Job Description
Background: DAI is an employee-owned international development company. For more than 50 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 80 countries. DAI’s Environment Sector provides technical leadership and implementation support to international field-based USAID programs in Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and throughout Africa.
Possible areas of technical and advisory assistance include:
- Clean and renewable energy
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Disaster risk reduction
- Climate finance/investment
- Carbon markets
- Biodiversity and wildlife conservation
- Nature-based solutions
- Natural resources management
- Environmental crimes and governance
- Environmental justice / social equity
- Land tenure and land rights governance
- Water governance
- Water resources management
- Water security, sanitation, and hygiene (WSSH)
- Water-energy and water-food nexus
- Solid waste management
- Methane emissions management
- Ocean plastics
- Circular economy
About the Organization
DAI delivers development. We do it in many of the world’s most demanding environments, by integrating a broad range of disciplines. Over 40 years, our employee owners have built a forward-looking company — one that combines innovative thinking, deep technical knowledge, and professional project management. We approach our work with passion, analytical rigor, and open minds. By freely sharing what we learn, we have built a reputation as thought leaders who translate good ideas into action and action into results. Our global team of 1,500 development professionals welcomes each opportunity to solve a new problem, no matter how difficult. That’s how DAI has earned the trust of the clients, partners, and people who work alongside us all over the world. DAI Advancing Human Prosperity SM
