Community Mobilizer & Logistics Officer

Community Mobilizer & Logistics Officer

Save The Children is a global non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring every child has the opportunity to grow up healthy, educated, and safe. With a presence in over 120 countries, we work tirelessly to provide children with a brighter future.

Save the Children Vanuatu is seeking a motivated Community Mobiliser & Logistics Officer to support the effective implementation of the Helti Pikinini Helti Vanuatu Project. This dual role will help ensure project activities are delivered efficiently while communities, stakeholders, health facilities, local authorities, parents, caregivers and target beneficiaries are actively engaged in project implementation and sustainability efforts.

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job:

It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making Vanuatu and the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same. Benefits include:

• Opportunity to work alongside diverse and creative teams
• Individual learning plans, and internal development opportunities to assist in your career development
• Child friendly work environment
• Attractive renumeration package (Salary & Benefits)
• Paid Public Holidays

Where you come in:

The Community Mobilizer & Logistics Officer will play a vital role in supporting the implementation of Save the Children’s integrated Health and Nutrition project in Vanuatu. The project aims to reduce undernutrition and WASH-related health issues among children aged 0–5 years.

This role will primarily focus on community engagement, capacity building, and coordination at the local level to ensure successful delivery of project interventions. The Community Mobilizer & Logistics Officer will work closely with community members, volunteers, and partners to drive positive change across key components, including community-led nutrition rehabilitation using the Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/Hearth) approach, improving food security through market-based solutions and food preservation techniques, strengthening climate-resilient WASH systems in target communities, and promoting healthy child-rearing and hygiene practices through social and behaviour change communication (SBCC).

The Community Mobilizer & Logistics Officer reports directly to the Helti Pikinini, Helti Komuniti Project Manager.

You will make an impact by:

• Mobilizing and engage communities in Shefa and Sanma to participate in project activities, consultations, awareness sessions and outreach.
• Building strong relationships with community leaders, schools, churches, health facilities, parents, caregivers and local authorities.
• Supporting child health, nutrition, development and wellbeing awareness and behaviour-change activities.
• Coordinating trainings, workshops, meetings, field visits, travel and logistics, including transport, accommodation and venues.
• Coordinating the distribution of project materials and resources to target communities.
• Supporting procurement, inventory management, stock monitoring and asset tracking in line with Save the Children policies.
• Collecting and report community feedback, beneficiary data and project implementation progress.
• Preparing activity, logistics and distribution reports, success stories and other project documentation.
• Supporting monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting activities.
• Liaising with government departments, provincial authorities, local partners and service providers.
• Representing the project in community and stakeholder engagements as required.
• Promoting child safeguarding, workplace safety, security and compliance with Save the Children policies and Code of Conduct.

Health, Safety & Risk

• Promote safe work practices, report hazards, and apply mitigation
• Participate in health and safety awareness and follow procedures

Child Safeguarding

• Ensure a child-safe environment and follow protection protocols
• Act with integrity in all child-related interactions
• Report and respond to safeguarding concerns as per policy

Why join us?

• Be part of a purpose-driven organisation committed to children’s rights and wellbeing.
• Support practical community engagement, logistics and coordination work that strengthens child health, nutrition, development and wellbeing outcomes.
• Work with communities and partners across Shefa and Sanma Provinces to help deliver meaningful project impact

This role requires:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in community mobilisation, logistics, project implementation or NGO programming.
• Experience working with international NGOs.
• Experience coordinating workshops, meetings and community engagement activities.
• Basic knowledge of procurement and logistics management.
• Certificate or Diploma in Community Development.
• A valid driver’s licence.
• Willingness to travel to communities and outer islands, including Sanma Province.
• Commitment to child safeguarding and maintaining safe, positive relationships with children and young people.

Sounds interesting?

We’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter via link provided / email Hr.vanuatu@savethechildren.org.au by 12^th October 2026. We welcome and thank all applications, however due to the anticipated volume of submissions, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy, PSEAH policy and Code of Conduct.

At Save the Children, we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society – in ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Save the Children a great place to work.