Social and Environmental Safeguard Officer

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

Background Information – Amman

The UNOPS Hub in Amman implements projects in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen, in partnership with bilateral donors, national governments, and other UN agencies.  With an established presence across the region, the office runs operations including large-scale procurement, project development, and technical management, and provides financial, human resources, and infrastructure-related services. The functional objective of UNOPS Hub in Amman is to deliver its projects in an efficient and effective manner and in line with the principles, rules and regulations of UNOPS, in order to support the response to the current needs and national priorities in the region.

The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.

UNOPS is committed to achieving a fully diverse workforce.

Background Information – Yemen

The ongoing conflict in Yemen has caused significant disruptions to the supply chain and to the overall availability of services across all sectors. UNOPS is undertaking a project that aims at increasing access to primary and secondary health services in Yemen. The project aims to restore the physical infrastructure of facilities including general hospitals, local health centres, and therapeutic feeding centres through rehabilitation, maintenance works and minor repairs, in the targeted areas. In addition, UNOPS will be providing priority medical equipment and supplies to these targeted facilities along with training on the use of the medical equipment to the staff of the rehabilitated health facilities.

UNOPS is undertaking a project that aims at increasing access to primary and secondary health services facilities (general hospitals, local health centers, and therapeutic feeding centers) in Yemen, through restoring the physical infrastructure of health facilities (rehabilitation, maintenance works and minor repairs) in targeted areas.

• Under the overall guidance of the Director Amman Operational Hub and under direct supervision of the Project Manager (PM); the Social and Environmental Safeguard Officer will be responsible for the following functions:
• Preparation of the project's Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP);
• Undertake regular monitoring of project activities against safeguard standards and guidelines of the ESMP;
• Ensure that appropriate environmental and social mitigation measures are proposed and met, and undertake follow up monitoring to ensure that proposed mitigation measures are implemented in accordance to the agreed upon ESMP;
• Lead on developing and delivering a series of spot checks to ensure safeguards policies are properly implemented in line with the ESMP guidelines;
• Identify challenges, opportunities, priorities and needs for the development and implementation of the project’s ESMP at all levels;
• In collaboration with the project team, make sure that the terms and conditions set for project implementation in line with safeguard principles are adhered to;
• ensure that a grievance redress mechanism (GRM) for the project is established, and is accessible to the general public and in particular to Project affected persons, and to the workers engaged in project implementation;
• Responds to and follows up on complaints/grievances raised, monitor grievances until they are resolved, and escalates issues to the Project Manager as necessary;
• Handle additional assignments as directed by the Project Manager.

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1. Contract type ICA
2. Contract level : LICA 8
3. Contract duration  Ongoing ICA – ‘Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.’

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. 
• Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.