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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd WBG Infrastructure Knowledge Bank 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. The WBG’s 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 WBG Transport and Logistics Department (KIT) The WBG maintains a growing portfolio in water-borne transport financing across ports, inland waterways, as well as coastal and deep-sea shipping. Most often, shipping and ports also represent start and/or end points of economic transport and trade corridors, a key focus of the World Bank Group. As such, the shipping and ports sector is a key enabler and catalyst for economic growth, industrial transformation, and job creation on land and at sea. Today, shipping and ports globally are undergoing a significant technological transformation to adopt efficient, clean, and resilient operations. National, regional, and global regulations shape the framework in which shipping companies and port states operate and make decisions. In view of the increasing complexity of policy and regulatory frameworks, new standards, and technologies entering the market, specific expertise and experience relating to international policymaking and regulatory implementation is important to support client countries and private sector companies in developing optimal strategies and investment programs which meet international standards, safeguard the integrity and competitiveness of their industries and operations, and allow the Knowledge Bank to develop customized advisory services and scalable financing solutions for public sector clients, ports under various governance models, and shipping companies. Duties and Responsibilities: The primary objective of the Policy and Regulatory 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 relating to the maritime sector and strengthen the Knowledge Bank’s maritime transport policy area of expertise. This support is also meant to contribute to the WBG’s renewed focus on developing and enhancing economic transport and trade corridors. Core tasks for the Policy and Regulatory E T Consultant will include:

• Monitor key policy and regulatory developments in shipping on the international, regional, and national (if applicable) level to offer the Knowledge Bank and World Bank Group (WBG) client’s up-to-date insights into a rapidly evolving environment.
• Conduct targeted research and analysis on existing and planned maritime transport policy and regulation impacting shipping companies, terminal operators and national public stakeholders, such as port authorities or line ministries.
• Provide strategic input, including but not limited to drafting, editing, reviewing and leveraging own analysis, to core knowledge outputs of the Knowledge Bank, for instance, maritime-related outputs under the two donor-funded projects.
• Support investment operations by assessing the readiness or compliance of governments and companies to prepare for the implementation of new policy and regulations, especially with regards to environmental, safety, and security rules for ships, including manning, equipment, construction, bunkering, etc. in ports and port operations.
• Contribute to day-to-day project activities, including project management tasks, for instance, the preparation of Project Advisory Committee (PAC) meetings, furnishing of periodic progress reports for stakeholders and donors, and managing external consultants’ deliverables, under the two maritime transport sector related donor-funded projects.
• Support the Global Transport Logistics Department’s outreach activities, such as client and stakeholder engagement, dissemination of knowledge products, including cross-regional knowledge sharing, and business development activities.