Gender and Safeguard Officer (National)

Gender and Safeguard Officer (National)

The Tonle Sap Basin (TSB), encompassing 85,790 km² across seven provinces in Cambodia, is home to approximately 4 million people, many of whom rely on the basin’s rich biodiversity and ecosystem services for their livelihoods. However, the region faces severe environmental degradation, with over 1.7 million hectares of forest lost between 2006 and 2022 due to illegal logging, agricultural expansion, infrastructure development, and climate change. This degradation threatens biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the cultural heritage of the area, including the Angkor Archaeological Area.

With guidance from and directly reporting to the Project Manager, and working closely with the Project Coordinator and the International Safeguard Consultant, the Gender and Safeguard Officer will carry out the following tasks:

• Support the International Safeguards consultant in preparing the ESIA and SESA, and developing the ESMP.
• Assist the Project M&E Specialist in the monitoring of the project progress and participate in the production of progress reports ensuring that they meet the necessary gender and safeguard reporting requirements and standards.
• Oversee the design of surveys/assessments/assignments to ensure that they are in compliance with the UNDP Gender and Environment and Social safeguards and adequately addresses gender and minority groups (including indigenous peoples) concerns.
• Assist the Project Coordinator in ensuring that the implementation of the project plans including the gender action plan, the stakeholder engagement plan, the indigenous peoples plan framework, and the environmental and social management framework are in compliance with the UNDP Gender and Environment and Social safeguards and follow the UNDP SES policy.
• Ensure social and environmental grievances are managed effectively and transparently in accordance with the project’s grievance redress mechanism (GRM).
• Review the SESP annually, and update and revise corresponding risk log mitigation/ management plans as necessary.
• Ensure full disclosure with concerned stakeholders.
• Oversee/ develop / coordinate implementation of all gender and safeguard–related work.
• Work with the Project Coordinator and M&E Specialist to ensure reporting, monitoring and evaluation and fully address the gender and Environment and Social safeguards issues.
• Integrate gender sensitization modules are included in all training activities supported by the project and support the development of these modules.
• Verify that project training materials and activities are aligned with local family realities, promote positive actions towards the role and involvement of women in family income generating activities and family finances, respect communities’ ethnicity women’s time availability, cultural practices, etc.
• Provide guidelines, standards and incentives revised and/or developed by the project include gender dimensions.
• Ensure that women participate in all project-related activities and comprehensively supports their engagement and participation.
• Support the collection of sex disaggregated and gender specific data, including data for the indigenous population and beneficiaries.
• Act as a resource person for the project’s mid-term/ annual review and terminal evaluations, provide gender and safeguard-related information, and produce analytical reports, including learning and other knowledge management products 
• Act as a resource person and contribute to the annual reviews of the project and produce analytical reports, including learning and other knowledge management products.
• Support project site and learning missions.
• Visit project sites as and when required to appraise project progress on the ground and validate written progress reports.
• Perform other relevant tasks as may be requested by Project Coordinator. 

Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, CV with 3 referees by 25 December 2025 (5:00 PM). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.

Candidates will submit their application to the PMU of the ERIP project, Ministry of Environment: Ground floor, Morodok Techo Building (Lot 503) Tonle Bassac, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia or email to info@camclimate.org.kh and chrunnaren@yahoo.com