Project Associate, Indonesia

Palladium: Make It Possible; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 145,080,000 - 279,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Palladium is seeking a Corporate Project Associate, Indonesia, to support the delivery of Palladium-managed projects in Indonesia. You will assist with project coordination, procurement, financial tracking, and reporting under the guidance of the Project Manager.

The role offers full-time employment in Jakarta with opportunities to work across APAC, engaging with diverse partners and programmes while ensuring compliance and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination, administration, operations and procurement.
• Knowledge of contracting, financial administration and reporting processes.
• Proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and English written and spoken.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in mobilisation, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out.
• Support the delivery of complex projects with supervision.
• Maintain project workplans, risk logs and calendars.
• Ensure accurate project records and filing systems.
• Support project financial management including budgeting and forecasting.
• Prepare invoices and payments per policy.
• Support compliance with Palladium policies and regulations.
• Assist with business development through research and partner mapping.

Skills

Project coordination

Administration

Procurement

Compliance

Contracting

Financial tracking

Stakeholder engagement

Excel

English proficiency

Bahasa Indonesia

Multicultural teamwork

Education

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Looking for a role where your work truly makes a difference? As a Project Associate with Palladium, you'll support impactful development initiatives, build valuable project management skills, and collaborate with diverse partners to help deliver positive change across Indonesia and beyond.

• 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 Corporate Project Associate, Indonesia, you will support the effective, compliant and efficient delivery of Palladium-managed projects and corporate initiatives in Indonesia. Reporting to the Project Manager, the role is responsible for supporting project coordination, administration, procurement, contracting, financial tracking, reporting, compliance, stakeholder engagement and operational activities across assigned projects and portfolios.

Working closely with project teams, corporate services, consultants, suppliers, partners and clients, you will help ensure activities are delivered on time, within budget, and in accordance with Palladium policies, client requirements and applicable Indonesian regulations.

The role contributes to business development activities, learning and applying technical expertise to project delivery, and demonstrating excellent relationship building and communication skills. 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

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in the mobilisation, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out of assigned projects.
• Support the delivery of complex/challenging projects and deliver some components of the project lifecycle, with supervision.
• Maintain project workplans, action logs, deliverable trackers, risk registers and project calendars to support effective project management.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project records, documentation and filing systems.
• Ensure project data is accurately maintained in corporate systems and databases.
• Support project financial management activities including budget monitoring, expenditure tracking, forecasting inputs and financial reporting.
• Prepare and process invoices, payment requests and supporting documentation in accordance with company policies and client requirements.
• Support compliance with Palladium policies, client requirements, safeguarding obligations and applicable Indonesian regulations.
• Support safeguarding, integrity, fraud control and risk management requirements in accordance with Palladium policies and client obligations.
• Support business development activities through research, market analysis, partner mapping and information gathering.
• Contribute to the preparation of proposals, capability statements, presentations and other business development materials.

Abou You

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Relevant experience in project coordination, administration, operations, procurement, compliance or project support functions.
• Experience working in consulting, international development, donor-funded programs or project management environments is desirable.
• Exposure to procurement, contracting, financial administration and project reporting processes.
• Professional fluency in Bahasa Indonesia (written and spoken) is essential, together with strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong organisational, planning and coordination skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Financial and commercial awareness, including strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to build productive relationships and work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working within multicultural environments.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, particularly within multicultural workplaces.
• Flexibility to undertake travel throughout Indonesia and, where 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.

Closing date: Sunday 30 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.

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.