Overview
Provide technical, operational, and field-level support to ensure project activities comply with environmental and social standards, national regulations, and donor requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct environmental and social risk screening for sub-projects and activities.
- Prepare, update, and consolidate Environmental and Social Screening Checklists and Site-specific ESMPs.
- Ensure mitigation measures are practical, site-specific, and aligned with Cambodian context.
- Assist in monitoring the implementation of ESMP mitigation measures by service providers, contractors, and farmer organizations.
- Support field verification before, during, and after construction or activity implementation.
- Track ESMP compliance, non-compliance, and corrective actions.
- Support organization and documentation of stakeholder consultations, community meetings, and FPIC processes.
- Assist in integrating gender equality, youth inclusion, and vulnerable group considerations into ESMPs and business plans.
- Help maintain consultation records, attendance lists, and photo documentation.
- Support the operationalization of the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) at community and commune levels.
- Assist in maintaining GRM logs, tracking grievances, responses, and resolution timelines.
- Prepare GRM awareness materials.
- Coordinate with local GRM focal points and project teams.
- Assist in preparation of ESS training materials.
- Support organization and delivery of ESS orientations and training sessions.
- Support documentation of training outputs and participant feedback.
- Support preparation of ESS sections of project progress reports, site visit reports, and donor reporting inputs.
- Support disclosure of safeguards instruments as required.
- Perform any other relevant tasks as assigned.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of work experience in advisory and technical service delivery on social and environmental safeguards or risk assessment.
- Knowledge and experience on development projects particularly stakeholder engagement and management of environmental and social issue.
- Demonstrated experience in the development of action plan based on the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) to guide project implementation.
- Experience with donor-funded projects, including reporting and documentation, is an advantage.
Qualifications
• University degree in agriculture, natural resource management, environmental science, environmental engineering or similar.
