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

Background

DIME is a Department of the World Bank's Development Economics Vice Presidency. DIME's purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy. DIME’s work focuses on three areas:

• Evaluating programs at scale to answer policy-relevant questions

• Building capacity to strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policymaking

• Building theory on mechanisms in strategic development areas based on high-quality evidence

DIME aims to overcome the challenge of identifying true cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence, which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. Through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs, DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community of practice.

With a portfolio of more than 220 impact evaluations, DIME operates across all sectors in about 60 countries spanning the globe. The IEs test a variety of interventions and mechanisms to understand why policy succeeds or fails and how to improve policy design and implementation to obtain better results. By working proactively in collaboration with clients, DIME employs experimental methods to infer causality whenever possible (79% of the portfolio). 17% of DIME IEs utilize non-experimental methods, while 4% use a combination of the two.

DIME is structured into 4 units:

-DIME 1 “Economic Growth and Structural Transformation” -DIME 2 “Gender, Economic Opportunity, and Fragility” -DIME 3 “Governance and Institution Building” -DIME 4 “Infrastructure and Climate Change”

More information can be found at http://www.worldbank.org/dime

Summary

DIME Analytics: DIME Analytics creates tools that improve the quality of impact evaluation research for all. We take advantage of the concentration and scale of research at DIME to develop and test solutions to ensure data work quality across our portfolio, and to make public training and tools available to the larger community of development researchers who might not have the same capabilities. DIME Analytics primary portfolio includes: the Development Research in Practice handbook and the accompanying DIME Wiki, a one-stop shop for practical guidance and resources on impact evaluation research; ietoolkit and iefieldkit, Stata code packages featuring commands to routinize common impact evaluation tasks; and Manage Successful Impact Evaluation Surveys, our flagship training is designed to improve the skills and knowledge of impact evaluation practitioners. More details can be found at https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/dime/data-and-analytics.

DIME Policy Influence: DIME implements its policy influence model by working with governments and partner organizations, with a heavy focus on data and evidence. To answer the question of whether this model is delivering on its promises, DIME has embedded a comprehensive set of policy influence indicators in its internal monitoring system, MyIE. These indicators are constantly updated in order to supplement both, internal reviews on impact, and external outreach to partners and donors.

Roles and Responsibilities

DIME seeks to recruit an ETC to support DIME Analytics (75%) and the myIE i2i monitoring system. The ETC will report to Maria Ruth Jones, Team Lead of DIME Analytics, and Chloe Fernandez, Operations Officer and lead for myIE. The candidate is expected to be based in Washington, DC.

The specific roles and responsibility include, but not limited to, the following:

MyIE (25%)

- Oversee the annual system update on the MyIE monitoring system; coordinate with the Operations Officer on the annual i2i report. - Take a leading role on efforts to assess the impact of DIME’s policy influence model, for example through a policy influence survey with partner organizations.

DIME Analytics (75%)

- Coordinate bi-annual recruitment drives and summer internship recruitment drives - Coordinate DIME Analytics’ courses and technical trainings, including DIME’s Continuing Education series, Reproducible Research Fundamentals, Manage Successful Impact Evaluations Surveys, and R for Stata Users Courses. - Manage the DIME Wiki, including coordinating with DIME team members to update content pages, assuring quality of external contributions, checking user experience, and communicating with website developers - Work with DIME Support to automate internal processes such as new hires and onboarding - Develop trainings and public good materials related to SurveyCTO coding, such as the SurveyCTO Style Guide; lead Analytics’ technical assistance related to SurveyCTO - Support the development of DIME Analytics open-source tools, such as the ietoolkit and iefieldkit Stata packages, the iesurveykit package of tools for data collection, and the R and Stata visual libraries - Implement DIME’s pre-publication reproducibility checks - Collaborate with DIME Analytics staff to maintain the team’s internal dashboards, such as the Recruitment dashboards, the Questionnaire Library, and IRB dashboard.

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

Background

DIME is a Department of the World Bank's Development Economics Vice Presidency. DIME's purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy. DIME’s work focuses on three areas:

• Evaluating programs at scale to answer policy-relevant questions

• Building capacity to strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policymaking

• Building theory on mechanisms in strategic development areas based on high-quality evidence

DIME aims to overcome the challenge of identifying true cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence, which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. Through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs, DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community of practice.

With a portfolio of more than 220 impact evaluations, DIME operates across all sectors in about 60 countries spanning the globe. The IEs test a variety of interventions and mechanisms to understand why policy succeeds or fails and how to improve policy design and implementation to obtain better results. By working proactively in collaboration with clients, DIME employs experimental methods to infer causality whenever possible (79% of the portfolio). 17% of DIME IEs utilize non-experimental methods, while 4% use a combination of the two.

DIME is structured into 4 units:

-DIME 1 “Economic Growth and Structural Transformation” -DIME 2 “Gender, Economic Opportunity, and Fragility” -DIME 3 “Governance and Institution Building” -DIME 4 “Infrastructure and Climate Change”

More information can be found at http://www.worldbank.org/dime

Summary

DIME Analytics: DIME Analytics creates tools that improve the quality of impact evaluation research for all. We take advantage of the concentration and scale of research at DIME to develop and test solutions to ensure data work quality across our portfolio, and to make public training and tools available to the larger community of development researchers who might not have the same capabilities. DIME Analytics primary portfolio includes: the Development Research in Practice handbook and the accompanying DIME Wiki, a one-stop shop for practical guidance and resources on impact evaluation research; ietoolkit and iefieldkit, Stata code packages featuring commands to routinize common impact evaluation tasks; and Manage Successful Impact Evaluation Surveys, our flagship training is designed to improve the skills and knowledge of impact evaluation practitioners. More details can be found at https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/dime/data-and-analytics.

DIME Policy Influence: DIME implements its policy influence model by working with governments and partner organizations, with a heavy focus on data and evidence. To answer the question of whether this model is delivering on its promises, DIME has embedded a comprehensive set of policy influence indicators in its internal monitoring system, MyIE. These indicators are constantly updated in order to supplement both, internal reviews on impact, and external outreach to partners and donors.

Roles and Responsibilities

DIME seeks to recruit an ETC to support DIME Analytics (75%) and the myIE i2i monitoring system. The ETC will report to Maria Ruth Jones, Team Lead of DIME Analytics, and Chloe Fernandez, Operations Officer and lead for myIE. The candidate is expected to be based in Washington, DC.

The specific roles and responsibility include, but not limited to, the following:

MyIE (25%)

DIME Analytics (75%)

Selection Criteria

- Education/Experience: Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. international relations, economics, public policy, communications) with 2 years of work experience; - Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; - Demonstrated experience, and knowledge of R, Stata, and SurveyCTO - Strong written and verbal communication skills in English required, fluency in other World Bank working languages preferred; - Eagerness to collaborate with colleagues of diverse backgrounds, skills, and experience; - Resourceful and a self-starter, excited to work on a dynamic and fast-growing team; - Demonstrated interest in impact evaluation and/or reproducible research. - Demonstrated experience in coordinating with vendors and research partners to improve and develop tools and resources for development research

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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.