E T Consultant

Overview

Support environmental risk management and analysis in South Asia region.

You have:

• Advanced degree (MS minimum) in environmental or natural sciences, environmental policy, engineering, energy, agriculture, geography, development studies, or equivalent areas.
• Minimum of 2 years of full-time relevant professional experience post-Masters Degree.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyze and synthesize diverse qualitative and quantitative environmentally related data and information.
• Experience with Indian environmental legislation required.
• Basic knowledge of World Bank’s safeguards policies and ESF would be an advantage.
• Ability to function effectively with a range of stakeholders, including project-affected parties, government officials, NGOs, and project investors.
• Basic knowledge of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and GHG accounting methodologies is an advantage.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including analytical and data mining functions, and database management applications.
• Excellence in English communication skills (writing, speaking, listening and reading) is required.
• Proven collaboration skills and successful experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.

E T Consultant

Job #: req31389 Organization: World Bank Sector: Environment Grade: EC1 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: New Delhi,India Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 2/5/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC Description

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The South Asia Region (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) is at a crucial stage of development. Rapid economic growth, driven by urbanization and demographic dividend, has brought down poverty rates, but severe forms of exclusion and disparities based on ethnicity, caste, and gender remain. Rapid growth has also come with congestion and pollution in cities. South Asia is more than other regions affected by changes in temperature and extreme weather event. Additional challenges are that South Asia is underperforming in exports, has large informal sectors and low female labor force participation rates. All these challenges must be addressed to secure rapid growth in coming decades. Private sector led growth, focused on investments in infrastructure, energy, logistics and cities are essential to generate the jobs needed to employ South Asia’s sizeable youth population. At the same time, the region needs to continue building human capital so that South Asia’s population is well equipped for the jobs of the future. The World Bank in South Asia: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/sar

The Environment Department (ENV), located within the World Bank’s Planet Practice Group has been established to deliver on the opportunities, benefits and outcomes offered by enhanced management of the environment and natural resources. ENV provides 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. Over 360 ENV staff working across the globe help set developing countries on a clean, green growth trajectory for resilient economies and healthy communities.

There are two ENV units in the SAR region: SSAE1, covering two country units (India and Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives), and SSEA2, covering three country units (Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, and Pakistan) – each of which comprises around 40 staff, the majority of whom are based in Country Offices. The rest of the team is based in Washington DC.

The position

This is an Environmental Analyst (Extended Term Consultancy/ETC) position. It is a one-year assignment, with a possibility of an extension.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Environmental Analyst will report to the Environment Department Manager for South Asia/SSAE1 based in Singapore. He/She would work under the daily supervision of the India-based Environmental Risk Management (ERM) Coordinator but will also work very closely with the Regional Safeguards Coordinator (RSC) in Washington and the Deputy RSC based in Singapore.

The Environmental Analyst’s program would cover the India program. and would focus on supporting the ERM of the India program, establishing and implementing a monitoring system for ERM, supporting training and capacity building for clients and unit staff on ERM-related issues, and providing risk management support to the unit’s operations and supporting the India-based ERM Coordinator, RSC and Deputy RSC on tracking and monitoring on the risk management of the India program, including budget and risk analysis, staff planning, etc. This includes support to investment projects using the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and Safeguard Policies, Program for Results Financing and Development Policy Financing as well as providing guidance and support related to teams and clients working with other lending and analytical support with environmental and social risks.

Environmental Risk Monitoring, Management and Processing

• Working with the Environmental Risk Focal Point for India and the Regional Safeguards Coordinator and the Deputy Regional Safeguards Coordinator, the Environmental Analyst would establish and implement a strategic monitoring system for ERM-related issues. This includes monitoring the pipeline and active projects, ensuring project-related information is timely shared between task teams and ADM specialists and working with the Environmental Analyst and the Regional Safeguards/ESF Team in Washington DC for timely review of packages tracking ERM-related processing, monitoring performance, and communicating with staff to help support implementation. Support overall pipeline and portfolio monitoring and management including ensuring information systems are updated to accurately reflect project status working very closely with the Environmental Analyst based in DC, ERM Focal Point in India, RSC and Deputy RSC.

• Help the ENV Manager and Senior ESF Specialists working on the India program to track projects and tasks assigned to Environmental and Social Specialists working on the ESF and track filing of key safeguards/ESF instruments in preparation and implementation phase.

• Work with the country ESF focal point, support the bi-annual project staffing allocation assignment. Serve as unit focal point in ensuring task planning is done for the India country team, aligned with unit standards.

• Support budget planning exercise for ERM-related tasks. Monitor the unit’s budget utilization, working with the BPS team, RD front office, and PM, proactively trouble-shooting emerging issues.

• Support efforts to monitor and report on overall portfolio risks, including through consolidating project risk lists maintained at the CMU, regional or corporate level. Maintain and update information on project and program risk lists and assist in preparing for risk review meetings. Support preparation and consolidate materials for various risk review meetings.

• Using the ESCP as a key tool, work under the guidance of Senior Environmental Specialists to help identify and track known and emerging environmental risks and their management and resolution during project implementation.

• For projects being supported by the Bank’s ESF, using the ESCP as benchmarking tool, under guidance of RSC and Deputy RSC, Focal point and senior environmental specialist, help monitor compliance with the ESSs, sector specific guidelines, other relevant policies, contract specific conditions, and track deadlines.

• Support implementation of ESF Simplification priorities, including tracking, proactively identifying opportunities for promoting simplification.

Operational Work Program

• Serve as a team member contributing to environmental risk management of lower risk projects, providing advice and support to clients and teams on risk management, corporate requirements and processing needs, as appropriate.

Knowledge Management

• Coordinate and carry out other tasks as requested by the Manager such as for example, contribute to the organization of training or knowledge sharing events.

• Create (with help of other ENV staff) and maintain a repository of safeguards and ESF related documents, including TORs for ESF/Safeguards instruments, cleared Environment and Social Commitment Plans (ESCPs), cleared ESRSs, as well as lessons learned and best practices from specific Bank projects for research, knowledge and learning purposes. Training/Capacity Building

• Support efforts to strengthen India’s existing environmental risk management tools, processes and approaches including efforts to “strengthen borrower systems”.

• Support and participate in training activities on the WB’s safeguard policies and the ESSs and their provisions and implications for project preparation and implementation to World Bank Clients, WBG staff and other interested / relevant parties (e.g. NGOs, academia).

• Contribute to the further development of ESS-related technical materials, such as Good Practice Notes, knowledge tools, or metrics as applicable.

• Develop your own learning plan, in coordination with the ENV Manager, to support your skills development on technical and operational issues related to environmental risk management.

Selection Criteria

• Advanced degree (MS minimum) in environmental or natural sciences, environmental policy, engineering, energy, agriculture, geography, development studies, or equivalent areas.

• Minimum of 2 years of full-time relevant professional experience post-Masters Degree.

• Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyze and synthesize diverse qualitative and quantitative environmentally related data and information.

• Experience with Indian environmental legislation required. Basic knowledge of World Bank’s safeguards policies, ESF and/or IFC Performance Standards/MIGA Environmental and Social policies or similar standards would be an advantage.

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

• Basic knowledge of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change GHG accounting methodologies, or similar standards, is an advantage.

• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including its analytical and data mining functions, and database management applications would be an advantage.

• Excellence in English communication skills is required (writing, speaking, listening and reading).

• Proven collaboration skills and successful experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, and ability to work independently with limited supervision.

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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.

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