Major Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure the Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework (ESSF) at the organizational and project level
2. Safeguards Quality Assurance and Risk Management
3. Support Implementation of GESI interventions
4. Capacity Building
5. Supporting Monitoring and Evaluation
6. Knowledge Management
7. Technical Reporting
8. Other Duties
Supervisory Responsibility: Supervises interns and consultants as and when necessary.
Working Relationships:
Internal: Works closely with all Program Units, Field offices, consultants, and researchers.
External: Interacts frequently with Local communities, Conservation partners, NGOs/CBOs.
Knowledge: A Bachelor’s degree in Environment Conservation, Natural Resource Management, or a relevant Social Sciences field with knowledge of Gender and Social Inclusiveness and Environmental Safeguards.
Experience: The candidate must have a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience. The candidate should have prior experience in leading community-based/participatory social tools. Prior experience in conducting GESI analysis, PEA, social mapping, and ethnographic assessment is expected. Experience in field-based monitoring and evaluation of gender and social inclusion interventions and ES safeguards is desirable. The individual should have sound knowledge of national policies related to safeguards, IP-related issues, gender and social inclusion, and current social development issues in Nepal. Experience of working in field-based conservation and development initiatives with diverse communities is desirable.
Skills and Abilities:
WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organization originated from Switzerland in 1961 and currently running in more than 100 countries across 6 continents. The program started from conservation of wildlife to broader concept of building future where humans can live in harmony with nature. WWF has created 1,480 ecoregions that categorize the world into its natural ecosystems. Nepal with Bhutan, northeast India, southeast Tibet and northern Myanmar, falls under the Eastern Himalaya region housing the threatened species Snow Leopards, Bengal Tigers and One-horned Rhinos.
It was in 1967, WWF initiated WWF Nepal with a rhino conservation program in Chitwan. To keep up with the evolving face of conservation and environmental movement, WWF Nepal’s focus progressed from its localized efforts in conservation of single species in 1960s, integrated conservation and development approach in 1990s, to a new horizon of landscape level conservation encompassing national, regional and global scales of complexity in early 2000s.
