E T Consultant

Finance & Economy

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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

Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR) Region

The WBG serves 30 client countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR). Clients range from large rapidly growing sophisticated middle-income clients to IDA countries to small Caribbean states to one fragile state. Despite immense resources, dynamic societies, and an average annual per capita income of about $4,000, deep inequalities persist in most LCR countries, with nearly a quarter of the Region's people living in poverty. The last Bank's strategy for LCR focused on three pillars: (a) supporting the foundations for inclusive growth; (b) investing in human capital and protecting the poor; and (c) building resilience. In the aftermath of the COVID19 pandemic, this strategy will need to be adjusted to better support the countries deal with a health crisis without precedents and an economic crisis not seen since modern statistical records started in 1900. Yet, the basic elements of the strategy: accelerating growth (following a projected GDP contraction in 2020 of 7.2%), investing in human capital, including in health (in the most affected region by COVID19), and building resilience appear fully relevant.

Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR): https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac

The Role of the Equitable Growth, Finance, And Institutions (EFI) Practice Group:

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Vice Presidency (EFI) is one of the World Bank Group’s four Practice Groups. EFI’s mandate is “Growth, Finance, and Institutions for all.” EFI combines expertise in finance and private sector development, macroeconomics, fiscal policy, taxation, governance, anticorruption, procurement and poverty among other areas. We foster private sector led growth in client countries, help create markets and jobs, improve resilience, strengthen institutions, promote equal opportunities and inclusion for all. EFI is composed of 4 Global Practices (GPs):

• Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) consists of financial and private sector development specialists to foster a private sector led growth agenda. • Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) consists of country economists and houses expertise in macro-modeling, debt and fiscal policy. • Governance GP consists of public sector, financial management and procurement specialists to support institutional and governance reforms and provide fiduciary support to all Bank operations. • Poverty and Equity GP consists of micro, labor and development economists to build the evidence base and provide advice and operational support to ensure country policies and WBG interventions are inclusive.

EFI supports clients in advancing evidence-based structural reforms to build the foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Poverty and EquityGlobal Practice

The Poverty & Equity Global Practice is a family of empirical micro-economists with deep expertise in household surveys and poverty measurement, and broad experience in using household and other "micro-level” data to inform the design and implementation of policies and programs to reduce poverty and enhance shared prosperity.

We work with government and external partners, at the country-level and globally, in ensuring their efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity are enhanced by integrative empirically-grounded analyses of household welfare. Internally, we work with country, regional and global teams across all practices to operationalize the twin goals of the WBG by providing robust evidence base and analytics using micro data.

The Poverty and Equity Global Practice delivers the following to our clients in support of these critical development challenges:

- Advice and knowledge to help better understand the relationship between growth, poverty, and inequality.

- Diagnostics to help identify key policies and multisectoral solutions that effectively reduce poverty and benefit the less well-off.

- Monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs to enhance the poverty impact of interventions and inform mid-stream correction.

- Monitoring and tracking poverty and other welfare outcomes.

- Capacity-building and knowledge sharing (in client countries and within the WBG) of distributional impacts analytics.

- Innovative data collection and measurement methods that can help fill crucial data gaps.

Scope of Work

The Mexico Poverty and Equity team is seeking to hire an ETC who can contribute to several areas of the poverty work program. The ETC activites will encompass:

a) Co-lead the implementation and maintenance of the methodological tools used for poverty and extreme poverty monitoring, to inform the internal client on the current developments and the dialogue on the design of policy solutions that alleviate the conditions of the less well-off;

b) Contribute to activities lead by country and sectoral teams on how to address poverty, equity, gender issues and promote evidence-based decision making;

c) Lead and/or collaborate in the implementation of economic of analysis of the distributional effects of policy refors;

d) Conduct data management and data analysis using harmonized databases and World Bank datasets and tools (such as datalibweb, WB-SEDLAC), data from administrative sources, among others;

e) Help mobilize resources by drafting funding proposals for internal and external grants;

f) Support dissemination of findings of analytical work under different formats: policy research papers, policy notes, presentations, conferences; and

g) Develop excellent working relationships with country management units and other Global Practices within the WBG.

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

Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR) Region

The WBG serves 30 client countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR). Clients range from large rapidly growing sophisticated middle-income clients to IDA countries to small Caribbean states to one fragile state. Despite immense resources, dynamic societies, and an average annual per capita income of about $4,000, deep inequalities persist in most LCR countries, with nearly a quarter of the Region's people living in poverty. The last Bank's strategy for LCR focused on three pillars: (a) supporting the foundations for inclusive growth; (b) investing in human capital and protecting the poor; and (c) building resilience. In the aftermath of the COVID19 pandemic, this strategy will need to be adjusted to better support the countries deal with a health crisis without precedents and an economic crisis not seen since modern statistical records started in 1900. Yet, the basic elements of the strategy: accelerating growth (following a projected GDP contraction in 2020 of 7.2%), investing in human capital, including in health (in the most affected region by COVID19), and building resilience appear fully relevant.

Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR): https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac

The Role of the Equitable Growth, Finance, And Institutions (EFI) Practice Group:

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Vice Presidency (EFI) is one of the World Bank Group’s four Practice Groups. EFI’s mandate is “Growth, Finance, and Institutions for all.” EFI combines expertise in finance and private sector development, macroeconomics, fiscal policy, taxation, governance, anticorruption, procurement and poverty among other areas. We foster private sector led growth in client countries, help create markets and jobs, improve resilience, strengthen institutions, promote equal opportunities and inclusion for all. EFI is composed of 4 Global Practices (GPs):

• Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) consists of financial and private sector development specialists to foster a private sector led growth agenda. • Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) consists of country economists and houses expertise in macro-modeling, debt and fiscal policy. • Governance GP consists of public sector, financial management and procurement specialists to support institutional and governance reforms and provide fiduciary support to all Bank operations. • Poverty and Equity GP consists of micro, labor and development economists to build the evidence base and provide advice and operational support to ensure country policies and WBG interventions are inclusive.

EFI supports clients in advancing evidence-based structural reforms to build the foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Poverty and EquityGlobal Practice

The Poverty & Equity Global Practice is a family of empirical micro-economists with deep expertise in household surveys and poverty measurement, and broad experience in using household and other "micro-level” data to inform the design and implementation of policies and programs to reduce poverty and enhance shared prosperity.

We work with government and external partners, at the country-level and globally, in ensuring their efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity are enhanced by integrative empirically-grounded analyses of household welfare. Internally, we work with country, regional and global teams across all practices to operationalize the twin goals of the WBG by providing robust evidence base and analytics using micro data.

The Poverty and Equity Global Practice delivers the following to our clients in support of these critical development challenges:

- Advice and knowledge to help better understand the relationship between growth, poverty, and inequality.

- Diagnostics to help identify key policies and multisectoral solutions that effectively reduce poverty and benefit the less well-off.

- Monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs to enhance the poverty impact of interventions and inform mid-stream correction.

- Monitoring and tracking poverty and other welfare outcomes.

- Capacity-building and knowledge sharing (in client countries and within the WBG) of distributional impacts analytics.

- Innovative data collection and measurement methods that can help fill crucial data gaps.

Scope of Work

The Mexico Poverty and Equity team is seeking to hire an ETC who can contribute to several areas of the poverty work program. The ETC activites will encompass:

a) Co-lead the implementation and maintenance of the methodological tools used for poverty and extreme poverty monitoring, to inform the internal client on the current developments and the dialogue on the design of policy solutions that alleviate the conditions of the less well-off;

b) Contribute to activities lead by country and sectoral teams on how to address poverty, equity, gender issues and promote evidence-based decision making;

c) Lead and/or collaborate in the implementation of economic of analysis of the distributional effects of policy refors;

d) Conduct data management and data analysis using harmonized databases and World Bank datasets and tools (such as datalibweb, WB-SEDLAC), data from administrative sources, among others;

e) Help mobilize resources by drafting funding proposals for internal and external grants;

f) Support dissemination of findings of analytical work under different formats: policy research papers, policy notes, presentations, conferences; and

g) Develop excellent working relationships with country management units and other Global Practices within the WBG.

Selection Criteria

* PhD or Master’s degree in economics, political economy, development studies, public policy, or an equivalent training in applied microeconomics and labor economics;

* At least six years (or three years if PhD) of relevant professional experience on topics related to labor economics, applied economics, economic development, poverty measurement methods;

* Ability to conceptualize, design and implement analytical projects and tasks; Proven experience in applying monetary and non-monetary poverty measurement tools and analyzing changes over time;

* Strong analytical and conceptual skills and demonstrated experience with managing complex databases (household, firm-level surveys, big data) and familiarity with data sources, particularly for Mexico, useful for microeconomic analysis;

* Ability to undertake complex literature reviews on topics related to poverty measurement and survey instruments’ best practices;

* Ability to deliver results effectively as part of a team, while taking personal responsibility to meet deadlines and quality standards;

* Highly motivated, with initiative and ability to work with limited supervision;

* Ability to work under pressure and flexibly on a concurrent range of assignments, to adjust to changing needs, and to prioritize among evolving tasks;

* Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary bank staff teams, governments, NGOs and donors, while being diplomatic and sensitive to cultural, political and gender issues;

* Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present complicated analyses to non-technical audiences;

* Proficiency in English and Spanish;

* Outstanding skills on program languages including Stata and R; with Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

* PhD or Master’s degree in economics, political economy, development studies, public policy, or an equivalent training in applied microeconomics and labor economics;

* At least six years (or three years if PhD) of relevant professional experience on topics related to labor economics, applied economics, economic development, poverty measurement methods;

* Ability to conceptualize, design and implement analytical projects and tasks; Proven experience in applying monetary and non-monetary poverty measurement tools and analyzing changes over time;

* Strong analytical and conceptual skills and demonstrated experience with managing complex databases (household, firm-level surveys, big data) and familiarity with data sources, particularly for Mexico, useful for microeconomic analysis;

* Ability to undertake complex literature reviews on topics related to poverty measurement and survey instruments’ best practices;

* Ability to deliver results effectively as part of a team, while taking personal responsibility to meet deadlines and quality standards;

* Highly motivated, with initiative and ability to work with limited supervision;

* Ability to work under pressure and flexibly on a concurrent range of assignments, to adjust to changing needs, and to prioritize among evolving tasks;

* Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary bank staff teams, governments, NGOs and donors, while being diplomatic and sensitive to cultural, political and gender issues;

* Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present complicated analyses to non-technical audiences;

* Proficiency in English and Spanish;

* Outstanding skills on program languages including Stata and R; with Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

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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.

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