Date: April 2022
Location: Can Tho City, Solid waste management project
Position title: Project Officer (Solid Waste Management), WWF-Viet Nam
Reports to: Project Manager
Background:
WWF was one of the first international non-governmental organizations working in Viet Nam. In 1985, WWF began working on a national conservation strategy and since then has worked closely with the Vietnamese Government on a diverse range of environmental issues and implemented field activities across the country. WWF-Viet Nam is part of WWF-Greater Mekong which operates in 5 countries: Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Find out more at http://Viet Nam.panda.org/
Major Functions:
As part of its global commitment to the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, WWF wants to demonstrate in a pilot project how the causes of marine littering can be combated in less developed countries by improving the waste management practices. The project shall be carried out in the rural area in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam.
To prepare the project, the WWF has commissioned a feasibility study in which various alternatives for waste management in Long An Province have been Analyzed and the pilot model for urban area has been carried out. The intensive recycling and utilization of the waste was found to be the most suitable option under both ecological and economic criteria.
The Project Officer is technically in charge of the field implementation of activities in relation to the Rural Pilot Project on Solid Waste Management project “Reduction of Marine Litter by better Waste Management & Recycling in the Mekong Area”. He/she will be responsible for the project coordination and supervision of activities on site. A special focus lies in the monitoring of the waste separation at source. He/she coordinates the activities of the project partners and stakeholders involved and ensures that work plans and agreed targets are met timely while complying with cost limits.
The central basis of the recommended waste management concept is the segregation at source and separate collection of waste. In order to secure the planning assumptions and to develop a model adapted to the local framework conditions, pilot tests shall be carried out. The selected area for carrying out the rural pilot project is in the rural area in the Mekong Delta.
Marine Litter, and especially plastic waste, has been identified as a major environmental issue during the last few years. A major share of this amount is originating in the countries of Southeast Asia, half of the worldwide amount of plastic waste entering the oceans is coming from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Rivers are an important source of marine litter, because they transport waste dumped into rivers or released from dumpsites by flooding. The Mekong River belongs to the 10 most important river sources of marine litter. The root causes of marine litter are insufficient waste management systems inland in combination with increasing sales of single-use plastic products, mainly packaging. Improving the financial sustainability of waste management systems and introducing systems of waste prevention, collection, sorting and recycling is key to improve the situation.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the Freshwater as well as Conservation strategies, workplan, program development, and other relevant activities as needed;
• Ensure timely follow up implementation and report progress to the project manager/team;
• Other tasks assigned by supervisors as appropriate.
• Ensure timely preparation of training programmes designed for stakeholder’s, with respect to project review cycle;
• Provide technical inputs, support to the planning and implementation of the projects/ programme activities in an objective-oriented manner, including quality assurance;
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of inception report, project annual work plans, progress reports, etc;
• Provide timely for reports in the project cycle and ad hoc reply upon demand from project donors;
• Accountable for the overall coordination, evaluation, management of project implementation;
• Attend training courses, workshops as representative for the project managers when required;
• Assist to and co-work with the supervising Project Managers (and others relevant staff) in planning and monitoring (financial and technical), facilitating the implementation in compliance with donor’s and WWF’s requirements/ policies and in line with work plans;
• Organize the day to day management and deployment of the project activities.
• Work closely with the local Project Management Unit (PMU) and other stakeholders for planning, implementation and M&E of the projects/ programme assigned;
• Provide technical and logistical (including authorizations to travel to field) support to consultants assigned to this project, notably access to data, reports and relevant stakeholders (local authorities, gov technical agencies, ….)
