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Country: United Kingdom City: London
Department : Risk and Resources Vice Presidency
Business Unit: Environment and Sustainability Closing date for applications: 30 January 2014
Background Information:
Role OverviewThe ESD, is a team of specialists primarily responsible for the environmental and social appraisal and monitoring of Bank's portfolio of projects in various sectors and the custodians of the ESP and Bank E&S mandate as defined in articles establishing the Bank.
The Environmental Specialist / Principal Environmental Specialist is responsible for assessing Bank's investments for their potential environmental risks and compliance with the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) and Public Information Policy (PIP) requirements, with subsequent monitoring of Clients’ environmental and social performance. This role is critical in preventing occurrence of institutional liabilities of financial and reputational nature related to E&S impacts of Bank's transactions, country and sector policies and broader initiatives. In pursuing this objective this role supports and closely interacts with Clients, Banking, Office of Chief Economist (OCE), Office of General Counsel (OGC), Policy & Stakeholder Engagement units, amongst others.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
- Plan and formulate due diligence approaches in liaison with the ESD Oversight Advisor and Banking teams to ensure that projects are structured to meet the E&S Policy Performance Requirements and in line with the E&S Procedures.
- Carry out in-house due diligence or coordinate external consultants’ delivery of the E&S appraisal, and subsequent monitoring activities across a broad range of sectors.
- Prepare E&S Summaries, E&S Action Plans, Back to Office Reports on site visits and respective sections in the Bank's documents for Low-Medium and High-Medium Risk projects in a broad range of sectors to ensure adequate assessment and communication of E&S risks, impacts, and benefits under the Bank's mandate.
- Lead and coordinate ESD specialists working on project teams when assigned as Lead to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the Bank's objectives throughout project cycle.
- Provide and/or coordinate specialists' input to sector and country strategies/policies, papers or other initiatives.
- Represent ESD, as required, at the technical/practitioner level at the (Operations Committee (OpsCom), Board, and other internal and external meetings with regulatory agencies, IFIs, project affected people, government officials and civil society organizations
- Manage delivery of specific Technical Cooperation (TC) assignments or provide comments to the other teams’ TC work based on identified opportunities for broader Bank's policy dialog and E&S benefits creation at project, sector or country levels.
- Professional experience gained in the environmental, health and safety and social appraisal of projects, including ESIA, auditing, management systems and stakeholder engagement
- Past work experience in and/or good understanding of the Bank's SEMED countries of operation, culture, and E&S context
- Knowledge of main EU and international E&S requirements, practices and guidelines (e.g. EU BAT reference documents, World Bank's EHS Guidelines, Equator Principles, etc.), as well as best practice approaches to managing E&S risks (e.g. ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, EMAS, HAACP, etc.)
- Understanding of IFI's working environment, policies and procedures, and ability for organizational alignment
- Higher Education degree or equivalent professional qualifications in relevant subjects.
- Effective time management and organizational skills and ability to multi-task without losing attention to detail
- High-level English writing and verbal skills, and numeric, methodological and IT skills at the level corresponding for the role. Knowledge of at least one language native to SEMED countries also recommended
- Negotiation, persuasion and influence skills in internal and external engagement activities to deliver the team’s and Bank’s objectives, based on strong interpersonal and effective communication skills
- Ability to work on a number of projects and TC Operations at a time at different life cycle stages: exploratory, under due diligence, implementation, monitoring, evaluation.
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