Environmental advisor sought for industrial green shift
A new consultancy role in a green industry programme highlights how public buyers now embed environmental expertise across major projects.
A new consultancy role in a green industry programme highlights how public buyers now embed environmental expertise across major projects.
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Türkiye’s leading research council is preparing to bring in an environmental consultant to support a flagship green industry programme, underscoring how environmental expertise is being built into industrial policy and project delivery. A new notice published on 12th November 2025 sets out plans to recruit an individual consultant to provide environmental consulting services for the Türkiye Green Industry Project, managed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK).
The prior information notice signals TÜBİTAK’s intention to hire an eligible individual consultant to provide environmental consulting services to the Türkiye Green Industry Project. While the brief announcement does not expand on the detailed scope, it makes clear that environmental advice will sit within the core management of a national industrial initiative rather than on the margins.
The project title points to a focus on greener industrial practices and reduced environmental impacts from production. Bringing in dedicated environmental consulting support suggests that the project’s sponsors want specialist input on how industrial activity can grow while limiting damage to air, water and land, and staying aligned with evolving standards on environmental performance.
The notice is framed around individual consultants, rather than large firms, reflecting a wider trend in which public bodies recruit named experts to sit alongside their internal teams. For environmental professionals, the role signals that green industry is becoming a distinct advisory market in its own right, with public buyers looking for technical depth as they design and run new programmes.
The TÜBİTAK initiative is one of a series of recent procurements in Türkiye where ministries and agencies are drawing on specialist consultants to deliver climate, environment and resilience projects.
In July 2025, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure’s Directorate General of Infrastructure Investments published a prior information notice seeking an Environmental Specialist for the Rail Logistics Improvement Project. The environmental specialist recruitment invites qualified individual consultants to support a major freight and logistics investment, showing how transport modernisation is now routinely tied to environmental oversight.
Urban resilience work is following a similar pattern. In October 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change sought an Environment Specialist for the Climate and Disaster Resilient Cities Project. That notice describes a programme aimed at enhancing access to resilient housing and infrastructure in selected provinces of Türkiye, with environmental expertise built into its implementation team.
Natural resource projects are also bringing in consultants with specialised environmental roles. In July 2025, the General Directorate of Forestry issued a prior information notice for a Forest Fire Technology Specialist to help enhance forest resilience against climate change and fire risks. A week later, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s State Hydraulic Works directorate sought consultancy services to prepare environmental and social management plans for modernising the Sarimsakli Dam irrigation scheme, under the Türkiye Water Circularity and Efficiency Improvement Project. That water efficiency consultancy is explicitly focused on environmental and social planning for irrigation modernisation.
Alongside these, the Cekerek Regional Support Team is recruiting an individual consultant to assist in procurement management for the Turkey Resilient Landscape Integration Project (TULIP). Its prior information notice, published in July 2025, highlights integrated landscape management and sustainability as central themes.
Even in the emerging carbon markets field, Türkiye’s public sector is turning to external specialists. The Directorate of Climate Change Office within the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change is seeking a full-time Financial Management Specialist to provide technical support for the Turkey PMI Carbon Market Development Project, according to a notice from July 2025. Climate policy, in other words, is generating procurement not only for engineers and environmental scientists but also for finance professionals.
There is a parallel push in health and emergency preparedness. A May 2025 notice from the Ministry of Health’s General Directorate of Public Health seeks two Procurement Experts for the Türkiye Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies Project, requiring extensive experience in public procurement and relevant qualifications. A further July 2025 notice seeks a Biosafety Expert for the same project, with required qualifications in biology or microbiology and significant laboratory experience. Together, these examples show that specialist consultancy roles are proliferating across sectors, with environment, risk and resilience threads running through them.
TÜBİTAK’s green industry consultancy call also sits alongside a visible pipeline of climate‑linked infrastructure and reconstruction projects in Türkiye, many of which weave environmental standards directly into their technical scopes.
In Istanbul, the Istanbul Project Coordination Unit is inviting consultants to provide reconstruction supervision services for public buildings under the Istanbul Resilience Project. The October 2025 prior information notice emphasises compliance with construction regulations and environmental standards as a core part of that supervision brief.
Following the earthquakes in Türkiye, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization’s GDCS unit is recruiting an Electrical Engineer to support the Türkiye Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction Project. Its October 2025 notice is another example of how resilience, engineering and environmental considerations are being tackled together in project teams.
