Manager - Forest

Role & responsibilities

Planning:

1. Create customized accelerated plan for each project for obtaining Environment, Forest, and Wildlife (F&WL) clearance to ensure on-time project delivery.

2. Planning of budget to maintain Cost efficiency.

3. Cross functional coordination

Execution:

1. Provide technical support across the Project, supporting Forest and Wildlife team by ensuring robust execution of end-end process as per guidelines for timely availability of Forest & Wildlife Clearances as well as Working Permission by achieving First Time Right (FTR).

2. Ensure strict Environment, Forest and Wildlife compliance of states and MoEF&CC.

3. Explore and identify other levers to crunch timelines. For example - pro-active alignment with forest officials and outsourcing agencies, wherever required to expedite work in case of bandwidth shortage.

4. Strengthen communication strategy by close co-ordination with the Forest officials at different levels for timely and speedy processing of proposals.

Monitoring:

1. Quality checks of Forest & Wildlife proposals before each submission to ensure all requirements for proposals have been fulfilled to achieve first time right.

2. Support COE cell to Develop and Review the Environment, Forest and Wildlife Plans, Policies and Legal Frameworks.