About us
From climate crisis to regenerative transformation. Bauhaus Earth is an interdisciplinary and international think-and-make tank, with over 50 team members based in Berlin. The non-profit organisation is dedicated to the regenerative transformation of the built environment. Our vision is a future in which buildings, cities and landscapes proactively contribute to climate restoration and have a positive impact on the planet and its inhabitants.
Key facts
Location: Berlin
Start Date: 1st January 2027 or by arrangement
Application Deadline: 15th November 2026
Employment Type: Full-time, limited contract (2 years depending on final grant agreement)
Seniority Level: Professional / Mid-Level
Pay Scale: TV-L EG 13 (Step 3) - 5.360,00 €
Languages: English (C1 required), German (B2 desirable)
Travel Requirements : Occasional field travel to partner regions in South and Southeast Asia (approx. 15–20%)
Reporting to : Strategic Project Lead / Programme Director
Programme Team: 20+ members
Note: Filling this position is subject to final contractual grant approval by the funding agency.
Project description
Scaling Regenerative Construction
This programme aims to make building with bamboo, earth, timber and fibres a mainstream, low-carbon choice that restores ecosystems instead of degrading them. One third of the world's residential building stock is still to be built by 2050, mostly in the Majority World, so the coming decade is decisive.
Building on the findings and partner networks of a 2026 scoping and feasibility studies, sub-projects in countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Vietnam and Bangladesh will develop and implement strategies to scale nature-based materials in local housing and construction markets. Together with local partners, they address natural systems management, value chains, building practices, social justice, market readiness, policy and regulation.
Key deliverables are stakeholder action groups, advances in building codes, locally adapted building typologies and pilot demonstration buildings in government or private development programmes. The result: actionable implementation models and scalable blueprints that strengthen regional supply chains and embed robust socio-ecological safeguards.
Your responsibilities
As Social Impact & Economic Empowerment Lead, you will be leading on Bauhaus Earth’s efforts to ensure that scaling nature-based construction goes hand-in-hand with human rights, just transition, and the building of community resilience. You will be working closely with the in-house team and local implementation partners to develop and implement frameworks that strengthen social safeguards and economic empowerment. You bring quantitative and qualitative research methods to assess local livelihoods and to determine where actions are most effective. Your tasks include implementing socio-ecological safeguard frameworks in local policy contexts focusing on regional supply chains and pilot building projects in South and Southeast Asia to help make regenerative transformation just and lasting. You help the interdisciplinary project teams to not lose sight of the socio-economic dimension and you initiate specific measures in the field that contribute to the development of safe and fair local supply chains, resulting in a positive measurable impact on local communities.
Safeguard Framework Implementation: Translate international socio-ecological safeguard standards (e.g., IFC Performance Standards, World Bank ESF) into actionable, low-threshold guidelines tailored to local nature-based supply chains (bamboo, timber, earth, fibers)
Social Impact Assessments (SIA): Lead Social Impact Assessments and human rights due diligence to proactively identify and mitigate risks related to land rights, labor conditions, and community safety across regional project sites
Local Community Rights & FPIC: Operationalize Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) protocols and participatory stakeholder…