Agriculture and agri‑industry are also key fronts for climate‑related procurement. In July 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s General Directorate of Agricultural Reform launched a contract notice for construction of infrastructure for the Dikili Agriculture Based Specialized Greenhouse Organized Industrial Zone, including wastewater and geothermal networks, under the Turkey Climate Smart and Competitive Agricultural Growth Project. A subsequent notice in November 2025, issued by TRGM, seeks greenhouse infrastructure construction for the same organised industrial zone, expanding the scope to cover wastewater, stormwater, utility water, electricity, telecommunications, geothermal networks and heating systems.
These contract notices illustrate how climate goals are being embedded in the physical design of industrial and agricultural infrastructure, from low‑emission heating systems to efficient water networks. Against that backdrop, TÜBİTAK’s move to engage environmental consulting for the Türkiye Green Industry Project points to a parallel emphasis on environmental performance in industrial policy and programme design.
The pattern seen in Türkiye is mirrored in other regions, where governments are recruiting environmental specialists for projects that span digital infrastructure, energy, transport and agri‑food systems.
In Tajikistan, the Project Implementation Center of the Executive Office of the President has issued a prior information notice for an Environmental Specialist to support the Tajikistan Digital Foundations Project. The July 2025 notice highlights the project’s focus on improving digital public services and enhancing digital skills, while still requiring relevant qualifications and experience in environmental management.
Similarly, the Department of Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines is seeking an Environmental Specialist for the Philippines Digital Infrastructure Project. Its August 2025 notice tasks the specialist with overseeing environmental safeguard issues and implementing mitigation activities, again requiring relevant qualifications and experience in environmental management.
In the Caribbean, the Ministry of Climate Resilience, The Environment and Renewable Energy in Grenada is recruiting an Environmental Specialist to manage environmental compliance and reporting for both the Caribbean Efficient and Green‑Energy Buildings Project and the Caribbean Resilient Renewable Energy Infrastructure Investment Facility. The August 2025 notice underlines how green building and renewable energy programmes depend on embedded environmental compliance expertise.
Africa presents similar developments. In August 2025, the Government of Kenya launched a prior information notice seeking individual consultants to support the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum in various roles for World Bank financed energy projects, as set out in the Kenya green and resilient energy programme notice. In October 2025, the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia invited expressions of interest from consultancy firms to provide transaction advisory services for a Green Industrialization initiative aimed at enhancing private sector investment and socio‑economic benefits, through its Green Seed Preparation notice.
Transport and agri‑food systems are also being re‑shaped through green consulting roles. Bangladesh Railway is procuring consulting services to enhance the Dhaka‑Chattogram freight corridor through feasibility studies, design updates and procurement assessments within the Green Railway Transport Project, as described in a September 2025 prior information notice. In Lebanon, the Council for Development and Reconstruction is seeking an Environmental Specialist to support the Green Agri‑food Transformation for Economic Recovery (GATE) project, requiring qualifications in environmental engineering and experience in impact assessments, according to a September 2025 notice.
Taken together, these procurements show that environmental expertise is no longer confined to standalone conservation projects. It is now a standard part of how governments design and deliver digital, energy, transport, agriculture and industrial programmes worldwide. TÜBİTAK’s move to recruit an environmental consultant for the Türkiye Green Industry Project fits squarely within this global shift.
The notice for the Türkiye Green Industry Project is brief and does not yet outline the detailed tasks, qualification thresholds or reporting lines for the planned environmental consulting role. However, its publication marks an important step: environmental performance is being treated as a core workstream within a national industrial initiative, overseen by the country’s main scientific and technological research body.
Across other recent notices, public buyers are explicit about the expertise they need. Roles for the Philippines Digital Infrastructure Project and the Tajikistan Digital Foundations Project call for relevant qualifications and experience in environmental management. The Lebanon GATE project seeks an environmental engineer with impact assessment experience. Türkiye’s own Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies Project sets out requirements ranging from extensive public procurement experience for its procurement experts to biology or microbiology qualifications and significant laboratory experience for its biosafety expert.
Against that backdrop, the upcoming environmental consultant position on the Türkiye Green Industry Project will be closely watched by advisers and firms following green industry and decarbonisation policy. Observers of Türkiye’s procurement landscape will be looking for how this role is defined, how it interacts with industrial policy instruments, and whether further specialist positions or downstream investment contracts follow as the project develops.
For now, the environmental consultant recruitment for the Türkiye Green Industry Project stands as a clear signal: environmental considerations are being built into the machinery of industrial policy, and specialist consultants will play a central role in shaping how that shift is carried out in practice.
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