Senior Portfolio Director, Markets, Investment, and Jobs
Long Term Positions
KEY INFORMATION
Job Title: Senior Portfolio Director, Markets, Investment, and Jobs
Position Type: Long-Term Personnel
Duration/Level of Effort: 12 months with possibility of extension
Position Location: Jakarta — Prospera Office
Link: Senior Portfolio Director, Markets, Investment, and Jobs — Prospera Recruitment
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
Prospera Phase 2 is Australia's flagship economic development partnership with Indonesia, supporting the Government of Indonesia (GoI) to advance sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient economic growth. Building on nearly three decades of cooperation, the program delivers high-quality, demand-driven policy advice, institutional strengthening and Australian Public Service (APS) partnerships aligned with Indonesia's national priorities and Australia's economic diplomacy objectives.
The program is structured around two mutually reinforcing End-of-Program Outcomes:
• strengthened macroeconomic, financial and public financial management systems that support sustainable, climate-resilient and inclusive growth; and
• expanded markets, jobs, trade and investment through improved economic policy and reform implementation.
Across both outcomes, Prospera Phase 2 emphasises politically informed and evidence-based reform, sustained institutional capability, and locally led solutions rather than short-term technical fixes. Gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI), sustainability, climate and energy transition considerations, and localisation are embedded across all areas of engagement.
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
The Senior Portfolio Director (Markets, Investment and Jobs) provides strategic leadership and oversight of Prospera’s Markets, Investment, Trade, Labour and Skills, Digital, and Multilateral Engagement portfolio under EOPO2.
The Senior Portfolio Director is responsible for setting strategic direction and priorities across the portfolio, overseeing delivery and quality, managing portfolio-level risks, sequencing work in line with available resources, and maintaining senior relationships with GoI and Australian Government counterparts.
The Senior Portfolio Director provides overall leadership and strategic direction for the portfolio, working closely with Team Leads who are responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective teams, technical delivery, activity management and workstream-level stakeholder engagement within agreed portfolio and program parameters. The Senior Portfolio Director supports Team Leads on matters requiring portfolio-level judgement, coordination or senior engagement.
The Senior Portfolio Director reports to the Deputy Program Director for Policy Delivery, works closely with and is a member of Prospera’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Portfolio Director (Markets, Investment and Jobs) will:
- Head the Trade and Investment, Labour and Skills, Digital Economy and Governance, and Multilateral Engagement portfolio, setting strategic priorities and providing strategic direction for program-wide alignment.
- Supervise and support Team Leads/equivalent within the portfolio, providing direction, managing performance and ensuring clear accountability, while delegating day-to-day technical delivery and team management to the respective Team Leads.
- Oversee portfolio delivery, including work planning, progress against agreed priorities, major deliverables, delivery risks and competing demands across workstreams.
- Maintain the quality and policy relevance of the portfolio's work, providing senior review and judgement on significant analytical products and policy advice and drawing on relevant members of the Senior Leadership Team and Senior Experts Group for specialist technical input where and as appropriate.
- Lead senior stakeholder engagement for the portfolio, including relationships with relevant Government of Indonesia counterparts and DFAT, while supporting Team Leads to manage workstream-level relationships.
- Identify and manage issues that cut across workstreams, including emerging economic and policy developments, shared stakeholder priorities, delivery risks and opportunities for joint work within EOPO2 and across Prospera.
- Lead portfolio planning and provide advice to Team Leads on resource allocation, including staffing, technical inputs and the distribution of effort across workstreams.
- Oversee budgetary and technical resource allocation for the portfolio.
- Contribute to Prospera-wide leadership and strategy as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, working with other members of the SLT including - and as may be amended in accordance with the final organisational structure – the Program Director, Deputy Program Director for Policy Delivery, Deputy Program Director for Performance, Partnerships, and Inclusion, Chief Operating Officer, Lead Economist, other Portfolio Director and program functions on priorities that extend beyond the portfolio.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
The successful candidate will have:
Essential
- Postgraduate degree in Economics or another relevant discipline.
- At least 15 years of progressively senior professional experience in economic policy, public policy, international trade, investment policy, digital economy, labour economics or a closely related field.
- Strong expertise in international trade and investment policy, with sufficient breadth across the portfolio to lead multidisciplinary economic policy work and engage credibly with senior technical specialists.
- Substantial experience providing economic and policy advice to senior government officials and decision-makers, with a demonstrated ability to translate complex analysis into clear and practical advice.
- Demonstrated experience leading multiple teams or workstreams, including setting direction, managing priorities and resources, overseeing quality and delivery, and supporting senior technical staff.
- Strong judgement and ability to operate effectively in complex and changing policy and institutional environments.
- Extensive experience building and managing senior relationships with government, development partners and other stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of Indonesia's economic policy institutions, policy-making processes and political economy.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Desirable
• Significant experience working across several areas relevant to the portfolio.
• Extensive experience engaging with Indonesia’s CMEA, Ministry of Trade, DEN and other central economic policy institutions.
• Experience working within an economic policy advisory organisation, international development program, international organisation, research institution or comparable policy environment.
• Experience working within Australia–Indonesia economic cooperation, including engagement with DFAT and Australian Government agencies.
• Experience developing or managing partnerships involving government institutions, development partners, technical experts or research organisations.
• Demonstrated record of producing, commissioning or overseeing high-quality economic research and policy advice for senior policy audiences.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Candidates are encouraged to apply by 24 November 2026.
For your application to be considered, please upload your documents as followed: Candidate Last Name, First Name, date, Title of the Position.
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