Pre-Clearance Environmental Assessment Tool (PEAT) Consultant

Overview

Pre-Clearance Environmental Assessment Tool (PEAT) Consultant

role at

The HALO Trust . Contract: Temporary. Duration: 30 working days (not including weekends). Location: Remote, with some in-person meetings as required. Timeframe: 01 November – 31 December 2025. Salary/Budget: GBP 350 per day. Reporting to: HALO’s Mine Action and Environment Project Manager (MAEPM). Additional costs: Travel for in-person meetings reimbursed with prior agreement.Responsibilities

Provide technical and editorial support to finalize the PEAT document, ensuring guidance sections and annexes are complete, coherent, and aligned with best practices in environmental assessment and humanitarian mine action standards in preparation for trial.Refine the PEAT structure and content to align with standards and relevant best practices, including context-specific stakeholder engagement and participatory mapping protocols.Develop and integrate components of the tool such as: stakeholder engagement protocols, participatory mapping, data collection approaches (e.g., KIIs and household surveys), a scoring matrix for assessing impacts, and an MandE framework for mitigation measures.Develop supporting annexes and templates: desktop assessment guidance, focus group question scripts, digital data synthesis methods, monitoring report templates, and a mitigation measure reference annex.Draft a coherent and practical guidance document (in English) for implementing the PEAT process.Requirements

Fluency in written and spoken English.Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Ecology, Environmental Management, or related field.Minimum 5 years of experience in environmental and/or social impact assessment, preferably in post-conflict or humanitarian contexts.Proven experience with participatory rural appraisal (PRA) or other participatory data collection methods.Strong writing, editing, and presentation skills.Experience working with NGOs or mine action organizations.Familiarity with IMAS and mine action operations is an asset.Previous experience in Somalia or dryland contexts is an asset.Application and deadlines

If you wish to be considered for this consultancy, please submit a

CV or organisation profile

and a

short cover letter

outlining relevant experience. Closing date:

30th September 2025 . We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the advertised closing date.Equal Opportunity and safeguarding

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.Notes

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