Senior Environmental Assessment Specialist

The Senior Environmental Asessment Specialist supports the environmental assessment and approvals function. Supported by Environmental Assessment Specialists, they develop environmental assessment strategies to meet masterplan requirements and coordinate high quality and timely assessments of proposed activities and projects.  As a key contact point for proponents, they assist with coordination of team members from various environmental discipines at a masterplan level. They also ensure companies environmental and sustainability standards are communicated to developers and contractors.  The role also requires:

• Supporting the Manager – Environmental Assessment and Approvals in coordinating an Environmental Assessment and Permitting system
• Providing both technical and management supervision to match forecast project delivery demands.
• Procurement and management of a suite of programs run by Environmental Consultants that support the Assessment & Monitoring team
• Coordinate the Environmental Assessment process including day to day coordination of project timelines and deliverables, acting as an interface between Companies internal sectors, external proponents, and external Environmental Consultants.
• Review and assessment of technical environmental approval reports and documentation submitted by Sector ‘Proponents’ or external Environmental Consultants, in line with Companies policy and planning objectives.
• Ensuring continued alignment of Companies environmental planning and approval systems with IFC performance standards and world’s best practice.
• Identifying and contributing to planning and post approval initiatives in a dynamic and complex environment with tight timeframes, competing priorities and conflicting stakeholder’s needs, views and opinions.
• Understanding the goals of each division and department and how those goals are aligned to the long-term strategy of the organization and specifically to the environmental services department.

Participating as a positive and proactive member of Companies Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Team to match forecast project delivery demands.