Environment and Climate Adaptation Specialist

7 hours ago

Hanoi, Vietnam Aus4Equality|GREAT Program Full time

**KEY INFORMATION**

Job Title: Environment and Climate Adaptation Specialist
Sector: Climate and Environment
Position Type: Full time
Duration/Level of Effort: Long term
Position Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

**SUMMARY OF THE POSITION**

Cowater is seeking to hire an Environment and Climate Adaptation Specialist to support a project in Vietnam working to improve the socio-economic well being of ethnic minority women (EMW) working in the agricultural sector by elevating their economic status, leadership and agency including through the promotion of clean growth. The project will implement a series of interventions designed to strengthen the performance of EMW-led MSMEs, cooperatives and producer groups in select agriculture value chains. The primary beneficiaries will be women living in the province of Yen Bai, while an overarching emphasis is placed on the inclusion of women from ethnic minority communities.

Based in Hanoi and Reporting to the Deputy Team Leader, the Environment & Climate Adaptation Specialist will be responsible for the Project’s environmental strategy and direction. This includes monitoring and reporting on environmental concerns and mitigation efforts, provision of technical expertise on environment and climate adaptation, provision of environmental oversight, and conducting environmental impact assessments, as required.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Inception Phase**
- In collaboration with the Project leadership and Cowater HQ, lead the development of the Project’s Environmental Analysis, as part of the Project Implementation Plan. Focusing on environmental and climate change risks and vulnerabilities (including gender equality-related) in the project area, and how the proposed Project interventions would address and mitigate these. This would include details on early warning systems and technologies that the project proposes to establish.
- Lead in the development of an Environmental Action Plan that will include environmental mitigation and enhancement measures, roles and responsibilities, implementation timeline, financial and human resources will be included in the deliverable. This will include a Climate vulnerability assessment according to the requirements laid out by the Government of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Plan, and monitor and update annually.
- Identify environmental indicators that can be used to monitor Project progress as part of the environmental monitoring program, and included in the Project’s Performance Management Framework.
- Conduct research, provide inputs, and participate in the drafting of the Project Implementation Plan, in particular the components related to environment and climate adaptation.
- Ensure the PIP is aligned with Vietnam's and Canada’s climate change strategies, priorities, and sectoral policies, including Canada’s Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environment and Climate Action framework and policy.

**Monitoring and Reporting**
- Design, pilot and maintain an environmental monitoring plan to be integrated into the Project’s Result-Based Monitoring.
- Provide technical expertise on environment and climate adaptation, and monitoring of project activities for the achievement of expected project results.

**Capacity Building/Technical Assistance**
- Delivery capacity building, trainings, and technical assistance for the project team and partners, as needed.
- Provide TA and lead and/or oversee environment and/or climate change Project activities as defined in annual work plans.
- Research and share learnings and best practices on climate adaptation and environmental management practices.

**Environmental Advising**
- Ensure all project activities are carried out in alignment with Vietnam's environmental policy as well as with Canada’s Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environment and Climate Action framework and policy.
- Carry out analysis and provide advice to ensure project activities are aligned with Vietnam's climate change strategies, priorities, and sectoral policies.
- Carry out strategic environmental assessments and the development of environmental strategies and guidelines as required.
- In accordance withCowater’s Corporate Environment and Climate Change Policy, develop strategies to minimize the project's carbon footprint throughout the project's operations.
- Anticipate environmental risks and issues and proposing strategies to mitigate/address them in a timely and effective fashion.
- Identifying aspects of clean growth and green businesses such as the importance of a business environmental management plan to cover elements such as water and energy needs, pollution control, environmental and natural resource protection.
- Ensure gender-related risks, impact, and mitigation measures are considered in all training, planning, strategizing, and monitoring.

**Environmental Assessment**
- Oversee the any Impact Preliminary Assessments (EIPA) or Environmental Assessments (EA) conduct

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