Environment, forestry and agriculture Vacancies at Jubilee Insurance, Twiga Foods and other Companies

Deadline of this Job: 28 July 2022

The role holder will be responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of EHS programs and processes, including but not limited to regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness and fire protection, risk assessments and safe working procedures for all types of activities, environment and sustainability, and crisis management.

Main Responsibilities
• Ensure 100% compliance with applicable local regulatory requirements and maintain compliance framework up to date.
• Lead certain assigned aspects (technical, regulatory/third party interface, reporting, permitting, compliance, financial, administrative, etc.) of projects and permits in compliance with relevant regulatory programs and corporate policies.
• Evaluate facility EHS conditions, assess risks and develop appropriate corrective-action plans and budgets to address deficiencies in comparison to regulations and internal policy/protocol.
• Participate in EHS compliance and program audits.
• Drive improvements in EHS culture, awareness, and accountability.
• Plan and conduct EHS training.
• Conduct incident/accident investigations and develop corrective and preventative action plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in EHS performance and programs.
• Assist in responding to significant incidents and government requests/notices.
• Interface with environmental, health, and safety regulatory agencies as needed

Key Competencies
• Visionary Leadership
• Entrepreneur Spirit
• Market Awareness
• Good Negotiation Skills
• Continuous Innovation
• Ownership & Commitment
• Team Spirit

Qualifications
• Bachelor degree in Environmental/Mechanical/Electrical Science from an accredited University.
• Professional certifications (NEBOSH, IEMA, etc.).

Relevant Experience
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Environment, Health & Safety.
• Regulatory knowledge and experience working with regulations covering occupational health, energy audits, emergency preparedness, environmental requirements, and waste management.
• Proven project and program management skill




Job Duties And Responsibilities
Reporting to the Deputy Regional Director, this role ensures the relevance, coherence, and timeliness of IFRC emergency response and resilience development and regional thematic leadership in the critical areas of climate, migration, and health. Also, the job holder will position regionally IFRC at the forefront of development of humanitarian competencies such as health, cash-based assistance, shelter, CEA, Information Management and anticipatory action.
More specifically, the incumbent manages thematic lead in key strategic priorities in disaster risk management, health (health in emergencies, community health including First Aid, immunization, HIV, TB, malaria, public health and immunization, WASH, MHPSS), climate change, migration and displacement in the region and ensures the integration of cross-cutting issues.
Coordination and Regional & Country Support
• Lead all operational technical teams that provide NSs with country level support and guidance for strategic plans for development, design and management of quality programmes and operations.
• Lead overall emergency operations coordination and technical support involving health, WASH, food security and livelihoods, shelter, cash in emergencies, disaster risk reduction, Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA), Protection Gender and Inclusion (PGI).
• Contribute to the overall strategic vision and planning for the IFRC in collaboration with other departments and programs and headquarters – with a focus on strengthening NS capacities for developing and implementing effective programmes and operations – through the support of IFRC cluster and country offices.
• Promote and contribute to the development of IFRC policies and positions regarding the Strategic Priorities and enablers of the IFRC Secretariat Agenda for Renewal as well as other comprehensive risk mitigation issues, with a view to expanding the advocacy agenda in all operational areas.
• Ensure coherence and a clearly articulated integration among relevant policies, strategies, frameworks, and tools related to all operations and programmes.
• Ensure effective and efficient international disaster management and coordinates the multilateral disaster response and early recovery process of operations launched through the IFRC mechanisms which include the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) and International Emergency Appeals, IFRC Rapid Response system, Information Management for operations, and covers preparedness, readiness, response and recovery.
• Promote National Societies Preparedness through the IFRC Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) approach and tools towards National Societies.
• Provide timely and reliable service to the IFRC network through the development and maintenance of quality information management and data collection, collation and analysis tools for disaster and crisis prevention, response and recovery. Oversee the continuous improvement of an essential information management system for prevention, response and recovery and deployment of response resources.

