E T Consultant

Environment

Overview

Oversee environmental and social risk management activities.

You have:

• Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in environmental engineering, civil engineering, environmental science or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of full-time relevant professional experience in the environment engineering or environmental management sector.
• Strong preference for candidates with good technical training and practical experience in environmental risk management related to large scale civil engineering or industrial engineering projects, pollution management, solid waste management, soil, water and groundwater remediation and clean-up, or coastal zone management.
• Fluency in English (writing, speaking, listening and reading).
• Willingness to travel extensively in China and Mongolia and possibly to other countries, including to remote rural areas.

Contract

This is a World Bank Group grade: EC2 contract. More about World Bank Group grade: EC2 contracts.

E T Consultant

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Global Practice Context:

The Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice (ENB GP) is located within the World Bank’s Sustainable Development Practice Group. We provide expertise, technical assistance and financing to help low- and middle-income countries manage land, sea and freshwater natural resources in a sustainable way to help create jobs, improve livelihoods, enhance ecosystem services, decrease pollution and increase resilience to climate change!

Unit Context: The SEAE1 unit covers three country units (China & Mongolia, Indonesia & Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea & Pacific Islands). We are one of two ENB units in the East Asia and Pacific Region (EAP) and comprise around 40 staff, of whom about 70 percent are based in Country Offices. The rest of the team is based in Washington DC.

China Country Context: The China ENB program includes investment lending projects and a series of Advisory Services and Analytics covering a wide range of topics, such as forestry, landscape and biodiversity management, green finance, climate change and pollution! The China Country Program Framework is heavily focused on supporting China’s contribution to Global Public Goods -- including climate change mitigation (and adaptation), biodiversity conservation and pollution reduction – for which ENB plays a critical role. The Mongolia Country Program is in early stages of engagement, and consists of analytical work and client outreach, with no lending to date.

Duties & Responsibilities : The selected candidate will report to the EAP SEAE1 Practice Manager based in Singapore but work under the day-to-day oversight of the Beijing-based Country Environmental Risk Management Coordinator.

They will work as an integral part of the Beijing-based environment and safeguards teams. They would coordinate closely with other Bank staff working across different sectors, countries and regions as needed. The primary responsibility in this position would be to oversee and support compliance with the World Bank Group’s environmental and social risk management policies and the ES Policy and environmental and social standards (ESS), thus contributing to building environmental sustainability into project design and implementation.

The ETC will have the following key responsibilities: • Work closely with the environmental risk management Focal Point in Beijing, China who is responsible for assigning tasks and ensuring quality of environmental risk management work in the China and Mongolia program.

• Ensure the effective integration of environmental due diligence as defined by World Bank Group Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and the ESS therein, as well as safeguards policies and international good practice documents (e.g. Equator Principles) into the design, appraisal and implementation of WBG supported projects (IPF portfolio and analytical / advisory work).

• Provide expert advice to client and counterpart organizations, project teams and WBG management with regard to the preparation of environmental impact assessments, including regional, strategic and cumulative assessments; environmental and social management frameworks (ESMF), and environmental and social management plans (ESMP), including for monitoring, reporting and evaluation; Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP), Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP); and specific plans related to natural habitats conservation, natural resource management, pest management, forest management, dam safety and international waterways management; such advice will be based on thorough analysis of baseline conditions, project scope and impacts, requirements from national legal and institutional frameworks and, and compliance with the WBG’s operational policies.

• Provide expert guidance to clients in tendering and contracting specialized consultant services for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management tasks, including the preparation of terms of reference (ToR) for environmental risk management instruments, and assistance in selection, contracting and supervision of consultants; the ETC will work closely with the task teams’ procurement specialists on this.

• Provide technical training for environmental assessment and management practitioners in client countries on the WBG policies and requirements.

• Provide environmental input in project documents in accordance with the Bank operational policies, and assist with managing timely and proper disclosure procedures and public consultation requirements for all required environmental assessment and management instruments.

