90 Sustainable Development jobs in Malaysia

Purpose of Job

1. Implement the orangutan component of the Sarawak Conservation Programme's Wildlife Conservation Strategy (SCP) by conducting fieldwork, supporting wildlife connectivity measures, engaging with local communities, and contributing to habitat protection efforts, ensuring activities are completed according to agreed timelines and standards.
2. Collect, organise, and report data on orangutans and their habitats including distribution, threats, and habitat condition, to inform conservation planning and decision-making.
3. Coordinate activities and communications among field staff, local communities, government agencies, and other partners to support effective collaboration.
4. Assist in preparing funding proposals by compiling data, conducting basic background research, and providing administrative or logistical support as needed.
5. Support team operations and professional growth by carrying out other reasonable duties related to the role, as assigned by supervisor.
6. Contribute wholeheartedly to organisational events and activities that require team-wide participation, helping to advance WWF-Malaysia's goals and foster teamwork, with prior approval from the Senior Biologist, Senior Manager, or Head of Conservation Sarawak.

Key Outputs

1. Planned orangutan conservation activities are successfully carried out. This includes doing field surveys, implementing wildlife connectivity features, and reducing conflicts between people and orangutans.
2. Accurate and organized information about orangutans and their forest is collected and recorded. This includes data on where orangutans are found, the condition of their habitat, and any threats they face. The information is used for internal reports, monitoring Planned Intermediate Results, and may be shared with partners when needed.
3. Awareness programmes and community meetings are successfully run. This helps local people learn about orangutans, understand their importance, and get involved in protecting them.
4. Good coordination and communication are maintained. The officer keeps in touch regularly with the internal team and other SCP teams working in the same project area, local communities, government staff, and other partners to ensure everyone is working well together and progress is tracked.
5. Junior staff and community rangers are trained and supported. The officer helps build local skills by mentoring field assistants, rangers, or interns involved in orangutan work.
6. Clear and timely reports are submitted. This includes regular updates on activities, field results, technical progress reports, and other inputs that support the team's progress reviews and reporting to donors and partners.

Major Activities

1. Take charge of the orangutan component of the Wildlife Conservation Strategy. This includes carrying out fieldwork, implementing wildlife connectivity features, working with local communities, and performing other hands-on tasks to ensure the effective delivery of the orangutan component.
2. Monitoring orangutans and reporting findings. This includes regularly assessing orangutan populations and forest conditions, collecting important information, and preparing reports to help the team make better decisions and improve conservation efforts.
3. In the course of performing the duties as set out in this Job Description, the incumbent may be exposed to challenging working conditions, especially for field-based staff members. WWF-Malaysia does not provide any form of allowance (s) to staff for working in tough field conditions as stated in section 2.3 Bonus & any form of Allowance (s) for tough field conditions, WWF-Malaysia Staff Guidebook on Terms and Conditions of Service, as your salary will commensurate with the duties and responsibilities that the job demands.

Specifications

1. A passion for wildlife conservation and a strong commitment to WWF-Malaysia's mission.
2. 1–3 years of work or volunteer experience in wildlife conservation, environmental work, or related fields. Experience in orangutan or rainforest conservation, and working with local communities or in the field, is a plus.
3. Basic understanding of orangutan biology, habitat, and the threats they face is preferred.
4. Familiarity with basic fieldwork tools and techniques, such as using GPS, setting up camera traps, or monitoring wildlife.
5. Able to collect and organize field data, and prepare simple reports clearly and on time.
6. Good communication skills and ability to work well with field teams, local communities, government agencies, and partners.
7. Basic computer skills, especially in using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Knowing how to use mapping tools like GIS is an added advantage.
8. Fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia. Knowing local Sarawakian dialects or indigenous languages is a plus.
9. Has a valid driving license and is willing to travel often to rural or remote areas in Sarawak.
10. Identifies and aligns with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect and Collaboration.

Salary Range

RM2,500 - RM3,200

**Applicants whose expectations exceed the posted budget may not be considered. Kindly apply only if the budget is acceptable.

Job Summary

The Public Policy arm of Belt Road Capital Management is primarily involved with drafting white paper public policies that are favorable to our firm's strategic goals, and strategically advocating these policies to the relevant government bodies. These policies include capital market development, transparency in financial regulation, and sustainable growth of markets in Cambodia. To this end, the position holder will research and support evidence-based public policy proposals, execution, and implementation.

