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, 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 and specifically: providing guidance on creating more and better jobs by: (i) supporting foundational infrastructure and human capital, (ii) policy environment, and (iii) enabling and mobilizing private sector capital. With 60 years of experience, the WBG is poised to support the sector becoming an engine of growth and jobs through improving policies and governance, foundational infrastructure and private sector investments. WBG lending in the sector is expected to grow substantially. 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 As part of the Infrastructure Vertical, Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory (SIA) offers sustainability-related services on climate, digital, and social inclusion to IFC’s infrastructure investment clients and partners, to ensure broad stakeholder benefit from, and build community buy-in, and the development of resilient infrastructure. For this purpose, a global team of experts based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Central Asia (MCA) and Washington DC, delivers tailored advice to clients based on their unique circumstances, risks, and sustainability objectives. The team is guided by the World Bank Group’s core values - Impact, Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, and Innovation. Please note this position is financed by a Trust Fund, and renewal is contingent upon availability of funding, in addition to other factors, including but not limited to business needs, staff performance and skills fit.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

The SIA team is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Extended Term Consultant to join its global team based out of Karachi or Islamabad, Pakistan. The candidate is expected to have excellent project management and business development capabilities, private sector experience in the infrastructure sectors (e.g., transport, energy, mining), and network building capacity. S/he will focus on advising clients on climate adaptation resilience and their broader sustainability agendas. Objectives of the Assignment: The objective of this assignment is to support World Bank Group clients through the 1) Design, delivery and scaling of climate adaptation and resilience advisory; and 2) Contribute to integrated sustainability solutions for infrastructure projects across MCA. Scope of Work and Responsibilities: Under the guidance of SIA management and designated Task Team Leader, the Extended-Term Consultant (ETC) will support infrastructure clients across their adaptation and broader sustainability journey—from baseline and diagnostics, objective and target setting, planning and implementation, through monitoring, collaboration, and linkage to financing and business value creation. A. Business Development Investment Transaction Support:

• Contribute to IFC business development activities including client research, development of proposals, due diligence reviews, early discussions related to Sustainability-Linked Financing and internal documentation.
• Conduct market research and analysis on climate change risks (both physical and transition) and adaptation opportunities for relevant to infrastructure assets and portfolios for potential advisory offering.
• Provide contributions to strategy development for specific sectors, countries, or regions for client engagement as may be required by the team. B. Advisory Support (Design, Implementation, Monitoring Evaluation):
• Support the development of advisory projects, including project design, work planning, budgeting, activity management, monitoring, and reporting and preparation of project concept notes and implementation work plans.
• Provide technical expertise on gender, social inclusion, climate risk, adaptation, and sustainability; conduct related assessments, benchmarking, and develop inclusive strategies. Support the development of adaptation strategies, investment-ready action plans, and integration of resilience considerations into advisory recommendations and sustainable finance instruments.
• Provide support to the delivery of client advisory engagements on sustainability topics, including context analysis, assessments of policies and practices, benchmarking, design and delivery of capacity-building workshops and training materials on sustainability best practices and the development of innovative approaches.
• Support the development of program/project reports including the semi-annual supervision reports, donor briefs and other reports as may be required.
• Support community-level consultations and field engagement to ensure sustainability solutions are locally grounded and socially inclusive.
• Manage and coordinate relationships with external stakeholders, including communities, government agencies, and private sector representatives; participate in relevant events. C. Knowledge Development Capacity Building:
• Contribute to thought leadership, knowledge products, and internal lesson-learning on climate adaptation, resilience, and infrastructure sustainability best practices.
• Coordinate the organization of events, missions and other stakeholder meetings, prepare meetings notes, disseminating them accordingly while ensuring that the outcomes of relevant events are reflected in project reports and in the design and implementation of program activities.
• Provide flexible and responsive support to SIA’s regional team on priority tasks, contributing to the effective implementation of SIA activities.