E T Consultant

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, the private sector, development partners, and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org Infrastructure Vertical The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory The Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory (SIA) provides IFC clients and partners with expert sustainability advice that enables infrastructure investments with strong development impact. We work with investors, companies, and subnational governments in emerging markets, helping to design and implement sustainability solutions that create jobs, support access to clean energy, catalyze economic growth, strengthen asset and community resilience, support a healthier planet, and foster a more equitable society. Our work focuses on the following priorities:

• Climate: Support companies’ climate strategies by providing decarbonization solutions, climate risk and resilience roadmaps, transition plans, and nature-based solutions.
• Social Inclusion: Strengthen companies’ capacity to develop and adopt diverse, equitable and inclusive products and solutions in their workforce, supply chain, communities, and customer base.
• Digital Data Governance Accountability: Support companies and cities with strategies and implementation of sustainability initiatives that leverage digital data and technologies, such as AI.
• Local Benefit Sharing: Boost companies’ job creation and benefit sharing, including through local stakeholder engagement, community investment strategy design, and local economic development projects.
• Sustainability-Linked Finance: Guide companies on developing climate and social strategies, setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets, and advancing sustainable finance instruments.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

The SIA team is seeking an Extended Term Consultant to provide strategic leadership and oversight of its knowledge, outreach, engagement, and partnership agenda. The consultant will oversee strategic knowledge creation, build relationships with senior stakeholders, strengthen relationships with Europe-based development partners, support resource mobilization, and contribute to the implementation of global advisory work across key priorities, including jobs and benefit sharing, critical minerals and metals, fragility, sustainable finance, and MSME development. The ET Consultant will provide leadership and oversight across the following areas: Strategy and Positioning:

• Lead the development of comprehensive internal and external knowledge and engagement strategies to support business development, resource mobilization, and best practices in infrastructure.
• Provide advice to partners and infrastructure clients on strategic knowledge creation, capacity building, and stakeholder engagement.
• Provide leadership and contributions to knowledge, outreach, learning, and capacity building by creating, adapting, and disseminating high-quality products and initiatives.
• Design and implement an effective dialogue with infrastructure investors, companies, industry associations, etc.
• Lead the development of engagement and outreach strategies as part of business development and advisory support for key clients.
• Partner with government representatives and external stakeholders to manage joint initiatives aimed at advancing knowledge and best practices in sustainable infrastructure.
• Drive and continuously refine the team’s strategic branding and market positioning, both internally and externally, ensuring consistency and senior-level visibility.
• Lead the conceptualization and execution of flagship stakeholder engagement and partnership campaigns with measurable impact.
• Provide strategic oversight for the evolution of the IFCSIA.org online platform, to reach key clients, stakeholders, and donor partners.
• Develop and apply best practices in, and quality control of knowledge creation and dissemination. Knowledge Production and Dissemination:
• Spearhead the strategic creation and promotion of knowledge and content focused on sustainable infrastructure to highlight partners and clients and promote best practices in the industry.
• Ensure knowledge is strategically linked to knowledge on the WBG’s development solutions, ensuring project knowledge is shared effectively internally and externally.
• Oversee, prioritize, and quality-control the production of knowledge, capacity building, and business development materials, including strategic narratives, presentations, plans, fact sheets, blogs, pitch books, trainings, webinars, and other related products.
• Oversee roundtables and events aimed at knowledge sharing and business development.
• Direct multimedia production pipelines and approve integrated dissemination strategies targeting senior internal and external audiences.
• Ensure the strategic coherence, consistency, and effectiveness of materials disseminated across multimedia formats.
• Guide the team in developing innovative and engaging knowledge and business development materials in cutting-edge formats. Relationship Management with Partners:
• Serve as liaison contact for European Development Partners.
• Provide strategic input to fundraising, client delivery in Europe and reporting efforts of the team.