Job Description

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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

​ Community Mobilization & Engagement

• Organize and facilitate village-level meetings, focus groups, and participatory planning (e.g., community action plans, small group training, and learning sessions).
• Build trusted relationships with community leaders, women’s groups, youth, people with disabilities, farmer groups, savings groups, and other local structures.
• Support community awareness on project goals, roles, accountability mechanisms, and safeguarding

Facilitation of Training & Learning

• Deliver or co-facilitate training (e.g., financial literacy, savings groups, inclusive livelihoods, gender and social inclusion, basic nutrition/household practices) using approved curricula and adult-learning methods.
• Coach/supervise community volunteers/lead facilitators to sustain activities and learning cycles.

Inclusion, Safeguarding & Accountability

• Mainstream gender, disability inclusion, and child safeguarding across all activities.
• Establish and maintain feedback, complaints, and response mechanisms at community level.

Partnerships & Coordination

• Coordinate with ward/village leaders, ABG/local government officers, church networks, and civil society actors to align efforts and avoid duplication.
• Participate in district/ward coordination forums and contribute to joint planning where relevant.

Monitoring, Data & Reporting

• Collect attendance, activity, and outcome data using project tools.
• Provide weekly activity reports submission and data submission

​

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION/SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Certificate/bachelor’s in education, social sciences, climate change and environment or other relevant disciplines is required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Community Development
• Experience in Development Work in the rural communities with local and international NGO’s
• Good contextual knowledge of the local community and social/cultural constraints, realities, and organizational relationships
• Basic monitoring and reporting skills; comfortable with data collection tools (paper or digital).
• Able to conduct training in the communities
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Basic digital literacy (smartphone/tablet data entry, WhatsApp/Teams coordination)
• Organization, planning, and time management skills
• Detail-oriented
• High-level communications skills
• Ability to build positive relationships in a cross-cultural environment
• Fluency in Tok Pisin and/or local Bougainville languages; good written and spoken English.

A competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunity will be offered commensurate with relevant experience, knowledge, and qualifications.

Interested applicants should submit the following documents all in one PDF file before: Wednesday 26 April, 2026, 11:59 PM (Midnight, PNG Time)

• Expression of interest

• Detailed CV

World Vision is committed to the principles of workplace diversity. Qualified women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

World Vision is committed to the protection of children. We do not employ staff whose background is not aligned with our safeguarding practices. Hence employment is conditional upon successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks, where possible.

We appreciate the time it takes to prepare your application. Please note that only short-listed candidates suitable for interviews will be contacted. If you do not hear from World Vision within two (2) weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ​

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only