This role is a short-term consultancy for Health Equity Matters, who are supporting the Key Populations Advocacy Consortium in (KPAC) in PNG as part of a longer-term workplan to build KPAC’s organisational capacity.
This position aims to support the implementation of targeted support, coaching and mentoring activities related to resource mobilisation which sits as part of a broader workplan of support to be delivered by Health Equity Matters across 2025 and beyond.
Expected Activities
This engagement will involve:
This position will work closely with the Executive Director of KPAC, and other Health Equity Matters-engaged consultants who are focused on financial management & broader organisational development, and whose remits
include activities which will complement and in some instances, cross over with the remit of this position. This position will also provide training & mentoring to the KPAC staff team.
Suggested Methodology
The engagement will undertake these activities between May and July 2025, and are expected to take 12 days. Some additional days may be included if needed for provision of training/mentoring. If not undertaken by someone already based in PNG, will likely involve at least one visit to Port Moresby. If undertaken by someone based in PNG, there will be requirement for some time to be spent in the KPAC office, with remaining time to be undertaken flexibly at the consultant’s discretion.
To Apply
Please send a copy of your CV, along with a 1-2 page cover letter outlining how your experience and skills would be suitable to meet the deliverables outlined, and the criteria in the attached Terms of Reference. Please also include your proposed methodology for this consultancy, along with your consultancy rate in Australian dollars.
Successful candidates for this position will be subject to Health Equity Matter’s due diligence requirements including a national police check and counter terrorism checks.
About KPAC
The Key Population Advocacy Consortium (KPAC) is a national coalition in Papua New Guinea, formally organized in 2018, comprising seven national networks representing key populations and communities.
These networks include Kapul Champions (men of diverse sexualities, including men who have sex with men), Friends Frangipani (female sex workers), Igat Hope PNG (people living with HIV), Hetura Network Association (transgender individuals, including transgender women), Youth Lead PNG (young key population members), Community TB Advocacy (people living with or survivors of tuberculosis), and Consumer Network NCD (National Department of Health-led community of people living with HIV in the National Capital District).
KPAC's mission is to serve as the voice of key and affected populations, providing leadership and support to address their needs, with a vision to be an association that best understands and satisfies these needs for
a quality life in PNG. The consortium aims to create an enabling environment by uniting organizations and groups of key and affected populations on a shared platform, leading and defining activities, mobilizing
funding, advocating with government entities, collaborating to improve service accessibility, and providing technical support to ensure high-quality service delivery.
About Health Equity Matters
Health Equity Matters’ purpose is to end health inequity for our communities, with HIV the core of our
mission until the epidemic is over for everyone. Health Equity Matters leads Australia’s effort to end HIV transmission and promote the health of our communities. We do so on behalf of our member organisations’ who represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and asexual communities, sex workers, people who use drugs, people with HIV and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Our close connections with our communities provide us with rapid intelligence on changes in LGBTIQA+ health
and Australia’s HIV epidemic, allow us to mobilise and respond quickly and to act as a trusted communication channel to government, research and clinical partners.
We have worked with Australian governments for more than 30 years to achieve a world-class response to HIV of
which we can be proud. Health Equity Matters works across the Parliament to foster interest, strengthen political support, provide briefings and education about Australia’s response to HIV and to highlight the opportunities we have tobetter meet our goals of ending HIV transmission and minimising the impacts of
HIV.
Health Equity Matters International Program currently works with a wide range of civil society and community-based organisations, the United Nations, World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Bank as well as
Ministries of Health and other government stakeholders across ten countries in the Asia and the Pacific.
Health Equity Matters has offices in Sydney, Australia and Bangkok, Thailand.
Indo-Pacific HIV Partnership
Health Equity Matters, working in partnership with UNAIDS, has been funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) under its Regional Health Partnerships grant program, to implement the Indo-Pacific HIV Partnership program. The goal of the program is to: Strengthen national HIV responses to reduce the burden of
HIV in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, Philippines, Indonesia, and Cambodia by 2028, along with targeted regional activities.
Health Equity Matters is responsible for delivering one component of this larger program which is focussed on ‘communities and partners having strengthened leadership, advocacy, and management capacities to foster inclusive and diversified HIV responses.
The Health Equity Matters program specifically focusses on strengthening the capacity of two local peak body partners: the Key Populations Advocacy Consortium (KPAC) in PNG, and Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network (PSGDN), based in Suva and with members across 14 Pacific island countries. These activities will enhance the partner networks’ leadership, governance, advocacy, representative, and administrative and
financial management. Capacity building will support improved structures, policies, procedures and management systems. Tailored training and mentoring programs will equip KPAC and PSGDN leadership to assume more active and influential roles in public health responses.
This will provide a stable foundation for these networks, increasing the confidence of governments and development partners to invest in them for community-led monitoring service delivery and other key activities in
the HIV response. These collective measures aim to support the long-term viability of KPAC and PSGDN, and their continued influence and effectiveness beyond the project's completion.
