Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.

We are currently PNG’s largest single investor and most active explorer, operating all the country’s producing oil fields and holding an extensive appraisal and exploration portfolio. Our aspirations and strategies reflect our genuine commitment to making a meaningful contribution to the lives of Papua New Guineans.

At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.

Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.

For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.

What you’ll do:
This role manages Santos Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Program, ensuring targets, budgets, and timelines are met. It focuses on building and maintaining stakeholder relationship, Implementing key program activities, developing local capacity, and delivering reports with key metrics, risks, and recommendations.

This position is located in the Santos office in Port Moresby.

Key accountabilities include:

• Supports planning, coordination, implementation and monitoring of the Youth Opportunities Program with internal and external partners.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders to align programs with Santos and GoPNG policies.
• Supports capacity building and professional development of PNG staff involved in the program.
• Contributes to annual budget development aligned with strategic goals and grant agreements.
• Monitors program expenditure and provides accurate financial forecasts for planning.
• Ensures compliance with donor reporting requirements and contributes to new grant design and strategy.
• Delivers accurate, timely program reports to the SPM and Strategy & Performance team.
• Performs additional tasks as directed by the SPM.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in Development or other relevant degree qualification, or equivalent professional experience with extensive recent, continuous, and relevant work demonstrating expertise. We are looking for someone with experience in development, including capacity of PNG staff and partners, planning, management, implementation, donor and Board-level reporting. Your ability to lead and collaborate within diverse teams is essential, along with:

• Substantial experience in program budget management.
• Strong planning, workload management, and team-building skills.
• Experience in developing and implementing agriculture projects or programs in PNG
• Effective contributor to senior leadership teams.
• Experienced in managing development programs in PNG.
• Skilled in working respectfully with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Capable of operating in complex and challenging environments.

Here, you’ll be amongst high-calibre people and get to work on industry-leading projects. We don’t shy away from solving tough problems at pace. We like it that way. You can expect to be challenged and supported; to learn and grow.

At Santos, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. This means a place that is safe; where you are valued and respected, and your contribution is recognised and appreciated. Join us, and you’ll play a role in this too.

Each of our sites offer access to specific amenities that aim to create the best possible benefits to your health, wellbeing and performance.

Everywhere you turn you will be a part of a team who are coming together to contribute to our single uniting purpose - to provide reliable and affordable energy to help create a better world for everyone And because it’s not only what you do, but how you do it, you will also contribute to improving the living standards of the communities where we operate, building enduring and respectful relationships that serve a generation. It’s about each of us, and all of us – together.

Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before 25th May 2025.

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for PNG to apply.

There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/