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• Promotion of workplace re-skilling and skilling for educated and
  un-educated;
• Promotion of resource efficiency and social safeguards at
  workplaces;
• Enhancement for the productivity of workers and enterprises

• In accordance to national policies and procedures, assess the
  potential environmental and social (E&S) risks and/or impacts of
  assigned projects, and prepare a written summary of the projects and
  potential environmental and social risks and impacts for public disclosure
  on Green Jobs Programme website
• Define steps required to ensure compliance with the Environmental,
  Health and Safety (EHS) standards
• Based on these assessments, work with potential developers to ensure
  plans are developed and steps taken to ensure that projects will comply
  with Environmental and Social standards.
• Provide training on Environmental and Social standards to MGLSD
  clients, internal staff and other Specialists.
• Contribute to corporate knowledge base by analyzing and
  disseminating lessons learned and best practice from specific development
  projects.
• Represent Green Jobs Programme Management Unit at technical
  meetings, industry events and environmental and/or social fora.
• Implement environmental/social related activities as outlined in the
  Environmental Management Plan (EMP) of the project; –
• Review the Programme investment proposals (sub-projects) and ensure
  that environmental/social issues are properly addressed by development of
  a project-specific environmental analysis that will include issues related
  to environmental assessments, natural habitats, pest management, forests,
  safety of dams, projects on international waterways, public consultations,
  and occupational health and safety (where it is the case for those
  mentioned before);
• Monitor the fulfillment of the project-specific environmental/social
  requirements and environmental safeguards policies with respect to all
  project activities, in all direct and indirect contracts;
• Ensure the project reporting on safeguards related issues;
• Provide overall environmental management oversight during the
  sub-projects’ implementation and verifies the related measures carried out
  by beneficiaries for implementing the environmental, social, and safety
  safeguards, as requested;
• Provide expert guidance to the beneficiaries in the preparation and
  successful implementation of the project environmental assessment
  instruments/documentation, including preparation of environmental
  impact/risk assessments and environmental management plans; 

• The applicant must hold a Master’s Degree in a relevant area
  (environmental management, biology, geology, environment).
• Five years of professional experience in assignments for environmental
  and social assessments as well as environmental management in a wide range
  of activities;
• Demonstrated experience for supporting,
  advising and /or collaborating with public institutions on environmental
  and social safeguards / climate change / sustainable development
• Practical experience in the field of
  monitoring and evaluation;
• Relevant experience in producing various
  related reports;
• Proficiency in the usage of computers
  and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Power Point
  etc.);
• Good capacity to communicate with people
  from different backgrounds and positions, as well as with local and
  national authorities;
• Good command of spoken and written
  English is a must

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