• Participate as team member in the development and/or supervision of the implementation of environment or natural resources activities or components in various projects, including participation in identification missions; seeking and developing opportunities to integrate sound environmental management and policies in various investment project operations; maintaining regular dialog with the client and enhancing their capacity for understanding of and compliance with environmental policies; and contributing to mission reports.

• Facilitate and maintain effective communication with the local community of practice, including NGOs, academia, civil society, the private sector as well as specialized international organizations in line with the Bank’s Disclosure Policy and need to harmonize with clients and other international financial institutions in the region.

• Coordinate all environmental risk management and enhancement activities within and between projects, share information with Task Team Leaders (Project Managers), project team members, staff/consultants responsible for projects’ social safeguards management, and other regional staff working on the environmental and NRM agenda, and in particular with the EAP regional safeguards advisor, EAP regional safeguards coordinator and the China environmental risk management focal point.

• Elevate questions from clients related to the operational interpretation of the Bank “safeguards” policies, and the ESF’s ten ESS, for guidance from the Pacific Environmental and Social Safeguard Focal Points, the EAP Regional Safeguards Advisor / Environmental and Social Standards Advisor (ESSA, new title under ESF), and the Regional Safeguards Coordinator.

• Actively seek to learn World Bank Group procedures, and contribute to their improvement, by participating in training offered, by developing a personal training program, keeping abreast of research and development knowledge in the environment and natural resources sector, and relevant safeguard management process.

• Coordinate and carry out other tasks as requested by the relevant Manager such as for example, contribute to the organization of training or knowledge sharing events, and help the country office staff with various tasks specific to the management of the office.

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Global Practice Context:

The Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice (ENB GP) is located within the World Bank’s Sustainable Development Practice Group. We provide expertise, technical assistance and financing to help low- and middle-income countries manage land, sea and freshwater natural resources in a sustainable way to help create jobs, improve livelihoods, enhance ecosystem services, decrease pollution and increase resilience to climate change!

Unit Context: The SEAE1 unit covers three country units (China & Mongolia, Indonesia & Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea & Pacific Islands). We are one of two ENB units in the East Asia and Pacific Region (EAP) and comprise around 40 staff, of whom about 70 percent are based in Country Offices. The rest of the team is based in Washington DC.

China Country Context: The China ENB program includes investment lending projects and a series of Advisory Services and Analytics covering a wide range of topics, such as forestry, landscape and biodiversity management, green finance, climate change and pollution! The China Country Program Framework is heavily focused on supporting China’s contribution to Global Public Goods -- including climate change mitigation (and adaptation), biodiversity conservation and pollution reduction – for which ENB plays a critical role. The Mongolia Country Program is in early stages of engagement, and consists of analytical work and client outreach, with no lending to date.

Duties & Responsibilities : The selected candidate will report to the EAP SEAE1 Practice Manager based in Singapore but work under the day-to-day oversight of the Beijing-based Country Environmental Risk Management Coordinator.

They will work as an integral part of the Beijing-based environment and safeguards teams. They would coordinate closely with other Bank staff working across different sectors, countries and regions as needed. The primary responsibility in this position would be to oversee and support compliance with the World Bank Group’s environmental and social risk management policies and the ES Policy and environmental and social standards (ESS), thus contributing to building environmental sustainability into project design and implementation.

The ETC will have the following key responsibilities: • Work closely with the environmental risk management Focal Point in Beijing, China who is responsible for assigning tasks and ensuring quality of environmental risk management work in the China and Mongolia program.

• Ensure the effective integration of environmental due diligence as defined by World Bank Group Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and the ESS therein, as well as safeguards policies and international good practice documents (e.g. Equator Principles) into the design, appraisal and implementation of WBG supported projects (IPF portfolio and analytical / advisory work).

• Provide expert advice to client and counterpart organizations, project teams and WBG management with regard to the preparation of environmental impact assessments, including regional, strategic and cumulative assessments; environmental and social management frameworks (ESMF), and environmental and social management plans (ESMP), including for monitoring, reporting and evaluation; Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP), Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP); and specific plans related to natural habitats conservation, natural resource management, pest management, forest management, dam safety and international waterways management; such advice will be based on thorough analysis of baseline conditions, project scope and impacts, requirements from national legal and institutional frameworks and, and compliance with the WBG’s operational policies.

