SMEC

Senior Social Development and Gender Specialist

SMEC

Port MoresbyPart timePosted Aug 3, 2026

Job description

Senior Social Development and Gender Specialist: Qualification and experience: Post-Graduation in Sociology / other relevant field. At least 10 years of overall experience in designing and implementing social assessment / development programmes in large-scale infrastructure projects, including 5 years of project implementation supervision and monitoring.

The specialist should have working experience on issues pertaining to vulnerable community, resettlement and rehabilitation, religion and gender and a solid background on handling consultations with multiple stake holders, at least in one World Bank project. The Expert should be conversant in English Role: As a part of the team, he/she will have the key responsibility of ensuring effective review and integration of social safeguards during into the designing and survey, implementation monitoring and supervision based on the ESMP/ARAP, CESMP and work contract.

He/she will also co-ordinate with other Govt. Departments, in formation / mobilization / updating / of community-based institution and their capacity building. He / she will also co-ordinate with all the stakeholders in implementation of ARAP, its monitoring and review. She/he will maintain a records/status of various social incidents, issues and submit monthly/quarterly reports accordingly, follow up with the WPNG, various line Departments of the Govt.

of PNG, if required and the relevant World Bank Officials and perform any other activities related to social issues of the project including supervision and assisting contractors in implementation of CESMP. At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively.

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