Senior Advisor

Senior Advisor

Job #:

req20222

Organization:

World Bank

Sector:

Education

Grade:

GI

Term Duration:

4 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:

International Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):

English

Preferred Language(s):

French, Spanish or Arabic

Closing Date:

12/22/2022 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

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.

Human Development Practice Group (HD PG)

The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with 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.

Education Global Practice

Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income and is the most important factor to ensure equality of opportunities. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education

The World Bank Education Global Practice supportsWBG educationteams across the globetodeliver better results by developing global public goods and generating and facilitating knowledge exchange to strengthen educationpolicy and systems in several key areas, namely: early childhood development, teaching effectiveness and teacher professional development, curriculum and instruction, safe and inclusive schools, implementation capacity to achieve learning results at scale; skills assessments and workforce development, tertiary education, and adult learning; and including work in cross-cutting themes like effective use of education technology, metrics of performance of education systems, learner assessments of foundational cognitive and socio-emotional skills as well as technical skills, education finance, disability inclusion and girls' education.

Duties & Accountabilities:

The Education Global Practice (EDU) seeks a Senior Advisor to help lead an ambitious knowledge and business development agenda to ensure that the Practice can effectively support the WB clients in their education reforms and programs. This means both helping to expand to new topic and themes as needed as well as ensuring that the staff of the practice stays at the knowledge frontier in all education fields.

The Senior Advisor will report to the Global Director, will work in coordination with the Manager of the Global Engagement and Knowledge unit and will be a member of the WB Education Management Team.

The Senior Advisor will support and advise the Global Director on strategic, analytical and operational matters to strengthen the Practice's global and country engagements, its analytical and operational portfolio and strategic relevance as the main international player in the education field; specifically, the candidate will:

• Oversee strategic analytical pieces that help position the Education Practice in key global, regional or country agendas, related to broad education reform aimed at improving education access and quality, as well as in areas of intense country and regional engagement such as learning measurement, policies and programs to improve instruction and reduce learning poverty, skills, education finance etc;• Lead and help in the development of global public goods that support the operational and analytical work of regional and country teams • Advise the different thematic groups, on the design and implementation of their respective offerings to ensure alignment with strategic and client needs;• Interact with and reach out regularly to relevant policy, analytic and academic communities across the Bank, in client countries, and internationally;• Act as spokesperson for education internally and externally• Support the WB technical and institutional engagement with different multilateral and bilateral partners • Perform all other functions that may be assigned by the Global Director.

Selection Criteria

• Advanced degree in economics or related field, with a minimum of 15 years of experience in positions of growing complexity and responsibility• Recognized leadership inside and outside the World Bank Group on the issues of education policies in low income and low-and middle- income countries and the expertise on issues including several of the core areas described above • Internationally recognized as a leading authority in high level policy, academic and knowledge work related to education issues• Demonstrated impact on operational strategies, policy and program development• Experience with a wide range of Bank products including lending, analytical and knowledge work will be a plus• Respected in the World Bank Group and in the larger international community as a leader on education issues• A passion for delivering results for poor people through enhanced education.• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

In addition to the standard World Bank core competencies with respect to knowledge, leadership, innovation and results, the following are characteristics we hope for in a Senior Advisor:

• Passion for the work of the World Bank and the education sector• Deep technical knowledge and credibility• Excellent track record in leading analytical and project work• Ability to make connections in substance and teams across topics, GSGs, sectors, organizations• Enthusiasm for promoting technical space for knowledge exchange and for promoting technical expertise of others • Energy and enthusiasm for community building, learning, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.• Leadership through influence of ideas rather than the authority of position or budget• Deep knowledge of the World Bank and how it functions• Track record of leading large teams and delivering complex tasks• Excellent communications skills in English - formal and informal, oral and written, for technical and lay audiences• Fluency in other working languages of the World Bank is highly valued• Background in a range of country contexts (regions, income levels, stability/fragility, shape of education systems) is highly valued.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

This internal requisition is open to WBG andIMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case anexternal candidate applies, their application will not be considered.

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