Public Sector Specialist - Washington, United States - World Bank Group

World Bank Group

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Washington, United States

2 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Job #:

- req27383
Organization:

World Bank
Sector:
Public Sector Development
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
2 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

5/27/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

Governance Global Practice

The GGP has the following business-lines and cross-cutting areas of focus:

Anticorruption, Openness and Transparency
Fiduciary Assurance
Public Financial Management (PFM)/Public Investment Management (PIM)
Political Economy
Public Institutions
State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)/ Corporate Governance
Subnational/Decentralization
Tax Administration

The GGP interventions range from diagnostics, technical assistance, and advisory services; learning, innovation and knowledge management; preparation of financing operations and provision of project implementation support, monitoring and reporting.

An important part of its responsibilities is to deliver operational support to other Practices, including through inputs for policy-based operations, hands-on implementation advice, and direct fiduciary due diligence of investment financing.

Regional Context

The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region comprises 30 extremely diverse countries, with a population of nearly 500 million people.

Three of our clients are IDA only and another 2 are IDA-blend countries. The remaining 25 are IBRD- eligible.

Although 10 of our clients have joined the EU and 7 of these have graduated, most continue to remain active recipients of knowledge and/or lending services.

ECA has a substantial lending pipeline as well as a portfolio of Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS), concentrated primarily in a few countries.

Knowledge is critical to the Bank's value proposition to client countries in the ECA region in both lending and advisory services.

A predominantly middle-income region, ECA's slow growth and persistently high unemployment have threatened to reverse the region's achievements in reducing poverty and increasing shared prosperity.

The region continues to struggle with multiple structural weaknesses, including high public debt burdens, tight fiscal space, low investment, and financial sector vulnerabilities.

The recent war in Ukraine, geopolitical tensions, the refugee crisis, rise in prices and complex Eurozone issues pose further challenges to the region's economic prospects.

In addition, the ECA region is highly vulnerable to climate change.

The region has a large potential to strengthen resilience to climate change and also to improve energy efficiency, thereby reducing its contribution to climate change.

Other important challenges affecting the region include poor governance, closed borders, diverse fragility risks related to regional tensions, frozen conflicts, and domestic instability in some geopolitically important countries.

In view of these challenges, the ECA regional strategy is based on three pillars: (i) Sustainable and Inclusive Growth; (ii) Human Capital; and (iii) Resilience.

Under the first pillar, the WBG supports reform programs and investments to improve government efficiency and service delivery, market creation, financial stability and connectivity for growth.

Under the second pillar of Human Capital, ECA supports programs for social inclusion, especially for unemployed youth and disadvantaged communities such as the Roma; meeting the challenge of protecting the most vulnerable, and responding to aging and health challenges.

The third pillar prioritizes climate action and building resilience to natural disasters, and facing the challenge of displaced populations.

The EECG2 Unit covers three country management units (CMUs) in

ECA:
Turkey, the Western Balkans and the EU countries.

The EECG2 portfolio includes lending instruments (PforR, IPF-DLI, IPF), Trust Funds (TFs), Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA), and Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS).

The EECG2 team also collaborates with other GPs to enhance governance in sectors.

Duties and Accountabilities

The Public Sector Specialist based in Washington DC, will make an expert technical contribution to the work of the GGP focused on the West ECA Region in the areas of decentralization, local finances and public service delivery.

His/her duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Perform Task Team Leader (TTL) or Team member duties for the preparation and management of projects, in the area of decentralization, regional and local economic development, including using PfR instruments;
Prepare and implement large multisector Trust Funds (TFs) providing advisory services and technical assistance on regional and local development to foster economic, social and institutional convergence with and within the European Union as part of its regional and cohesion programs and the EU accession process;
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