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E T Consultant
Job #: req31694
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Gender
Grade: EC2
Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s): English
Closing Date: 2/24/2025 (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 www.worldbank.org.
Gender Group
Gender equality is an urgent imperative. The world is experiencing an unprecedented set of crises wit disproportionately negative impacts on women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and marginalized groups. Climate change, fragility, forced displacement, and pandemics threaten hard-won gains in women’s human capital. At stake is the fundamental human right of gender equality of all people, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. Achieving gender equality is, however, uniquely challenging, and complex.
The new 2024-2030 World Bank Group Gender Strategy puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality for a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future in alignment with the World Bank Evolution Roadmap. The Strategy responds to the global urgency, fundamentality, and complexity of achieving gender equality. Building on implementation of the 2016-2023 WBG Gender Strategy, the new Strategy proposes to engage with greater ambition – approaching gender equality for all as essential for global development – and to engage differently. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/gender.
The Gender Strategy has as one of its key strategic objectives advancing women’s participation in decision-making and leadership. This objective focuses on both the contribution of women’s leadership to development outcomes and goals -in terms of climate, social, market, political, policy and distributional outcomes, and how women’s leadership can be expanded in the public and private sectors at the local, national, and global levels. In addition, the focus seeks to expand women’s role in decision-making and decision-making power and capacity within households and communities; and invest in women’s leadership and related to skills for effective decision-making.
The strategy also highlights the role that social norms play in preventing and limiting gender equality across areas of development and calls for social norms to be considered and addressed across programs and sectors, including in relation to women’s human capital investments, access to opportunities, and voice and agency towards improved decision-making and empowerment.
The Gender Group will develop a set of policy tools, best practices, and evidence to guide World Bank teams to support women’s leadership and decision-making capacity, as well as social norms interventions and monitoring.
Duties And Responsibilities
The Extended Term Consultant (ETC) will support the leadership and social norms agendas. The consultant is expected to work across sectors and themes, while providing expertise on how to advance a policy agenda to promote, leverage and increase women’s decision-making roles, and to support the expanding work on social norms transformations in World Bank projects. The ETC will work closely with the Gender Group and relevant sector and country teams on these tasks. Key activities will include, among others:
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC , including our values and inspiring stories.
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.
Job #: req31694
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Gender
Grade: EC2
Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s): English
Closing Date: 2/24/2025 (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 www.worldbank.org.
Gender Group
Gender equality is an urgent imperative. The world is experiencing an unprecedented set of crises wit disproportionately negative impacts on women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and marginalized groups. Climate change, fragility, forced displacement, and pandemics threaten hard-won gains in women’s human capital. At stake is the fundamental human right of gender equality of all people, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. Achieving gender equality is, however, uniquely challenging, and complex.
The new 2024-2030 World Bank Group Gender Strategy puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality for a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future in alignment with the World Bank Evolution Roadmap. The Strategy responds to the global urgency, fundamentality, and complexity of achieving gender equality. Building on implementation of the 2016-2023 WBG Gender Strategy, the new Strategy proposes to engage with greater ambition – approaching gender equality for all as essential for global development – and to engage differently. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/gender.
The Gender Strategy has as one of its key strategic objectives advancing women’s participation in decision-making and leadership. This objective focuses on both the contribution of women’s leadership to development outcomes and goals -in terms of climate, social, market, political, policy and distributional outcomes, and how women’s leadership can be expanded in the public and private sectors at the local, national, and global levels. In addition, the focus seeks to expand women’s role in decision-making and decision-making power and capacity within households and communities; and invest in women’s leadership and related to skills for effective decision-making.
The strategy also highlights the role that social norms play in preventing and limiting gender equality across areas of development and calls for social norms to be considered and addressed across programs and sectors, including in relation to women’s human capital investments, access to opportunities, and voice and agency towards improved decision-making and empowerment.
The Gender Group will develop a set of policy tools, best practices, and evidence to guide World Bank teams to support women’s leadership and decision-making capacity, as well as social norms interventions and monitoring.
Duties And Responsibilities
The Extended Term Consultant (ETC) will support the leadership and social norms agendas. The consultant is expected to work across sectors and themes, while providing expertise on how to advance a policy agenda to promote, leverage and increase women’s decision-making roles, and to support the expanding work on social norms transformations in World Bank projects. The ETC will work closely with the Gender Group and relevant sector and country teams on these tasks. Key activities will include, among others:
- Undertake as needed literature reviews re. social norms or leadership policy interventions in selected areas.
- Work closely with project teams designing interventions to address social norms and/or advance women’s leadership.
- Support implementation and monitoring of the women’s leadership strategic objective and expected results. Including support to project teams to design, implement and track interventions that contribute to advance women’s leadership; outcomes tracking and monitoring, indicator building, and others.
- Synthesize best practice, trends, knowledge and lessons learned.
- Develop content for capacity building programs, including for World Bank staff and policymakers.
- Organizing and collaborating on academic conferences, learning events, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and partners.
- Design, supervise and process primary data collection (surveys) and production of analytical products based on them.
- Lead on research activities on identified areas of the program.
- Minimum MA in Economics, International Development, Public Policy or related fields with at least 3-5 years of post-MA work experience (or PhD-level education), with at least one year of applied policy/program experience.
- Relevant experience in at least two of the following areas: (a) gender and inequality; (c) social norms; (c) women’s leadership; (d) poverty and inequality.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including analysis of microdata with statistical packages (e.g., STATA, R or other software); and experience with qualitative data.
- Demonstrated experience working across boundaries, sharing perspectives, and considering diverse viewpoints.
- Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC , including our values and inspiring stories.
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.
