Health, Safety, Social and Environmental Specialist - Occupational Health & Safety

The Health, Safety, Social and Environmental Specialist provides technical support remotely to UNOPS CAMCO teams on occupational health and safety aspects related to fisheries, aquaculture, and related value chains. The specialist advises on activity design, implementation, procurement requirements, technical evaluation, quality assurance, risk management, and sustainability of interventions in these sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice on fishing, safety, handling, conservation, and processing equipment.
• Advise on aquaculture equipment including cages, tanks, pumps, aerators, and water quality equipment.
• Analyze fish feed, fry, and aquaculture input quality.
• Identify risks related to quality, storage, transport, maintenance, biosecurity, and cold chain.
• Adapt equipment to beneficiary capacities and local usage conditions.
• Prepare and review technical specifications and TORs for fishing equipment, nets, engines, light boats, safety equipment, isothermal boxes, coolers, scales, quality control kits, small processing equipment, hatchery equipment, cages, tanks, pumps, aerators, water quality equipment, fish feed, fry, aquaculture inputs, training services, extension, technical assistance, quality control, and beneficiary support.
• Support procurement processes including market analysis, purchase planning, preparation of technical evaluation criteria, review of offers, technical sheets, catalogs, compliance documents, nutritional sheets, quality certificates, and fry documents.
• Prepare acceptance criteria, checklists, technical reports, and compliance notes.
• Formulate technical recommendations for procurement processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in fisheries, aquaculture, pisciculture, fishery sciences, aquatic sciences, natural resource management, environment, agro-food, rural development with at least 7 years of relevant professional experience, or a Master's degree with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience in a related field.
• Preferred additional academic or professional training related to fishing equipment, aquaculture inputs, fish feed, cold chain, fish product quality, fish processing, or sustainable aquatic resource management.
• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 5 years with a Master's degree in fisheries, pisciculture, aquaculture, or related value chains.
• At least 5 years of experience in preparing or revising procurement documents.
• Preferred experience with fishing equipment, aquaculture equipment, fish feed, fry, inputs, water quality, cold chain, or fish processing.
• Preferred experience preparing technical specifications, terms of reference, evaluation criteria, market analyses, or technical reports.
• Strongly preferred 5 years of experience in projects funded by international donors, multilateral banks, or UN organizations.
• Experience in Central Africa, DRC, or fragile and logistically complex contexts is a significant asset.
• Good knowledge of equipment, materials, inputs, and feed used in fisheries, pisciculture, and aquaculture.
• Mastery of technical specifications for fishing equipment, safety equipment, aquaculture equipment, feed, fry, and inputs.
• Good knowledge of fish feed quality criteria including nutritional composition, proteins, granulometry, conservation, packaging, storage, and traceability.
• Good knowledge of fry requirements including species, size, health status, survival rate, transport, acclimatization, and biosecurity.
• Ability to analyze equipment suitability with beneficiary needs, maintenance, spare parts, and operating costs.
• Knowledge of handling, conservation, hygiene, sanitary safety, cold chain, and post-capture loss reduction.
• Ability to evaluate technical offers, product sheets, catalogs, warranties, certificates, nutritional sheets, and compliance documents.
• Ability to contribute to TORs, evaluation criteria, technical reports, compliance notes, and project documents.
• Fluent in French (required).
• Fluent in English (desirable).

Skills

• Occupational Health and Safety
• Fisheries Management
• Aquaculture Management
• Procurement Document Preparation
• Technical Specifications
• Evaluation Criteria Design
• Market Analysis
• Technical Report Preparation
• Fish Feed Quality Assessment
• Cold Chain Management
• Fish Processing Techniques
• Sustainable Aquatic Resource Management
• Equipment Suitability Analysis
• Risk Management
• Quality Assurance
• Project Management in International Contexts
• Donor-funded Project Experience
• Biosecurity Measures
• Sanitary Safety
• Post-Capture Loss Reduction

Languages

French, English