Overview
The consultant will apply life cycle assessment and life cycle costing to identify environmental and economic hotspots in Saudi Arabia’s waste management system and quantify the impacts of policy interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply life cycle assessment and life cycle costing to identify environmental and economic hotspots in Saudi Arabia’s waste management system.
- Quantify the environmental and economic impacts of different policy and financial interventions.
- Benchmark against international best practices.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations to inform MWAN’s strategic decision-making.
- Evaluate environmental and indirect economic benefits such as avoided emissions, pollution reduction, and cost savings.
- Design and deliver tailored training modules to build MWAN’s capacity in applying life-cycle thinking and impact assessment tools.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 or more years of experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and experience in building Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) and using LCA software tools (e.g. SimaPro, GaBi, OpenLCA).
- Strong knowledge of solid waste management systems, policies, and strategies, national waste strategies and policy frameworks (preferably Middle East/Saudi Arabia context), financial instruments in waste management (EPR, PAYT, cost recovery), and ISO 14040–14044 standards.
- Experience in evaluating externalities (indirect costs/benefits such as health and environmental impacts), environmental benefits (emission reductions, pollution mitigation, resource efficiency), economic benefits and indirect costs (e.g., health impacts, ecosystem degradation).
- Strong expertise in LCA and LCC modeling and simulations, scenario analysis and sensitivity testing, econometric and quantitative analysis methods, and cost-effectiveness assessments of policy/financial mechanisms.
- Experience in identifying hotspots, risks, and opportunities for system improvement.
- Proven experience in designing and delivering training programs (preferably technical/environmental).
- Ability to communicate complex LCA/LCC concepts to non-specialist audiences.
- Experience in developing training packages, manuals, and case study exercises.
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills for interactive and hands-on training.
- Skills and experience in data collection, validation, and evaluation.
Qualifications
Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Waste Management, Engineering, or related field.
