Kyiv/Lviv
ERA BACKGROUND
Ukraine’s efforts to win the future – emerging from Russia’s full-scale war ready to accelerate its development as a sovereign, independent, democratic, and prosperous state – require a dynamic, inclusive economic recovery. Through partnerships with the government and robust private sector engagement, ERA has supported economic growth and resilience in Ukraine since 2018. Following Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent occupation of the part of Ukraine, ERA shifted from its focus on Eastern Ukraine to cover development priorities across the country that address Ukraine’s urgent needs in export logistics and infrastructural improvements.
USAID’s Economic Resilience Activity (ERA) is one of USAID’s core partners implementing the $350 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative – Ukraine (AGRI-Ukraine) that was established in 2022 to bolster Ukrainian agricultural exports and alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by the war. Under AGRI-Ukraine, ERA partners with public and private companies to complement and leverage urgently-needed grain transportation and transshipment investments.
ERA also directly supports the Government of Ukraine, including the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine (SARDI), the State Customs Service and Ukrainian Railways, to upgrade 42 of Ukraine’s border crossing points (BCPs). Modern and more efficient border infrastructure and customs procedures will reduce export costs and increase export capacity, enabling Ukraine to scale trade and advance its path to EU integration.
JOB OVERVIEW
The Environmental Officer is a key member of the Environmental Compliance Team and plays a pivotal role in assuring adherence to environmental policies and regulations, environmental controls, and reporting systems. The Environmental Officer will invest in providing environmental analysis support to the technical team and ensure the preparation of environmental assessments for project activities and interventions. The Environmental Officer supports field examinations, reports on environmentally hazardous locations and materials, and maintains environmental documentation related to ERA’s projects. The Environmental Officer works in close coordination with the AGRI, BCP, and Emergency & Energy Response technical staff to ensure environmental assessment for ERA’s interventions. The Environmental Officer will report to the Senior Manager for Environmental Compliance and be based in Kyiv or Lviv.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate and review testing and analysis of potential environmental hazards;
- Support the ERA’s interventions, ensuring environmental compliance of activities and interventions;
- Monitor project environmental impact and report on compliance with USAID environmental policy;
- Participate in the evaluation of environmental risks of proposals submitted by subcontractors, grantees, or beneficiaries in line with their reliability and ability to achieve the goals with a focus on the safe export of Ukraine’s agricultural products, infrastructure improvement, and emergency and energy response.
- Conduct site visits to assess subcontractors, grantees, or beneficiaries’ environmental compliance, provide guidance on environmental hazards mitigation;
- Oversee and monitor field implementation of environmental mitigation measures;
- Ensure submission of required internal environmental documentation related to ERA’s interventions to the DAI ‘s experts based in head quarter and coordinate with them further documentation preparation process;
- As required, coordinate environmental training and technical assistance;
- Undertake additional actions required by the Deputy Chief of Party to ensure compliance with USAID and Ukraine environmental regulations policies;
- Perform other tasking as directed by the ERA senior management.
Communication:
- In close collaboration with the Director for Communication and Change Management, represent ERA in a professional manner to the key audiences;
- Proactively engage with target communities to identify opportunities to promote environmental attentiveness of the local communities.
Monitoring & Evaluation:
- Manage activities to implement workplan at improving ERA’s indicator for environmental compliance;
- Coordinate with MEL team regular data collection, its progress, relying on innovative data-gathering methods when appropriate;
- Capture the output and outcome level data, document and report the results in a timely manner.
Reporting:
- Compile the Environmental Compliance reports for the ERA management on a regular basis;
- Oversee Environmental Compliance of the awards through the review of reports, correspondence, site visits, etc.
- Prepare accurate and timely progress reports on a quarterly basis and contribute to preparation of annual reports;
- Perform other duties as assigned by the DCOP and COP.
JOB EXPECTATIONS:
In this position, you are expected to share the DAI four core values:
- Integrity: commit to civil and ethical behavior, play by the rules, and do the right thing;
- Responsibility: be accountable to clients, partners, grant recipients, beneficiaries, colleagues, and communities where we work. If you fall short, you own up, fix the problem, and get it right the next time;
- Excellence: adhere to the highest technical and professional standards in innovation, learning, and service;
- Global Citizenship: respect the cultural diversity and treat everyone everywhere with professionalism and dignity to make the world a better place.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Advanced degree in Ecology, Environmental Management, or relevant field;
- Experience in Ukrainian environmental and technical compliance procedures for the enterprises of different industries;
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience;
- Work experience with international companies or donors- funded projects preferred;
- Spoken and written fluency in English and Ukrainian is a must;
- Experience producing technical reports and managing data;
- Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
WE OFFER
Contract length: 12-month employment agreement with a possibility of extension.
Benefits Package:
- 28 calendar days of annual leave
- 10 days of internal well-being paid leave per annum
- Medical Insurance for ERA staff and their families
- Life Insurance for ERA staff
- Coverage of all expenses for the business trips
- Military reservation is possible and granted if you are on a relevant military register
Start date: August 2024
Application process
All applicants must send a cover letter and updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English to ukraine@dai.com
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.
Closing date for applications: August 14, 2024.
For further information about DAI GLOBAL LLC, please consult our website era-ukraine.org.ua.