• Provide expert guidance to clients in tendering and contracting specialized consultant services for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management tasks, including the preparation of terms of reference (ToR) for environmental risk management instruments, and assistance in selection, contracting and supervision of consultants; the ETC will work closely with the task teams’ procurement specialists on this.

• Provide technical training for environmental assessment and management practitioners in client countries on the WBG policies and requirements.

• Provide environmental input in project documents in accordance with the Bank operational policies, and assist with managing timely and proper disclosure procedures and public consultation requirements for all required environmental assessment and management instruments.

• Participate as team member in the development and/or supervision of the implementation of environment or natural resources activities or components in various projects, including participation in identification missions; seeking and developing opportunities to integrate sound environmental management and policies in various investment project operations; maintaining regular dialog with the client and enhancing their capacity for understanding of and compliance with environmental policies; and contributing to mission reports.

• Facilitate and maintain effective communication with the local community of practice, including NGOs, academia, civil society, the private sector as well as specialized international organizations in line with the Bank’s Disclosure Policy and need to harmonize with clients and other international financial institutions in the region.

• Coordinate all environmental risk management and enhancement activities within and between projects, share information with Task Team Leaders (Project Managers), project team members, staff/consultants responsible for projects’ social safeguards management, and other regional staff working on the environmental and NRM agenda, and in particular with the EAP regional safeguards advisor, EAP regional safeguards coordinator and the China environmental risk management focal point.

• Elevate questions from clients related to the operational interpretation of the Bank “safeguards” policies, and the ESF’s ten ESS, for guidance from the Pacific Environmental and Social Safeguard Focal Points, the EAP Regional Safeguards Advisor / Environmental and Social Standards Advisor (ESSA, new title under ESF), and the Regional Safeguards Coordinator.

• Actively seek to learn World Bank Group procedures, and contribute to their improvement, by participating in training offered, by developing a personal training program, keeping abreast of research and development knowledge in the environment and natural resources sector, and relevant safeguard management process.

• Coordinate and carry out other tasks as requested by the relevant Manager such as for example, contribute to the organization of training or knowledge sharing events, and help the country office staff with various tasks specific to the management of the office.

Selection Criteria

• Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in environmental engineering, civil engineering, environmental science or related field,

• A minimum of 5 years of full-time relevant professional experience in the environment engineering or environmental management sector.

• Strong preference for candidates with good technical training and practical experience in environmental risk management related to large scale civil engineering or industrial engineering projects, pollution management, solid waste management, soil, water and groundwater remediation and clean-up, or coastal zone management.

• Knowledge and experience in environmental assessment and management of investment projects involving large scale civil works, extractive or industrial activities.

• Field experience in both assessing project site vulnerabilities / risks, as well as supervising / inspecting / monitoring projects with significant environmental dimensions and / or risks during implementation to mitigate and monitor environmental impacts.

• Fluency in English (writing, speaking, listening and reading).

• Proven teamwork and successful experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.

• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Willingness to travel extensively in China and Mongolia and possibly to other countries is necessary, including to remote rural areas.

The following would be an advantage but not required:

• Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: environmental sector policy, or integrated development planning in various sectors (e.g., water supply and sanitation; transport, energy, natural disaster management, rural development, health and education); capacity assessment and institutional strengthening, public consultation, health and safety plans.

• Experience in the preparation of the environmental assessment and management documents of the lending projects of the WBG or other international organizations.

• Experience working in China and/or Mongolia, understanding of the institutional and political context, and exposure to the national environmental policy challenges.

• Demonstrated project management / operational skills and familiarity with World Bank procedures and business practices including occupational health and safety management and the World Bank Group safeguard policies and ESF would be a strong advantage.

• Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, NGOs, international organizations, development partners and / or with the governments;

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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