Location: Brisbane, Australia | Full-time | 2-year fixed term contract
Must have valid work rights in Australia
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Manage all facets of the Humanitarian Logistics Capability Programs’ logistics and supply chain operations, encompassing strategic procurement, warehouse management, and transportation coordination.
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Develop a high-impact logistics operation to enhance Australia’s humanitarian response capabilities.
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Lead and manage a team, promoting a collaborative, high-performance, and learning-oriented culture.
Contribute to a world where people, communities and the planet thrive.
Tetra Tech International Development is a leading development consulting firm working with government, businesses, and NGOs to solve complex development challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. For more information please visit our website
The Opportunity:
The Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC), based in Brisbane, is a cornerstone of Australia’s rapid and coordinated humanitarian action across the Indo-Pacific. The HLC Logistics Lead plays a critical leadership role in ensuring the effectiveness and readiness of HLC’s supply chain, from procurement and warehousing to transportation and dispatch, supporting humanitarian relief operations that save lives and restore dignity in times of crisis.
As the HLC Logistics Lead, you’ll manage complex logistics systems and oversee all aspects of HLC’s supply chain and logistics operations, including strategic procurement, warehouse management, and freight coordination. You will lead a dynamic team to ensure that humanitarian stocks are well-managed, the warehouse is fully operational, and transportation pipelines remain secure and responsive. Working in close partnership with Department Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australian Defence Force (ADF), commercial providers, and humanitarian agencies, you will help deliver critical relief support with precision, speed, and care.
This is a unique opportunity to shape a high-impact logistics operation and strengthen Australia’s humanitarian response capacity in a rapidly evolving global context.
The Program: Humanitarian Logistics Capability
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Humanitarian Logistics Capability facilitates the timely, effective, and flexible delivery of the Australian Government’s humanitarian assistance and emergency relief program around the world, providing high quality, multifaceted, flexible and responsive project management and humanitarian supply chain solutions in support of Australia’s Humanitarian Emergency Relief activities.
The goal of HLC is to facilitate humanitarian action that saves lives, alleviates suffering, and enhances human dignity during and in the aftermath of conflict, disasters, and other humanitarian crises. The HLC warehouse in Brisbane maintains the largest stockpile of prepositioned humanitarian emergency relief supplies within the Southern Hemisphere, with the capacity to respond to three simultaneous crises and can support at least 11,000 families – or 55,000 people.
The HLC maintains core capabilities to perform critical tasks across six functional areas: Logistics Planning and Coordination; Procurement; Warehousing; Shipping and Transport; Deployment Support and Technical Assistance and Program Management and integrates cross-cutting, thematic priorities of Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Green Humanitarian Action, Locally Led Humanitarian Action, Innovation, Partnerships and Indigenous engagement into all operations and activities
Tetra Tech International Development, as the Implementing Contractor for the HLC, will work closely with DFAT, other Commonwealth response capabilities, international organisations and humanitarian partners to implement HLC operations and activities across all aspects of program management and delivery.
Your role:
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oversee HLC’s logistics operations and lead a team of 5-10, including warehousing, procurement, and transportation coordination, to ensure efficient supply chain management;
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oversight the development and management of the HLC stock strategy to inform warehousing and procurement requirements, identifying key commodities and optimal stock levels, maintaining stock visibility and reporting of stock levels;
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develop and implement standardized processes across logistics functions, aligned with best practices;
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supervise procurement activities, including supplier management and emergency procurement processes;
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champion the intentional inclusion of HLC cross-cutting themes within the programs logistics functions and operations including cross-cutting thematic priorities of Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Green Humanitarian Action, Locally Led Humanitarian Action, Innovation, Partnerships and Indigenous engagement;
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oversee transport and shipping operations, ensuring compliance with customs and partner requirements; and
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represent HLC in humanitarian logistics coordination forums and contribute to planning discussions with DFAT, ADF, and partners.
About You
You are a seasoned humanitarian logistics professional with extensive experience in supply chain management across warehousing, procurement, and transport operations. Your leadership style is collaborative and empowering, and you have the ability to assess new information and adapt accordingly, utilising good judgement, flexibility and adaptability. With experience in and a strong grasp of humanitarian principles and regional response dynamics, you’re committed to operational excellence and delivering impact where it’s needed most.
You thrive in roles where strategy meets implementation, ensuring that logistics systems are not only robust but also responsive to the needs of communities affected by disaster. You’re an effective communicator and relationship-builder, able to bring together cross-sector actors and align logistics efforts with broader humanitarian goals.
You will possess:
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Demonstrated significant senior experience managing complex logistics operations across procurement, warehousing, and transportation.
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Strong leadership capabilities and experience leading teams in high-performance, adaptive team environments with empathy.
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Significant professional experience in humanitarian, development and/or disaster response, ideally within the Indo-Pacific context.
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Knowledge of Australian Government procurement and supply chain policies would be advantageous.
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Advanced project and resource management skills, including planning, budgeting, and risk management in international or humanitarian settings.
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Proven ability to coordinate logistics activities across diverse stakeholders including Government, not for profit and private sectors.
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Cultural and political sensitivity, with the ability to navigate complex environments and build trusted relationships.
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High personal initiative, problem-solving ability, and composure under pressure.
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How to Apply
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Please submit:
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Resume
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Statement of suitability (not exceeding two pages), demonstrating how your qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and personal attributes align with the selection criteria.
Apply before 11:59pm, Sunday 26th July 2026.
Why Tetra Tech International Development?
We are a values led organisation committed to flexible working, wellbeing, and creating positive impact. Our culture is grounded in collaboration, trust, diversity, and inclusion. Learn more about our purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal‑opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences. We are committed to child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
As a leading development consulting firm, Tetra Tech International Development works with people and communities to solve some of the world's most complex challenges to achieve a positive impact.
Working at Tetra Tech International Development means working within a values led organisation that invests in flexible work environments built on trust, safety and well-being. Through unified systems, flexible and supportive workplaces, we provide the foundations required for our team to enjoy the work they do and deliver value every day. Read more about our culture, purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal opportunity employer and has a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion, child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. We encourage people living with a disability; First Nations Peoples; and people of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences to apply.
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Tetra Tech has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (‘SEAH’), child abuse and exploitation, modern slavery and safeguarding related retaliation, and this zero-tolerance extends to inaction. Tetra Tech is committed to being a child safe organisation, and to promoting a culture that supports gender equality, and addresses the gendered drivers of violence against women and children. It is committed to fostering a culture where we prevent and respond decisively and appropriately to harm against people, and that all people are treated with dignity and respect, irrespective of country, project, or office where we work. This will require compliance with Tetra Tech’s Safeguarding and other Codes of Conduct and our associated safeguarding policies (Child Protection and Child Safety, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) policy and procedure, and Modern Slavery. Any successful applicants will be required to undertake satisfactory referee and criminal record checks prior to being appointed to any position.
Position Type
Project opportunity
Region
Australia and Indo-Pacific Teams and Clients
Sector
Logistics (International Development)
Humanitarian Response (International Development)
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