E T Consultant

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E T Consultant

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

The Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation (FCI) Global Practice. FCI combines expertise in the financial sector with expertise in private sector development to foster private sector led growth and help create markets in client countries! In Indonesia and Timor Leste, FCI GP works with governments to create an enabling environment where financial stability, access to finance and risk management provide a foundation to crowd-in private sector investment, create capital markets, and accelerate equitable growth. At the same time, the practice is focused on identifying firm- and industry-level constraints to deliver reforms which can drive growth and accelerate job creation (including access to finance, innovation, special economic zones, industry solutions, entrepreneurship, etc.). Boosting firm-level efficiency and productivity centers on adopting better technologies, including digital ones. FCI comprises close to 800 staff working across more than 120 countries. For more information, please visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/fci.

A.Context/Background

The FCI team in the Indonesia Country Management Unit (CMU) supports Indonesia and Timor Leste through designing and implementing innovative lending operations as well as providing pioneering advisory services and high-quality analytical work designed to support policymakers in a range of issues related to financial sector development, strengthening private sector competitiveness, and supporting innovation.

Engagement in Indonesia. The private sector engagement in Indonesia focuses on investment climate, business regulatory environment, firm-level support, and tourism competitiveness! Additionally, there are cross cutting areas covering decarbonization of the industrial sector, digital transformation, women-economic empowerment, and the monitoring of the private sector resilience. The World Bank Group is engaged with the Government of Indonesia in a multi-facetted and long-term strategy in these areas that is supported through different World Bank instruments, including an Investment and Competitiveness Programmatic Analytics and Advisory Services (PASA) and an Integrated Tourism Development Project (ITDP).

Engagement in Timor Leste. The FCI program in Timor-Lest supports the Government through finance, competitiveness, trade, and tourism activities. The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the foundation for private sector-led growth by: (i) providing empirical evidence of firms’ performance; (ii) reviewing and identifying key regulatory barriers (business environment, trade, and investment); (iii) enhancing the efficiency of cross-border trade to enable the private sector to reduce time and costs to trade and more easily access global markets; (iv) performing a financial sector scoping (access to finance and financial infrastructure); and (v) recommending policy reforms and actions that can stimulate private sector development.

B. Job duties and responsibilities

The primary role and responsibility of the candidate will be support FCI’s private sector engagement in Indonesia and Timor Leste on on-going and new programs and projects related to investment climate, business regulatory environment, firm-level support, and tourism competitiveness. The candidate is expected to work closely with clients from the public sector as well as public and private sector stakeholders to strengthen institutional capacity to undertake policy reforms and implement activities to promote investments, competitiveness, innovation, and private sector decarbonization.

In doing so, the private sector specialist/economist is expected to deliver a mix of analytical, advisory, and operational tasks. In particular, the candidate will:

• Co-lead or support the design and implementation of analytical work on investment, competitiveness, innovation, and climate change issues to inform the advice to the government. • Translate findings of analytical work into clear policy messages and present them to the government and other relevant collaborators. • Conduct background research and draft reports and communications material to share results and maximize projects’ visibility, both within and beyond the Bank. • Provide program preparation and implementation support to government counterparts on FCI’s private sector lending portfolio. • Support in monitoring the overall implementation of the investment portfolio and work closely with the rest of the team to ensure quality, impact, and coordination across projects. Regularly monitor and facilitate the meeting of deadlines on key deliverables for closing activities/projects (ICR, ACS), delivery of projects in the pipeline as well as regular Implementation Status and Results Reports (ISRs). • Contribute to and/or lead specific operational activities at all stages of the project cycle, including participation in the design and development of specific project components, and support the implementation of ongoing FCI portfolio ensuring quality, impact, and coordination across projects. • Support and engage in dialogue with government and private sector counterparts to advise strategies for promoting investment, competitiveness, innovation, and net-zero transition. • Contribute to the policy dialogue on issues relating to private sector development by organizing dialogue forums, workshops, and capacity building activities. • Co-lead or contribute to advisory services project(s) or components of, as assigned. • Other tasks as requested by the Private Sector Country Lead, FCI Country Lead and the Practice Manager.

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

The Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation (FCI) Global Practice. FCI combines expertise in the financial sector with expertise in private sector development to foster private sector led growth and help create markets in client countries! In Indonesia and Timor Leste, FCI GP works with governments to create an enabling environment where financial stability, access to finance and risk management provide a foundation to crowd-in private sector investment, create capital markets, and accelerate equitable growth. At the same time, the practice is focused on identifying firm- and industry-level constraints to deliver reforms which can drive growth and accelerate job creation (including access to finance, innovation, special economic zones, industry solutions, entrepreneurship, etc.). Boosting firm-level efficiency and productivity centers on adopting better technologies, including digital ones. FCI comprises close to 800 staff working across more than 120 countries. For more information, please visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/fci.

A.Context/Background

The FCI team in the Indonesia Country Management Unit (CMU) supports Indonesia and Timor Leste through designing and implementing innovative lending operations as well as providing pioneering advisory services and high-quality analytical work designed to support policymakers in a range of issues related to financial sector development, strengthening private sector competitiveness, and supporting innovation.

