E T Consultant

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E T Consultant

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IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

Gender is a cross-cutting corporate priority for IFC, as highlighted in the World Bank Group’s Gender Strategy. Gender equality is not only a social and moral imperative, but also an economic necessity. Across the world, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men.

IFC’s Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services (MAS) department covers sectors which cater to basic human needs such as food, shelter, jobs, and health and education. They play a critical role in providing goods and services to consumers, create jobs, contribute to government revenue, and stimulate growth through SMEs. The MAS department of IFC also offers advisory services to help clients improve sustainability and productivity in agricultural supply chains.

The Women’s Employment Program is a joint venture of MAS and IFC’s Gender Economic and Inclusion Group (GEIG), designed to support to clients who seek gender-smart solutions to workplace management challenges, or who are interested in improving their performance in recruiting, retaining and promoting women as employees so as to achieve the business case benefits associated with investing in gender equality in the workplace. The Women’s Employment Program provides MAS clients with preliminary employment assessments and support to strengthen their women’s policies and practices, drawing on the extensive experience base in IFC and good practice elsewhere. The program will also provide further customized advisory and support to obtain internal gender certifications. In doing so, the program will generate additional empirical evidence for the business case for women’s employment which will also be compiled and disseminated as part of the program’s operations.

Since its inception in 2017, the program has been successful at increasing client interest in corporate gender assessments. Based on increasing client demand and workplace adaptations to post-pandemic operations, clients are seeking new assessments and advisory solutions. MAS Gender is responding by exploring, adapting or creating new tools such as Rapid Corporate Gender Assessments for Agribusiness clients, Gender Equality and Returns (GEAR) for Agribusiness Clients, Gender for Employability, Gender-Based Violence for Healthcare and others.

MAS is seeking an experienced Extended Term Consultant to expand and scale its work on gender in the private sector, specifically through employment and inclusive workplaces, entrepreneurship, value chains, employability and client service delivery. The scope of the role includes research and thought leadership; delivery of high-quality gender advisory delivery to private sector clients, peer learning and partnerships; corporate support and capacity building; project management including reporting and fundraising; and knowledge management and communications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Client Advisory Delivery:

• Design and deliver corporate gender diagnostics for MAS clients under the Women’s Employment Program.

• Develop and adapt tools for delivery to other MAS Advisory and Investment clients, such as agribusiness, Education, Employability, Women’s Entrepreneurship Financing (WE Fi) or GEAR for Agribusiness pilot.

• Support initiatives to build the business case and capture development impact of gender advisory to individual clients, in partnership with Results Measurement

• Conduct business development efforts in partnership with Investment, Advisory, Upstream and Gender and Economic Inclusion Group teams.

Research, Innovation & Thought Leadership:

• Help expand MAS Gender’s thought leadership and strategy beyond gender to include research, client needs, guidance and project delivery on Intersectionality (LGBTQ, Race, Disability) and Gender-Based Violence in collaboration with the Gender and Economic Inclusion Group and in line with growing client interest and demand.

• Support the development of new advisory initiatives in Gender and Intersectionality and for specific sectors, such as Tourism.

• Support new and innovative research in collaboration with the World Bank, research firms, and other implementing partners to highlight the business case and good practices for gender in the private sector as needed.

Corporate Strategy & Program Management:

• Ensure projects move smoothly through the project cycle, including compliance with WBG internal systems, AS project governance, reporting systems (iPortal, IBIS) and Legal documentation, and compliance with all procurement processes and financial reporting.

• Liaise with departments such as Legal and ESG to ensure projects adhere to IFC’s policies and standards.

• Provide timely progress and donor reports as required by IFC, clients, donors, and development partners, according to IFC standards and guidelines.

• Monitor and report on project results using IFC reporting systems, track performance indicators against targets, and produce project supervision reports.

• Manage project budget and procurement of consultants, research firms, vendors, and contractors.

• Support fundraising initiatives for project development and implementation, as needed.

• Collaborate with other IFC and WBG colleagues (i.e., other department Gender teams, Communications, client relationship managers, project/country teams, global specialists) for innovation and program success.

• Monitor the work plan, budget, human resources, timeline, and deliverables.

• Support Gender Flagging by reviewing project documentation such as Concept Notes, Implementation Plans, Anticipated Impact Measurement and Monitoring (AIMM) system reviews, gender flags, and publications and providing input to other corporate documents as needed.

