Position: Senior Urban Environmental Specialist

Organization: NIUA

Apply: https://jobs.niua.in/jobs/senior-urban-environmental-specialist
Responsibilities:

The Senior Urban Environment Specialist shall work in the aforementioned PMU to carry out the responsibilities listed below:

Review the baseline assessment, gap assessment, interventions for urban river management and provide technical inputs on urban environmental aspects.
Support in reviewing and providing feedback on project deliverables (inception report, baseline assessment report, draft URMP report) submitted by the agencies/consultants engaged by the PMU.
Liaise with agencies/consultants engaged by the PMU for timely completion of project activities and submission of project deliverables.
Liaise with State/city officials for execution of project activities.
Prepare project briefs, monitoring reports, presentations for submission to the client.
Extensive travel to the project cities for on-ground monitoring and reporting.
Support in preparing content for capacity building and training programmes organized for different stakeholders.
Support the PMU lead in overall execution of project activities, monitoring, evaluating and report requirements.
Provide support to the team for conducting key events (e.g. workshops, conferences, review meetings etc.)
Carry out any other additional tasks assigned by the PMU Lead.
Required Qualification, Work experience and Competencies

Necessary:

Post graduate (Masters) qualification in Environmental Planning/Management, Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Management, Urban Planning/Management, or related disciplines from a reputed university/institute.
10+ years of relevant professional experience in urban master planning/environmental planning/environmental engineering/infrastructure planning/bio-diversity and ecology conservation etc.
Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
Strong inclination for documentation and developing knowledge products.
Strong inter personnel and co-ordination skills, working independently, and flexibly.
Willingness to travel to the project locations across India as required.
Desirable:

5+ years of experience in urban environment and water resources planning and implementation related projects.
Experience in preparation of city master plan, city development plan, city sanitation plan or any other city wide plan preparation.
Working in Project Management Unit (PMU) of relevant national missions, state missions/programs or city level project implementation.
Experience with document design, GIS-based analysis, preparing corporate presentations.
Experience of managing large consultancy assignment.
Reporting: The Senior Urban Environment Specialist shall report to the Team Lead, PMU at NIUA.

Duration: This is a contract-based position for a 1-year term, which is renewable subject to satisfactory performance.

Remuneration: As par with the industry standards, depending on experience and skills and fitment with NIUA remuneration structures. Proof of past remuneration (last received salary/monthly contract payment) would be required.

Application Process:

Step 1:  Interested applicants submit their CV and cover letter through the NIUA portal. The last date of application is 10 May 2024, 23:59 IST. Applications received after this cut-off time will, unfortunately, not be entertained.
Step 2:  Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email by 20 May 2024. Regrettably, it will not be possible to provide individual feedback on applications that are not shortlisted.
Step 3: A team member from the Water and Environment vertical will be attached to each shortlisted candidate. The purpose is to help the shortlisted candidates understand the team culture within the Water and Environment vertical, and address any queries that the candidates may have. With this, we hope that the candidates will be able to put their best foot forward in the subsequent rounds of the selection process.
Step 4: The first round of online interview will be conducted with the shortlisted candidates.
Step 5: The second round of competency-based interview will be conducted with the top performing candidates from the first round.
Step 6: Reference checks of selected candidates will be made. Following satisfactory reference checks, an offer will be made to successful candidates.  

No. of Positions: 2
Last Date to Apply: Friday, 10 May 2024