Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer

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🌐 Brazil, Cambodia, +1 more countries – Remote

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇰🇭 Cambodia – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

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World Wildlife Fund

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1001 - 5000 employees

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Non-profit

World Wildlife Fund is the world’s leading conservation organization, dedicated to protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species. With a global reach spanning 100 countries and supported by over 6 million members worldwide, WWF works to promote sustainable resource use, reduce pollution, and address the planet's conservation challenges through collaboration and innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead implementation and monitoring of the Environmental and Social Management Framework and Stakeholder Engagement Plan • Incorporate WWF’s Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework into all project aspects, including yearly screening, budget and work-plan review, stakeholder consultations, safeguards planning, and document approval and disclosure • Ensure safeguards documents are prepared, implemented, updated, and available to relevant stakeholders • Support Component 1 partners with annual environmental and social safeguards screening and mitigation planning • Troubleshoot and streamline safeguards planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and reporting with Indigenous Peoples and local community organizations • Review work plans and budgets to identify and mitigate environmental and social risks • Provide environmental and social risk-management advice to the Global Coordination Unit and Project Manager • Conduct environmental and social safeguards training for project staff and partner organizations • Participate in missions and technical visits and coordinate with WWF Environmental and Social Specialists • Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer on safeguards and stakeholder-engagement indicators, monitoring, and reporting • Establish and lead implementation of the HCI grievance redress mechanism • Support partners in socializing the grievance mechanism and ensuring culturally appropriate, functional, and accessible sub-project mechanisms • Develop Livelihood Restoration Plans when required through participatory processes • Implement stakeholder engagement and ensure mitigation measures align with the Process Framework • Develop environmental and social risk-monitoring checklists and data-management tools

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, related social science, or natural resources management; advanced degree highly preferred • Minimum 7 years of relevant working experience in social science • Minimum 5 years of directly applicable experience working on Indigenous Peoples or local community issues, especially environmental and social safeguards • Hands-on experience in environmental and social safeguard planning and monitoring tool design • Demonstrated culturally sensitive, respectful, community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities • Familiarity with relevant international environmental and social safeguarding policies and methods • Strong participatory and facilitation skills for stakeholder consultations and participatory planning • Experience with qualitative and quantitative data analysis and tools • Experience in conservation or development program and project implementation • Excellent capacity to manage project planning, implementation, and evaluation • Previous experience with similar donor-funded projects is an advantage • Excellent command of English, including clear and concise technical writing • Fluency or working knowledge of Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese strongly preferred • Experience working in distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures • Excellent interpersonal, ethical, listening, and communication skills; proactive problem-solving, self-organization, planning, organizing, prioritization, and efficient time management • Computer literacy in MS Office required • ArcGIS and/or other conservation planning, monitoring, and biodiversity, habitat, ecosystem, and ecosystem-services analysis software is a nice-to-have • Willingness to travel regularly to engage with partners required • Applicants working in Brazil or Kenya must be nationals currently based and legally authorized to work in Brazil or Kenya • Applicants working in Cambodia must be legally authorized to work in Cambodia; eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals may be willing to relocate to Cambodia

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Paid relocation: None • Visa sponsorship is not provided for Brazil or Kenya • WWF-Cambodia may be able to support visa sponsorship and relocation costs based on available budget for eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals willing to relocate to Cambodia