Overview
The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Expert will identify, assess, and translate environmental, social, and climate-related risks and opportunities into actionable safeguard instruments for MSME participation in selected pharmaceutical value chains under the ATCMA ECOWAS Programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare Inception Note including methodology, work plan, and consultation plan.
- Collect baseline environmental and social information for selected value chains.
- Review legal, institutional, and policy frameworks.
- Identify and analyze environmental and social risks and opportunities.
- Assess environmental and social safeguards capacity gaps and formulate recommendations.
- Develop Environmental and Social Management Frameworks (ESMFs).
- Conduct validation workshops with stakeholders.
- Integrate findings into a Final ESMF & ESIA Report.
Required Experience
- Minimum seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in conducting ESIAs and/or developing Environmental and Social Management Frameworks, in industrial, pharmaceutical, health-related, or regulated manufacturing contexts.
- Demonstrated experience providing environmental and social advisory support within donor-funded programmes.
- Proven experience integrating climate risk, climate resilience, resource efficiency, clean production, and circular economy principles into development programming, industrial value chains, or MSME support initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience working with pharmaceutical manufacturing or closely related health-product value chains.
- Experience covering one or more of the following areas: Occupational health and safety, waste management (including hazardous and pharmaceutical waste), and environmental controls in light or medium-scale industrial settings; Regulatory compliance environments in regulated manufacturing, including national or international standards such as WHO guidance or equivalent.
- Experience working with MSMEs or emerging manufacturers in pharmaceutical or health-related value chains.
- Experience working in Africa or similar socio-economic contexts.
Qualifications
• Advanced degree (Masters or equivalent) in environmental science, environmental engineering, public health, pharmaceutical sciences, social sciences, or related field is required.
