Ready to make an impact at scale? Join Palladium as Project Manager and lead the successful delivery of high-profile development initiatives while building valuable partnerships across government, industry, and communities throughout the region.

• Duration: Full-time; Ongoing
• Office location: Jakarta
• This position is open to Indonesia nationals and permanent residents with authority to live and work in Indonesia. This is a full-time national position
  

About Palladium
Palladium is a global development and consulting firm, part of the GISI Consulting Group, working alongside some of the world’s leading project management and engineering organisations. We partner with governments, businesses, investors and communities to design and deliver complex programs that create lasting impact. With a presence across more than 90 countries, Palladium offers the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges, alongside talented colleagues, in environments where your work can truly make a difference.

About the Role
The Asia Pacific (APAC) Palladium corporate team wins and delivers projects for the APAC region as part of Palladium’s global strategic initiatives and purpose around “Catalysing an enriched future for all”.

As a Manager in APAC Corporate you are accountable for making a significant contribution to business development activities, and supporting clients with relevant knowledge, technical expertise, and an impact-focused precision to deliver excellence on complex projects. You will have the opportunity to manage social and economic change initiatives – from small pilot projects to sophisticated, multi-year programs that impact societies, economies, and lives.  Adapting to dynamic environments and situations to realise results and deliver on-time and on-budget in any context is a critical component of this role.

Our key areas of work include:

• Infrastructure
• Climate change and nature-based solutions
• Economic and human development
• International and humanitarian aid and logistics
• Education, employment and skills

As a Manager in APAC Corporate, you will contribute to the growth and effective delivery of Palladium’s portfolio across the region, with a particular focus on supporting project implementation in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Working closely with clients, government counterparts, implementing partners, consultants, suppliers, and corporate teams, you will help ensure projects are delivered successfully, compliantly, and in accordance with client expectations whilst generating sustainable business outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver agreed company, regional, and personal Key Result Area objectives with excellence, timeliness, and accountability.
• Contribute country and sector intelligence, stakeholder insights, partner mapping, and operating context analysis to support market positioning, capture planning, bid design, and delivery strategies, particularly within Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
• Manage the effective delivery of assigned projects and programs, including mobilisation, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and close-out, in line with approved workplans, budgets, contracts, milestones, and client requirements.
• Apply project management and technical expertise across multiple or complex assignments, adapting delivery approaches to client needs, operating contexts, and good practice requirements.
• Support the employee life cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, work allocation, performance management, development, career progression, and leaver activities.
• Manage assigned team members, consultants, and partners where delegated, ensuring clear roles, expectations, work allocation, performance feedback, and delivery accountability.
  

Please refer to the Terms of Reference to learn more about the role: ToR Project Manager, Indonesia.pdf

Abou You

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Relevant experience in consulting, project management, international development, government-funded, or donor-funded environments, in Indonesia, and / or the broader APAC region.
• Demonstrated experience supporting project mobilisation, implementation, financial management, reporting, contractual compliance, procurement, consultant management, stakeholder engagement, and risk management.
• Experience contributing to business development, including government tenders, bids, capture, proposal preparation, or related growth activities.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including advanced Excel skills and the ability to support budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and value-for-money decision making.
• Highly developed organisational, communication, and technical/business writing skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships across cultures with clients, government counterparts, internal teams, consultants, suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Coaching, mentoring, and team leadership skills, with a demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in multicultural environments.
• Professional working proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Flexibility to undertake regular travel throughout Indonesia and, as required, to other locations across the APAC region.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including people with disabilities – disclosure will not affect your application, and we will work with you to provide appropriate adjustments.

To be considered for this position, you must have valid work rights in the country where the role is based. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Salary and benefits: locally engaged salary and benefits.

Please note: While this role does not involve direct work with children, the successful candidate will still be required to complete a police check and relevant due diligence checks as part of Palladium’s commitment to being a child-safe organisation.

How to Apply

Go to Palladium Careers Site

Click the “Apply Now” button

Please submit your application online and include:

• A current CV
• A cover letter outlining your relevant experience and how you meet the key selection criteria

Please note: Applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.

Closing date: Sunday 23 August 2026 11:59pm Jakarta time

If this opportunity interests you, we encourage you to apply promptly, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as all the actions taken by Palladium to protect our people, communities where we work and our clients from harm, including Sexual Exploitation, Abuse or Sexual Harassment; Child Abuse in any form; Trafficking for sexual exploitation of adults or children and any form of Trafficking of children. We have zero tolerance for all forms of child abuse as well as sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and zero-tolerance for inaction to prevent, protect against, respond to and report harm. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process. Our Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding and Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment Guidelines have additional details.