What you will do
:

• Conduct macroeconomic research across a wide range of subject areas, using quantitative and qualitative information to make informed recommendations to further the IFCC's development and interests
• Investigate public policies impacting macroeconomic forces and financial markets
• Assess qualitatively the potential effects of proposed tax and non-tax incentives on GDP growth, unemployment rate, tourism revenue, and other relevant economic metrics
• Draft white paper proposals for government agencies to initiate, develop and execute new programs which further the IFCC's development and interests
• Monitor and analyze Cambodian domestic public policy regulations and communiques
• Conduct benchmarking exercises with other international financial centers (IFCs) and countries on international best practices for developing and governing IFCs
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of government policies, regulatory changes, and international trade agreements on the IFCC project's international relevance and competitiveness, especially in Cambodia and Southeast Asia.

What you should bring:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Economics, Public Policy, Finance, or a related field
• 1-3 years of experience in public policy, economics, research or a consultancy role
• Strong research and analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex information
• Excellent writing and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-technically trained stakeholders
• Ability to analyze quantitative data and apply critical perspectives across diverse policy issues to support economic analyses and policy advice
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex economic concepts into actionable insights.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Good command of written and spoken English, fluency in business Chinese is advantageous

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Funding Societies | Modalku
is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating  in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.

Here at Funding Societies | Modalku, we live by our core values GETFS:

• Grow Relentlessly:
  Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics:
  Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act:
  Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact:
  Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
• Serve with Obsession:
  Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

The successful hire will report to the Regional Head of Credit Risk and work closely with country credit teams to monitor and analyse portfolio quality and provide recommendations for improvement and execution.

What you will do:

• Design, Maintain, Own and continuously refine credit policies for various portfolios
• Ensure policies are aligned to organization goals and regulatory guidelines
• Analyse portfolio data borrower behaviour and portfolio performance to identify trends and hidden nuances and improve credit policies
• Explore new alternate data sources to improve risk models and decisioning
• Closely work with credit MIS, credit underwriting and collections team to understand portfolio health and recommend course corrections including refinements to risk models and decisioning algorithms
• Conduct A/B testing (champion-challenger) on credit underwriting and collection strategies to optimize approval rates and reduce losses
• Regular updates to senior management including the Risk Committees
• Closely work with external parties such as various credit bureaus and data partners to understand market landscape and how it affects our lending strategies
• Handle Audit queries on matters related to credit risk policies and decisions
• Build a strong credit policy team and mentor junior members

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree or above in Statistics/Engineering/Analytics or similar from a University
• At least6-8 years of experience in credit risk preferably in the MSME segment
• Familiar with local regulations and data landscape in the ASEAN region
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Passionate about working with large amounts of unstructured data
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel and SQL or Phython or R
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced evolving environment with a steep learning curve

Benefits

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
• Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
• Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity

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Summary

Responsible for Policy and Certificate Benefits operational support, business process analysis, approval of benefits payment as authorised and other responsibilities / duties periodically assigned by supervisor to meet operational and/or other requirements.

Key Task & Accountabilities

• Participate on the system enhancement, process improvement and digital projects. Role and Responsibilities including:
• Liaise and coordinate with superior and IT or system support.
• Assist superior in participating project meeting.
• Assist superior in prepare system/business requirement and business process review.
• Prepare test script and Perform User Acceptance Testing,
• Prepare sign off document from stakeholder.
• Prepare implementation sign off document.
• Assist superior to monitor the result.
• Perform all activities achieved the reasonable quality, performance and within the agreed timeline given.
• Review and recommend measure to improve the existing process and system.
• Perform data analysis and presentation to support business decision.
• Responsible to perform Quality Check or sampling review as per Quality Assurance Framework. Update the report to management on monthly basis.
• Establish and update guidelines, working instructions and standard operating procedures.
• Support processing of Benefits requests (Surrender/Withdrawal/Cancellation/Loan and other payment) and approve up to authority limit assigned.
• Ensure that timeline and objectives as agreed with superior for any other assignments / projects that may be assigned are met or exceeded.

Qualifications/ Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or equivalent
• At least 3 – 5 years’ experience in Insurance Industry
• Knowledge of insurance, good command in English and Bahasa Malaysia, IT literate and proficient in MS office, ability to work independently without supervision, ability to communicate with all level effectively.

