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 The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest global multilateral development finance institution focused on the private and public sectors in emerging and frontier markets. WBG’s Farms and Agribusiness unit covers the industry that caters to one of the basic human needs: food and nutrition security. Agribusiness plays a critical role in providing food, goods and services to consumers, creating jobs, and contributing to economic growth. WBG has made agribusiness a priority because of its potential for broad development impact and especially strong role in poverty reduction. It combines investment and advisory services to help the sector address higher demand and escalating food prices in an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive way. WBG's commitment in Agribusiness is to prioritize smallholder supply chains to generate increased yields in a sustainable, resilient manner and allow smallholder producers to move up the value chain. WBG’s Agribusiness Advisory team aims to support private sector clients along strategic themes: crop production, smallholder supply chains, animal protein, food safety, food fortification, and food loss and waste. Through the Sustainable Protein Advisory platform, IFC clients to build more sustainable business operations and address critical challenges. The platform is active in productivity improvement, decarbonization, responsible use of antibiotics, and adoption of animal welfare standards. The platform also works with IBRD teams to design Agri Connect projects that stimulate private sector participation in the livestock sector. The platform also leads an active communication campaign to promote the wider adoption of the IFC Practices for Sustainable Investment in Private Sector Livestock Operations. WBG is seeking an Expert to provide technical, administrative and analytical support to advisory engagements in agribusiness sector under two initiatives the global Sustainable Protein Platform. As AgriConnect initiative grows, there is rising need for deeper analytical work on effective ways and best practice in private sector development in the livestock sector. The Agri Connect projects also require and increased coordination and coordination between the IFC and IBRD teams and close follow up on agreed country initiatives. The Expert will deliver end-to-end project management and coordination across advisory engagements at both sectors, public- and firm levels work, ensuring strong collaboration with global and regional teams, on-time delivery, and rigorous quality control of analytical outputs. Responsibilities include facilitating workplan development and execution aligned with agreed objectives and targets, tracking progress against timelines and milestones, coordinating internally across WBG teams and externally with stakeholders, and contributing to progress reporting, outreach and communications, and risk management. Duties and Responsibilities Overall Project coordination

• Support day to day operational dialogue with implementing partners, technical experts, and stakeholders.
• Track workplans, milestones, budgets, and risks, identify issues and support resolution.
• Participate in project meetings/events, coordinate inputs across global and regional teams. Client/Project work coordination
• In select client and project engagement cases provide support in coordinating the delivery of the advisory scope of work. In close coordination with the technical experts.
• Maintain client engagement an implementation plan, track progress vs. milestones.
• Where needed coordinate visits schedule and prepare visit plans for technical experts. Administration, results measurement, and reporting
• Track and document inputs and evidence for semi annual PSRs/PCRs, ensure quality and follow up on all indicators in Iportal.
• Support M E and results measurement, including data collection/validation, and evidence compilation in IFC systems.
• Liaise with the procurement team to support with administrative and operational procurement. Coordinate processing of payments for vendors and operational consultants.
• Track upstream and advisory protein portfolio and prepare quarterly reports for the global agribusiness practice group.
• Coordinate client/partner reporting and collect evidence both for M E and case studies. Events and procurement support
• Support the Platform with organizing, preparing, and delivering events, such as face-to-face client events, virtual workshops, and webinars as planned; this includes responsibilities for planning, managing, and communicating on the events, including invitations and follow ups.
• On an as-needed basis, provide information on the projects for IFC’s internal or external communication and events such: donor’s reports, briefs for missions of World Bank Group and IFC staff, knowledge events and publications, information requests from government officials, research institutes, agribusiness companies, and similar. Communication support
• Manage, develop and update the IFC MAS Intranet site and the Sustainable Protein intranet and one drive as required.
• Collaborate with the global, regional and local IFC’s communication teams
• Liaise the communications teams with ongoing outreach and communications needs as they arise.
• Assist with the events’ marketing.
• Support with social media posts and prep material as needed for social media posts and promos.
• Review, revamp and formatting slides and presentations. Develop design layouts and others. Deliverables
• Operational and technical support to ongoing projects and initiatives in agribusiness sector
• Project administration and management support
• Timely, complete inputs for semi annual PSRs/PCRs with documented evidence
• Completed IDD notes/documentation for new and active clients/partners
• Draft legal agreements prepared and submitted for clearances
• Successful delivery of agreed events (agendas, materials, completion notes)
• Up to date intranet/external webpages and communications products, including publications, insight and reports
• Periodic progress updates to the Project Lead summarizing implementation status, risks, and next steps