Location: Dili, Timor-Leste

Job Brief
Location: Jakarta

Through this EOI, we seek a Pacific Storyteller (Multimedia Content Producer) who can support Australia Assists’ communications and public diplomacy work. This role focuses on strengths-based, respectful, dignified storytelling that captures the impact of humanitarian deployments across the region.

The role may include supporting the Communications and Public Diplomacy Manager to deliver impactful photography, videography, interviews, and field stories.

The Communications Coordinator will play a key role in implementing the program’s communications and public diplomacy strategy. This position will support the development and management of digital media and content, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring effective promotion of the PNG–Australia Strongim Wok Long TVET program. We seek a professional with strong communication skills, creativity, and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

Abt Global is seeking a highly qualified individual for the role of Macroeconomic Stability Unit Manager on the Australia PNG Economic Partnership (APEP) Program. This role will report to the Team Lead - Macro-economic Stability and Public Financial Management.

Abt Global is seeking a highly qualified individual for the Senior Program Manager – Economic Research and Dialogue on the Australia PNG Economic Partnership (APEP) Program. This role will report to the APEP Director and will lead a small team based in Port Moresby.

Grants and Contracts Manager

About Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program     

The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a signature initiative for the Australian Government that enables workers from 9 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and Timor- Leste to work in priority sectors in Australia. The Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program’s (PLMSP) role is to provide the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and governments in 9 PICs and Timor-Leste with support to enable workers to access PALM scheme in inclusive ways that maximise the benefits for the workers and national economies while minimising risks from labour mobility participation. Palladium is contracted to deliver PLMSP on behalf of DFAT.  

Timor Leste Scale Up

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão released a joint statement on 21 December 2024 announcing bilateral funding of nearly A$50m (A$48.6m) for the Timor-Leste-Australia Labour Mobility and Skills Partnership, to equip Timorese workers with job-ready skills and provide them with more employment opportunities. The Partnership will help contribute to long term economic growth for Timor Leste and will assist the country to achieve its target of 10,000 workers in the PALM scheme by 2027-28.

Lead transformative partnerships in higher education and help shape the future of Papua New Guinea’s academic landscape.

About Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program     

The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a signature initiative for the Australian Government that enables workers from 9 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and Timor- Leste to work in priority sectors in Australia. The Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program’s (PLMSP) role is to provide the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and governments in 9 PICs and Timor-Leste with support to enable workers to access PALM scheme in inclusive ways that maximise the benefits for the workers and national economies while minimising risks from labour mobility participation. Palladium is contracted to deliver PLMSP on behalf of DFAT.  

Timor Leste Scale Up

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão released a joint statement on 21 December 2024 announcing bilateral funding of nearly A$50m (A$48.6m) for the Timor-Leste-Australia Labour Mobility and Skills Partnership, to equip Timorese workers with job-ready skills and provide them with more employment opportunities. The Partnership will help contribute to long term economic growth for Timor Leste and will assist the country to achieve its target of 10,000 workers in the PALM scheme by 2027-28.

Fiji Program Support Platform (FPSP)

• Long term position open to Fijian National candidates only
• Contract until 31 December 2027 with possible extension
• Based in Suva, Fiji
• Please apply online by submitting an up to date CV and a cover letter addressing how you meet the selection criteria of the role.  

Program Overview:    

FPSP (the ‘Platform’) is a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) investment which assists DFAT to deliver Fiji’s national development priorities, in line with Australia’s International Development Policy, the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Partnership and the Development Partnership Plan for Fiji.  

The Platform supports DFAT to 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, and 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.   

For the position described, the Platform will deliver the Fiji Climate Adaptation Program (FCAP) and the Disaster Resilience Program (DRP). 

Each program is governed by a program-level governance committee made up of senior DFAT and GoF representatives. The governance committees determine the work plans and strategic direction of the programs. It is the responsibility of the Platform to implement the decisions and directions of the governance committee, as well as to ensure seamless collaboration and alignment between the governance of the programs.  

Fiji Climate Adaptation Program Overview:

FCAP is Australia’s first bilateral climate program in Fiji. The program responds to Fiji’s escalating climate threats, particularly floods and cyclones, that threaten lives, livelihoods and infrastructure. FCAP will partner with GoF (led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Waterways (MoAW)) and civil society organisations (CSOs) to implement climate resilience activities. 

The objective of FCAP is to reduce flood risk and strengthen resilience to flooding through improved water governance, land management, livelihoods and early warning systems. FCAP will deliver the following outcomes: 

1. Strengthened governance & early warning systems to reduce flood risk and mitigate impacts
   • Support for national/sub-national governance, legal frameworks and planning systems to improve water resource management
   • Flood early warning systems and community flood risk plans
   • Delivered via technical assistance, capacity building, knowledge exchange and flood warning infrastructure.
2. Community-level climate resilience activities to reduce flood risk and mitigate impacts
   • Grants for practical adaptation in priority catchments.
   • Activities include nature-based solutions, climate-smart agriculture and ecosystem conservation.

Disaster Resilience Program Overview:

DRP is Australia’s primary bilateral disaster risk reduction program in Fiji. The program partners with Fiji’s National Disaster Risk Management Office (NDRMO) and Fijian-led CSOs to strengthen disaster resilience and improve the quality, inclusivity and timeliness of humanitarian responses at the national and community level in Fiji. DRP has two EOPOs: 

1. Strengthened institutional capabilities of the NDRMO to prepare for and respond to disasters and undertake resilient recovery.
2. CSOs more effectively manage their resources to deliver high-quality, inclusive, climate resilient preparedness and response programs.