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E T Temporary

Job #: req30854

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Administration/Office Support

Grade: ET2

Term Duration: 1 yr 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Bangkok,Thailand

Required Language(s): Thai, English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 12/26/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

The World Bank Group is among the largest sources of funding and information for creating nations; a singular international partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty, growing shared prosperity and selling sustainable growth. With 189 member nations and greater than 120 places of work worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking tasks and utilizing knowledge, analysis, and expertise to develop options to essentially the most pressing international challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

World Bank Group Context

Innovation and partnership bond the 5 establishments of the World Bank Group (WBG): the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), which collectively type the World Bank; the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank Group is among the world’s largest sources of funding and information for creating nations. It makes use of monetary assets and in depth expertise to assist our shopper nations to scale back poverty, improve financial development, and enhance high quality of life. To make sure that nations can entry the perfect international experience and assist generate cutting-edge information, the World Bank Group is consistently in search of to enhance the way in which it really works. Key priorities embody delivering measurable outcomes, selling openness and transparency in growth, and enhancing entry to growth info and knowledge.

Regional Context

The East Asia and Pacific Region presents a dramatic illustration of the principal international dynamics, alternatives and dangers of the twenty first century. After making the quickest progress in development and poverty discount of any area all over the world within the final quarter century, some nations within the area are poised to turn into middle-income, and others are making ready to affix the small group of high-income nations. Such fast transformation is resulting in the most important shift in rural-to-urban inhabitants in human historical past, producing rising inequality inside and throughout nations, whereas leaving some nations, sub-national areas and teams behind. The persevering with international monetary disaster additionally threatens the sustainability of the positive aspects with nations throughout the area being pressured to handle the ensuing impacts on macroeconomic stability, financial development, employment and poverty.

Unit Context

The BMPT Country Management Unit (CMU), manages the World Bank’s packages in Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, 4 dynamic nations in Southeast Asia. There is appreciable variation in this system throughout the 4 nations – the Philippines continues as an IBRD Borrower with a powerful analytical and technical help program; Thailand has a brand new and rising RAS program and quite a few belief funded operations; Malaysia is the home of a Malaysia-government financed WBG Knowledge and Research Hub and a longtime RAS program; and Brunei is a high-income nation with an rising RAS program. The frequent thread is the significance of the information partnership among the many Bank and the host governments and different companions. This information partnership is vibrant and modern and has thrilling potential to carry the event expertise of all 4 nations to the

Thailand Context: Over the final 4 many years, Thailand has made outstanding progress in social and financial growth, shifting from a low-income to an higher middle-income nation in lower than a era. As such, Thailand has been a broadly cited growth success story, with sustained sturdy development and spectacular poverty discount. Thailand’s financial system grew at a mean annual price of seven.5% within the growth years of 1960-1996 and 5% throughout 1999-2005 following the Asian Financial Crisis. This development created tens of millions of jobs that helped pull tens of millions of individuals out of poverty. Gains alongside a number of dimensions of welfare have been spectacular: extra kids are getting extra years of training, and just about everyone seems to be now lined by medical health insurance whereas different types of social safety have expanded.

However, the expansion prospects from the export-led mannequin that not way back powered a lot of Thailand’s financial development appear to have diminished considerably, owing to a stagnation in productiveness. Average development in whole issue productiveness (TFP) stagnated from a excessive of three.6% each year through the early 2000s to only 1.3% throughout 2009-2017. Private funding declined from greater than 40% in 1997 to 16.9% of GDP in 2019, whereas overseas direct funding flows and participation in international worth chains have proven indicators of stagnation.

Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a blow to the financial system, aggravating the structural challenges. In 2020, the financial system contracted by 6.1%. This is sharply steeper than the decline that occurred through the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (0.3% in 2008) and second solely to the 7.2% contraction in 1998, the sharpest full-year financial contraction previously 25 years. A fast cellphone survey by the World Bank carried out from April to June 2021 estimated that greater than 70% of households skilled a decline of their earnings since March 2020, with weak teams being hit hardest.

Thailand has made outstanding progress in decreasing poverty from 58% in 1990 to six.8% in 2020 pushed by excessive development charges and structural transformation. But 79% of the poor stay in rural areas and primarily in agricultural households. Thailand’s poverty discount slowed from 2015 onwards with poverty growing in 2016, 2018 and 2020, mirroring a slowing financial system, stagnating farm and enterprise incomes and the COVID-19 disaster. It finds that in 2020, the poverty price was over 3 share factors increased in rural areas than in city zones and the variety of rural poor outnumbered the city poor by virtually 2.3 million. The distribution of poverty has additionally been uneven throughout geographic areas with the poverty price within the South and within the Northeast virtually double the poverty price on the nationwide stage.

