Social Impact Assessment Consultant with Wildlife Conservation Society

BTDC-ID: 35048

Closing Date: 06-Jun-2025

Social Impact Assessment Consultant

Office Address

No. 21, St. 21, Sangkat Tonle Basak, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Contact Name

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Phone

085 757 601

Email

TO: cprak@wcs.org

Announcement Description

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization established in 1895 and based in New York, that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. With a presence in more than 60 nations, and experience helping to establish over 150 protected areas across the globe, WCS has amassed the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships to ensure that vibrant, wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities. In the Greater Mekong WCS has country programs in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and is managed through a dispersed regional network with a hub in Bangkok.

Social Impact Assessment Consultant

Career Category: Consultancy
Location: N/A

Position Background:

Since 2003, WCS has provided technical and financial assistance to the management of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary (KSWS) in the Eastern Plains Landscape. The Keo Seima REDD+ Project, which covers the core Zone of KSWS, is Cambodia’s flagship REDD+ project. It was the first large REDD+ project developed in Cambodia, the first to receive a multi-million-dollar carbon sale, and it is the longest running. In the ten years since it started, the project has demonstrated that emissions reductions can be achieved while maintaining a gold rating for benefiting local communities. A household livelihood survey is planned for villages in and around the Core Protection Area in KSWS for July 2025. This survey is intended to build upon similar surveys undertaken in 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022, and will focus on household livelihoods in 20 villages identified as of key importance for the REDD+ project at the site. As such, it aims to update understanding of livelihoods in those villages. This will form the basis for the assessment and monitoring of social impacts associated with conservation measures implemented as part of the REDD+ project.

Reports to: Country Program Director, Cambodia

Location: Remote

Country Program/Sector: Global Conservation Program – Greater Mekong

Position Type: Consultant

Internal liaison: Landscape Technical Manager, Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Expected travel: Travel to Cambodia as required.

Position Summary:

The consultant will oversee the implementation of 2025 KSWS household livelihood survey.

The responsibilities of the consultant for the social impact assessment will be as follows:

Update survey design and tools
Coordinate training of field team and testing of survey tools
Provide remote assistance during survey
Review and analyse data provided by field team

Deliverables:

Social impact assessment report
Raw data and analysis codes used in assessment
Oral presentation of results to WCS

Proposed schedule:

The proposed schedule of work would be undertaken between Jun and October 2025. The consultant would be contracted for 45 days over this period.

Consultant Applications must include a full cost proposal to complete this SOW detailing:

Consultant team daily rates (evidence of historical daily rates to be providing as supporting documentation).
Travel, accommodation, interview/meeting estimated costs for SOW

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