Engagement in Indonesia. The private sector engagement in Indonesia focuses on investment climate, business regulatory environment, firm-level support, and tourism competitiveness! Additionally, there are cross cutting areas covering decarbonization of the industrial sector, digital transformation, women-economic empowerment, and the monitoring of the private sector resilience. The World Bank Group is engaged with the Government of Indonesia in a multi-facetted and long-term strategy in these areas that is supported through different World Bank instruments, including an Investment and Competitiveness Programmatic Analytics and Advisory Services (PASA) and an Integrated Tourism Development Project (ITDP).

Engagement in Timor Leste. The FCI program in Timor-Lest supports the Government through finance, competitiveness, trade, and tourism activities. The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the foundation for private sector-led growth by: (i) providing empirical evidence of firms’ performance; (ii) reviewing and identifying key regulatory barriers (business environment, trade, and investment); (iii) enhancing the efficiency of cross-border trade to enable the private sector to reduce time and costs to trade and more easily access global markets; (iv) performing a financial sector scoping (access to finance and financial infrastructure); and (v) recommending policy reforms and actions that can stimulate private sector development.

B. Job duties and responsibilities

The primary role and responsibility of the candidate will be support FCI’s private sector engagement in Indonesia and Timor Leste on on-going and new programs and projects related to investment climate, business regulatory environment, firm-level support, and tourism competitiveness. The candidate is expected to work closely with clients from the public sector as well as public and private sector stakeholders to strengthen institutional capacity to undertake policy reforms and implement activities to promote investments, competitiveness, innovation, and private sector decarbonization.

In doing so, the private sector specialist/economist is expected to deliver a mix of analytical, advisory, and operational tasks. In particular, the candidate will:

• Co-lead or support the design and implementation of analytical work on investment, competitiveness, innovation, and climate change issues to inform the advice to the government. • Translate findings of analytical work into clear policy messages and present them to the government and other relevant collaborators. • Conduct background research and draft reports and communications material to share results and maximize projects’ visibility, both within and beyond the Bank. • Provide program preparation and implementation support to government counterparts on FCI’s private sector lending portfolio. • Support in monitoring the overall implementation of the investment portfolio and work closely with the rest of the team to ensure quality, impact, and coordination across projects. Regularly monitor and facilitate the meeting of deadlines on key deliverables for closing activities/projects (ICR, ACS), delivery of projects in the pipeline as well as regular Implementation Status and Results Reports (ISRs). • Contribute to and/or lead specific operational activities at all stages of the project cycle, including participation in the design and development of specific project components, and support the implementation of ongoing FCI portfolio ensuring quality, impact, and coordination across projects. • Support and engage in dialogue with government and private sector counterparts to advise strategies for promoting investment, competitiveness, innovation, and net-zero transition. • Contribute to the policy dialogue on issues relating to private sector development by organizing dialogue forums, workshops, and capacity building activities. • Co-lead or contribute to advisory services project(s) or components of, as assigned. • Other tasks as requested by the Private Sector Country Lead, FCI Country Lead and the Practice Manager.

Selection Criteria

C. Special terms & conditions

This job requires a private sector development professional/economist with strong analytical, technical, and operational skills and good understanding of investment climate, competitiveness, innovation, and the green economy. The following qualifications will be considered:

D. Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in business administration, economics, international development, policy analysis, or climate change-related studies. • At least 8 years of experience in international economics, policy research think-tank, policy-making, management and strategic consulting firm or other relevant experience. • Ability to think analytically and solve problems using quantitative analysis. • Full proficiency in oral and written skills in English. Strong oral and written in Indonesian is a plus. • A solid knowledge, based on practical experience, of at least one of the following private sector development topics (a combination of two or more is desirable, climate change and green economy being given a preference): (i) investment policy; (ii) business regulations; (iii) competition policy; (v) business linkages or value chains development; (v) productivity; (vi) innovation, technology adoption or digital transformation; and (vii) climate change, industrial decarbonization, or net-zero transition.

C. Special terms & conditions

This job requires a private sector development professional/economist with strong analytical, technical, and operational skills and good understanding of investment climate, competitiveness, innovation, and the green economy. The following qualifications will be considered:

D. Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in business administration, economics, international development, policy analysis, or climate change-related studies. • At least 8 years of experience in international economics, policy research think-tank, policy-making, management and strategic consulting firm or other relevant experience. • Ability to think analytically and solve problems using quantitative analysis. • Full proficiency in oral and written skills in English. Strong oral and written in Indonesian is a plus. • A solid knowledge, based on practical experience, of at least one of the following private sector development topics (a combination of two or more is desirable, climate change and green economy being given a preference): (i) investment policy; (ii) business regulations; (iii) competition policy; (v) business linkages or value chains development; (v) productivity; (vi) innovation, technology adoption or digital transformation; and (vii) climate change, industrial decarbonization, or net-zero transition.

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.