Mission Experience Placement - PNG

Overview

🌏 Ready to Trade the Ordinary for the Extraordinary?

We are Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), an organisation that uses light aircraft to deliver help, hope, and practical love in more than 30 developing nations. For nearly 80 years, we’ve been flying patients, aid workers, relief supplies, and medical essentials into places where roads disappear and runways are carved from mountainsides. In these regions, aviation isn’t convenience. It’s survival.

Papua New Guinea: Where the Mission Takes Flight

Since 1951, MAF aircraft have traced lifelines across the rugged peaks and deep valleys of Papua New Guinea. Through unpredictable weather and dramatic terrain, our flights connect remote communities to health-care, education, clean water, disaster relief, and the Gospel.

Behind every takeoff is a commitment to international safety standards, operational excellence, and faithful service. Every landing tells a story of compassion in action. This is aviation with purpose. This is impact measured in lives changed.

Mission Experience Placement (MEP)

Curious about life on the mission field? Wondering whether God might be calling you to serve cross-culturally? This “gap” may become one of the most formative seasons of your life!

MAF International’s Mission Experience Placement (MEP) offers a 6 to 12 month immersive experience in PNG. It’s not a tourist trip. It’s real mission life. You’ll live within the rhythm of a programme, contribute meaningfully to day-to-day operations, and gain hands-on experience that strengthens your future calling.

Our aircraft may cross mountain ranges, but our mission crosses barriers of isolation, poverty, and limited access. You’ll witness firsthand how aviation links churches, NGOs, missionaries, local communities, and government services in a shared mission of transformation.

Responsibilities

✈️ Where Could You Serve?

We’re looking for passionate, capable individuals in areas such as:

• Business Administration – Assisting and supporting the day to day operations of the office, including general duties and special projects.
• Human Resources – Supporting the HR department, requires you to bring your HR expertise and provide assistance in a variety of areas.
• Information Technology (IT) – Assisting the IT Team with training and giving advice, troubleshooting, help desk operations and special projects.
• Videography and Editing – Working with the Communications Team to create, gather and edit stories, pictures, and information to share with MAF staff, partners and beneficiaries.
• Construction – Assisting with a variety of tasks such as maintenance, building projects and construction.
• Vehicle Maintenance – Tender love and care required for our MAF vehicles and machinery with general maintenance and repairs.
• Hospitality and other Support Services – Providing hospitality assistance, rostering, coordination of airport pickups, shopping, and housing allocations.
• Strategic Partnership Support – Providing reliable and timely support to the strategic partnership team and other departments.

Limited placements are available. We are looking for positive, team players who have a can-do attitude and enjoy a challenge.

What You Need to Know

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Placements run between 6 to 12 months .

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Applicants must be enrolled in Uni/College and interested in taking a gap break, as this is the condition of the PNG Occupational Training Visa.

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Applicants need to be 18 years or older.

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Applicants need to fully fund the placement including flights, health and travel insurance, and daily essentials like food and mobile data.

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Basic accommodation & transport will be provided by the programme.

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A 3-day security course will need to be completed at your own cost.

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MEPs are conditional upon the approval of PNG visa.

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Qualifications, Skills & Experience

More Than Experience? Definitely.

This isn’t just a placement to build your CV. It’s the kind of experience that stretches your perspective, deepens your faith, and gives you stories you’ll be telling for years.

It’s seeing mission life up close, where aviation meets purpose and muddy airstrips can change lives.It’s discovering what service looks like beyond the classroom, beyond the ordinary, and sometimes well beyond your comfort zone.It’s learning, growing, contributing… and maybe even discovering that God’s plans for your future are bigger and wilder than you imagined.

And who knows? What starts as a few months in PNG might just become the runway to something much bigger.

Ready for adventure, purpose, and a mission experience you’ll never forget? PNG is waiting. ✈️🌏