Overview
The Project Analyst will support the implementation of project activities related to climate-resilient flood risk management, focusing on safeguarding, quality control, and monitoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide inputs to implementation of project’s activities, including drafting workplans, developing terms of references, and overseeing SESP/ESMP implementation.
- Support effective implementation of environmental and social risk assessment and management measures.
- Support preparation and review of site-specific environmental and social instruments.
- Ensure integration of environmental and social requirements into procurement processes.
- Identify training needs and support the organization and delivery of trainings and workshops.
- Liaise with relevant ministries, research institutes, NGOs, and other institutions.
- Support stakeholder engagement, including consultations and disclosure of relevant documentation.
- Provide inputs to the Project Manager on project activities related to safeguarding, quality control, from formulation to implementation.
- Take part in development of technical and non-technical guidance documents.
- Support definition and implementation of social and environmental risk management measures.
- Support additional environmental and social screening/rescreening of project activities.
- Identify potential operational, financial, and environmental risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with quality control standards, national regulations, and donor guidelines.
- Conduct regular risk analysis to anticipate and address project implementation challenges.
- Support field-based monitoring and supervision to verify compliance with environmental and social standards.
- Ensure proper documentation and tracking of environmental and social compliance measures.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on overall project deliverables, including preparing progress reports and tracking project indicators.
- Summarize and synthesize project results, providing regular updates to key stakeholders.
- Monitor environmental and social performance, identifying gaps, risks, or non-compliance issues and recommending corrective actions.
- Conduct financial and substantive monitoring of project activities.
- Ensure timely reporting of any incidents, accidents, or grievances related to environmental and social compliance.
- Support establishment and functioning of grievance redress mechanisms.
- Prepare inputs for reporting on environmental and social safeguards to donors and Project Board.
- Monitor project implementation, ensuring risk assessment and timely adjustments.
- Support the organization and implementation of external evaluations and contribute to the assessment of the project's impact.
- Facilitate knowledge management and gender equality, including coordinating dissemination and visibility of project achievements.
- Coordinate dissemination of information and knowledge management within the team.
- Coordinate the transfer of projects deliverables, documents, files, equipment, and materials to national beneficiaries.
- Ensure gender is effectively mainstreamed throughout the project activities, work plans, budgets, reports, researches, analyses and, where specifically relevant, analyzed in detail.
- Ensure knowledge on gender equality is incorporated in Project knowledge management activities and products.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in project implementation at the national or international level.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Environmental Science, Water Resource Engineering or related studies is required.
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in combination with additional two years of experience will be given due consideration in lieu of advanced university degree.