EPF İs lookİng for Envİronmental Consultant

Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Azerbaijan is seeking a highly qualified expert to undertake the role of Environmental Consultant who will be providing Environmental expertise and support to both the consortium and project team when and where required. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with the operations, consortium members and projects’ staff for resolving issues of different complexity and information exchange. S/he shall promote a quality and results-oriented approach while delivering the assignments.

Scope of Work:

In the scope of the project Eurasia Partnership Foundation will contract the services for Environmental Consultant who will work closely with the consortium and the project teams. Specifically, his\her responsibility is include but are not limited to the following:

· In consultation with key public and private sectors and other ecotourism stakeholders, assess and recommend for strengthening institutional and systemic capacity for integrating cultural, biodiversity conservation and climate change objectives into tourism development;

· Analyze potential environmental constraints (e.g., quality and availability of natural resources), and pressure (i.e., human activities which bring about changes in the state of the environment);

· Assess environmental sustainability by focusing on the expected environmental footprint of the intervention;

·  Identify and advise climate change adaptation framework in order to anticipate the adverse effects and take appropriate action to prevent or minimize the damage they can cause;

·  Assess to which extent the intervention could take steps towards the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions;

· Propose ecotourism safeguards in case of negative environmental impacts (offsetting or mitigation measures);

More detailed information can be found in ToR file:

Interested candidates are invited to send financial offer and CV/resume to info@epfound.az by December 10. Please, write “Environmental Consultant” as a position title in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.