Communications & Knowledge Management:

• Maintain and prepare presentations and pitchbooks, case studies, webinar materials, press releases and other marketing materials, in collaboration with Communications colleagues.

• Develop specific learning materials, reports, case studies and training initiatives as part of the Women’s Employment Program

• Review, develop and maintain MAS Gender tools as needed.

• Provide input to corporate talking points and briefs as required.

• Contribute to or conduct research in collaboration with the WBG and other partners in the private sector

• Systematically consolidate and analyze lessons learned from project implementation experience and share with team members and colleagues across IFC.

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

Gender is a cross-cutting corporate priority for IFC, as highlighted in the World Bank Group’s Gender Strategy. Gender equality is not only a social and moral imperative, but also an economic necessity. Across the world, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men.

IFC’s Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services (MAS) department covers sectors which cater to basic human needs such as food, shelter, jobs, and health and education. They play a critical role in providing goods and services to consumers, create jobs, contribute to government revenue, and stimulate growth through SMEs. The MAS department of IFC also offers advisory services to help clients improve sustainability and productivity in agricultural supply chains.

The Women’s Employment Program is a joint venture of MAS and IFC’s Gender Economic and Inclusion Group (GEIG), designed to support to clients who seek gender-smart solutions to workplace management challenges, or who are interested in improving their performance in recruiting, retaining and promoting women as employees so as to achieve the business case benefits associated with investing in gender equality in the workplace. The Women’s Employment Program provides MAS clients with preliminary employment assessments and support to strengthen their women’s policies and practices, drawing on the extensive experience base in IFC and good practice elsewhere. The program will also provide further customized advisory and support to obtain internal gender certifications. In doing so, the program will generate additional empirical evidence for the business case for women’s employment which will also be compiled and disseminated as part of the program’s operations.

Since its inception in 2017, the program has been successful at increasing client interest in corporate gender assessments. Based on increasing client demand and workplace adaptations to post-pandemic operations, clients are seeking new assessments and advisory solutions. MAS Gender is responding by exploring, adapting or creating new tools such as Rapid Corporate Gender Assessments for Agribusiness clients, Gender Equality and Returns (GEAR) for Agribusiness Clients, Gender for Employability, Gender-Based Violence for Healthcare and others.

MAS is seeking an experienced Extended Term Consultant to expand and scale its work on gender in the private sector, specifically through employment and inclusive workplaces, entrepreneurship, value chains, employability and client service delivery. The scope of the role includes research and thought leadership; delivery of high-quality gender advisory delivery to private sector clients, peer learning and partnerships; corporate support and capacity building; project management including reporting and fundraising; and knowledge management and communications.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in International Development, Gender Studies, Economics, or Business, coupled with experience in research and policy analysis required.

• 8-10 years of work experience delivering gender-smart solutions private sector gender equality and women’s employment required context in several emerging markets is required.

• Proven track record of managing projects with and delivering evidence-based, innovative solutions to private sector companies is required.

• Proven ability to design and implement of gender engagements for private sector clients and experience in translating analytical work into policy advice and recommendations required.

• Strong project management skills with proven ability to support execution of projects, management of resources and delivery against timelines.

• Ability to develop research, innovative solutions and communications on gender issues in employment (strategy development implementation, childcare, gender-based violence, recruitment), employability (school to work transition), digital solutions and other areas.

• Demonstrated ability to manage teams and collaboration in matrix organizations.

• Strong ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.

• Ability to work effectively under time pressure with high capacity to produce quality work.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English required; proficiency in French, Spanish or another language strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with WBG and IFC processes, systems, and initiatives is preferred.

• Ability to travel and work across time zones required.

• Highly collaborative, curious, innovative, and entrepreneurial while flexibly able to adapt to working in a large development financing institution.

• Strong interpersonal skills demonstrated ability to lead, expert capacity to leverage internal and external relationships to foster innovation and work effectively across boundaries in a fast-paced multicultural and virtual environment.

• Positive and collaborative attitude and dedication to excellence and professionalism; strong attention to detail and ability

• Strong focus on proactive, consistent, and timely delivery of results and solutions for clients, governments, and donors, with minimal supervision and a strong focus on creating business value and development impact.

• Excellent strategic vision, ability to think long term, and with a focus on business case and developmental impact.

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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.