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, 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 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 The WBG's Transport Logistics (T L) Department supports public and private sector clients in delivering sustainable, efficient, and resilient transport solutions. This integrated Knowledge Bank site provides Investment and Operations staff, as well as other WBG colleagues, with easy access to curated knowledge resources, operational tools, and practical insights to support learning, collaboration, and informed decision-making. Duties and accountabilities: The Institutional and Safety-Security E T Consultant will report to the hiring manager and will work mainly under the supervision of the task team leaders of the two donor-funded projects. The Institutional and Safety-Security E T Consultant is also expected to work closely with other team members and internal stakeholders, specifically colleagues in regional teams, to further the practice-oriented value proposition of the Knowledge Bank. The primary objective of the Institutional and Safety-Security E T Consultant will be to support the mission of the Global Transport Logistics Department, enable the implementation of two large-scale donor-funded projects related to the maritime transport sector and strengthen the Knowledge Bank’s analytical and advisory value proposition in terms of water-borne transport. Core duties and accountabilities of the Institutional and Safety-Security E T Consultant will include:

• Contribute to institutional and governance diagnostics for maritime administrations, port authorities, and port community stakeholders (including roles, mandates, incentives, capacity, and accountability arrangements), and propose reform options, especially in the light of climate change, digitalization, and safety and security.
• Analyze and advise on port sector governance and business models (e.g., service/tool/landlord ports and corporatization/privatization options), including regulatory design, tariff oversight, competition issues, safety-security considerations, and the social license to operate.
• Track and synthesize key policy and regulatory developments affecting shipping and ports (incl. but not limited to digitalization/cybersecurity and decarbonization) at international, regional, and national levels, and translate implications into actionable guidance for World Bank teams and clients.
• Provide technical input to World Bank lending and advisory operations, including review of policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks and readiness assessments related to safety, security, environmental performance, and digitalization/cybersecurity and decarbonization requirements for ships and port operations.
• Support PPP and private sector participation workstreams in ports and related logistics (including concession frameworks, risk allocation principles, contract management and renegotiation issues), in close coordination with World Bank and International Finance Corporation staff and client counterparts.
• Contribute to delivery of the two maritime donor-funded projects through day-to-day project management (work planning, coordination, quality assurance, progress reporting, and donor/Project Advisory Committee meeting support), and by managing consultants’ and partners’ deliverables.
• Draft, edit, and peer-review knowledge products (policy notes, technical guidance, toolkits, and sections of flagship reports) and design and support capacity-building activities for public sector counterparts and port stakeholders (e.g., workshops, trainings, and communities of practice).
• Support external engagement and business development, including client dialogue, coordination with development partners and industry bodies, and dissemination of knowledge products through events and cross-regional exchanges.