With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As Deputy Team Leader – Gender & Community Expert, you will provide leadership in gender equality, social inclusion, and community engagement to ensure effective delivery of the contract. You will provide strategic and operational support to the Team Leader to maintain compliance, adaptive management, and high-quality delivery of outputs.
Based in Mt Hagen Area Program Office, you will lead the design and implementation of gender and protection strategies; ensure inclusive participation of women, youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, and other marginalized groups; and oversee safeguarding measures in collaboration with GBV partners. You will act as a key liaison with community leaders and local organizations, support M&E related to gender and inclusion indicators, and ensure that community voices shape project decision making.
You will lead the integration of gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, and socially inclusive approaches across all project outputs, workplans, and community activities. You will oversee the development and roll-out of gender, protection, and safeguarding strategies, ensuring alignment with the TORs, and coordinate closely with GBV implementing CSOs to harmonize community selection, outreach, and protection measures.
You will design and coordinate community engagement processes, including consultations, participatory assessments, and ongoing dialogue with targeted communities. You will ensure meaningful participation of women, youth, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable groups in needs assessments, capacity building activities, and women’s group formation.
You will monitor and report on gender, protection, and inclusion indicators in collaboration with the M&E Expert, ensuring sex, age, and disability-disaggregated data is collected and analyzed. You will identify risks related to GBV, child protection, or exclusion and propose mitigation measures.
You will support the Team Leader in day-to-day project management, adaptive planning, problem solving, and coordination across technical areas. You will lead or supervise specific components, community-level activities, or staff teams as delegated. In the absence of the Team Leader, you will act as Team Leader, ensuring continuity of operations, decision making, staff supervision, and representation.
You will liaise with community leaders, provincial authorities, women’s cooperatives, youth groups, and marginalized populations to strengthen relationships and participation. You will represent the project in gender, GBV, protection, and community engagement working groups or coordination forums.
You will lead and support Christian activities that enrich and develop mutual growth in Christ. You will perform any other tasks assigned by the Program Operations Director, convey World Vision identity and core values in life, word, and deed in the workplace and outside of the workplace, and participate in World Vision PNG core staff activities, such as regular staff Christian reflection activities and regular programmatic Learning & Reflection days.
Requirements include:
- Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Project Management, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- At least more than 5 years of professional experience in project management; including experience leading a team or office of similar size and scope of accountability required.
- At least 2 years’ work experience in managing projects in the field offices
- Technical or programming experience in agriculture, livelihood preferably and/or if any experience in education, gender, WASH, or child protection preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and deliver consistent quality programming and reporting in complex organisational and operational environments required.
- Proactive working style and proven ability to identify and mitigate risks, problem solve, and effectively manage conflict required.
- Strong planning, organisational, and project management skills required.
- Strong interpersonal skills required. Experience managing cross-cultural teams preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and email required
- Direct experience in managing staff, donors and stakeholders especially in the education sector
- Direct experience of working with multicultural teams
- Fluency in English and Tok Pisin required.
- Willingness to travel to very remote communities required
Applicant Types Accepted: International Assignment (Other) – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
How to apply
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Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the closing date September 25, 2026
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
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