Senior Environmental Safeguards Specialist

1 week ago

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

Job Purpose
(i) provide specialized support and expertise to Country Operations Managers, Operational Team Leaders (OTLs), Project Management Specialists and Executing Agencies (EAs) in in the Regional Hubs in identifying, mainstreaming and monitoring environmental and safeguard aspects/concerns in Bank operations during the identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation, and completion stages (throughout project lifecycle) through providing environmental safeguards support to the Bank-funded projects and programs and/or integrating environment and nature-positive activities in both private and public sectors.
(ii) ensure incorporation of necessary environmental safeguards or components as appropriate and improve projects sustainability and quality-at-entry in the relevant sector.
(iii) Provide support and report to the ESS Lead to coordinate the operationalization and implementation of IsDB's environmental and social safeguards (ESS) policy.
(iv) contribute to the evaluation, improvement and dissemination of IsDB’s ESS policy; and (v) contribute to the formulation, development and effective implementation of IsDB’s strategic initiatives relevant to ESS including knowledge products, capacity building activities, and provide high level advisory, guidance and tools to the Regional Hubs and Member Countries.
Key Accountabilities*
Strategic and Operational Planning and Implementation: *
- Contribute and participate in project appraisal, design as well as processing and approval process as team member along with relevant regional hub. Lead provision of input on environmental aspects (including safeguards and co-benefits identification).
- Contribute and participate in Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS) formulation, country dialogue and engagements with relevant departments at HQ and regional hub.
- Lead in the development of strategic policies, plans, guidelines, analytics and other products related to environmental safeguards and aspects within the climate change and environment division and with other Global Practices in Director General - Global Practices and Partnerships Complex.
- Co-lead Communities of Practice (CoP) relevant to ESS (and more particularly environmental safeguards) and environment/biodiversity, which entails providing intellectual leadership on positioning the Global Practice (GP) internally and externally in relevant domains.
- Provide advisory on GPs work on environmental safeguards and cobenefits, identifying staff and learning needs and setting competencies and standards for their global, regional and country-specific solution areas.
- Provide expert advisory on the delivery of selected global engagement products on environmental safeguards and co-benefits, and when needed, directly lead and participate in country dialogues and deliverables (such as those related to UN Convention for Biodiversity or Desertification), in addition to capacity building workshops in Member Countries.

**Safeguard Policy and Compliance Monitoring**:

- Lead the monitoring of environmental safeguards policy compliance of IsDB projects during implementation.
- Identify, and report on projects with high environmental safeguards sensitivity.
- Participate in safeguard policy/Bank Procedure (BP) review and update as needed and contribute to the Bank consultation and submission approval process, taking the lead on environmental safeguards aspects.
- as needed liaise with clients, non-government organizations (NGOs), development partners, and within IsDB, including coordinating responses to NGOs’ complaints.
- Support in taking charge of public information and disclosure initiatives.
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with other leading works on safeguards within the IsDB and Academia, MDBs and other key partners, outside IsDB, on relevant research/analysis, events and outreach.

**Capacity Building**:

- Identify, assess, and monitor overall capacity building needs on environmental safeguards and co-benefits within the Bank, including Regional Hubs, and among clients.
- Develop and administer as needed technical assistance (TA) and other training programs for capacity building.

**Strategic Partnership**:

- Work, in coordination with the Climate Change and Environment Division and others, on the leading work on environmental safeguards and cobenefits within the IsDB, and academia, MDBs and other key partners, outside IsDB, on the relevant research/ analysis, events and outreach.
- Liaise with the international climate/environment finance institutions, such as International Climate Initiative (IKI), Green Climate Fund (GCF), Global environmental Facility (GEF) and other relevant institutions and coordinate fundraising for the relevant IsDB projects with strong environmental cobenefits. In addition, prepare approach papers, reports and statements on the rationale and activities to be supported by donor funds.

**Knowledge Sharing & Innovation**:

- Track external issues and processes

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