About the project: The Project Development Objective (PDO) of WERP is to improve access to safe drinking water and irrigation water services in selected Provinces and districts of Afghanistan. The project will involve women at all stages: first, as the project’s primary beneficiaries, and second, through a community-based approach that will include women during project implementation. The project's design lays out a particular focus on women (through the ECAs, social safeguards, and results monitoring).
Job Summary: The National Environmental and Social Safeguarding Specialist is a senior position and working directly with Team leader and National Senir engineer to ensure the compliance for project environmental and social Management framework (ESMF) regarding the assessment and management of Environmental and Social risks and impacts, Project workers health and safety, community health and safety, Stakeholders engagement, Public Consultation, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Grievance Reporting Mechanism (GRM) in the field level and during the implementation of ActionAid activities in project locations.
Job Responsibilities
Tasks
- Carry out the environmental and social screening process for each project location prior to start the implementation.
- Carry out the risk assessment and analysis of work activities to find potential negative ES impact and risk to provide the mitigation measures.
- Prepare the safeguarding instruments/ the site specific Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs)
- Finalize the site-specific Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) in line with the Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework (ESMF) of world Bank.
- Prepare the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for village and community sub-projects.
- Carry out compliance monitoring of Environmental and Social safeguards based on the Environmental Code of Practice (ECoP) and Environmental and Social Safeguard Management Framework (ESMF).
- Carry out joint diagnostic walkthroughs with the Mirabs, community and technical staff to identify the maintenance need and institutional and agricultural problems associated with the proposed activities at the farm, tertiary, branch, and tranches.
- Ensure the implementation of the Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) Action Plans at the field level.
- Provide orientation and training to Projects teams on ESFM and Safeguarding instrument/ Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP).
- Undertake monitor activities, including site visits, inspection and spot checks to project worksites and based on Environmental and Social monitoring plans and Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) to ensure the Environmental and Social safeguarding procedures are in place.
- Documents the Environmental and Social Safeguarding field records including field reports, site training records, site photographs, site work permit.
- Coordinate with ActionAid safeguarding, MEAL, compliance focal points in term of training and field monitoring.
- Follow up the third-party monitoring (TPM) findings, response, and corrective actions.
- Provide periodic reporting as per the project Environmental and Social Safeguard Management Framework (ESMF) to the line manager.
- Perform any other duties as required by the line manager.
- Any other task assigned by line manager on time to time.
