World Vision

Project Officer - Vanilla

Madang, Papua New Guinea Full time

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:

Project Management -  To understand project design and participate in planning and project activity implementation

  • Support planning, coordination, and implementation of project activities in cocoa, vanilla, and regreening initiatives.

  • Develop annual and quarterly workplans aligned with project goals and DIP

  • Monitor progress against timelines, budgets, and targets, and report on achievements and gaps.

  • Ensure compliance with project policies, donor requirements, and environmental and social safeguards.

  • Identify risks and propose practical solutions to keep activities on track.

  • Maintain accurate project documentation, field visit reports, and data records.

  • Develop training IEC material on how to cultivate vanilla and ensure greener and cleaner environment as family business

Cooperative Organizational Strengthening and Management.

  • Work closely with farmers and cooperative or producer groups and Community Facilitators.to strengthen structure and organization for collective market access

  • Liaise with local leaders, farmer groups, extension services, and relevant government agencies to support vanilla processors and value addition training

  • Support collaboration with buyers, processors, and value chain partners where required for better markets.

  • Be more gender and disability focused in training and support

 

Foster an interdependent working culture amongst the local target communities 

  • Actively involving women d youth in training and leadership

  • Addressing barriers to participation (time, literacy, cultural norms)

  • Supporting inclusive decision-making at cooperative level

  • Communicating project objectives clearly to communities

  • Feeding farmer concerns and feedback back to project management

  • Coordinating with extension agents, NGOs, and local authorities

Maintain networks with other NGOs & Govt authorities

  • Promoting climate-smart cocoa and vanilla practices (shade management, intercropping, mulching, soil health, pest and disease control)

  • Supporting diversification and agroforestry systems

  • Encouraging practices that reduce deforestation and environmental degradation

  • Translating technical guidance into locally practical solutions

  • Work with Cocoa-Vanilla farmer group and Cooperatives, CBOs, youth groups and other agencies in the communities to share skills and knowledge on Climate Smart Agriculture technologies on vanilla and cocoa production.

 

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting

  •  Assess and evaluate the progress of the project activity against DIP on a monthly basis. Support adaptive project management

  • Compile monthly Activity Implementation Report

  • Maintain Confidential written records

  •  Ensure adherence to reporting requirements

  •  Maintain Confidential written records   

  •  Ensure adherence to reporting requirements

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION/SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

  • Certificate or degree in tropical agriculture

  • 2-3 years’ experience in Cocoa and vanilla industry and sound knowledge of the cocoa-vanilla value chain.

  • Certified training certificate (advantage)

  • General knowledge in cocoa and vanilla value chain and development

  • Specific knowledge in business development and working in cooperative

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

  • Proficient in MS Office, data collection tools (e.g. Kobo, CommCare), and report writing

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 2 January, 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 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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