E T Consultant

Finance & Economy

Overview

Support the World Bank's Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group initiatives

You have:

• Advanced degree in public finance, public policy and administration, business management, economics, or related field.
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in the tax arena.
• Proven experience with public sector management or economic issues in developing countries.
• Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates strong integrative thinking and ability to support project teams in developing an integrated point of view around development challenges.
• First-hand experience with operations of at least one of the Platform Partners.
• Excellent writing and quality review skills and familiarity with Bank quality standards.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality outputs while working under pressure and within tight time schedules.
• Fluency (spoken and writing) in English.

Contract

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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. Visit www.worldbank.org.

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group (EFI) is one of the World Bank Group’s four Practice Groups. EFI’s mandate is “Growth, Finance, and Institutions for all.” Our approach is to leverage public and private sector expertise, together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support a data-driven reform agenda. EFI supports clients in advancing evidence-based structural reforms to build the foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth.

EFI is composed of four Global Practices (GPs), the Prospects Group, and CGAP:

The Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) GP provides broad macroeconomic analysis in support of countries’ economic programs, including the analysis of macro-financial risks, and macroeconomic modelling services to the rest of the WBG. MTI supports sound fiscal frameworks and fiscal risk management as well as better institutions and capacity on debt management to improve efficiency of public spending and bolster macroeconomic stability.

The Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) GP, consisting of two directorates (the Finance directorate, and the Trade, Investment and Competitiveness (TIC) directorate) aims to support client countries to create an enabling environment in which financial stability, efficiency and firm-level solutions are provided in an integrated way to crowd in the private sector, support the creation of markets, and accelerate equitable growth.

The Governance GP (GOV) helps countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent and inclusive institutions that deliver citizen-centric services, facilitate private-sector growth and build trust in government; and provides fiduciary support to all Bank operations.

The Poverty and Equity GP (POV) consists of micro, labor and development economists to build the evidence base, provide advice and operational support to ensure country policies and WBG interventions are inclusive.

The Prospects Group provides analysis on global economic and financial developments and their impact on emerging market and developing countries. It is responsible for the publication of the Global Economic Prospects report, the Commodity Markets Outlook and Global Monthly.

CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations that works to advance the lives of poor people through financial inclusion.

THE FISCAL POLICY AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH UNIT

The Fiscal Policy & Sustainable Growth Unit (FPSG) in the MTI Global Practice assists internal and external clients in developing strategies and balancing risks and trade-offs in their public expenditures and domestic resource mobilization efforts in order to advance the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. FPSG also supports the development and mainstreaming of macro-economic policies for climate resilient, low carbon economic growth and economic stability.

This work includes:

• Providing knowledge products, tools, and data to speed-up and improve project quality, analytical work, and policy dialogue.

• Supporting World Bank operations, including by undertaking tax diagnostics.

• Mobilizing resources to support task teams working on taxation (e.g., with US$60m raised through the Global Tax Program), macro related aspects of climate change, and fiscal policy.

• Supporting the corporate agenda through analytical inputs, briefs, and monitoring of the Bank’s corporate commitments on tax (e.g., under IDA and Financing for Development) and climate change (e.g., the Paris Accord and the Helsinki Principles).

• Collaborating with clients and partners such as the IMF, OECD, UN, and donor agencies to give voice to developing countries in international fora and establish partnerships such as the Platform for Collaboration on Tax and the Prosperity Collaborative.

THE PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATION ON TAX (PCT)

The WBG has joined with the IMF, OECD and UN in the Platform for Collaboration on Tax. The PCT mission is to support countries’ efforts to improve revenue mobilization by leveraging the expertise and experience of the four Partner Organizations, each with their own mandate and policies. The PCT also enables dialogue and information exchange on revenue mobilization between the Partners and promotes broad stakeholder engagement. This effort comes at a time of great momentum around international discussions on tax issues and the heightened attention to the importance of taxation in the efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FPSG Unit is the home of the Platform Secretariat, which supports all aspects of the Platform’s activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be based in the World Bank’s Washington DC office, working under the supervision of the Practice Manager for the FPSG unit.

