Recruitment of a Part-Time Portuguese Speaking Environmental & Social Specialist — Individual Consultant Selection for REPAIR

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)

Country: Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).

Project: Regional Emergency Preparedness and Access to Inclusive Recovery (REPAIR)Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: TF0C5097-3E

Assignment TitleRecruitment of a Part-Time Portuguese Speaking Environmental & Social Specialist

Reference No. MZ-REPAIR-540543-CS-INDV

African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Regional Emergency Preparedness and Access to Inclusive Recovery (REPAIR) Programme and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. The Services include the provision of environmental and social (E&S) risk management expertise to support ARC Ltd. in ensuring compliance with the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and applicable national environmental and social laws and regulations across all REPAIR Programme countries.. The implementation period is one (1) year, renewable annually subject to satisfactory performance evaluation.

ARC Ltd. now invites eligible individual consultants (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should submit information demonstrating that they possess the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services, including a CV, phone contact, postal and email addresses, and copies of relevant academic qualifications. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at the following website: https://arcltd.org/opportunities/. The individual consultant will be selected in accordance with the Open Competitive Selection of Individual Consultants method set out in the Procurement Regulations, Seventh Edition September 2025, and will be evaluated based on the criteria indicated below.

The shortlisting criteria are:

· At least a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Management, Social Sciences, or a related discipline.

· A minimum of ten (10) years of substantive professional experience in environmental and social assessment and risk management for development projects.

· Demonstrated familiarity with the World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and/or its previous safeguard policies and procedures, including experience in the preparation, review, and/or supervision of E&S instruments such as ESMFs, ESMPs, SEPs, Labor Management Procedures, Grievance Mechanisms (GMs), and SEA/SH Action Plans.

· Mandatory fluency in English and Portuguese (written and oral); the ability to produce and present technical documents in both languages is a strict requirement of this assignment.

· Possession of relevant professional qualifications in environmental and/or social management and evidence of similar assignments previously undertaken are additional advantages.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” first published July 2016 and revised September 2025 seventh edition (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest..

All inquiries should be sent to the following email address: [email protected]

Expressions of interest must be sent via email to the email address: [email protected] and submitted by 25th of March 2026, 17:00 hours South Africa time. Submissions should reference “REPAIR-540543-CS-INDV – Part-Time Portuguese Speaking Environmental & Social Specialist" in the subject line.