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Reporting to the SPU Coordinator, the Environmental and Safeguards Specialist will be responsible for the following:

Responsibilities or duties

• Support and guide the activities of environmental and social safeguard in the intervention areas.
• Record and provide adequate responses to the complaints of project beneficiaries.
• Ensure effective integration of environmental and social safeguard considerations into all aspects of identification, consultation, planning, and implementation of project activities.
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure effective mainstreaming of environmental and social safeguard issues into the implementation of project activities.
• Ensure that the Project activities are consistent in their approaches to environmental and social safeguard issues, thereby supporting full blending at the operational level.
• Work closely with relevant Districts and Sectors Staff within the intervention areas in all processes of environmental and social safeguard.
• Prepare all documents related to processes of environmental and social safeguard activities (MoU, agreements, etc.).
• Ensure that the contractors follow the rules regarding environmental protection and safety during the implementation and maintenance phases.
• Provide regular social safeguard inputs to monitoring, evaluation, and reporting activities.
• Follow up on the social aspects in project sites.
• Perform any other tasks as required or directed by RWB management.

• Support and guide the activities of environmental and social safeguard in the intervention areas.
• Record and provide adequate responses to the complaints of project beneficiaries.
• Ensure effective integration of environmental and social safeguard considerations into all aspects of identification, consultation, planning, and implementation of project activities.
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure effective mainstreaming of environmental and social safeguard issues into the implementation of project activities.
• Ensure that the Project activities are consistent in their approaches to environmental and social safeguard issues, thereby supporting full blending at the operational level.
• Work closely with relevant Districts and Sectors Staff within the intervention areas in all processes of environmental and social safeguard.
• Prepare all documents related to processes of environmental and social safeguard activities (MoU, agreements, etc.).
• Ensure that the contractors follow the rules regarding environmental protection and safety during the implementation and maintenance phases.
• Provide regular social safeguard inputs to monitoring, evaluation, and reporting activities.
• Follow up on the social aspects in project sites.
• Perform any other tasks as required or directed by RWB management.