Social Development Specialist

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EAP is a big and various area, starting from Small Island States of the Pacific to the Philippines and China! Regardless of substantial financial development and poverty discount, the EAP area faces vital growth challenges. Development has been uneven throughout and inside international locations, establishments nonetheless want strengthening, and most international locations are closely affected by local weather change. The Financial institution performs a major position on international public items, together with local weather, biodiversity, water air pollution, and well being. The World Financial institution Group is seen as a premier growth establishment within the Area, with a management position on analytical and advisory providers in addition to financing.  (East Asia and the Pacific Area: https://www.worldbank.org/en/area/eap)
East Asia and Pacific Social Sustainability and Inclusion Unit:
The Social Sustainability and Inclusion Unit 1 (SEAS1) within the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) area is answerable for: (i) endeavor social evaluation throughout challenge preparation and implementation, to mainstream social growth and inclusion points all through the Financial institution’s work within the area; (ii) making certain compliance with the Financial institution’s social safeguards insurance policies on Involuntary Resettlement and Indigenous Individuals and the implementation of the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF); (iii) endeavor Advisory Companies and Analytics within the type of thematic research on social growth points, nation social evaluation, and Reimbursable Advisory Companies; (iv) main the preparation and supervision of lending operations that promotes inclusion of weak teams together with ladies and youth, and (v) facilitating partnerships.
The Unit is looking for a social growth specialist to be primarily based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to offer ESF/safeguards assist to challenge preparation and implementation of the World Financial institution’s  portfolio in Cambodia.  The place will assist make sure that social growth concerns are built-in into challenge design and implementation, and compliant with the Financial institution’s social safeguard insurance policies and ESF throughout all sectors.  The World Financial institution program in Cambodia contains greater than 20 tasks throughout a variety of sectors together with environmental administration, water administration, transport, training, well being, rural growth and social growth. The chosen candidate can be a member of the social danger administration staff of the newly established VCL (Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia) CMU; and might want to present cross-country helps on social danger administration to different international locations inside the CMU when needed. 
The chosen candidate will report on to the SEAS1 Observe Supervisor primarily based in Singapore; work beneath the day-to-day supervision of the social danger administration point of interest of the CMU; and be a part of the general social sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) staff, and the candidate will work carefully with activity groups they assist.  
Duties and Obligations:
As a member of activity groups supporting the preparation and implementation of tasks in Cambodia and different shopper international locations, the social specialist can be answerable for advising shopper counterparts on the efficient evaluation and administration of the challenge induced social dangers. The principle goal of the project is to make sure that the tasks meet the required E&S requirements of the World Financial institution, with regard to compliance with its social safeguards and ESF, and that they mirror present good follow by way of social sustainability.  The position supplies assist to challenge groups throughout each challenge preparation and implementation, requiring the specialist to construct sturdy relationships with implementation models.   The chosen candidate ought to assist the preparation and delivering of environmental and social administration capability constructing actions for shopper counterparts and their consultants.  
The Specialist, with the assist from the social danger point of interest as needed, will apply their technical experience to a broad vary of social growth themes and coverage points.  Extra particularly, they may: