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 Fiscal Policy and Growth (FPG) Department leads the World Bank Group’s dialogue and engagement with clients in macroeconomics, fiscal policy, trade, competition and investment. FPG links the macroeconomic dialogue with programs focused on expanding the role of the private sector in economic development. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/economicpolicy FPG has a large operational program in China/Mongolia/Korea, comprising of extensive macro monitoring work, multi-sectoral sub-national lending operations, analytical and advisory work across macroeconomic and structural issues, and private sector development issues. FPG responds to client countries’ development needs with systematic country diagnostics, country strategies, policy lending, and country private sector diagnostics and other country-level and global analytical products that support World Bank Group and IFC engagements. Objectives The proposed task aims to support the country economists through examining core economic development issues for China and Korea, analyzing challenges to economic growth and integrating structural, sectoral, and macroeconomic issues. Tasks and delivery The consultant will report to Task Team Leader. In coordination with other Bank staff and other experts, the consultant will work on the following tasks:

• Support macroeconomic monitoring work for China and Korea, including regular database maintenance and updates.
• Contribute to core monitoring outputs such as the China Weekly Update and Korea Quarterly Monitoring Note, and the monthly macro-financial monitoring meeting.
• Provide analytical inputs to the biannual China Economic Update, including drafting sections on macroeconomic and sector developments, topical boxes, and policy recommendations.
• Conduct independent research and analysis on a wide range of macroeconomic, fiscal, financial, and sectoral issues to inform operational, policy, and research tasks including on the Country Growth and Jobs Report and Ageing Report in China.
• Develop and maintain economic and financial models, including programming and modifying models using relevant software tools and coding languages.
• Contribute to the drafting of economic briefs, technical reports, working papers, and other analytical outputs for internal and external audiences.
• Participate in missions to collect data and engage with government and private sector counterparts.
• Work independently with minimal supervision, while proactively seeking guidance on complex or unfamiliar assignments.
• Perform other tasks as needed.