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 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development . VPU Context: We need the best and brightest talent focused on Sub-Saharan African countries in order to harness the potential and innovation happening across the continent. Africa is a continent on the move, with a young population and a growing market of nearly 1.2bn people. We are committed to making the Africa regional teams into leading innovation hubs. Yet, these vast opportunities are tempered by persistent gaps in education, health, and skills, which have Africa only reaching forty percent of its estimated potential. Moreover, conflict, food insecurity, population growth, and the disruptive forces of climate change threaten to curtail or even reverse the progress that has been made over the past decades. In West and Central Africa, the World Bank is a leading partner with a growing portfolio of 350 projects totaling more than $38 billion in areas such as agriculture, trade and transport, energy, education, health, water and sanitation- all to support job creation, gender equality, poverty reduction, and better lives. Across the continent, the World Bank’s program has nearly doubled over the last 10 years. By 2030, about 87% of the world’s extreme poor are projected to live in Sub-Saharan Africa, so this is where our mission to end extreme poverty and to promote shared prosperity will be achieved. Are you ready to make an impact? We are looking for dedicated professionals to join our innovative and diverse team to improve people’s lives and help countries build back better after COVID. https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/western-and-central-africa. Unit Context: The Distribution Impact of Policy team plays three key –leading and supportive– roles: sectoral integrator at country level; generator of knowledge and dialogue; and operational solutions supporter. The country-level work of the Poverty and Equity global practice typically falls under one or more of the following three streams:

• Laying the foundations for evidence-based policy by strengthening data on household welfare: this is the foundational work, mostly delivered through TA and occasionally through statistical capacity-building investment operations, to support the design and implementation of household surveys, provide advice on best-practice methodologies for estimating household welfare, poverty, and shared prosperity, and build capacity and strengthen country systems for collecting data on and monitoring household welfare.
• Defining the agenda through integrative analysis and dialogue: this stream of work has focused on using household-level data, wherever available, to undertake integrative analyses to inform the policy dialogue and advance the poverty reduction and shared prosperity agenda and priorities at the regional, national, and occasionally sub-national levels.
• Delivering operational solutions: this stream of work focuses on collaborating with internal and external partners to translate the upstream analytics into concrete operable measures and support the implementation of interventions aimed at reducing poverty. This includes supporting the preparation of Systematic Country Diagnostics, Country Partnership Frameworks, Country Climate and Development Reports as well as the analysis of poverty and social impacts of Bank operations. The Africa West Poverty and Equity unit manages a growing operations portfolio and exciting analytical work across the region. The unit is looking for an Extended Term Consultant to join our team, based in Abidjan to conduct operational and analytical work in Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, and Guinea. Duties and accountabilities: The successful candidate will report to the Practice Manager for the West Africa Poverty unit. S/he will work as a core member of the Poverty team in the World Bank’s Ouagadougou office to support our engagement across the CMU. The candidate will contribute to the successful day-to-day delivery of the overall Poverty work program, including analytical/technical work and operations. The successful candidate will work with other GPs and contribute to multi-sectoral tasks as per business requirements. The candidate will be expected to assist the broader team with the following tasks:
• Assist with finalization and dissemination of Poverty and Equity Assessments for Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
• Identify and help implement strategic engagements with the operations portfolio, looking for opportunities for the Poverty team to contribute to the design, implementation and monitoring of projects.
• Form part of the team to prepare the new statistical operation for Burkina Faso.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of the Burkina Faso PReM MPA, especially the jobs component (and for other countries in the CMU if they join the PReM MPA).
• Integrate EHCVM3 data into AFW360 and conduct additional regional analysis to support the PASA focus on agricultural analysis and operationalization of AgriConnect.
• Support analytic work and engagement with the Government of Burkina Faso under the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equity.