Seeking self-motivated and driven individual to join the dynamic Environmental Site Investigation/ Contaminated Site Management team. Candidate will be involved in delivering environmental consultancy projects covering technical scope design and proposal development, project coordination and delivery, field work, data analysis and reporting.

You will be working with a diverse team of environmental, health, safety, labour, and social practitioners who have been supporting industries for over 20 years.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out project tasks (both desktop and field activities) according to technical requirements for each project.
• Develop and implement site assessment work plans, sampling and analysis plans, and health and safety plans.
• Carry out field work for site investigation and characterization studies, including soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater sampling, and drilling and contractor oversight.
• Conduct field analytical and observational studies and report findings to superiors and/or clients.
• Prepare/ support the delivery of technical proposals for new project opportunities.
• Support business development by participating in client outreach meetings or activities.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Chemical/ Civil/ Environmental), Environmental Science/ Technology or equivalent.
• Able to demonstrate experiences in environmental/ EHS management, implementation and/or consultancy.
• 1 to 3 years of related working experience. Fresh graduates are welcome.
• Proficient in English and Bahasa Malaysia with strong written English skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Class D driving license.

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Job Title: Environmental Consultant Personnel for EMP & EMR

(Registered as EIA Consultant with Natural Resources and Environment Board (NREB))

Job Responsibilities:

1. Prepare and submit Environmental Monitoring Report;

2. Prepare and submit Environmental Management Plan;

3. Prepare and submit Erosion and Sediment Control Plan (ESCP), when required;

4. Advise the Contractor on environmental related matters and propose mitigation measures to be taken;

5. Conduct environmental Inspection and monitoring on quarterly basis or when is required;

6. Attend monthly HSSE Committee Meeting and Monthly Progress Meetings at site; and

7. Present environmental monitoring results and findings during HSSE Committee Meeting site.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Work Location: In person

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Responsible for Policy Servicing operational support, business process analysis and other responsibilities / duties periodically assigned by supervisor to meet operational and/or other requirements for Digital Servicing, Automation and System Enhancement initiatives/projects.

1.Participate in Digital Servicing, automation, system enhancement and process improvement projects. Role and Responsibilities including:

• Perform process review and opportunity identification.
• Liaise and coordinate with superior and IT or system support.
• Assist superior in participating project meeting.
• Assist superior in prepare system/business requirement and business process review.
• Prepare test script and perform User Acceptance Testing
• Prepare sign off document from stakeholder and implementation sign off document.
• Assist superior to monitor the result.
• Perform all activities achieved the reasonable quality, performance and within the agreed timeline given.
• Review and recommend measure to improve the existing process and system.

2. Prepare business case and presentation slides for related initiatives and projects.

3.Perform data analysis and presentation to support business decision.

4.Establish and update guidelines, working instructions and standard operating procedures.

5.Ensure that timeline and objectives as agreed with superior for any other assignments / projects that may be assigned are met or exceeded.

Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or equivalent

Preferred:

• 5 years’ experience in Insurance Industry

Responsible for Life & Family operational support, business process analysis, processing of service requests as authorised and other responsibilities / duties periodically assigned by supervisor to meet operational and/or other requirements.

• Support Life and Family Servicing requests processing and approve up to authority limit assigned.
• Participate on the system enhancement, process improvement and digital projects. Role and Responsibilities including:
• Liaise and coordinate with superior and IT or system support.
• Assist superior in participating project meeting.
• Assist superior in prepare system/business requirement and business process review.
• Prepare test script and Perform User Acceptance Testing,
• Prepare sign off document from stakeholder.
• Prepare implementation sign off document.
• Assist superior to monitor the result.
• Provide operational supports including reporting, data analysis and update working instructions / Standard Operating Procedures.
• Perform all activities achieved the reasonable quality, performance and within the agreed timeline given.
• Review and recommend measure to improve the existing process and system.

• Education: Degree or Diploma with relevant experience
• Experience: Minimum 1 year working experience in Insurance Industry

• Essential: PC literate and excellent in communication skills
• Desirable: Knowledge in Life Insurance/ Takaful, good communication/ inter-personal skill. Computer and system literate with knowledge in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.

• Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (MY - Kuala Lumpur)
• Schedule: Full Time
• Contract type: 12 months contract