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Community Facilitator
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Summary

Location

Arawa

Type

full-time

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About this role

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!

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.

  • Ensure training is accessible and culturally appropriate (language, timing, venue, materials).

Inclusion, Safeguarding & Accountability

  • Mainstream gender, disability inclusion, and child safeguarding across all activities.

  • Establish and maintain feedback, complaints, and response mechanisms at community level.

  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks (including protection concerns), escalating per protocol.

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.

  • Support linkages to market actors, financial service providers, and relevant services.

  • Support linkages to market actors, financial service providers, and relevant services.

  • Collect attendance, activity, and outcome data (including sex- and disability-disaggregated data) using project tools.

  • Conduct regular community follow-up, household visits, and simple outcome verification.

  • Prepare concise weekly/monthly field reports, success stories, lessons learned, and case studies.

  • Feed community insights into adaptive management and quality improvement plans.

Logistics & Compliance

  • Plan field schedules, manage session materials, and coordinate transport with the project team.

  • Adhere to WVI organizational policies (safeguarding, anti-fraud/corruption, data protection, safety & security).

  • Support procurement and asset use at community level per project guidelines

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION/SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

  • Tertiary qualification (certificate, diploma, or degree) in Community Development, Social Work, Public Policy, Education, Agriculture/Livelihoods, or related field
  • Minimum 2–3 years’ experience in community facilitation within PNG, preferably Bougainville.
  • Experience in financial literacy/savings groups, gender inclusion, nutrition, agriculture, or resilience programming.
  • Experience with safeguarding, protection referral pathways, and accountability mechanisms.
  • Experience working with diverse groups (women, youth, people with disabilities) and local leadership structures.
  • Basic digital literacy (smartphone/tablet data entry, WhatsApp/Teams coordination).
  • Proven experience delivering training courses using participatory and adult-learning approaches.
  • Basic monitoring and reporting skills; comfortable with data collection tools (paper or digital).
  • Fluency in Tok Pisin and/or local Bougainville languages; good written and spoken English.
  • Familiarity with ABG coordination processes and ward-level governance

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; Friday 06 February, 2026, (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 safeguarding all children and adults living where World Vision operates. We enforce a zero tolerance policy for any forms of violence, abuse and exploitation against children or adults, either by employees or others affiliated with our work. We do not employ staff whose background is not aligned with our safe guarding practices. Employment is conditional upon successful completion of all mandatory background checks, including criminal record checks, where required.

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.

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Tech stack
Community Mobilization,Engagement,Training Facilitation,Gender Inclusion,Safeguarding,Data Collection,Monitoring,Reporting,Relationship Building,Coaching,Financial Literacy,Nutrition,Agriculture,Resilience Programming,Digital Literacy,Language Proficiency

About World Vision

World Vision is the largest child-focused private charity in the world. Our 33,000+ staff members working in nearly 100 countries have united with our incredible supporters to impact the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty. Through World Vision every 60 seconds…a family gets water…a hungry child is fed…a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Motivated by our faith and guided by our deep experience and expertise, we are a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world and creating lasting impact that will live on in generations to come. We serve all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Non-profit Organizations
Founding Year: 1950

What you'll do

  • The Community Facilitator will organize and facilitate community meetings and training sessions while building relationships with local leaders and groups. They will also ensure the inclusion of gender and disability considerations in all activities and maintain accountability mechanisms.

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What does a Community Facilitator do at World Vision?

As a Community Facilitator at World Vision, you will: the Community Facilitator will organize and facilitate community meetings and training sessions while building relationships with local leaders and groups. They will also ensure the inclusion of gender and disability considerations in all activities and maintain accountability mechanisms..

Why join World Vision as a Community Facilitator?

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Is the Community Facilitator position at World Vision remote?

The Community Facilitator position at World Vision is based in Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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