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At the World Bank, a member of 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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The World Bank's Social Policy team supports the Government of Ukraine on pension, labor market and broader social protection reform. This support is delivered through the SPIRIT program (Social Protection for Inclusion, Resilience, Innovation, and Transformation), the PHRD-funded RISE Ukraine initiative, the EFO, and related technical assistance and lending. Pension reform is a priority in the Government's fiscal and social agenda. Key issues include the sustainability of the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU), the fragmentation and cost of special pension regimes, accumulated arrears arising from court decisions, and the integration of military pensions into a coherent support system for veterans and their families. Energy subsidy reform engagement is a priority with social policy teaam leading on welfare impacts and population impact mitigation design. The reform is a multi-sector, multi-ministry effort, led jointly by the Ministries of Energy, Finance, and Digital Transformation. It is closely tied to the energy strategy under preparatoin. The reform matters because of its sizeable fiscal cost. Energy subsidies absorb resources Ukraine needs to protect for other priorities, and they are also highly regressive. Consultant will help with developing compensating mechanisms for the affected households, making the compensation scheme one of the largest expansions of social protection in Ukraine. Consultant would estimate distributional and welfare impacts, recommend mitigation measures, and support the design and communication of the compensation scheme. Consultant would work jointly with the Energy, EP, Poverty, and Digital GPs. In parallel, Ukraine is modernizing its labor market institutions in line with EU accession requirements. The Bank supports the new labor code, reskilling and upskilling, sector skills councils, the Obrii digital labor platform, reforming the active labor market programs (ALMPs), and results-based contracting for employment service providers. The team's pensions, labor and employment Task Team Leaders (TTL) and team are based in Vienna and Washington, DC. A Kyiv-based specialist is needed to sustain day-to-day dialogue with counterparts, track commitments, and ensure timely delivery on both agendas. Objective The Extended-Term Consultant (ETC) will support the Bank's pensions and labor engagement from Kyiv. The consultant will serve as the Bank's day-to-day focal point with government counterparts on pensions (Pillar 1) and as local coordinator for labor market and employment work under PHRD, EFO and SPIRIT (Pillar 2). Scope of work — Pillar 1: Pensions and related reforms The consultant will be the Bank's focal point on pension reform with the Ministry of Social Policy (MoSP) and related agencies. Specific tasks: Counterpart relations. Maintain strong working relationships with MoSP on pensions and act as first point of contact for pension reform questions. Commitment tracking. Track pension-related technical assistance agreed with MoSP, ensure timely delivery, and propose course corrections where needed. Policy dialogue. Participate in dialogue with MoSP, the PFU and the Ministry of Finance (MoF), providing evidence-based inputs on reform design, policy options and implementation. Special pension regimes. Contribute to technical work and policy briefs, including scenario modeling, fiscal costing, and options for resolving arrears arising from court decisions. Long-term projections. Work with World Bank experts to support the Government in building institutional capacity to produce, update and use long-term pension projections for policymaking. Veterans and military pensions. As needed, provide analytical and operational support in designing an integrated support system for veterans and their families, with a focus on military pensions within the broader social protection framework. Partner coordination. Coordinate with international experts, the Country Management Unit (CMU) and development partners on technical assistance, communications and dialogue, ensuring consistent messages and sharing of analytical products. Scope of work — Pillar 2: Labor market and employment The consultant will act as the Kyiv-based coordinator for the labor and employment engagement, supporting implementation of PHRD, EFO and SPIRIT under the guidance of TTLs in Vienna and Washington, DC. Specific tasks: Government coordination. Support dialogue with counterparts on labor market modernization, alignment with EU employment standards, and labor migration policy; represent the SPIRIT team in Kyiv on labor market technical assistance. RISE Ukraine. Support rollout of RISE Ukraine to revitalize the workforce and remove employment barriers for women, internally displaced persons, persons with disabilities, older workers and veterans. Operational support. Support the team's core engagement areas: reskilling and upskilling, sector skills councils, the Obrii digital labor platform, a policy framework for social enterprises, ALMPs, and results-based contracting for employment service providers. Analytical work: Contribute to technical notes and policy briefs on ALMP cost-effectiveness, labor migration, digital employment services and workforce inclusion. Partnerships. Maintain technical-level relationships with government, private sector and international partners to support project execution and policy development. Expected deliverables Deliverables will be agreed with the supervising TTLs in an annual work plan.