Global Communities is seeking an Environmental Specialist for an anticipated project that will support groups of producers who practice subsistence agriculture to achieve increases in production, productivity, and insert them into the formal market. The Environmental Specialist will coordinate the implementation of environmental management processes, ensuring compliance with relevant Environmental and Social Standards.
Requirements
- University degree in environmental sciences, natural resources, agriculture, or forestry, with a master's degree in environmental management and natural resources management or another area relevant to the functions of the position.
- At least six (6) years of experience in environmental protection in the public or private sector.
- Verifiable experience in the management of environmental licensing processes of at least five (5) projects in the agricultural and livestock sectors.
- Verifiable experience in environmental risk assessment for agricultural, rural, or natural conservation area development programs or projects.
- Knowledgeable of national environmental regulations and the Environmental and Social Standards of the World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework (ESF).
- Verifiable experience advising or supporting processes to implement good environmental practices and integrated management of natural resources.
- Verifiable experience in facilitating or leading organization and training processes on environmental and agroecological issues with rural and municipal communities or producers, preferably with indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in ancestral territories.
