Project Manager

At a glance

Where

Papua New Guinea

Closes

25 September 2026

Posted

14 September 2026

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 Project Manager, you will provide contract management expertise to optimize resources, strengthen delivery quality, and ensure the contract is implemented in line with the ToR, World Vision, and ADB standards. You will provide technical guidance, monitoring and evaluation support, and strategic oversight of the contract for 25 months. Based in Mt Hagen Area Program, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of six experts to ensure the timely, high-quality delivery of all project outputs and contractual obligations. You will be accountable for end-to-end project management, including planning, compliance, stakeholder coordination, monitoring and reporting, financial stewardship, risk management, and adaptive learning. You will serve as the principal representative of the programme to ADB, DOWH, provincial stakeholders, community partners, and collaborating CSOs. You will lead the development and execution of detailed project plans, workplans, timelines, budgets, and risk management frameworks. You will ensure effective implementation of interventions, including safe infrastructure and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and oversee project finances, budgeting, and procurement processes to ensure full compliance with ADB guidelines. You will monitor expenditure against milestones, support financial reporting requirements, and contribute to documentation for milestone-based payments, while ensuring proper systems for resource management, due diligence, and audit readiness. You will oversee monitoring of project indicators, milestones, and outcomes, ensuring accurate data collection, reporting, and documentation aligned with donor requirements. You will support learning and adaptive management to continuously improve project effectiveness and ensure sustainable results and long-term impact for beneficiaries. You will supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of experts, lead work planning and task allocation, and strengthen the capacity of project staff and trainers. You will prepare high-quality narrative and financial reports for donors and internal management, document lessons learned, success stories, and best practices, and communicate project progress, challenges, and results effectively to diverse audiences. You will maintain strong, regular communication and collaboration with ADB, relevant national and provincial authorities, CSO partners, including GBV implementing partners, community leaders, and other relevant actors. You will represent the programme in external forums, meetings, and consultations. 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, natural resource management, Project Management, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of at least 10 years’ experience in all areas of project management and staff development;
• Direct experience in managing staff, donor and stakeholders especially in the livelihood, agriculture sector
• At least 5 years work experience in managing projects in the field offices
• Strong technical or programming experience in agriculture, livelihood preferably with some preference to education, gender, WASH, or child protection programming.
• 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 of working with multicultural teams
• Proven ability to develop people in a cross-cultural setting
• Fluency in English and Tok Pisin required.
• Willingness to travel to very remote communities required.

Who may apply

No country restriction stated

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