Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialist

**Position Opportunity at ClearWind**:
**Position Title: Environmental and Social Development and Safeguards Specialist**:
**Location**: Singapore

**Come Join Us**:
ClearWind is a forest carbon project development company headquartered in Singapore. It originates, designs, and develops nature-based projects across Southeast Asia that mitigate climate change through the protection of tropical forest landscapes, and removes greenhouses gasses from the atmosphere through the restoration of forest and other natural ecosystems. ClearWind was founded on the mission of achieving these goals through global carbon and climate markets, bringing value back to maintain the natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and local communities that are stakeholders in our projects. ClearWind draws on decades of combined experience from across the region to deliver a comprehensive approach to project design, delivering the highest impact and quality of project to the market. With nearly two decades of individual expertise in market-based solutions to conservation in Southeast Asia, we work to leverage natural capital as a viable opportunity for local economic development, while helping companies work through efficient market mechanisms to meet their climate targets.

**Position Overview**:
**Position Responsibilities**:
**_Leadership _**
- Provide leadership within the core project development team in terms of the main guiding principles and requirements of the CCB Standards and support the team on relevant items related to the SD VISta Standards.
- Work within the core project development team to help design and shape project activities, ensuring that risk management measures have been put in place and duly considered.
- Ensure that all ClearWind projects are set to, and achieve, CCB Triple Gold rating, reaching the highest possible standards for environmental and social integrity.
- Work with our country-office teams to build and strengthen understanding and capacity to put appropriate safeguards in place and monitor them.
- Undertake on-going research and review of projects around the world, ensuring that best practices are learned and integrated into our projects.

**_Project Design Oversight _**
- Provide training, direction and advisory support to regional staff and project partners to ensure an understanding of requirements, accountability for requirements and set the bar for project excellence.
- Guide and oversee Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) plans for communities in and around our project sites and coordinate with local country teams accordingly to lead the implementation of the process.
- Lead quality assessment and control of projects against high integrity standards by developing quality assurance and control procedures and ensuring their implementation.
- Assess the social impacts of proposed NBS strategies, propose mitigation approaches where potential negative impacts are identified, and look to maximize positive and multiplicative impacts.

**Eligibility Requirements**:

- Master’s degree or PhD or a minimum of 7 years’ experience in social sciences, climate change, working on social safeguards in the land use sector or a related field.
- Experience in the development of AFOLU projects and/or programs in the voluntary and/or compliance markets working with Verra Standards is considered a distinct advantage.
- Experience conducting social surveys, data collection in rural areas and working in remote locations.
- Strong demonstrable skills working in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Experience working in a developing country context with local communities, villages and/or indigenous populations is necessary.
- Ability and willingness to travel regionally around Southeast Asia.
- Excellent command of the English language, fluency in Thai, Cebuano, and/or Indonesian considered an asset.

**What We Bring to You**:

- A uniquely on-the ground experience where you will be getting your hands dirty working on real-world projects in remote locations with indigenous peoples around the region.
- A deeply dedicated and energetic team led by two co-founders with two decades of experience in carbon project development.
- Full health insurance coverage.
- Collective team-based performance-based bonuses.

**Work Condition**:
**Instructions to Applicant **: