Social Safeguards Specialist Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Social Safeguards Specialist Under Contract at KIGALI CITY: (Deadline 24 October 2023)

Job description

Key duties and responsibilities
• Ensure provisions of social safeguard policies and requirements are considered in all studies under the project.

• Work with consultants to develop all safeguard documents required for the project and review the quality assurance of safeguards instruments prepared by consultants.

• Reviewing Project Preparatory Technical document reports and recommendations to assess the extent to which they address the social safeguard issues related to resettlement and providing advice and assistance to project teams to address any shortcomings.

• Work with the consultant to prepare and review Resettlement Plans and Resettlement Frameworks to assess compliance with the Policy on Resettlement and support City Engineering department in meeting compliance requirements, and to recommend measures to mitigate and manage any risks.

• To supervise and implement the resettlement action plans and regularly report on implementation progress. Keep the public in general informed of the project schedule through public meetings:

• Preparing guidelines, handbooks, and instructions on the social safeguard policies. Disseminate the Environmental and Social Management plans to ensure that the public is aware of the project impacts and mitigations during implementation phase.
• Undertaking reviews and preparing monthly progress reports on social safeguard assignments.
• Establish and redress grievance mechanisms as well as consolidating a grievance database of all project sites under which the project is implemented and maintain it updated
• To ensure all social safeguards related modules are incorporated in the training and capacity building programs at all levels;
• To coordinate and liaise with Development partners to ensure effective mainstreaming of social safeguards issues into the implementation of project activities.
• To ensure that project activities are consistent in their approaches to social safeguards principles, thereby supporting full blending at the operational level.
• To be part of the training and raising awareness sessions with the communities about GBV, SEA, VAC, HIV/AIDS, Labor Influx prevention.
• Defining and subsequently monitoring suitable social safeguards indicators for the project.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
– Report to CoK/ SPIU Coordinator