Apply for Extended Term Consultant, Washington, United States Job Vacancy | Position

E T Consultant

Job #: req30797

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Social Protection

Grade: EC2

Term Duration: 1 yr 0 months

Recruitment Type: International Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 1/3/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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The World Bank’s Social Protection & Jobs group within the South Asia area is looking for an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to help the Bank’s rising engagement on subjects associated to labor markets, abilities improvement, and migration in South Asia. This will embrace enterprise advisory providers and analytics, in addition to offering technical help to energetic and pipeline operations.

South Asia has taken large strides in poverty discount over the previous few a long time. Poverty charges utilizing two worldwide poverty traces— 2017 buying energy parity (PPP) USD 2.15 per individual per day and USD 3.65 per individual per day—decreased considerably over the previous 20 years. Progress was partially as a result of excessive financial progress and extra spending on security nets and provision of packages which have helped help consumption and defend human capital investments of the poor and susceptible. For instance, in Bangladesh, social sector spending within the FY 2021-22 finances made up 2.3 % of complete GDP.

Despite progress, a big share of households and people in South Asia stay susceptible and are near falling again in poverty. In truth, households with consumption per individual between 2017 PPP USD 2.15 and USD 3.65 a day account for roughly a 3rd of the poor. One of the explanations for persistent ranges of vulnerability is as a result of area’s restricted creation of high quality jobs. Between 2000 and 2020, round 386 million South Asians entered the working-age inhabitants, whereas solely 81 million jobs have been added to the financial system. Job creation is primarily affected by financial progress, which is generally pushed by the non-tradable sector, and by the dominance of microenterprises within the personal sector, which have excessive survival charges however fail to develop. Limited availability of high quality jobs coincides with general low ranges of labor pressure participation, particularly amongst girls and youth.

Moreover, the labor pressure suffers from low ranges of human capital. Many staff enter the labor market unskilled and with no formal schooling, usually as a result of inequities in well being and schooling that begin earlier in life. While within the labor market, only a few staff obtain any coaching that may enhance their human capital and permit them to maneuver to higher jobs. Often, trainings are usually not sufficiently linked to personal sector demand. Women face extra restricted skilling and employability prospects when in comparison with males, as they’re much less prone to obtain vocational coaching.

South Asian economies are additionally outlined by a big share of working-age people, principally low-skilled males concentrated in few sectors, shifting overseas for non permanent employment as a result of restricted wage job alternatives, primarily to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) international locations and Malaysia. Migration has performed a key position in poverty discount and in relieving the strain on home labor markets. However, international locations are going through elevated challenges associated to the necessity to diversify sectors and locations of migration, significantly to answer shifts in world labor demand. In addition, current outmigration of excessive expert professionals in small South Asian international locations, corresponding to Bhutan, are fueling issues about “brain drain” amongst coverage makers. Crises corresponding to COVID-19 pandemic additionally offered a direct problem of serving to returning migrants reintegrate into the home labor markets by strengthening skills-development and job-matching packages.

The World Bank has a big analytical and lending portfolio in South Asia to help Government counterparts sort out these points. In Bhutan, the World Bank is engaged operationally on points associated to constructing human capital and bettering its utilization within the labor market by way of the Human Capital Recovery and Resilience Program (HCRRP) and the Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Program (AMCHP). This engagement is supported by the Early Learning Partnership (ELP) and Japan Social Development Funds (JSFD), particularly on strengthening linkages between early childhood agenda and ladies’s financial participation outcomes. The World Bank can be engaged in Bhutan on the current difficulty of (out)migration amongst expert professionals and its connection to restricted job creation within the personal sector. Relatedly, in Nepal, the World Bank is supporting bettering the productiveness of casual staff by way of the Youth Employment Transformation Initiative (YETI) operation, supported by a grant from the Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility (KWPF).

Roles and Responsibilities

As a member of the Social Protection and Jobs South Asia group, the chosen ETC will likely be anticipated to: * Support advisory providers and analytics associated to designing and implementing surveys on casual enterprises/staff, migration, and testing of various fashions of early childhood care and improvement facilities to enhance feminine labor pressure participation charges amongst younger moms.

* Conduct superior knowledge evaluation and put together technical enter to tell coverage making and the design of related interventions in forthcoming operations on subjects associated to labor markets, abilities improvement, feminine labor pressure participation, and migration in South Asia.

* Support World Bank Operational Task Teams on implementation help of choose technical elements inside human capital initiatives and advance coverage dialogue on design changes and shifting to scale.

* Support the method of figuring out potential financing for technical help and/or analysis actions, and the preparation of related proposals.

* Support the group of session workshops, information exchanges, and dissemination actions, together with the preparation of related materials.

* Prepare and/or present suggestions to phrases of reference, technical research, administration briefing notes, information dissemination materials, and many others.

While the work program will primarily give attention to Nepal and Bhutan, the chosen ETC could also be anticipated to increase analytical and operational help to different international locations in South Asia on jobs and labor markets as an rising space of precedence within the area. Contributions to different associated social safety coverage, analytical or operational actions, might also be required.

Selection Criteria

• Master of Science in Economics or a associated self-discipline with minimal of 5 (5) years of related skilled expertise.
• Demonstrated expertise in main survey design and implementation.
• Strong quantitative analytical abilities and confirmed means to conduct policy-relevant analysis, translate principle into sensible purposes, and apply skilled information and technical abilities to diagnose and suggest options to coverage challenges.

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• Demonstrated expertise engaged on labor economics-related subjects, corresponding to informality, abilities improvement packages, feminine labor pressure participation, and childcare in low-income and decrease middle-income nation contexts. Specific expertise with Nepal and Bhutan can be a bonus.
• Demonstrated expertise in using superior statistical evaluation to help the design of analytical and operational World Bank initiatives.
• Experience in coverage dialogue with purchasers, capability constructing for implementing entities, managing relationships with exterior partnerships, and information dissemination for stakeholders.
• Experience in producing prime quality paperwork, evidenced by lead or co-authorship of technical papers, analysis studies, or journal articles.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities, with confirmed means to work in a group and intercultural surroundings, with minimal supervision.

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Note: The chosen candidate will likely be provided a one-year appointment, renewable on the discretion of the World Bank Group, and topic to a lifetime most ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends earlier than a full yr, it’s thought-about as a full yr towards the lifetime most. Former and present ET employees who’ve accomplished all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are usually not eligible for future ET appointments.