Overview
The role involves identifying, assessing, and translating environmental, social, and climate-related risks and opportunities associated with MSME participation in selected pharmaceutical value chains into actionable safeguard instruments.
Key Responsibilities
- Familiarization with UNIDO ESS Policy, project document, and pharmaceutical-specific international standards.
- Preparation of an Inception Note including methodology, work plan, and consultation plan.
- Collection of baseline environmental and social information for selected value chains.
- Review of legal, institutional, and policy frameworks.
- Identification and analysis of environmental and social risks and opportunities.
- Assessment of environmental and social safeguards capacity gaps and formulation of recommendations.
- Development of Environmental and Social Management Frameworks (ESMFs).
- Conduct validation workshops with key stakeholders.
- Integration of 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.
- 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.
