Environment & Social Specialist

Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM)

Gaborone, Botswana 🇧🇼

City: Gaborone

Job Location Country: Botswana

Description: 

As part of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin (CORB): Financing Innovation in Transboundary Waters project, OKACOM is establishing a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) in the CORB Fund to support the capitalization and operationalization of the Fund, including the identification, preparation, and screening of a pipeline of priority investments. The Fund will support downstream projects with potential environmental and social (E&S) risks and impacts across a transboundary and environmentally sensitive basin with diverse communities, livelihoods and cultural practices dependent on the basin resources.

In line with the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and the commitments set out in the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), the PIU will include a qualified Environmental and Social Specialist position to ensure that E&S risks and impacts are appropriately identified, assessed, managed, and monitored throughout fund establishment and pipeline development.

Closing Date: Friday, June 12, 2026

2 days remaining

Apply by 12 June, 2026

POSITION TYPE

ORGANIZATION TYPE

EXPERIENCE-LEVEL

DEGREE REQUIRED

IHE Delft - MSc in Water and Sustainable Development