Environment Mitigation Specialist

Job Description

Title: Environment Mitigation Specialist

Company Name: Helen Keller International (HKI)

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

Published: 2025-01-04

Application Deadline: 2025-01-07

Education:

A Master’s degree in Program Management, Climate change, Geography, Environmental Science, Applied Environmental Science, Health, Social Sciences, or related field.

• Extensive knowledge of one or more of the following areas: food security, climate change, USAID environmental compliance, social welfare, grants, food commodities/logistics, disaster risk management, and/or gender.

• Ability to travel to project sites within Bandarban district

• Experience of managing WASH activities and supervise teams in Bandarban.

• Management experience of relevant activities

• Familiarity with U.S. Government (USG) regulations

• Diplomacy, strong presentation skills--oral and written

• Excellent computer and internet skills

• Strong English and Bangla language skills

• Previous employment with an international NGO (desired)

• Experience working with USAID-funded food security projects (desired)

• Experience working in the CHT (desired)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide environmental compliance oversight for climate smart agriculture and any WASH related activities under BANI response.

• Ensure proper environmental compliance documentation for all IGA and livelihood activities implemented under BANI, and fill up any gap that needs to be addressed.

• Respond to the BANI EMMR issues and answer queries from USAID BEO and MEO.

• Draft and update BANI IEE, EMMP and CRM documents for the extension period and get those documents approved from USAID.

• Draft EMMR for BANI FY24, BANI FY25 covering activities from June 2024 to March 2025 with template for remaining activities.

• Review and rewrite monthly spot monitoring report and recommend program team to take mitigative action to follow USAID environmental compliance.

• Draft 1-page report on environmental activities for Quarterly report.

• Write environment section of BANI Annual Report.

• Ensure compliance with USAID Regulation 216, Bangladesh environmental laws and any/all programmatic materials/documentation related to environmental compliance and monitoring, including the IEE and EMMP.

• Work with BANI team members and communities to raise awareness about environmental degradation and natural resource management to improve environmental conditions within BANI’s program areas.

• Apply updated USAID and Bangladesh environmental regulations.

• Train staff in environmental regulations, compliance and application of post assessment checklists.

• Coordinate with M&E team to extract key findings and work to adjust or modify activities where needed.

• Provide an orientation session on all BANI environmental training manuals, TOTs, guidelines, forms, standard operating procedures, and update any as necessary.

• Formulate ideas and train field staff on new climate smart technologies to make agricultural practices of the project adaptive and up to date with the changing climate.

• Implement climate smart irrigation technologies such as half moon bunds.

• Oversee the implementation of repairing and construction of rain water harvesting systems, installation of solar powered water pump etc.

• Supervise and oversee environmental compliance assistant.

• Other tasks assigned by Supervisor.

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