Job Summary: The Environmental, Social, Health and Safety (ESHS) Officer is responsible for ensuring that all project activities comply with environmental, social, occupational health, and safety standards in accordance with national regulations, donor requirements, and international best practices (such as BPHS, EPHS & WHO guidelines). The ESHS Officer plays a key role in monitoring, implementing, and improving environmental and social safeguards, health and safety measures, and risk management systems across all operational sites.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Undertake the implementation, monitoring and reporting of ESHS measures to ensure compliance with the ESHS requirements.
- Ensure implementation of the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) and the ESHS instruments including the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) and the Rapid ESHS Assessment.
- Review, and ensure sure that relevant aspects of the ESCP and ESHS risk management instruments are duly incorporated into the procurement documents.
- Work with the project procurement staff to ensure that environmental and social aspects are incorporated as appropriate in contracts for goods and services and that suppliers and contractors are fully aware of their responsibilities in this regard.
- Ensure that the necessary environmental authorizations and permits are obtained where needed.
- Prepare and/or update health, safety, social and environmental management plans, review them on a regular basis, and keep them up to date at all times.
- Initiate, organize and conduct ESHS training for RI project team, contractors, consultants and other stakeholders.
- Participate in regular site meetings to report on relevant health & safety matters and to provide necessary advice.
- Support with monitoring to ensure that the consultants and contractors comply with the environmental and social health and safety (ESHS) specifications of their respective contracts.
- Provide contributions to the regular, semi-annual and annual progress reports on projects’ implementation as Required by the donor (UNICEF).
- Lead the organization and implementation of training to project workers on Environmental and Social Standards, stakeholder engagement, GRM, sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEA/SH) and other topics of relevance for ESHS compliance.
- Perform other duties in line with the scope of the project leading to compliance with environmental and social aspects and related instruments
- Ensure that all project staff, sign a Code of Conduct as part of their contracts, including provisions on sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, and violence against children.
- Share Project information and support consultations to ensure that issues are addressed in a timely manner and that project beneficiaries are aware of project activities, in line with the stakeholder engagement process identified.
