Position: Environment and Climate Change Specialist
Reports to: Climate Lead Location: Phnom Penh
Period of Assignment: March 2024 to February 2025
Duration: 12 months
Employment type: Full Time
Contractual arrangement: “eligible for Cambodian residents/citizens only”
Program Background
The CAPRED Facility is Australia’s flagship bilateral economic development program in Cambodia, focusing on economic recovery and resilience over the next four years, with a possible three-year extension.
The Facility supports Cambodia in implementing a range of necessary economic interventions and reforms to maintain the country’s economic transition. These interventions and reforms are primarily aimed at encouraging more productive and inclusive public and private investment, which promotes a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable economy (RISE).
CAPRED interventions fall under three technical components including: Agriculture and Agro-processing; Trade, Investment and Enterprise Development and Infrastructure Development; and one Cross-Cutting component comprising: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Climate Resilient initiatives, and policy support. and policy support. GEDSI is at the heart of all that CAPRED does.
Position Summary
The Environmental and Climate Change Specialist (ECCS) will integrate climate change considerations and adhere to the 'do no harm' principle for environmental sustainability in all CAPRED portfolios. The ECCS will ensure an effective mainstreaming of CAPRED's Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change (DRRCC) and Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) approaches.
Collaborating with technical and cross-cutting domain teams, the ECCS will identify risks, develop mitigation measures, monitor risks, as well as capture CAPRED's learnings and contribution to building climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, and environmental sustainability.
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The program is complex, creating systemic change from simultaneous, cumulative economic approaches and interventions. And this requires effective communications-that cuts through the noise to tell simple, impactful stories of change. The technical communications officer will be crucial in supporting the team to make this happen.
Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer (COO), the Operations Lead will undertake a critical role in the core program team, taking responsibility for the efficient implementation and management of human resources, the office facilities, administration, logistics and IT functions.