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Role purpose
Lead integrated project-risk screening and translate environmental, social, climate, geophysical, safety, infrastructure, and resilience findings into defensible ratings, mitigations, TOR requirements, decision conditions, and monitoring plans.
Representative problems this role must solve

• A project is technically promising but climate, seismic, landslide, flood, water, biodiversity, community, resettlement, Indigenous Peoples, hazardous-material, tailings, process-safety, or infrastructure risks are incompletely understood.
• Risk evidence is fragmented across specialists and does not support an integrated Low/Moderate/High determination or actionable TOR.
• Optimistic sponsor claims obscure missing baseline studies, permit pathways, mitigation costs, schedule impacts, or residual risk.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute proportionate risk screening, evidence grading, data-gap analysis, site/stakeholder inquiry, and integrated risk classification.
• Assess environmental/social safeguards, climate hazards, geophysical/site conditions, process/hazardous-material risks, infrastructure dependencies, cumulative impacts, permitting, mitigation, and resilience.
• Trace findings into project conditions, alternatives, TOR studies/tasks, design criteria, budget/schedule inputs, monitoring, and acceptance requirements.
• Integrate with technical, financial, legal/regulatory, country, sponsor, and implementation modules.
• Provide or coordinate independent review and document dissent or residual uncertainty.

Minimum evidence-based qualifications

• Senior environmental/social, climate/resilience, geotechnical/geophysical, process-safety, infrastructure-risk, safeguards, or permitting experience with evidence of integrated decision responsibility.
• Emerging-market infrastructure, energy, mining/minerals, processing, or industrial-project experience.
• Experience developing or reviewing ESIA/PESIA scopes, risk screens, mitigation plans, lender requirements, or project conditions.
• Ability to coordinate specialists without overstating disciplines outside personal expertise.
• U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, with written attestation required before proposal inclusion.
• Demonstrated senior/expert judgment supported by specific project, analysis, decision-product, or implementation evidence-not keyword familiarity alone.
• Ability to produce concise, defensible written analysis in English and work across technical, commercial, financial, safeguards, institutional, and implementation interfaces.
• Ability to become available for potential Indo-Pacific travel within 20 calendar days after Axyde's written mobilization notice following contract award, subject to assignment needs and Government direction.
• Willingness to disclose availability, employment/contract restrictions, confidentiality obligations, conflicts, noncompetes, country/customer limitations, and relevant intellectual-property constraints.

Evidence to submit

• Current résumé or CV with dates, employer/client, country, project stage, personal role, methods used, decision product, and outcome for the most relevant assignments.
• Two to four representative projects demonstrating the required expert judgment and decision-grade products.
• Countries/regions worked, languages used professionally, travel limitations, and current location.
• Licenses, registrations, clearances, certifications, publications, or standards experience when relevant to the role.
• Written permission for Axyde to use and evidence-preservingly reformat the résumé for solicitation 1131PL26R0056, subject to final résumé review if requested.

Application questions

• Are you a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident? State one; do not upload identity documents at the application stage.
• May Axyde use your name and evidence-preservingly tailor/reformat your résumé for this specific contingent proposal?
• Could you become available for required Indo-Pacific travel within 20 calendar days after Axyde's written mobilization notice following contract award? Identify restrictions.
• Identify current employment, contractual, confidentiality, noncompete, customer, country, or conflict restrictions relevant to this opportunity.
• Describe the strongest decision product you personally led or independently reviewed and the decision it supported.
• Describe a project where a safeguards, climate, geophysical, process-safety, or infrastructure risk materially changed scope, design, schedule, cost, or recommendation.
• Which risk disciplines can you personally lead, contribute to, or independently review?
• Provide an example of translating a risk finding into a TOR task, design requirement, mitigation, monitoring measure, or decision condition.

Important contingent-opportunity notice
This posting supports a competitive proposal and is not an offer or guarantee of employment, subcontract, assignment, hours, travel, or compensation. Candidate rate requests are collected separately, if requested later, and do not determine Axyde's proposal pricing. Do not submit passports, green cards, Social Security numbers, export-controlled information, customer-proprietary material, or third-party confidential information with the initial application. Axyde will request only the written confirmations and secure evidence needed for proposal release and lawful engagement.
Axyde Analytics, LLC considers qualified candidates without regard to protected status and will evaluate applicants against the evidence and operational requirements of the contingent role.