Role: Environmental & Social Manging Consultant
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Team: ERM Africa: Capital Project Delivery
The Role
ERM is seeking an experienced and motivated Managing Consultant with experience in Environmental and Social Impact Assessments to join the Capital Project Delivery team in Africa. This is an E&S role for a consultant who can manage complex capital projects while providing credible environmental and social impact assessment oversight.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing E&S assignments from proposal through delivery and close-out, coordinating multidisciplinary inputs, overseeing environmental and social workstreams, and ensuring high-quality, defensible deliverables for clients, regulators and lenders. The role requires strong project management discipline, excellent consulting judgement, practical fieldwork experience and the ability to integrate environmental and social considerations into coherent project advice.
This role will involve working with technical specialists, subcontractors, clients and affected stakeholder groups across diverse geographies and sectors. Travel to project sites may be required, including to remote or logistically complex locations.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary ESIA, EIA, ESHIA, due diligence, lender advisory and capital project delivery assignments from proposal through delivery and close-out.
Lead project planning and delivery controls, including scope definition, schedules, budgets, resourcing, subcontractor coordination, risk management, client communication and delivery tracking.
Oversee environmental and social screening, scoping, baseline planning, impact assessment, mitigation planning and management planning workstreams.
Coordinate technical inputs from environmental, biodiversity, social, health and safety, climate, GIS, air quality, water, waste, noise, cultural heritage and other specialists to ensure an integrated E&S assessment approach.
Prepare, review and quality-check client-facing reports, proposals, technical notes, presentations, management plans and regulatory or lender-facing deliverables.
Support environmental permitting and regulatory compliance processes, including coordination of required studies, documentation and submissions where applicable.
Design, review and support stakeholder engagement processes, including Stakeholder Engagement Plans, consultation records and engagement strategies that are inclusive, culturally appropriate and appropriately documented.
Support the design, review and implementation of Grievance Redress Mechanisms, including process design, roles and responsibilities, escalation protocols, record keeping and reporting requirements.
Contribute to social baseline studies, socio-economic assessments, community profiling, needs assessments, vulnerable group analysis, social impact assessment and social management planning.
Integrate social performance considerations into broader E&S deliverables, including land access and livelihoods, community health and safety, labour and working conditions interfaces, cultural heritage, human rights and FPIC where applicable.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, regulators, subcontractors, stakeholder representatives and ERM colleagues across local, regional and global teams.
Apply relevant national regulatory requirements, lender requirements and international standards such as the IFC Performance Standards, World Bank Environmental and Social Framework and African Development Bank safeguards.
Support fieldwork planning and implementation, including health and safety planning, logistics coordination, survey planning, consultation support, data collection oversight and site team coordination.
Identify and support new opportunities through proposal development, client engagement, commercial input and practical scoping of E&S services.
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