Bible Teacher
We are looking for a Bible teacher who has the desire, commitment, and ability to teach grade 7-12 students, helping them develop their Bible knowledge and Christian walk. You would be joining the team at the Ukarumpa International School in Papua New Guinea.
Responsibilities:
- instruct students in Scripture and exegesis, utilising education, experience and Bible knowledge
- Lecture, demonstrate and creatively illustrate Biblical principles to class, using approved text books and study guides
- prepare, administer and correct tests in accordance with school standards and procedures
- understand and empathise with youth facing the adjustments of cross-cultural situations, and provide supportive activities and mature Christian counsel
- encourage understanding of cultural differences
- discuss pupils’ academic and behavioural performance with parents, recommending action when necessary, and providing guidance in choice of elective subjects.
Qualifications:
- valid teaching certificate
- minimum of 1 year teaching experience
- a theological/Bible college qualification
Training:
- some type of language and culture training course would be helpful
- orientation workshops, held at our National Centre in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
WRDF – MLE Light Literacy
Project 8856
See the Wycliffe Foundation website for more information.
This project is managed by Wycliffe’s partner organisation Wycliffe Relief & Development Foundation. The funds will be directed to them.
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Digital Content Manager
Looking for a way to use your skills and experience in IT, web design, digital marketing and social media to help spread awareness for Bible translation? We need someone to help with creating, improving and maintaining a range of digital content to help the organisation achieve its goals. It will be your duty to create high quality, sharable content to raise brand awareness, as well as monitor web traffic and other metrics to identify best practices. This role will be working with teams based in Dili, Timor-Leste.
Responsibilities:
- typeset translated Scriptures
- design book covers
- design music labels
- design language resources
- design promotional material
- monitor online presence
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or experience in marketing, computer science, maths, statistics and/or business
- OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- English fluency of at least 5.0 IELTS
Training:
- minimum of one year (or equivalent) at Bible college
- four weeks’ language and culture training called Launch
Orientation:
- orientation workshops, held at our National Centre in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
- on-field cultural orientation
Scripture – Church Engagement Specialists
How has the Bible transformed your life? Would you like to help other people engage more deeply with God’s Word? We are looking for people to come alongside churches and communities in Dili, Timor Leste, to encourage people to use the Scripture and biblical resources available in their language. This could include helping them to increase their ability to read portions of vernacular Scripture, working alongside local church leaders, translators and staff members.
Responsibilities:
- discipleship
- workshops
- material production
- training
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- minimum of one year (or equivalent) at Bible college
Training:
- One year at SIL Australia
- English fluency of at least 5.0 IELTS
Orientation:
- orientation workshops, held at our National Centre in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
- on-field cultural orientation
Bible Translation Advisers – Timor Leste
As a Bible translation adviser, you’ll work with a team of mother-tongue speakers based in Dili, Timor-Leste and other linguists to produce Scripture translations in a minority language (or cluster of languages) that are accurate, clear and speak to the heart of an entire people group.
Responsibilities:
- exegesis
- translation training
- support with drafting
- facilitation of community testing
- linguistic analysis, possibly including orthography revision
- project management
- liaising with stakeholders
- coordinating publication
- capacity development of the translation team and local institution to continue translation and assume responsibility for the future of their translation project
Training:
- theological degree
- four weeks’ language and culture training called Launch
- one year of training with SIL
- English fluency of at least 5.0 IELTS
Orientation:
- orientation workshops, held at our National Centre in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
- on-field cultural orientation
Audio Bibles
Project 8160
Audio Bibles are handheld devices that have had the Bible recorded onto them in audio format. That is, someone is recorded reading the Bible in the targeted language and this can then be played back by the listener/s over and over. Audio Bibles (or Megavoice units) are a relatively cheap and very effective means of making the Bible available to people, particularly to those who cannot read or are vision impaired.
Wycliffe has helped to provide audio Bibles to a diverse range of language communities in places such as Mexico, Russia, PNG, Australia, and very recently Madagascar and Mozambique. Sometimes our own Wycliffe Australia personnel initiate efforts to make audio Bibles available for the languages they are working with, and sometimes we receive requests for assistance from other Christian organisations trying to provide audio Bibles to (often minority) language groups. Either way, we are keen to support these efforts as they can give marginalised people access to God’s Word. This project has been set up to raise funds to support audio Bible recording and distribution, wherever that need may be.
Target: $15,000/year
Translation Consultant Development
Project 8807
There is a CRITICAL shortage of Bible Translation Consultants! Please read on …
Bible translation is being conducted more and more by local translators, in all parts of the world. This is a trend that Wycliffe Australia is very keen to support as it gives ownership of the translation process to the people groups who desire, and will use, the Scriptures in their own languages. Trained Translation Consultants are critical to the translation process as they support mother-tongue translators to produce quality, accurate and clear Bible translations. Unfortunately, there is a growing worldwide shortage of trained Bible Translation Consultants to assist local mother-tongue translators. The need for an effective pathway to develop more trainers, advisors and consultants to support these translation projects has never been more urgent.
There are numerous organisations, along with Wycliffe Australia, that are addressing the need to train more Translation Consultants. Wycliffe Australia is committed to supporting these efforts, both at home with our members, and across the globe. To do so, we need support from generous Christians who share our passion for training more Translation Consultants so that they can then support the locally run translation projects around the world to produce clear, accurate and natural translations of the Bible.
In 2025 this particular fund has ambitious aims to:
- enable two trainee Translation Consultants from PNG to finish their qualifications,
- support four Bible Translators in Indonesia to commence training to become Translation Consultants, and
- support other projects we know are addressing the global shortage of Translation Consultants
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Our partnership target for 2026 is AU$34,000
If we receive extra funds, this will go towards the following year’s target.
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