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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 WBG 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 KIESG / Global Flaring and Methane Reduction (GFMR) KIESG is a unit within the Global Energy Department of the World Bank. The mission is to boost global efforts to end routine gas flaring and reduce methane emissions along the entire oil and gas value chain. This support is provided through a multi-donor trust fund, the Global Flaring Methane Reduction (GFMR) Partnership. GFMR provides grant funding and technical assistance, policy reform and institutional strengthening, and mobilizing financing to support governments and state-owned operators to detect and abate routine gas flaring and methane emissions. Global Flaring and Methane Reduction (GFMR) in Turkmenistan GFMR has been working closely together with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, State Concern Turkmengas and State Concern Turkmennebit, to address gas flaring and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector since 2024. Our planned activities for the next three years comprise:

• the continuation of a program of technical collaboration, capacity building, and training on international standards and best practice in gas flaring and methane emissions;
• the implementation of a grant-funded investment project to develop a national monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system for methane emissions in the oil and gas sector, and
• the preparation and implementation of an investment project to recompress associated gas currently being flared and vented in Balkan province. GFMR is seeking the support of an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) (“Consultant”) to serve as a Project Management Specialist and provide hands-on, extended implementation support (HEIS) for our work program in Turkmenistan. Scope of Work The Consultant will support the KIESG team in providing hands-on extended implementation support (HEIS) to state entities in Turkmenistan. This includes familiarizing the entities with WBG standards and procedures and helping build critical institutional and technical capacity to successfully prepare and implement WBG-financed projects. The Consultant is expected:
• to work closely with clients on a day-to-day basis and act as a liaison between the Bank’s task team and the client, provide hands-on support to prepare and execute project activities;
• to support the client and WBG team to prepare project reports as needed and ensure quality control according to WBG standards and expectations;
• to independently carry out analysis of the national oil and gas sector policy, regulatory and institutional questions, identify barriers and gaps, and provide technical and policy advice to the KIESG team and client;
• to identify and assess risk mitigation measures at the project level, to support addressing specific institutional, operational and environmental risks in line with the WBG standards and practices;
• to provide technical support and contribute to internal and external project reporting; and
• to coordinate development and implementation of a capacity building program for relevant state entities on the ground, including on-the-job training, to support clients in building capacity on WBG project implementation.