E T Consultant

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E T Consultant

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The Environment and Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice (ENB GP): Sustainable environment and natural resources (ENR) management, including support to the blue economy, is the agenda of ENB GP of the World Bank Group (WBG) part of poverty agenda. Natural resources and biodiversity often constitute the social safety net of the poor, representing a food bank and often their only source of livelihood. The world Bank promotes green, clean, and resilient development where natural resources–from forests to fisheries, freshwater, oceans, coastal zones and ecosystems–are managed to support livelihoods, strong economies, and a world better prepared for shocks and global challenges. The ENB GP has been established to deliver on the opportunities, benefits and outcomes offered by enhanced management of the environment and natural resources. One specific ENB GP responsibility is to support effective environmental risk management, and to ensure good environmental management across the Bank’s work in part through the implementation of the Bank’s environmental policies and its Environmental and Social Framework (ESF).

The ENB GP team is also leading analytical work, policy dialogue, and lending operations in a range of areas such as pollution and waste management, air quality improvement, integrated coastal zone management, forest and fisheries management.

On August 4, 2016, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) to help protect people and the environment in the investment projects it finances. This effort is one of several key initiatives, including procurement reform, and the climate and gender strategies, recently undertaken by the Bank to improve development outcomes.

The ESF responds to new and varied development demands and challenges that have arisen over time. It brings the World Bank’s environmental and social (E&S) protections into closer harmony with those of other development institutions, and makes important advances in areas such as transparency, non-discrimination, social inclusion, public participation, and accountability – including expanded roles for grievance redress mechanisms. The framework helps to ensure social inclusion, and explicitly references human rights in the overarching vision statement.

The ESF is made up of the World Bank’s vision for sustainable development, the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Policy for Investment Project Financing, and ten Environmental and Social Standards (ESS). These set out the mandatory requirements for the World Bank, in relation to the projects it supports through Investment Project Financing (IPF), and for Borrowers.

The ENB GP in South Asia is seeking to recruit an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) for its Dhaka Office with expertise and solid experience on environmental and social risk assessment and management of various types of projects including assessment and management of biodiversity issues of large infrastructure. The primary responsibilities for the position are listed below.

The ETC will report to the ENB Practice Manager for the South Asia Region (SAR) and will work with the Bangladesh ENB team and the Regional Safeguards Coordinator for SAR and Bangladesh/Bhutan, respectively, to provide safeguards/ESF and technical support to Bank-financed operations.

Duties and Accountabilities: • Work closely with the Environment Team in Bangladesh and Washington DC and with the Social Team in Bangladesh, Task Teams, Practice Groups and Country Management Unit to provide advisory and hands on support to projects as well as in conducting due diligence of projects to ensure they are meeting World Bank ESF requirements.

• Support clients and Task Teams with regard to assessment and management of ES risks and impacts of the development projects in light with the WB ESF.

• Conduct due diligence of projects to ensure compliance with WB ESF but also environmental requirements of Program-for-Results (PforR) and Development Policy Financing (DPF).

• Provide timely advise and inputs on environmental issues in various projects at different stages of project cycle and in various ESF-related documentation.

• Assist in timely and proper disclosure of the ES instruments under IPFs, DPFs and PforRs.

• Monitor, assess and manage environmental risks and impacts during project/program implementation to ensure timely, efficient, and effective implementation of environmental management measures and work with clients to improve environmental performance and address non-compliances.

• Assist in planning and implementing client capacity building initiatives by supporting preparation of capacity development plans and delivery of training in line with the client capacity support and development plan for Bangladesh.

• Support environmental analytics such as Overview Assessment to assess the country ES framework and gap assessments.

• Support dissemination of lessons learned and best practices from specific Bank projects/activities for research, knowledge and learning purposes.

• Support ENB team on biodiversity issues and related-topics such as Dolphin platform in Bank-financed investment projects and be an active team member of initiatives to help client improve their own OHS/CHS systems.

Selection Criteria

• At least Masters degree in environmental science or engineering, or other relevant disciplines.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of proven, relevant experience as environmental assessment and management professional. Experience on occupational health and safety in developing countries would be an advantage.

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

• Sound knowledge of World Bank’s safeguards policies, the ESF, and/or IFC Performance Standards/MIGA Environmental and Social policies or similar standards as well as its stakeholders, especially the challenges and opportunities for borrowing countries is needed.

• Excellent inter-personal and team leadership skills and ability to easily interact with people of different backgrounds and seniority inside and outside the World Bank, including clients and partners.

• Collaborate with a range of stakeholders, including project-affected parties, government officials, non-governmental organizations / civil society, as well as project investors and their staff.

• Excellent writing and communication skills in both local language and English are required. Knowledge of other languages will be an advantage.

• Good team player who can work as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team, motivate and lead group efforts and network effectively across boundaries.

• A drive for results while working with limited supervision and under tight timelines.

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three 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 third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.