Job Duties And Responsibilities (continued)
• Manage thematic leads in key strategic priorities in disaster risk management, health ((health in emergencies, community health including First Aid, immunization, HIV, TB, malaria, public health and immunization, WASH, MHPSS), climate change, migration and displacement in the region and ensures the integration of cross-cutting issues.
• Ensure coordination, engagement and support to the Pan-African initiatives and global flagships across the region, with a technical lead role on Red Ready, Tree planting & Care, Zero Hunger, climate resilience, pandemic preparedness and response, DREF and CASH expansion, cholera prevention.
• Lead on and collects/shares innovative approaches and good practices for sustainable programmes.
• Liaise with internal and external partners at international, regional and national levels to ensure operational coherence in disaster response operations, development actions within the disaster risk management spectrum.
• Lead the strengthening of community resilience through ambitious and integrated longer-term plans, in cooperation with National Societies and other key partners, in line with strategic priorities.
• Is accountable for institutionalizing and strengthening Community Engagement and Accountability and Protection Gender and Inclusion across all IFRC programmes and operations as well as those of National Societies in the Region.
• Responsible for identifying risks within their work area, monitoring the development of the risks, and implementing risk responses or escalating to the Director when necessary.
Effective matrix management
• Coordinate with PMER and Quality Assurance, Membership Services and Corporate Services Units to ensure that Health, Disasters and Crises operations follow the financial, human resources, reporting and general administration procedures.
• Ensure close coordination with SPD for the resource mobilisation for plans and budgets.
• Support the Deputy Director to ensure strategic coherence and alignment, as well as programmatic and operational coordination between different units.
• Effectively manage team members under their responsibility through clear lines of responsibility and well-defined results-based priority plans.
• Responsible for identifying risks within their work area, monitoring the development of the risks, and implementing risk responses or escalating to the Director when necessary.

Education
• Masters degree or equivalent in a relevant field or a first-level university degree combined with extensive relevant experience.
• Successful completion of the Basic IMPACT Course.
• Qualification or Certification in Project Management
Experience
• 7 years of experience working for a humanitarian organization in humanitarian response to disasters and crises and health emergencies, and/or longer term programming for lasting needs.
• 7 years of experience analysing, planning, and managing humanitarian or development programs and resources.
• 7 years of experience managing staff.
• 7 years of experience in building capacity of Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, NGO, civil society organization etc. on health interventions, disaster management, resilience building, development activities etc.
• Strong experience working in a multicultural, international context
• Experience managing partners or partnership arrangements, donors and organizational leadership and government counterparts.
• Experience working with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement.

Knowledge, Skills and Language
• Demonstrated experience in programmes and operations, including in sectors relevant to IFRC.
• Demonstrated success in project/program planning, budgeting, management, reporting and evaluation.
• Demonstrated track record in innovating, contributing to a learning culture, sharing knowledge and new approaches to engaging partners.
• Highly developed leadership skills.
• Professional credibility, strong analytical skills, and ability to work at various levels of complexity.
• Proven ability to motivate and manage a team.
• Strategic analysis, systematic planning, and implementation skills.
• Excellent collaborative and teamwork skills.
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic)
• Other Languages
Competencies and Values
• Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability.
• Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust.
• Functional competencies: Strategic orientation; Building alliances; Leadership; Empowering others.
• Managerial competencies: Managing staff performance; Managing staff development.

Deadline of this Job: 15 August 2022
Who are we?
Climate change increasingly interacts with the drivers of displacement, including conflict, and disproportionally affects developing countries hosting the majority of the world's refugees and displaced persons. Therefore, DRC is stepping up its ambition to respond to, mitigate and prevent displacement challenges amplified by climate change, conflict and environmental degradation. In its Strategy 2025, DRC commits to respond to the global climate crisis and environmental degradation by increasing the adaptive capacities of people affected by conflict and displacement and to ensuring that our own conduct is nature-positive. DRC will act as a catalyst for improved community resilience by building capacity of communities and their leadership to plan and implement measures that help to mitigate climate change, prevent and resolve conflict, adapt to extreme weather events, and restore ecological functions in the contexts where we work
The Programme Division develops programmatic concepts and strategies relevant to DRC’s international operations and delivers support to operations within these areas. The Programme Division hosts various global specialist lead functions including for DRC’s five core sectors: Protection, Shelter & Settlements, Humanitarian Disarmament & Peace building, Camp Coordination & Camp management, and Economic Recovery.

