Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer
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Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer supporting WWF’s global Indigenous-led conservation initiative. Leading safeguards, stakeholder engagement, grievance mechanisms, and risk monitoring across partner projects.
Responsibilities:
- Lead implementation and monitoring of the Environmental and Social Management Framework and Stakeholder Engagement Plan
- Incorporate WWF’s Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework into all project aspects, including yearly screening, budget and work-plan review, stakeholder consultations, safeguards planning, and document approval and disclosure
- Ensure safeguards documents are prepared, implemented, updated, and available to relevant stakeholders
- Support Component 1 partners with annual environmental and social safeguards screening and mitigation planning
- Troubleshoot and streamline safeguards planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and reporting with Indigenous Peoples and local community organizations
- Review work plans and budgets to identify and mitigate environmental and social risks
- Provide environmental and social risk-management advice to the Global Coordination Unit and Project Manager
- Conduct environmental and social safeguards training for project staff and partner organizations
- Participate in missions and technical visits and coordinate with WWF Environmental and Social Specialists
- Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer on safeguards and stakeholder-engagement indicators, monitoring, and reporting
- Establish and lead implementation of the HCI grievance redress mechanism
- Support partners in socializing the grievance mechanism and ensuring culturally appropriate, functional, and accessible sub-project mechanisms
- Develop Livelihood Restoration Plans when required through participatory processes
- Implement stakeholder engagement and ensure mitigation measures align with the Process Framework
- Develop environmental and social risk-monitoring checklists and data-management tools
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, related social science, or natural resources management; advanced degree highly preferred
- Minimum 7 years of relevant working experience in social science
- Minimum 5 years of directly applicable experience working on Indigenous Peoples or local community issues, especially environmental and social safeguards
- Hands-on experience in environmental and social safeguard planning and monitoring tool design
- Demonstrated culturally sensitive, respectful, community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
- Familiarity with relevant international environmental and social safeguarding policies and methods
- Strong participatory and facilitation skills for stakeholder consultations and participatory planning
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative data analysis and tools
- Experience in conservation or development program and project implementation
- Excellent capacity to manage project planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Previous experience with similar donor-funded projects is an advantage
- Excellent command of English, including clear and concise technical writing
- Fluency or working knowledge of Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese strongly preferred
- Experience working in distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures
- Excellent interpersonal, ethical, listening, and communication skills; proactive problem-solving, self-organization, planning, organizing, prioritization, and efficient time management
- Computer literacy in MS Office required
- ArcGIS and/or other conservation planning, monitoring, and biodiversity, habitat, ecosystem, and ecosystem-services analysis software is a nice-to-have
- Willingness to travel regularly to engage with partners required
- Applicants working in Brazil or Kenya must be nationals currently based and legally authorized to work in Brazil or Kenya
- Applicants working in Cambodia must be legally authorized to work in Cambodia; eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals may be willing to relocate to Cambodia
Benefits:
- Employees can work remotely
- Paid relocation: None
- Visa sponsorship is not provided for Brazil or Kenya
- WWF-Cambodia may be able to support visa sponsorship and relocation costs based on available budget for eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals willing to relocate to Cambodia
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