Officer-Forest Protection

The Forest Protection Officer at Energy Development Corporation in the Philippines is responsible for strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder management related to forestry and social permits. This role involves technical expertise in working with various agencies and communities, implementing compliance planting, conducting educational outreach, and managing data related to permitting processes. The position requires effective execution of local needs programs to ensure business continuity.
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Strategic Planning and Implementation
The Forest Protection Officer provides technical expertise in dealing with regulatory agencies (i.e. Department of Environment and Natural Resources), local government units, non-government organizations and community organizations to establish institutional arrangements and partnerships to maintain harmonious relations in facilitating the acquisition of forestry and social permits.

Implements in a timely and orderly manner the compliance planting as part of the Tree Cutting Compliance requirements to avoid issuance of Notice of Violation and negative social impacts and perceptions, as well as to enhance positive impacts and programs.

Conducts Information, Education and Communication to communities and other external stakeholders in support to the Forestry and Social permitting process.

Executes other stakeholder management strategies to ensure effective implementation of local needs programs and unhampered operations of the Company.


Monitoring and Evaluation

Gathers and processes monitoring and evaluation data and proposes recommendations to continuously improve the the permitting process and Compliance planting obligations..

Data Management

Prepares reports on the permitting process for internal learning and knowldege data and compliance planting records in terms of survival rate, prtotection status and other plantation data for reportorial requirements

Facilitates the encoding and updating of DOP/Growth Projects‘ Forestry and Social Permits and Complainces to CRD Information Systems


Regulatory Compliance

Ensures timely acquisition of forestry and social permits and compliance to agreed conditions to ensure business continuity.

Create enabling conditions to facilitate acquisition of endorsements or permits to ensure legal compliance and to address social impacts of the project.


Management of Resources

Prepares details of capital and operating expenditure (CAPEX/OPEX) proposals for DOP/Growth Projects related permitting and compliance requirements