About the job
The overall responsibility of the Global Climate & Environmental Mitigation Advisor is to take lead in the roll-out of DRC’s Go Green Operational Principle (OP) in the regions, leading a systematic approach to reducing its carbon and environmental footprint. The Global Mitigation Advisor will support mitigation measures and ensure that DRCs own conduct is nature-positive through a green lens on everything we do in programming and DRC operations. This includes supporting the elaboration of carbon footprints, development of reduction action plans and introduction and implementation of reduction and mitigation measures for systematic integration of climate and environmental considerations in programming and DRC operations.
In line with the global international commitments made by the IPCC, DRC aims to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions with minimum 50% in 2030 and minimize any negative environmental impacts associated with its internal conduct, programming and operations. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing harm to the environment contribute to global climate action ambitions and protects the natural resource-based livelihoods, health and security of displaced populations and host communities. The Global Climate and Environmental Mitigation Advisor reports to Head of Programme Innovation and Business Engagement, whereas technical reference is to the Global Lead on Climate and Environment (HQ). The Global Climate & Environmental Mitigation Advisor works in close collaboration with DRC’s Global Sector & Platform Leads, the Global Environmental Advisor and establishes strong working relationships with regional & country heads of programme. The Global Advisor is a key member of DRC’s ‘go green’ community of practice and will form part of a team of global green advisors.

Strategy and Policy
• Build DRC capacity, knowledge and evidence of how to introduce mitigation measures as an integrated part of DRC programming and operations.
• Lead the development of approaches, concepts and initiatives to significantly reduce DRC's carbon footprint and strengthen the DRC programmatic response and operations, and work with relevant colleagues in fundraising, innovative finance, and beyond, to turn these concepts into partnerships and fundraising opportunities.

Technical advice and support
• Provide technical support and strategic fundraising advice for regional offices and country offices in the development, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of country operation carbon footprints and reduction action plans.
• Develop and maintain global partnerships for evidence-building and learning on carbon reduction initiatives.
• Support country operations and the global sectors in developing and implementing initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of our programing and operations including through partnership building.
• Contribute to external communication for donor and partners influencing and sharing of learning based on DRC’s green practices.
• Keep abreast of trends, standards and guidelines in the donor field and in international climate change mitigation fora of relevance to DRC.
• Deliver relevant policy, standards, resources, guidance and tools to country and regional operations.
• Contribute to DRC’s learning and evidence-building, including by collecting and sharing good practice, and with a view to ensuring cross-country consistency in programming.
Resources, training and learning
• Building DRC capacity, knowledge and evidence of how to program for reduction of carbon emissions.
• Develop learning material and disseminate on DRC’s intranet InSite. This will include development and roll-out of a global manual and training package and working towards the establishment of a Global Learning Hub.
• Oversee technical capacity building of field teams through in-person, site-based trainings and demonstrations.
• Ensure institutional knowledge management, including maintaining and updating Intranet and Collaborative Space / SharePoint folder.

About you
To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum of five years’ experience in the field of mitigation of carbon-related activities and programing in the humanitarian or development sector, including up-to-date knowledge of systems-based approaches related to mitigation of carbon and environmental footprints.
All employees should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.
Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required
• Minimum five years’ experience in the field of mitigation of carbon-related activities and programing in the humanitarian or development sector.
• Minimum five years’ experience with development and usage of tools related to reduction of organizational carbon footprint and/or designing and managing climate and environmentally sustainable programs.
• Excellent and up-to-date knowledge of systems-based approaches related to mitigation of carbon and environmental footprints.
• Demonstrated experience in training design and facilitation.
• Highly motivated and hard-working, with strong attention to detail.
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point)
• Able and willing to travel for up to 45 days per year.

Desirable
• Experience working in complex institutional environments and a strong ability to establish close collaborative working relationships across dispersed geographical locations.
• Demonstrated experience of using participatory methods with vulnerable and displaced communities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including concise writing and engaging presenting and facilitation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as part of a small team, and to form close working relationships with a diverse range of multi-cultural colleagues.
We offer
Contract length: Two years with possibility of extension
Workplace: DRC Regional Office East Africa and Great Lakes based in Nairobi, Kenya or DRC Country Office Kampala, Uganda
Start date: November 1, 2022
Employment band: non-management F
Salary and conditions for the position will be on DRC terms.