During the previous twenty years, Thailand has made progress in direction of decreasing its vital ranges of inequality. Yet inequality stays excessive. In 2021, with an earnings Gini coefficient of 43.3 %, Thailand nonetheless had the best stage of income-based inequality in EAP, and it ranked because the thirteenth most unequal of the 63 nations for which earnings Gini coefficients can be found. Inequality is especially excessive when contemplating the focus of earnings and wealth, as over half of the nation’s wealth is held by the richest 10 % of the inhabitants.

According to the East Asia and Pacific Economic Update April 2024, development is projected to speed up from 1.9 % in 2023 to 2.8 % in 2024. The outlook for 2024 is weaker than beforehand projected on account of dimmer export and public funding prospects. Tourism and personal consumption will likely be key drivers. Goods exports are anticipated to develop on account of favorable international commerce regardless of the slowing Chinese financial system. Tourism restoration is projected to return to pre-pandemic ranges in mid-2025. Tourist arrivals are projected to succeed in 90 % of pre-pandemic ranges in 2024. Thailand’s fiscal response to COVID-19 considerably mitigated the impression of the disaster on family welfare. Poverty is, nonetheless, projected to rise to six.6% in 2022 from 6.3% in 2021 because the COVID-19 aid measures begin to be phased out amid elevated inflation. Additional shocks, together with a renewed spike in vitality costs, could additional erode fiscal area until extra focused and cost-effective social help measures are launched.

DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Team Assistant carries out the total vary of workplace assist work, together with managing processes and monitoring schedules associated to their workforce’s/unit’s merchandise and duties. With supervision starting from near minimal, the TA works straight with different employees throughout the unit to make a contribution to the general achievement of the unit’s work program.

TA will present a variety of assist assist to the Unit. Her/his duties and duties will embody, however not restricted to, the next:

• Uses phrase processing or desktop publishing expertise to supply complicated textual content, stories, figures, graphs, and so on., in accordance with normal Bank codecs and distribution
• Coordinates schedules taking priorities under consideration, displays adjustments, and communicates the data to acceptable employees, inside and out of doors the speedy work unit, together with officers outdoors the Bank Group
• Solves non-routine issues
• Assists in preparation and logistical planning for varied occasions, e.g. conferences, workshops, negotiations, and so on.
• In conjunction with and beneath steering from employees in a particular self-discipline (i.e., Resource Management, and so on.) monitor particular actions, (i.e., process, funds, and so on.) inside their groups or clusters.
• Maintains present distribution lists, cellphone/deal with lists of challenge/product contacts, and distributes paperwork for the workforce
• Maintains up-to-date work unit challenge and different information (each paper and digital)
• Assists workforce or work unit by translating/drafting quite a lot of routine paperwork, making use of efficient proofreading and grammar expertise in English and Thai
• Performs duties which depend on programs and processes distinctive to the World Bank, together with SAP
• Serve as an info useful resource on standing of challenge/merchandise (e.g. procurement, disbursement, audit, belief fund/co-financing, and authorized points) and draft quite a lot of normal project-related correspondence
• Suggests methods to boost work group and effectiveness

Selection Criteria

We are trying for a proactive candidate who’s dedicated and pushed to ship high quality outputs. The key choice standards for this place are: Minimum Education/Experience at recruitment/choice

• At least High School diploma. Bachelor Degree or equal in Business Administration, Economics or different associated discipline a bonus. ehUeE5x B4u1AW
• A minimal of three years {of professional} working expertise in associated discipline
• Excellent communication expertise and the flexibility to command each written and spoken of Thai and English
• Computer literate Specialized Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
• Proficient in normal Microsoft Office application (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong shopper responsiveness/service orientation
• Ability to work as an integral part of the workforce’s work and program
• Good information of and a few expertise in specialised administrative/operational assist features (e.g., database administration, information administration, process administration, main occasion/course planning, and so on.) and skill to help in making use of related procedures, processes and programs
• Ability to investigate and apply sensible problem-solving expertise and resourcefulness in performing duties
• Ability to handle a number of duties without delay and know the place to acquire related info
• Ability to retrieve, collect and acquire info from varied sources (Internet, and so on.) and pull them collectively in a usable format
• Good organizational expertise and skill to prioritize and ship assignments in a well timed method typically beneath time pressures
• Ability to make sound and rational choices in a consensual method, understanding of boundaries of duty for resolution making and discernment to know when to hunt steering
• Strong inter-personal expertise and dedication to work in a team-oriented, multi-cultural surroundings
• Ability to arrange presentation supplies utilizing varied software program packages with some steering.
• Strong English and Thai language expertise (verbal and written), together with skill to draft normal correspondence and edit primary supplies utilizing correct grammar, punctuation and elegance

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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Note: The chosen candidate will likely be supplied 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 will not be eligible for future ET appointments.