B. STRATEGIC AND PLANNING WORK, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND NETWORKING

• Review relevant ADB policies, operations manuals, staff instructions, guidelines, and handbooks and suggests measures to ensure consistency with SPS policy requirements.
• Help develop knowledge products and services, including the formulation of policies and preparation of handbooks, best practice manuals, by reviewing project design and implementation experiences, working with project practitioners and subject-matter experts, and external stakeholders including civil society.
• Update the safeguards team’s database of projects to reflect the compliance status of projects, contribute to online project data sheets and information documents, and communicate with line division staff to upload the required safeguards documentation for projects on the ADB website.
• Participate in multiple communities of practice and networks, to keep informed of guidelines and processes of other development banks and share information with OSFG on developments.

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As a (Senior) Safeguards Officer (Environment) you will independently provide technical support to (i) ensure that assigned sovereign and nonsovereign projects under processing and implementation comply with ADB’s environmental safeguard requirements; (ii) contribute to the interdepartmental policy discussions in the area of environmental safeguards, consultation and participation and engagement with civil society; and (iii) develop related knowledge products and services for use by ADB’s borrowers and clients.