ET Consultant

At 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 www.worldbank.org Gender Equality and Economic Inclusion The World Bank Group is strongly committed to advancing gender equality and economic inclusion through its Gender Strategy (2024–2030), which focuses on several priority areas: mobilizing capital for inclusion, making supply chains more inclusive, removing barriers to entrepreneurship, employment, and leadership, closing the digital divide, advancing inclusive climate action, and ending gender-based violence and harassment. Within WBG, the Gender Department works through the Solutions and Impact (S I) team across IFC’s investment and advisory operations to design and implement solutions that expand economic opportunities for women and underserved groups as leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers. The team delivers innovative client solutions that help private sector companies create measurable impact and advance gender equality and inclusion. At the regional level, the role of the Solutions and Impact team is to support leadership, country managers, investment officers and advisory teams in the Middle East Central Asia (MCA) and North Africa region to generate gender outcomes that contribute to the WBG 2030 Scorecard gender targets . The gender program is led by a Regional Gender Lead, to whom the Gender Officer will report. Role Overview – Gender Officer (North Africa) The Gender Officer will report to the S I Regional Gender Lead for the Middle East Central Asia (MCA) and North Africa and work as part of a regional team of S I Gender Officers and Leads to support the MCA region in advancing gender equality and generating gender outcomes through its investments and advisory work. The role will contribute across regional strategy, client delivery, portfolio management, capacity building, communications, and partnerships.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy, Country Team Support WBG-wide Country level Engagements

• Support country management teams in advancing the gender and economic inclusion agenda.
• Contribute to integrating gender considerations into sub-regional, country, and industry strategies, programs, and initiatives.
• Help country management teams and investment teams identify opportunities to embed gender and inclusion across pipeline and ongoing investments, projects and programs (including through gender-flagging)
• Contribute to integrating gender solutions into investment and advisory projects through pipeline screening and opportunity identification.
• Support the implementation of joint WB–IFC country-level engagements to strengthen the World Bank Group Gender Strategy in select fast-track countries (Egypt, Morocco). Client Delivery
• Deliver client-facing gender and inclusion advisory projects and manage client relationships in the private sector.
• Support IFC industry teams in designing and implementing client solutions that address gender barriers and deliver measurable outcomes. Portfolio Management
• Support the management of existing gender-related portfolio projects.
• Ensure high-quality execution, strong governance, and effective coordination across internal and external stakeholders. Staff Capacity Building
• Strengthen internal awareness and application of gender tools and approaches across investment and advisory teams. Communications Partnerships
• Support regional communications on gender and economic inclusion, including content development for events, partnerships, and external engagement.
• Contribute to visibility and knowledge sharing through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders across the sub-region.