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 The World Bank is seeking an Extended-Term Consultant to provide analytical, research, policy support to staff in the unit working on fiscal management and regional economic monitoring in Europe and Central Asia. The consultant will support work led or coordinated by Maryna Sidarenka and Markus Kitzmuller, focused on the EU Trust funded Cyprus workstream. The assignment will contribute to ongoing analytical and advisory work on macro-fiscal policy, productivity and growth, jobs and L-market topics, public finance, fiscal sustainability, and other structural reform issues. It will require strong economic analysis, careful handling of data and source materials, and clear written inputs suitable for World Bank analytical products. Scope of Work and Key Responsibilities The ETC will be expected to be the central integrator on delivery of Fiscal Policy Growth (FPG)-led, EU Trust-Funded Activities in Cyprus, work independently and as integral part of FPG and multidisciplinary teams, co-leading or contributing to analytical work, policy dialogue, and technical assistance. Task 1. Preparation of the Island-Wide Cyprus Macroeconomic Update

• Support analytical work including econometric analysis on key macro-economic and economic focus topics, in close collaboration with FPG staff.
• Prepare draft inputs to chapters or notes, annotated outlines, and data summaries on selected economic policy topics.
• Review and synthesize relevant policy documents, reports, and country examples to inform team discussions and analytical outputs.
• Assist with data identification, collection, charts, tables, and concise written inputs for internal notes and presentations. Task 2. Local Country Economist duties One stop shop on Cyprus economic issues:
• Under the supervision of the Cyprus Trust Fund task team leader (TTL) and in coordination with the World Bank Cyprus core team (FPG, FCI, ECCEU CMU) act as the local reference person in Nicosia for day-to-day dialogue with the TCc local administration (in particular with the “central bank”, “ministry of finance” and “statistics office“), including inputs for briefs, data collection or ad hoc economic analysis, as well as with counterparts in the Republic of Cyprus (in particular the Ministry of Finance and CYSTAT).
• Contribute to analytic and advisory services at all stages of the work plan, including providing inputs on latest economic developments, new legislation, regulatory framework, data in the TCc. Coordination:
• Internal coordination: Co-lead the overall supervision, and management of all activities, including coordination of the Cyprus FPG teams; support activities across different GP-led projects.
• External dialogue and coordination with Cypriot counterparts, UN, EU and other key stakeholders. In close collaboration with the TTL and World Bank Cyprus core team, coordinate and follow up on any activity or pending task related to the work to be carried out under this component (arrange meetings, follow up on data requests, facilitate the implementation of pilot interventions, etcetera). Task 3. Support to Living Standards and Statistics component Under the supervision of the Cyprus Trust Fund Distributional Impact of Policies (DPI) co-TTL and in coordination with the FPG team, support the preparation and delivery of Trust Fund activities under the living standards and statistics component:
• Support the preparation of an analytical design paper setting out the institutional, technical, and operational framework for the labor market observatory.
• Provide technical guidance to the local NGO partner(s) in developing the shared data website/platform, including specifications, datasets, metadata, quality review, and launch.
• Support producing analytical briefs on key labor market topics to inform policy discussions.
• Support conducting labor market needs and skills gap assessment across sectors with bi-communal potential, giving attention to gender and barriers faced by vulnerable groups.
• Provide technical assistance for the design, implementation, and monitoring of the pilot reskilling program, including targeted, sector-specific language training, and document lessons learned. Task 4. Other Tasks
• Assist co-TTL under the Private Sector Development component with overall supervision and lead selected mission meetings for the Finance Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) activities in Cyprus as needed.
• Support selected EECM2 analytical or operational engagements across the EU and Western Balkan CMUs.