Deputy Team Leader - Gender & Community Expert

## Expérience 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. ## Formation / Diplômes 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. ## Présentation du poste You will support...