Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist at IDC

Main duties and responsibilities:

Internal / Operational Processes

• Provide guidance on Environmental and Social issues to Business Units, clients and subsidiaries.
• Advise investment teams to promote sustainable and responsible investments, where possible to reduce the climate change impacts and environmental impact of investee industries.
• Advise investment teams to promote sustainable social benefits of investee industries.
• Develop and maintain a good working knowledge of relevant Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) legislation in South Africa and other countries where the Organization's operates (eg. EIA Regulations; all NEMA Acts; OHSA; Mining Charter; international environmental and labour regulations etc), and international best practice guidelines such as the IFC Environmental and Social Performance Standards.
• Remain abreast of developments in EHS thinking and practices locally and abroad (eg. UNEPFI; CDP; Global Compact; Equator Principles; ISO14001 and ISO18001 etc).
• Ensure that the Organisation's Environmental and Social policies, standards and procedures remain aligned with current legislation and best practices locally and internationally.
• Participate in the review and update the Organisation's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) framework to ensure alignment to changing circumstances on a regular basis.
• Monitor subsidiaries and existing clients’ compliance with the Organisation's Environmental and Social Policy and Responsible Investment Policy.
• Collect, monitor and analyse sustainability-related data of subsidiaries and clients.
  Manage and coordinate environmental impact assessments conducted by Organisation's or its Asses Environmental, Health and Safety risk profiles of existing business partners and new projects under consideration for financing by the IDC.
• Coordinate relevant capacity building interventions on environmental compliance.
  Provide support and input into Organisation’s Annual Integrated Report. In particular, support Organisation’s reporting obligations with respect to the Sustainability Bond, TCFD and Paris Agreement alignment, and SDG impacts.
• Provide support to SBUs on incorporating the SDGs into business plans and targets.
  Mentoring on basic aspects of the job.
• Customer Focus & Stakeholder Management.
• To effectively interact with different SBUs and departments in order to fulfil the process requirements.
• Manage and enhance the levels of service and communication to ensure the provision of client service excellence.

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree recognised by SACNASP or in a technical discipline, preferably in an environmental management practice and/or engineering field, augmented by certificates for further development courses in environmental management practice.
• Honours degree in the field will be advantageous.

Knowledge and experience requirements:

• 5 - 8 years’ relevant experience in the field
• Extensive knowledge in environmental management practice and/ or health and safety management Practice.
• Formulation and implementation of EHS Strategies and related concepts.