E T Consultant

**E T Consultant**

**Job #**:

- req21972**Organization**:

- World Bank**Sector**:

- Environment**Grade**:

- EC2**Term Duration**:

- 1 year 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment**Location**:

- Brasilia,Brazil**Required Language(s)**:

- English and Portuguese**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 4/22/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

**THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE GROUP**

The Sustainable Development (SD) Practice Group (PG) helps countries tackle their most complex challenges in the areas of Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy, Environmental and Social Framework, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience & Land, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, and Water.

**ENVIRONMENT NATURAL RESOURCES & BLUE ECONOMY GLOBAL PRACTICE**

The sustainable management of the environment and natural resources is vital for economic growth and human wellbeing. When managed well, renewable natural resources, watersheds, productive landscapes, and seascapes can provide the foundation for sustained inclusive growth, food security and poverty reduction. For more information:
Sustainable environment and natural resources (ENB) management, including support to the blue economy, is at the heart of the World Bank Group (WBG) poverty agenda. Natural resources and biodiversity often constitute the social safety net of the poor, representing a food bank and often their only source of livelihood. The world Bank promotes green, clean, and resilient development where natural resources-from forests to fisheries, freshwater, oceans, coastal zones, and ecosystems-are managed to support livelihoods, strong economies, and a world better prepared for shocks and global challenges. The ENB GP has been established to deliver on the opportunities, benefits and outcomes offered by enhanced management of the environment and natural resources.

The ESF responds to new and varied development demands and challenges that have arisen over time. It brings the World Bank’s environmental and social (E&S) protections into closer harmony with those of other development institutions, and makes important advances in areas such as transparency, non-discrimination, social inclusion, public participation, and accountability - including expanded roles for grievance redress mechanisms. The framework helps to ensure social inclusion, and explicitly references human rights in the overarching vision statement.

The ESF is made up of the World Bank’s vision for sustainable development, the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Policy for Investment Project Financing, and ten Environmental and Social Standards (ESS). These set out the mandatory requirements for the World Bank, in relation to the projects it supports through Investment Project Financing (IPF), and for Borrowers.

**UNIT**

The Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Unit for Latin America and Caribbean Region has about 55 staff. More than half of these staff work on environmental safeguards/environmental risk management for all IPF projects (over 300 total) across the 50 borrowing countries in the Region, and remaining staff work primarily on lending and knowledge products. The skills of these staff include leading analytical work and policy dialogue, economics, and supporting lending operations in a range of areas including pollution and waste management, air quality improvement, integrated coastal zone management, forestry, fisheries management, landscapes management, watershed management, Occupational and Community Health and Safety, and natural areas protection.

**THE POSITION**

This position will be based in Brasilia. The primary responsibility is to support environmental risk management through environmental safeguards and ESF implementation in Brazil. The Environmental Consultant will work under the overall supervision of the ENB Practice Manager for LCR, in close alignment with the ESF Country Coordinator for Brazil - both based in Washington, DC. While the primary responsibility of this position is on environmental risk management, there may be some demand for support to the management of World Bank financed projects and analytical work in the area of environment, natural resources and the blue economy.

**DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- As the assigned Environmental Specialist, contribute in the preparation of the IPF operations during project identification, preparation and appraisal stages, and ensure that environmental issues are addressed early in the process by undertaking careful environmental analysis related to Bank environmental safeguard policy and/or ESF requirements and associated information disclosure and public consultations/stakeholder engagement.
- Supervise World Bank approved projects under implementation in terms of project specific Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) requirements and performance (i.e., project implementation stage).
- Provide advice to clients