Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer

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Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer leading safeguards for WWF’s Indigenous-led global conservation initiative. Supporting partners, risk mitigation, grievance mechanisms, and compliance across Brazil, Cambodia, or Kenya.

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 aspects of the project
  • Conduct yearly environmental and social screening of project activities
  • Review and provide input into annual budgets and work plans
  • Conduct consultations with local stakeholders
  • Support Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ development of additional safeguards plans
  • Ensure review, approval, disclosure, updating, and availability of safeguard documents
  • Support Component 1 partners with annual environmental and social 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 support in collaboration with the GESI Officer
  • 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 MEL Officer on ESMF and SEP indicators, monitoring, and reporting
  • Establish and lead implementation of the HCI grievance redress mechanism
  • Support culturally appropriate and accessible grievance redress mechanisms for Component 1 sub-projects
  • Develop Livelihood Restoration Plans when required
  • Implement stakeholder engagement in collaboration with the Project Manager
  • Design data-collection methodology for semi-annual environmental and social safeguards reporting
  • Develop an environmental and social risk monitoring checklist with the MEL and GESI Officers
  • Report to the Project Manager in the Global Coordination Unit

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, or related social science, or natural resources management; advanced degree highly preferred
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience in social science
  • Minimum of 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 and 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 ability to write clearly and concisely at technical level
  • 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 tools and biodiversity, habitat, ecosystem, and ecosystem-services analysis software (R, connectivity analysis, etc.) are nice-to-have
  • Willingness to travel regularly to engage with partners required
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the job’s location

Benefits:

  • Paid relocation may be supported for eligible applicants relocating to Cambodia, based on available budget
  • Visa sponsorship may be supported for eligible applicants relocating to Cambodia, based on available budget
  • Equal employment opportunities