ET Consultant

ET Consultant

Job #:
req32993

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Governance

Grade:
EC2

Term Duration:
1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:
Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):
Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish

Closing Date:
5/14/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Please visit

The Institutions Global Department (GD) helps countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that deliver citizen-centric services, facilitate private-sector growth, and build trust in Government; and provide fiduciary support to all Bank operations.

The department brings together professionals in public financial management, taxation, public management, regulatory policy, transparency, digital governance, law and development, anticorruption, performance management, monitoring and evaluation, and social accountability to develop innovative, integrated solutions to pernicious institutional problems. The practice utilizes a problem-driven, diagnostic approach, combining global comparative knowledge of reform successes and failures with keen understanding of the institutional challenges and opportunities of developing countries.

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Governance and Institutions are fundamental for inclusive and sustainable development. Recognizing the need for more ambition, the work on this important agenda is being scaled up and reorganized around the following three global units: public institutions, public administration, and public finance and procurement. These units will jointly push the frontiers of global knowledge and support country and sectoral teams to enable them to help client governments in thinking through and addressing critical governance challenges, so they can meet the growing demands and expectations of their citizens.

The Public Institutions unit (PI) focuses on more transversal and integrative functions and innovations. The Unit provides an analytical approach to analyze governance in public institutions through data and analytics. The PI is responsible for strengthening the data and analytics agenda in Governance, providing strategic support for cross-cutting governance engagements with a focus on how data and evidence can improve the functioning of public institutions. The unit delivers three main programs: 1. global trends in governance though building and curating institutions indicators; 2. country level data and analytics; 3. Climate Change and Governance. The latter program is done jointly with the other two units in the Institutions Department.

The Public Finance and Procurement unit brings together the revenue and spending sides of the budget, including procurement and public investment management, to strengthen the design, development and administration of public finance and procurement policies, systems, and processes to achieve better value for money, and improve fiscal management and service delivery.

The Public Administration unit focus is on building efficient and effective national and subnational bureaucracies, marked by integrity and transparency, with strong and predictable legal and judicial systems, that deliver services efficiently and drive innovation. The unit is also responsible for the anticorruption agenda and the modernization of public administration technologies.

The Public Institutions global unit (EGVPI) is seeking ET Consultant /Economist to support its activities.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the analytical and data work of EGVPI.

Working on literature review to understand the existing landscape of public institutions with a specific focus on public employment and public financial management;

Contributing to the development of the public HR management indicators and public financial management methodology;

Contributing to the data collection of the public HR management indicators, taking the lead in collecting data in some of the countries;

Participating in the brainstorming and consultation sessions

Selection Criteria

Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Economics, Public Finance, or Political Economy). A Ph.D. Degree is preferred.
Required four or more years of experience in one or more of the following areas: policy analysis and policy process in the public sector; data science and use of big data analytics to solve governance problems; building new institutional capacity indicators.
Analytical and quantitative skills for policy, economic and financial analysis.
Experience/knowledge of micro data analytical tools (e.g., Stata, Python, R).
Able to work independently and effectively both remotely and face-to-face.
Effective communication skills, including the ability to write quickly and concisely on a variety of topics in a well-structured manner.
Dedicated team player - Collaborates within teams and across boundaries, gives own perspective and willingly receives diverse perspectives; multicultural perspective, ability to interact effectively with colleagues from various cultural backgrounds.
Language Skills: English required and fluency in another official world bank language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish) is preferred.

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.