability, leadership depth and workforce mix to meet both current delivery needs and future program demands.
The role has primary accountability for talent acquisition, workforce planning, leadership development and succession planning, underpinned by a strong organisational development (OD) lens that supports people leaders, particularly first‑time managers, and drives the evolution of PLMSP’s leadership capability, organisational design and people systems as the program matures, scales and adapts to changing delivery requirements.
Success in this role requires a genuine interest in international development and a strong desire to deeply understand PLMSP’s purpose, operating context and partnerships across the Pacific and Timor‑Leste, so that talent and organisational development strategies are meaningfully aligned to the program’s unique objectives and delivery environment.
This is a fixed term opportunity till September 2026.