Job Details

E T Consultant-Gender

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. For more information, www.worldbank.org .

VPU Context 

The World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet. The strategy approaches gender equality for all as essential for global development, including unlocking the full potential of women and girls as essential for economic growth. With this strategy, the World Bank Group focuses on concerted action, financing, and innovation including reforms and programs at scale to support foundational wellbeing (progress in ending all forms of gender-based violence; and stronger and more resilient human capital), economic participation (more and better jobs, including jobs of the future; greater ownership and use of economic assets; and wider access to and use of enabling services) and women’s leadership (advances in women’s participation in decision-making). The Implementation Plan of the new Strategy was also recently released translating it into action, focusing on enhancing strategic country engagement, delivering results at scale and engaging differently and mobilizing for impact. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/gender 

Unit Context 

The Gender Group drives progress and inspires action across the World Bank Group to implement the World Bank Group Gender Strategy.  It defines the strategic direction for advancing gender equality through the Bank’s knowledge agenda, operational approaches, and partnerships, collaborating across Verticals, Regions, and Units, to foster and harness the collective expertise of the World Bank Group to deliver innovative, impactful solutions for clients.  

A key function of the Group is the curation, generation, and tailoring of knowledge to drive change. Increasingly, the Gender Group engages with regional and country teams upstream in promoting strategic country engagement toward gender equality outcomes at scale. 

More specifically,  efforts include fast-tracking and showcasing strategic country engagement toward gender equality outcomes, by integrating gender analysis into core analytics, influencing Country Partnership Frameworks prioritizing as One World Bank Group with synergy across country program; delivering results at scale, including by driving for the achievement of gender strategy targets and IDA commitments and refreshing the Gender Tag for impact; and bringing gender data, knowledge and partnerships for impact, through advancing knowledge in frontier areas, spurring strategic partnerships, and generating and sharing data & evidence for action. 

Duties and Accountabilities: 

The Gender Group is looking for a high-performing, energetic team member who possesses technical skills, adaptability and flexibility in providing support to its growing work program on Women’s Economic Opportunities and Jobs. Women face unique barriers in relation to the basic preconditions for jobs. Such barriers extend from education, health and skills development and training opportunities to productive assets such as land, extension services, technology, capital and financial services, and networks, to enabling services such as job counselling and safe transportation. The work program on Women’s Economic Opportunities and Jobs will aim at building a solid evidence base on how the World Bank Group can help expand economic opportunities for women and unlock their potential for more and better jobs by addressing barriers preventing women to build better livelihood, grow their businesses, and access productive wage employment. It will include several tasks and will be developed and implemented with units and teams working on jobs across the World Bank Group.  

More specifically, the scope of work will include the following: 

• Support the preparation of technical notes on women and jobs, including literature reviews, and data analysis. Key topics may include: livelihoods as a gateway to economic activity and jobs; female entrepreneurship and business leadership and job creation; from skills to jobs; legal changes and women’s employment; GBV and women’s economic participation. 

• Undertake a deep-dive analysis of WBG projects and jobs for women to document main activities linked to jobs creation and jobs quality and identify missed opportunities. This would entail a quantitative and qualitative review and analysis of the WBG portfolio.  

• Support key activities in Morocco and Jordan fast-track countries, in coordination with the relevant country teams, including the design and implementation of interventions on childcare and financial inclusion in the context of new employment related operations.  

• Contribute to technical dialogues and events, briefs and knowledge products to disseminate key findings of the work program.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree and at least two years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Experience in topics related to gender and/or labor force participation and jobs would be beneficial. 
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills in the following areas: (a) proficiency in creating Excel workbooks for data analysis and data visualization; (b) proficiency in statistical packages (e.g., STATA or other software); (c) proficiency in literature reviews. Expertise on impact evaluations and proficiency in machine learning and AI would be a plus. 
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English.  
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment. 
• Demonstrated experience working across boundaries, sharing perspectives, and considering diverse viewpoints. 
• Ability and personal organization skills to take initiative, personal ownership, and accountability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, and achieve agreed-upon results.

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