He/She will work focus in supporting the PCT’s workplan, working in close collaboration with the PCT Coordinator. The selected candidate will undertake the following tasks:

• Actively support and contribute to the development of the PCT products and deliverables under the PCT workplan, such as reports and analytical pieces. Activities to be supported include: i) conduct research on various topics related to DRM, with a particular focus on international taxation; ii) collect, review and consolidate PCT Partners inputs; iv) liaise with the technical teams in partner organizations; iii) provide written inputs on DRM aspects as requested by PCT Partners.

• Actively support the PCT Partners in development and implementation of the PCT workplan including monitoring and review of the progress.

• Work in close collaboration with the PCT Coordinator to provide Secretariat support for the PCT meetings and events.

• Support PCT Partners in collecting, collating, and distilling lessons on PCT Partners activities on DRM.

• Support PCT Partners in the implementation of agreed outreach activities (workshops, training, etc.), including: i) prepare and reviewing proposals; ii) liaise with the technical teams of Partner organizations; and iii) conduct workshops and draft workshop summary/report as requested by PCT Partners.

• Contribute to knowledge management and dissemination in close collaboration with colleagues and experts in Partner organizations, internal and external clients, and other development partners. This includes representing the PCT at external events and meetings and working closely with the communication team in the development of content for the PCT website, assisting in coordinating data inputs from PCT Partners, distilling lessons learned, etc.

• Liaise with other initiatives active in the field of DRM support, explore business development opportunities and represent the PCT at their meetings with a view to fostering a better understanding on PCT and its Partners’ work.

• Contribute to the development of annual reports, notes, briefs, background notes on the PCT and tax issues, as needed.

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group

Selection Criteria

The successful candidate will be a professional with expertise in public finance, DRM and project management with familiarity with PCT Partners and their operations, as well as passionate about tax and its role in development. The successful candidate will exhibit the following additional skills and experience:

• Advanced degree in public finance, public policy and administration, business management, economics, or related field. • At least 8 years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience, including supporting the management and implementation of substantive analytical and operational tasks in the tax arena. • Proven experience with public sector management or economic issues in developing countries. • Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrates strong integrative thinking and ability to support project teams in developing of an integrated point of view around development challenge. • First-hand experience with operations of at least one of the Platform Partners. • Excellent writing and quality review skills and familiarity with Bank quality standards. • Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality outputs while working under pressure and within tight time schedules. • Fluency (spoken and writing) in English (Essential)

The candidate must also have the following competencies:

• Written and Verbal Communication - Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup • Client Orientation - Takes personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success. • Drive for Results - Takes personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results and has the personal organization to do so. • Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion - Collaborates with other team members and contributes productively to the team's work and output, demonstrating respect for different points of view. • Knowledge, Learning and Communication - Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner. • Business Judgment and Analytical Decision Making - Analyzes facts and data to support sound, logical decisions regarding own and others' work. • Public Administration - Understands the overall dimensions and structures of the mechanics of government and its public administration, especially revenue administration and information management. • General Economic Knowledge and Analytical Skills - Possesses a demonstrated track record of working with economic and sectoral data and analytical tools and models to conduct economic analyses and produce user-friendly written outputs; understands underlying statistical concepts. • Knowledge and Experience in Development Arena - Understands policy making process; distills operationally relevant recommendations/lessons for clients.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Excellent communications and diplomatic and client relations skills; capable of fostering long-term, productive client relationships and identifying and respond to business development opportunities. • Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner. • Takes personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results. • Proven team orientation and leadership, ability to work across unit boundaries. • High ethical standards and a deep sense of fairness.

Other selection criteria

• Experience with tax issues in developing countries would be an asset. • Work experience in developing countries desired.

Note: The World Bank Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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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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