Business Marketing Specialist

We’re looking for a Business Marketing Specialist who can live and volunteer for 12 months in Timor-Leste.

• This assignment is important to RAEOA because it will strengthen the organisation’s ability to communicate its vision, showcase development opportunities, and build stronger engagement with investors, businesses, government institutions, and local communities
• This assignment seeks to strengthen RAEOA’s strategic marketing, branding, communications, and stakeholder engagement capacity to support tourism promotion, trade and investment attraction, and regional economic development.
• You will be working alongside RAEOA leadership, communications staff, government officials, private-sector stakeholders, and development partners to enhance the organisation’s visibility and engagement with key audiences.
• As a volunteer, you will support capacity building and mentoring by developing practical marketing and communications tools, strengthening digital outreach, and transferring knowledge and skills to counterpart staff to ensure sustainable outcomes beyond the assignment.

About the partner organisation 

RAEOA Oé-Cusse Ambeno is the Special Administrative Region Authority responsible for governing Timor-Leste’s Oé-Cusse Ambeno exclave, located in Pante Makasar, Oé-Cusse Municipality. RAEOA leads regional development planning, public administration, and service delivery to support sustainable social and economic development across Oé-Cusse Ambeno. The authority works with government institutions, communities, businesses, and development partners to promote tourism, trade, investment, skills development, labour mobility, and community wellbeing. RAEOA is expanding its work in tourism promotion, trade, investment attraction, and regional economic development and requires specialist expertise in strategic marketing, branding, communications, and stakeholder engagement. The volunteer will help strengthen the organisation’s capacity to promote development opportunities, attract partnerships and investment, improve public awareness, and build the skills of local staff through mentoring and knowledge transfer in an area where specialised expertise is currently limited within the local labour market.

About the Australian Volunteers Program  

The Australian Volunteers Program is an Australian government-funded initiative. We support partner organisations across the Pacific, Asia, and Africa to achieve locally led change.  

Volunteers are supported throughout their volunteer journey. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds and abilities to volunteer and aim to make the program as accessible and inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact us to discuss how we can support you to volunteer with us - [email protected]. Learn more about our commitment to inclusion.