Environmental Compliance Consultant

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Project Overview and Role

The USAID Enterprises, Employment, and Enabling Environments (E4) Activity aims to increase employment and jobs through increased private sector productivity and competitiveness. The theory of change is: “For the number of jobs to increase, businesses must grow; and for businesses to grow, constraints preventing growth must be removed.” Following this logic, Palladium will focus on removing obstacles to growth at the firm level and will work to develop skills identified by employers or develop entrepreneurial expertise. Additionally, Palladium will work to address legal and regulatory constraints if they are determined to be significant inhibitors of firm growth. These efforts will result in the creation of new firms, the growth of existing firms, and new job creation.

Work performed under the E4 IDIQ is divided into three components:

• Component 1: Enterprises – Fostering Competitive Industries
• Component 2: Employment – Developing a Capable Workforce and Entrepreneurship
• Component 3: Enabling Environments – Creating Conditions for Jobs and Investment

E4 IDIQ regional office is located in Almaty. Kazakhstan and country offices are located in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

This Opportunity:

The Future Growth Initiative (FGI) Task Order will increase the competitiveness of high-growth industries to provide jobs and incomes for Central Asia’s growing workforce, propelling the region toward self-reliance. FGI will transform market systems in ways that help high-potential firms and sectors grow, foster market linkages to match the demand for workforce skills with training offered to youth and women, link entrepreneurs to high-growth markets, and build more business- and worker-friendly policy environments and institutions to sustain private sector-driven growth.

Palladium seeks an Environmental Compliance Consultant for the FGI Task Order under the USAID (E4) Activity. Activities performed under this Task Order will cover Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Environmental Compliance Consultant is responsible for providing environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the E4 sub-activities/grants, complete the environmental risk checklist and liaise with USAID environmental compliance manager when necessary.

Location: The position is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan/ or Tashkent, Uzbekistan

You and Your Career: If you are a professional with strong analytical skills, and you have expertise in environmental compliance in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Food processing and beverages, Light manufacturing, Tourism and related sectors we are interested in hearing from you.

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

Environmental Compliance Consultant will report to the Regional Grants Manager and DCOP.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Environmental compliance and impact assessment of the E4 sub-activities/grants;
• Completion of the environmental risk checklist;
• Communication with USAID Environmental Compliance Manager and perform other tasks as assigned.

Key Competencies Required:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
• Strong analytical, research and reporting abilities skills;
• Ability to receive/integrate feedback;
• Ability to plan and organize own work, deliver results and meet deadlines, within a multi-disciplinary team.

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Bachelors degree qualification or higher in natural resources management, climate change, climatology, disaster risk management, economics, agricultural and environmental economics, agribusiness management, international relations or a related field as appropriate for the specific profile;
• Minimum of four (4) years of relevant professional experience in the above-mentioned fields, environmental management, ESG, EIA;
• Excellent knowledge (written and spoken) of English and Russian;
• Previous experience in the Central Asia region is an asset.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce. All job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include (but are not limited to) socio-economic experience, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations due to a disability, or you are a neurodivergent individual, or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected]. We will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients, and the communities we work with from harm.” We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process, including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.