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In this highly collaborative role, you will deliver strategic technical support and intellectual leadership across decentralized education portfolios. Your responsibilities will include: Technical & Policy Advice: Deliver high-quality assistance to design, implement, and improve investments and policy coherence. Capability Building: Strengthen staff capability through training, mentoring, and developing global best-practice tools. Analysis & Evaluation: Monitor project outcomes, review international best practices, and synthesize lessons learned. Stakeholder Engagement: Build networks and facilitate policy dialogue with foreign governments, NGOs, and multilateral partners. Note: This position involves periodic domestic and international travel.
Job Responsibility
Deliver high-quality assistance to design, implement, and improve investments and policy coherence
Strengthen staff capability through training, mentoring, and developing global best-practice tools
Monitor project outcomes, review international best practices, and synthesize lessons learned
Build networks and facilitate policy dialogue with foreign governments, NGOs, and multilateral partners
Requirements
Education Sector Expertise: Proven experience in building effective, resilient education systems in developing countries, with expertise across sub-sectors such as basic/early education, skills/training, education technology, or inclusive education in fragile/conflict-affected contexts
Geopolitical & Strategic Acumen: Strong understanding of the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region (specifically Southeast Asia and the Pacific) and how they intersect with Australia's strategic development objectives
Intellectual Leadership & Policy Advice: A track record of developing investment concepts, monitoring complex programs, and synthesizing global best practices into actionable policy advice
Stakeholder Management & Dialogue: Exceptional communication skills with a demonstrated ability to navigate high-level networks, facilitate policy dialogue, and negotiate positions with foreign government partners and NGOs
Capability & Mentorship: Experience designing and delivering training, mentoring junior staff, or producing guidance tools to uplift institutional capacity