**Job Title:** Papua New Guinea Programme Manager

**Location:** Port Morseby, Papua New Guinea

**Reporting to:** Director of Pacific Programmes

**Duration:** Fixed-term contract for 12 month

**Responsible for:** Project Officers, Assistants and Consultants as needed

**Salary:** TBD

**Deadline:** 6th May 2026 AEST

## Conciliation Resources

Conciliation Resources (CR) is an independent international organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence, resolve conflicts and promote peaceful societies. We provide practical support to help people affected by violent conflict achieve lasting peace. We draw on our shared experiences to improve peacebuilding policies and practice worldwide. We work with partner organisations and individuals (officials, civic actors and politicians) supporting processes of change, including through supporting key actors in regions affected by conflict to explore options for progress through dialogue, analysis and access to new thinking. We also work with civil society groups to become more effective in advocating for rights, encouraging debate and achieving policy change.

CR is headquartered in London, with a branch office in Melbourne, and registered in Australia as Conciliation Resources Australia (CRA), managing our South East Asia and the Pacific (SEAP) department programs. Conciliation Resources has worked in the SEAP regions since 1994 and currently has three programmes: a Fiji and Solomon Islands Program, a Papua New Guinea Program and a Philippines Program.

## Job Purpose

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Programme Manager leads Conciliation Resources’ peacebuilding and conflict resolution work across Papua New Guinea (currently Bougainville and Highlands provinces). The post holder is responsible for overseeing the full project cycle for these activities, including design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, narrative and financial reporting. They act as a resource to partner organisations and represent South East Asia and the Pacific programme (SEAP) in meetings with a range of interlocutors in context and elsewhere. In coordination with the Director, the post-holder leads on strategic development, implementation and resourcing of the PNG programme, and manages programme officers, assistants and consultants.

## Person Specification

### Essential knowledge, skills and experience

● Excellent organisational and coordination skills, including considerable experience of project management including project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and narrative and financial reporting.

● Practical and conceptual knowledge of peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes, of processes of social and political change and of supporting the development of local capacities for peacebuilding.

● Considerable knowledge of the social and political landscape in PNG and wider region, and its conflicts, ideally through experience of living or working in or on the Pacific region.

● Experience of working with local and national partners in an accompaniment and mentoring role, including capacity building and due diligence.

● Considerable financial management experience, including preparing and managing annual budgets of at least $500,000 AUD, monitoring and forecasting spend, and overseeing internal and external financial reporting.

● Experience of managing government or other donor-funded programmes, including donor relationship management, programme development and narrative and budget reporting.

● Considerable autonomous experience of developing new project ideas, building relationships with donors and writing proposals and budgets to secure new funds.

● Excellent communication skills, to communicate complex issues effectively and adjust communication style to varying circumstances, including ability to listen actively to people from varying backgrounds and with a range of political, cultural, gender and sexual identities and value orientations, combined with an ability to engage with them clearly and sensitively.

● Experience of line managing staff, including task management, performance management and professional development, including in remote environments.

● Experience of planning, running, and facilitating effective meetings and workshops.

● Post-graduate study or equivalent by experience in conflict resolution, international relations, development studies, international humanitarian law, gender, peace and security or other related fields.

● Ability to autonomously navigate political sensitivities and awareness of the complexity of working in conflict-affected situations, including appreciation of confidentiality and handling sensitive information with due care.

### Desirable knowledge, skills and experience

● Experience facilitating dialogue processes.

● Experience undertaking advocacy with policymakers.

● Knowledge and experience of peace mediation and dialogue processes, including formal track 1 and local community dialogue and reconciliation processes.

● Experience implementing projects in difficult social and political situations or conflict contexts, and experience of hostile environment training or willingness to undertake hostile environment training.

● Appreciation of confidentiality, political sensitivity and the complexities of working in a situation of unresolved conflict or political transition.

### Other role requirements

● Excellent spoken and written English and Tok Pisin.

● Excellent word processing, spreadsheet, database and email software skills.

● Willingness to work irregular hours on occasion and for frequent international travel.