Job description

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.

Job Brief
This position is open to Philippine national applicants only

“Bring your energy and expertise to our team to deliver high-quality GEDSI approaches that elevate the work of the Australia-PNG Economic Partnership.”

Abt Global is seeking a highly qualified individuals to fill the Procurement Officer roles on the Australia PNG Subnational Program. These roles are based in Buka and Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and open to PNG Citizens only.

The Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) is the Australian Government’s specialist infrastructure financing program within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The AIFFP is an AUD4.55 billion facility investing in transformational infrastructure across a range of sectors in the Pacific and Timor‑Leste, including maritime, airports, energy, telecommunications, road transport and urban infrastructure. Export Finance Australia acts as the lender of record. The AIFFP provides financing to deliver quality infrastructure with a focus on strong social and environmental safeguards, generating local jobs and responding to the priorities of diverse communities. The AIFFP builds on Australia’s longstanding partnerships with the Pacific and its experience delivering quality aid programming that supports sustained development outcomes for communities. The AIFFP began operating on 1 July 2019 and has 57 signed infrastructure projects across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

The AIFFP is managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with support from Tetra Tech (the Support Unit). The AIFFP Support Unit provides advice and services to support the delivery of the AIFFP and its objectives.

Requirements

The AIFFP Support Unit seeks to engage a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Strategic Advisor from a consultancy services firm to provide strategic advice on MEL activities.

Services will be intermittent, until 30 June 2026, with a possible extension until 30 June 2027. The full requirements are set out in the terms of reference at Part B.

Cowater International is seeking expressions of interest from individuals & companies to provide services to the GBV Prevention Platform in SE Asia

Job Brief
This position is open to national applicants only

Evaluate and score Australia Awards Scholarship applications against Vietnam Intake 2027 criteria using OASIS or offline tools, provide evidence-based comments, and deliver a ranked list for the Joint Selection Committee. 

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.

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
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