Description
Drive evidence‑based change and help shape the future of education and development in Papua New Guinea.
Join Tetra Tech International Development as our Research, Knowledge & Learning Coordinator on the Australia Awards PNG program and play a central role in strengthening learning, insight, and impact across one of Australia's flagship development initiatives. Apply today!
Contribute to a world where people, communities, and the planet thrive.
Tetra Tech International Development is a leading consulting firm with a 40-year history of delivering impactful development projects worldwide. We work alongside government, business, and NGOs to solve complex challenges and create lasting change. For more information, please visit our website.
The Opportunity
- Location: Papua New Guinea
- Full-time, fixed-term appointment through to June 2027
- Australia Awards PNG, support the next generation of PNG leaders with opportunities to acquire professional and technical knowledge and skills
Australia Awards PNG (AAPNG) supports Papua New Guinea's development by strengthening education, knowledge transfer, and institutional capacity, while building enduring Australia–PNG relationships.
As the Research, Knowledge & Learning Coordinator, you'll lead meaningful research, uncover insights that influence decision‑making, and champion learning across teams and institutions. From coordinating formative and operational research to crafting compelling case studies and driving knowledge‑sharing, your work will directly support PNG's next generation of leaders and the institutions that guide them.
If you're passionate about research, learning, collaboration and positive development outcomes — we'd love you to bring your expertise and curiosity to our team.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Coordinate AAPNG learning reviews, including procurement and contracting, supporting Review Steering Committees, managing consultants, and overseeing data collection and initial report reviews.
- Lead AAPNG research projects such as workforce needs analyses, managing procurement, consultants, data collection, and early report reviews.
- Oversee case studies, supporting Case Study Steering Committees, guiding qualitative and quantitative data collection, and drafting briefs and reports.
- Identify and share awardee and alumni achievements with the communications team to highlight program impact and support public diplomacy.
- Support AAPNG scholarship promotion, applications, and selection
Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated experience in managing or conducting research in an international development context.
- Proven capacity in using quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
- Proven information and technology skills in data input, collection, filtering analysis with a high degree of accuracy and reporting.
- Strong organisation and time management skills including the ability to manage competing tasks in a timely manner.
- Experience in report writing.
- Strong computer skills using all Microsoft Office 365 applications.
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How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please click Apply for Job and submit your application. We'd love to hear from you.
Please include:
- Your CV, and
- A cover letter (maximum two pages) outlining how your experience, skills, and attributes align with the selection criteria.
Applications close: Friday 20 February 2026 11:59PM AEST
For further information about the role, please contact our HR team via email at: idev.hrservices@tetratech.com
Why Tetra Tech International Development?
We are a values led organisation committed to flexible working, wellbeing, and creating positive impact. Our culture is grounded in collaboration, trust, diversity, and inclusion. Learn more about our purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal‑opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences. We are committed to child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
As a leading development consulting firm, Tetra Tech International Development works with people and communities to solve some of the world's most complex challenges to achieve a positive impact.
Working at Tetra Tech International Development means working within a values led organisation that invests in flexible work environments built on trust, safety and well-being. Through unified systems, flexible and supportive workplaces, we provide the foundations required for our team to enjoy the work they do and deliver value every day. Read more about our culture, purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal opportunity employer and has a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion, child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. We encourage people living with a disability; First Nations Peoples; and people of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences to apply.
Should you require additional support with your application, please email IDEV.HRServices@tetratech.com or phone +61 (08) 8375 4400.
Tetra Tech has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (‘SEAH'), child abuse and exploitation, modern slavery and safeguarding related retaliation, and this zero-tolerance extends to inaction. Tetra Tech is committed to being a child safe organisation, and to promoting a culture that supports gender equality, and addresses the gendered drivers of violence against women and children. It is committed to fostering a culture where we prevent and respond decisively and appropriately to harm against people, and that all people are treated with dignity and respect, irrespective of country, project, or office where we work. This will require compliance with Tetra Tech's Safeguarding and other Codes of Conduct and our associated safeguarding policies (Child Protection and Child Safety, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) policy and procedure, and Modern Slavery. Any successful applicants will be required to undertake satisfactory referee and criminal record checks prior to being appointed to any position.
Position Type
Project opportunity
Region
Australia and Indo-Pacific Teams and Clients
Sector
Research and Knowledge (International Development)
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (International Development)
Additional Information
- Organization: 755 IDV
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