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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 Sustainable transport has a key part to play in fostering inclusive growth, expanding access to essential services, and combating climate change. The World Bank works with client countries to provide safe, clean, efficient, and inclusive mobility—everywhere, for everyone. With the right policies and resources, transport has the power to propel economies forward, help take on climate change, and connect people to essential services like health care or education. The World Bank (WB), Pakistan seeks Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to provide analytical and operational support for its transport portfolio in Pakistan. The Middle East and North Africa Region (MENAAP) The World Bank works with the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan to eliminate poverty and promote shared prosperity through strengthening human capital, supporting jobs and economic transformation, advancing gender equity, addressing fragility, and enabling green growth. MENAAP attaches importance to creating a supportive work environment based on the values of teamwork, transparency, trust, and client service, underlined by professional excellence. MENAAP is organized in seven Country Departments (CMUs), the Office of the Regional Chief Economist, and the Development Effectiveness Unit (MAPDE). The Global Transport Practice is advancing the global and regional dialogue on the future of transportation through influential programs such as the Sustainable and Mobility for All initiative and the Global Road Safety Facility. The Practice hosts very active Global Solution Groups on the following cross-cutting topics: Urban Mobility; Transport Connectivity and Regional Integration; Transport Infrastructure Management and Finance; Transport Economics, Policy and Data; and Green, Inclusive and Safe Transport. To execute its work program, the Transport Global Practice has established important partnerships inside and outside the WBG, including with other international organizations, the private sector, and civil society. Transport is the second segment of the overall Pakistan lending portfolio, comprising $1.7 billion across four projects in implementation and 1 in the pipeline, with a strong analytical pipeline focusing on railways, freight, logistics and air quality. In addition, the Transport team is supporting four cross GP operations that includes infrastructure reconstruction after the 2022 floods in 2 provinces, energy, tourism and environment along with a Multi Modal Transport and Logistics ASA which aims to enable investment-ready rail freight and port–rail connectivity reforms. The Infrastructure-MENAAP-Transport (IMAPT) unit seeks a Transport Analyst, based in Islamabad, helping the unit in delivering its mandate to support development of sustainable transport in the country. The position will be on an Extended Term Consultancy (ETC) contract for 6 months, probation appointment extendable up to a total of three years subject to performance, and availability of funding at the discretion of the World Bank Group. The selected candidate’s primary responsibilities will be to play an active role in the implementation to the current transport operations and supporting the implementation of the transport components within the unit and in the cross-GP projects, support ASA activities and in taking forward the team’s engagement with client counterparts. More specifically the candidate will be expected to work on Railways investment and analytics. The selected candidate would therefore have broad responsibilities for staying well informed on transport sector issues, public and private stakeholders and institutions, ministries, agencies, etc. The selected candidate will work closely with transport team members based in Islamabad and other GP teams on the following tasks:

• Supporting an active policy dialogue with the transport authorities, development partners, and other stakeholders on transport sector challenges including sector reform, decarbonization of transport, climate resilience, transport efficiency, PPPs;
• Supporting on development partner coordination, and bilateral agencies active in the transport sector in Pakistan;
• Supporting the implementation of current operations in Pakistan, working closely with the TTLs, Country Lead and other members of the team
• Support the TTL in supervising projects implementation including reviewing physical and financial progress, assist in managing fiduciary and safeguard inputs, preparation of supervision reports such as Aide Memoires, ISRs, GRMs undertaking economic and sector work, and preparation and operationalization of project implementation plans,
• Review project documentation such as financial and economic models and feasibility and technical reports, designs, bidding documents;
• Contribute to the identification, preparation, appraisal, and completion of new and ongoing transport operations,
• Provide written inputs to the project documents at various stages of project preparation and supervision, including Aide Memoires, Implementation Status Reports, Concept Notes, Appraisal Documents, and high-level internal and external briefings
• Play a key role in supporting the team’s analytical work in the transport sector especially related to railways, freight and logistics, road safety, climate resilience, active mobility, and e-mobility. This will include work on internal World Bank knowledge products, and external involvement with other donors/transport sector working groups;
• Conduct research, data collection and stakeholder coordination to produce analytical products on the railways sector including reports, notes, presentations briefs, analytical models including economic analysis models and provide input to project preparation documents to support preparation and appraisal for the pipeline railways project
• Support the development and review of deliverables under the Multi Modal Transport and Logistics ASA through analytical work, data collection and data analysis, stakeholder engagement and providing written inputs on deliverables.
• Develop draft proposals to request funding from Trust Funds to support studies and preparation activities for new lending operations;
• Develop terms of reference for consultancy services and manage procurement of international consultants
• Supervise and support implementation of Trust fund and ASA consultancies through review of consultancy deliverables, coordination with clients for data collection, monitoring progress, and coordinating with external counterparts and consultants to ensure quality and timely deliverables, produce knowledge products to disseminate key results , and assist in trust fund reporting
• Providing analysis, inputs and support for high-level external and internal briefings, incoming visits (e.g. from senior management);
• Maintaining a strong working relationship with IFC and MIGA colleagues working on the Pakistan transport sector, and with other WB colleagues and units covering other sectors;
• Support and contribute to knowledge management activities within Pakistan, in the MENAAP region and within the World Bank’s Transport Global Practice that will enhance understanding, knowledge, and experience on accessibility to basic services, and disseminate knowledge generated from transport sector interventions in Pakistan
• Support the transport team on knowledge, innovations, trends and approaches for transport sector development in the country and the region while working closely with sector specialists;
• Provide support in data gathering, clean up and analyses to derive meaningful information from raw data supporting evidence-based decision making in project preparation and supervision;
• Liaise and co-ordinate with the client and donors on various tasks;
• Undertake other tasks as agreed with the Task Team Leaders from time to time