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Pacific Vacancies Announcement No. 2025/30

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PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM?

Senior Adviser - Policy

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The Pacific Islands Forum

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The Forum (PIF) is an Employer of Choice in the region, aiming to recruit and employ staff based on merit and organisational needs, and ensures that employment selection upholds its values and commitment to Forum membership, gender balance and building a diverse and inclusive organisation. PIF is committed to achieving gender balance and being fully representative of our member countries.? Our workforce is currently over 50% female, and we have representatives from twelve of the eighteen Forum member countries.?

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To achieve greater workforce representation from our member countries we strongly encourage applicants from the following countries to apply: Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, and Palau

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The Opportunity

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The position is responsible for providing high quality policy advice on a range of security, social and economic policy issues. Reporting to the Director Policy, the position involves staff management, oversight of Ministerial and Officials level meetings, providing policy advice and guidance to Senior Management and Members either personally or via the work of consultants, and oversight of budget and other accountability and administrative systems. The position holder will be responsible for the following responsibilities to name a few:

·??????????????? Provision of coherent high-quality policy advice

·??????????????? Ensure best practices, innovation, and learning are embedded in PIFS policy development processes

·??????????????? Strengthen PIFS Policy development and advice capability

·??????????????? Lead significant policy initiatives when required.

·??????????????? Leadership and management

Applicants should have an advanced University degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in strategic planning, politics, development studies, humanities or a related field with at least 8+ years of professional work experience, including 3+ years in roles requiring strong lateral management, relationship building, strategy formulation, project management, and cross-functional leadership.

Candidates with strong analytical skills and the ability to master new materials quickly with proven ability to monitor regional and international developments and to conduct comprehensive stakeholder analysis including application of quantitative methods for analysing policy, formulating high-quality policy papers in the Pacific region or in an international environment.

The Benefits

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The position carries a competitive and attractive remuneration and benefits package including medical and life insurance, education, and housing allowance. The position is placed at Band 13 / Senior level of our salary scale, starting at
SDR 51,716 equivalent to FJD 153,053.

Note: Amounts are based on 1 January 2025 foreign exchange rate, but your final salary will be dependent on foreign exchange rates at the time of payment.

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How to apply

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Interested applicants can find out more information on our website: www.forumsec.org where an information package containing the full responsibilities, selection criteria and remuneration details is available. Candidates must include in either their application or Curriculum Vitae the full contact details of three referees. For non-Fijian nationals, this salary may be tax-free. To be eligible for this position, the applicant must be a national of a Forum member country*. Applicant must be willing to travel periodically via economy class.

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Deadline for applications is at 5pm (Fiji time), 7 February 2025.

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*Member States of the Pacific Islands Forum: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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