E T Consultant

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 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region comprises 30 extremely diverse countries, with a population of nearly 500 million people. Three of our clients are IDA only and another 2 are IDA-blend countries. The remaining 25 are IBRD- eligible. Although 10 of our clients have joined the EU and 7 of these have graduated, most continue to remain active recipients of knowledge and/or lending services. ECA has a substantial Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) portfolio, concentrated primarily in Romania. Knowledge is critical to the Bank’s value proposition to client countries in the ECA region in both lending and advisory services. Engagement with EU countries, such as Romania, is essential for the knowledge spill over across and beyond ECA. EECG2 is the Governance unit covering public sector engagement and fiduciary services in ECA West, across the EU, Western Balkan and Türkiye CMUs. The program includes lending operations and advisory services across the main areas of Governance, including resource management (Tax, PFM and SOEs); Center of government institutions (incl HRM and Justice and Rule of Law) and public service delivery at the national and local level. The program in Romania is largely driven by RAS and the EU’s programs, including the cohesion and structural funds.

Duties and Accountabilities

The selected candidate will make an expert technical contribution to the work of the Romania Governance Program in public sector management and institutions, in particular for EU funds management. His/her duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Play a leading role in providing high quality analytical and advisory services under the World Bank’s support on EU Funds Management under the current and future cohesion policy and corresponding reforms and investments;
• Provide high quality analytical and advisory services on other public sector and governance issues under the Romania Governance program, including on the subnational level;
• Ensuring adequate coordination with and provide high quality analytical and advisory to other global practices on promoting lessons learned on EU funds management in Romania;
• Ensure close collaboration with IFC and MiGA to identify opportunities for integrated approaches and support to the client, leveraging the One WBG expertise and instruments, including for local economic development;
• Contribute to policy dialogue and business development with the national and subnational government on public sector and institutional reform issues;
• Participate in missions, provide analytic inputs and guidance to EECG2 task teams, and assess public sector policy issues through a public governance perspective.