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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 Human Development (HD) Practice Group (PG)

The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries to develop country-tailored solutions for human development (HD) under the themes of education, health, social protection, jobs and gender. The HD PG coordinates with other Practice Groups to ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to development challenges, and through the World Bank Regional Units is expected to deliver the strongest and most pertinent support to our client countries.

The Human Development Vice Presidency (HDVP) at the World Bank Group is made up of the Global Practices for education; health, nutrition, and population; and social protection and jobs; additionally, the HDVP houses the gender group. As such, HD is central to the World Bank Group’s goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and raise shared prosperity.

Over the past few years the World Bank’s Human development sector has been delivering a scaled-up program with an active portfolio over $71.3B with engagements in 121 countries. New commitments in FY21 are expected to reach a total $21.2B by FY end. Human capital development, and in particular, the health sector program, has taken a central role for the WBG, as a result of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.

The primary challenges of health development relate to health, nutrition, and demographic transitions that are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic both, through an agile short-term response, and a sustainable and inclusive longer-term response that tackles inequitable opportunities and outcomes in the health sector globally, regionally and within countries. The fundamental challenge is to preempt, prevent and mitigate the developmental impact of these challenges now and into the future. Specific challenges include: providing equitable, efficient, accountable and sustainable financing of health coverage; providing equitable, quality, appropriate and scaled-up delivery of priority public health services according to need; mobilizing the appropriate quantity and quality of key health systems inputs related to health workers, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare technology and facilities; and strengthening models of governance for the health sector that recognize core functions for government, responsibilities/accountability of key actors and enhance competencies for governance across levels (local, national, regional and global) and sectors (public/private/civil society, as well as government sectors such as education, transport, social protection, etc.).

Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice

The World Bank Group (WBG) supports countries’ efforts towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and to provide quality, affordable health services to everyone —regardless of their ability to pay — by strengthening primary health care systems and reducing the financial risks associated with ill health and increasing equity. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health Global Financing Facility Context

The global community has made considerable progress over the past 25 years in improving the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. Rates of preventable death have dropped significantly in many countries and improvements have been seen across a range of key measures of health and well-being. But the progress has not been enough: too many women, children, and adolescents have been left behind, dying and suffering from preventable conditions, in considerable part because of a large financing gap.

The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) was launched at the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa in July 2015 as part of a global conversation about how to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which requires a shift from thinking about billions of dollars to recognizing that we need trillions to achieve the ambitious targets that we have agreed upon. This shift is only possible through new approaches to financing that recognize that countries themselves are the engines of progress and that the role of external assistance is to support countries both to get more results from the existing resources and to increase the total volume of financing.

The GFF partnership supports countries in three specific ways: 1) developing an investment case and implementation plan for prioritizing key reforms to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition and a strong primary health care system; 2) strengthening a country-led platform that aligns all key stakeholders around this investment case and uses data to make decisions and create mutual accountability; and 3) mobilizing and coordinating the financial resources needed to accelerate progress for the most vulnerable populations, often in the hardest-to-reach regions. More information is available at: www.globalfinancingfacility.org

The GFF partnership is led by the GFF Director and the day-to-day management of the GFF Secretariat is the responsibility of the GFF Practice Manager. The GFF secretariat, which is based at the World Bank and is situated in the HNP Global Practice, works to deliver on the GFF objectives. This includes working with countries to develop quality investment cases, mobilize increased financing and engage with the private sector. In addition, the secretariat manages the GFF Trust Fund used for catalytic financing of the GFF process and key country priorities, provides technical assistance and supports the GFF Investors Group, the governance mechanism for the GFF.

The External Relations workstream plays a key role in realizing the ambition of the GFF, and leads on the GFF Secretariat’s work on partnerships, communications, governance, advocacy and resource mobilization. The GFF is seeking a Donor Relations & Resource Mobilization (RM) Specialist. The Donor Relations & RM Specialist will work under the day-to-day guidance of the RM lead and report to the GFF External relations lead.

Duties & Accountabilities

1. Donor relations:

• Contribute to the overall development and implementation of GFF’s External Relations strategy, working in close collaboration with the GFF resource mobilization lead and GFF external relations team. • Under the direction of the GFF resource mobilization lead, develop and implement GFF resource mobilization strategy and work plans for a selected set of target donors and donor markets. • Manage a portfolio of donor markets (provide information and updates, organize meetings, share latest intelligence). • Develop stakeholder mapping, political economy analysis, and advocacy strategies designed to achieve GFF’s resource mobilization targets in selected donor markets as requested. • Track political, budgetary and policy developments in selected donor markets, and provide timely intelligence and briefings to GFF Leadership and External Relations team. • Provide strategic and timely advice to GFF Secretariat team members on donor relations upon request, in close coordination with GFF resource mobilization lead and other GFF external relations team members. • Initiate and negotiate grant agreements and renewals with donor governments, foundations and corporations. • Identify, and engage with, key public and private donors, as well as influential constituencies and institutions. • Fulfil donor reporting requirements included in legal agreements with donors. • Support the organization of resource mobilization events and conferences.

2. Resource Mobilization coordination:

• Contribute to the coordination of the resource mobilization team under the guidance of the GFF RM Lead, including by coordinating briefs, events and outreach between team members. • Update tracking tools and documents for the Resource Mobilization team (e.g. table of contributions, timeline of key events). • Provide strategic and timely advice to GFF Secretariat on partner high-profile or sensitive issues with external partners, including potential reputational risk issues, including staying abreast of relevant developments in the global health and development arena. • Liaise with other GH partners on RM and market specific engagement

Selection Criteria

• Masters, equivalent or higher degree in a relevant field/discipline related to the work of the World Bank with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience. • Strong theoretical base in subject area, combining a broad grasp of relevant theory and principles and of involved practices and precedent. • Strong ability to work effectively in a team environment, integrate inputs by working across units and at all levels throughout the VPU and the Bank Group. • Ability to work under tight deadlines, lead multi-task requirements and a high degree of pro-activity and initiative. • Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think strategically, be innovative, and translate ideas into actions. • Proven ability to deliver under time constraints, work in a matrix environment, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. • Excellent computer, research, power point, excel, business warehouse skills. • Excellent oral and written communications skills in English; French not required but preferred.

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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.