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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. Commitment to Gender Equality and Economic Inclusion The WBG is deeply committed to advancing gender equality and economic inclusion, as set out in WBG Gender Strategy (2024–30): Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet. The Gender Solutions Impact (S I) Team (WKHG2) is a thematic unit of the World Bank Group Knowledge Bank’s People vertical led by Vice President Mamta Murthi. The team supports private sector clients to expand economic opportunities for women and underserved communities as leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, consumers, and community members. S I delivers operational solutions, implements gender and inclusion strategies, and forges public and private sector partnerships to deliver results at scale. The Solutions Impact Team within the Knowledge Bank’s Gender Department plays a central role in driving this agenda. S I supports IFC’s investment and advisory teams to enable private and public sector clients to provide equal economic opportunities for all genders and underserved communities. The department’s key functions include: developing and implementing strategy organization-wide, offering tailored operational solutions and client advice, innovating and piloting Gender new approaches to gender and inclusion challenges and disseminating knowledge and thought leadership. Global Operations Solutions ETC The Global Operations Solutions Team supports IFC’s investment and advisory teams with developing and scaling gender and economic inclusion solutions into IFC investment and advisory programs across the globe. The team is responsible for IFC gender data for corporate reporting; overseeing gender flagging in investments and advisory; advancing the use of gender KPIs in sustainability linked financing and blended finance and providing technical upskilling to operational and regional gender teams. The Global Operations Solutions team conducts research and develops sector-specific productions and solutions to pilot and scale across IFC sectors including Health, Education, Tourism, Retail, Property, Manufacturing and Agribusiness. Duties and responsibilities 1. Global Operations Solutions (60%)

• Coordinate the GROW Blended Finance pipeline and process for manufacturing, agribusiness and services investments and advisory operations.
• Support the development and scale Global Operations Solutions such as Sustainability-Linked Finance by maintaining related reporting, KPI registries, operations lists, tools, best practices guides, manuals and other resources.
• Support the development of new products, tools, and services under the new Scaling Gender in Health and Education advisory program, including conducting research, developing and executing pilots with IFC clients. Furthermore, the incumbent will oversee development of case studies, videos, best practice guides, webinars and related communications.
• Ensure Scaling Gender in Health and Education moves smoothly through the project cycle, including compliance with WBG internal reporting systems, legal documentation, procurement processes, and financial reporting requirements. 2. Asia Advisory Solutions (30%)
• Support the development and delivery of the Nike Peer Learning Platform to the global brand’s 100+ most strategic suppliers. Manage the relationship with clients, PLP participants, global brands and other stakeholders.
• Co-lead the development of the Sustainability Linked Finance and Respectful Workplaces program for the India Country Gender Program.
• Support other South Asia program development as needed. 3. Project Management, Communications and Knowledge Management (10%)
• Provide training sessions, guidance, webinars and coaching to investment and operational teams as needed.
• Provide timely progress and donor reports as required by the WBG, track performance indicators against targets and produce project supervision reports every six months.
• Collaborate with the S I team through regular team meetings and contribute to broader S I team activities.
• Supervise the development of communication materials (e.g. website content, blogs, press releases, or briefs) in collaboration with IFC's communications teams and relevant partners.
• Systematically consolidate and analyze lessons learned from project implementation across all components and share findings with team members and colleagues across the WBG's Gender Department.
• Coordinate with Gender Department’s communications and regional communications teams on internal and external messaging (e.g. press releases, social media, intranet, etc.) and events as relevant.