Recruitment of a PGRPEC Environmental and Social Safeguard Specialist

NOTICE OF CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SPECIALIST FOR THE PUBLIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH Loan No.: 8098-CI / P513144No. Context and rationale Côte d'Ivoire is carrying out major public finance reforms to better mobilize its domestic revenues and manage its public spending. Among the key advances: the medium-term revenue mobilization strategy (2024-2028), the Public Finance Reform Master Plan (SDRFP), and the digitalization of tax and customs administration (including the SIGOMAP platform for public procurement). Despite this progress, several areas of progress remain: rationalizing tax expenditures, improving the efficiency of VAT (currently 3.3% of GDP, efficiency ratio of 0.18%), strengthening the productivity of corporate tax (7-8%), and consolidating the capacity of control institutions. In the amount of 100 million US dollars and executed according to the mechanism Program for Results (PforR), the program development objective (PDO) of the Public Resources Management Program for Employment and Growth in Côte d’Ivoire (PGRPEC) is to increase domestic revenue and improve the efficiency of public expenditure management in Côte d'Ivoire. As part of the implementation of its activities, the PGRPEC wishes to recruit one (1) Specialist in Environmental and Social Safeguarding for its Technical Secretariat. Responsibilities of the Environmental and Social Safeguarding Specialist The Program's Environmental and Social Safeguard Specialist will be responsible for ensuring the implementation of the environmental and social aspects linked to all program activities. The work must be done in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) relevant to the program, as well as