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

E T Consultant

Job #: req30848

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Procurement

Grade: EC1

Term Duration: 1 12 months 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

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

Description

Do you need to construct a profession that’s actually worthwhile? Working on the World Bank Group offers a novel alternative for you to assist our shoppers resolve their best improvement challenges. The World Bank Group is without doubt one of the largest sources of funding and data for growing nations; a novel world partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty, rising shared prosperity and selling sustainable improvement. 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 world challenges. For extra data, go to www.worldbank.org.

OPCS Vice Presidency Context

Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) performs a pivotal position in reaching the WBG’s mission, to finish excessive poverty and increase prosperity on a livable planet. OPCS is on the heart of operations and supply and serves because the again workplace for operations for the WB’s Managing Director, Operations (MDOPS). The VPU helps foster hyperlinks between Global Practices and the Regions, whereas aiding frontline workers in delivering outcomes to shoppers by sound operations coverage and robust nation help. OPCS develops and oversees the WB’s operational insurance policies for nation methods, lending operations, advisory providers and analytical help, monetary administration, procurement, and environmental and social safeguards. This consists of advising and offering hands-on help on the WB’s insurance policies, processes, and threat administration associated to operations (e.g. use of financing devices; on procurement, monetary administration, and safeguards issues; and on outcomes administration). OPCS can also be accountable for modernizing operational devices (lending and non-lending) to assist the WB turn out to be extra conscious of a rustic’s wants. Several company features carried out by OPCS embody coordinating exchanges with the Board (particularly, the Committee on Development Effectiveness), managing interactions with the WB’s oversight items, and representing the WB in a number of world partnerships.

OPCS is organized into the Front Office and 4 departments:

• The Front Office (OPSFO) focuses on supporting the OPCS Vice President (VP) within the administration of the operations advanced and the supply of key company coverage commitments and reforms.
• Operations Standards, Procurement, Financial Management (OPSPF) is accountable for safeguards, procurement, monetary administration and anti-corruption insurance policies and help to operations;
• Operations Policy (OPSPO) consolidates the company help and oversight of nation methods and all financing and advisory devices in addition to managing the Operations Committee and the Operations Help Desk;
• Operations Strategy, Risk, Results and Learning (OPSRL) focuses on WB technique; threat administration in operations, strengthening outcomes and effectiveness all through the establishment, together with the Corporate Scorecard; help to the nation administrators’ and administration communities; and operational studying; and
• Operations Standards, Environment and Social (OPSES) is accountable for the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and Safeguard Policies, together with help to operations, studying and coaching, data administration, reporting, interface with the Inspection Panel, and administration of the Grievance Redress Service (GRS).

Department Context

The Operations Standards, Procurement, and Financial Management (OPSPF) division anchors two well-established fiduciary assurance features for operations, monetary administration and procurement, which additionally play a key position in supporting governance and PFM reforms in Borrower nations and the MDBs’ harmonization agenda. These networks comprise roughly 400 workers working principally within the Regions and reporting to regional Practice Managers (PMs). OPSPF Chief Financial Management Officer and Chief Procurement Officer, who lead their respective fiduciary features, meet often with the PMs within the Bank’s areas, in addition to with the Regional Directors within the Prosperity Vice-Presidency, to whom they report, to make sure constant interpretation of related insurance policies and focus on rising points.

Procurement Context

The World Bank’s Procurement Framework, permitted in July 2015 is in operation since July 2016. It promotes tailor-made procurement approaches that emphasize alternative, high quality, and worth for public spending, whereas enabling adaptation to nation contexts. Procurement in IPF operations helps Borrowers to attain worth for cash with integrity in delivering sustainable improvement. The Procurement Framework displays the in depth suggestions acquired from activity groups and different stakeholders concerned in IPF procurements financed by the World Bank. It is designed to help a contemporary, match for objective procurement method. Over the previous a number of years, the Procurement Policy & Services (PR) anchor has been accountable for a) the modernization technique of the procurement perform in help of inside and exterior shoppers; b) mainstreaming the fiduciary mandate of assuring that the procurement of works, items and non-consulting providers and the number of consultants are carried out in accordance with Bank procurement insurance policies and procedures and the Procurement and Consultant Guidelines; c) making certain that Bank insurance policies and practices are harmonized with these of different improvement companions; and d) contributing to capability constructing efforts and procurement reform initiatives.

Duties and Accountabilities:

• Supports a number of on-going OPCS procurement initiatives, together with these associated to simplification, enterprise outreach, sustainable public procurement and updating of present Bank procurement commonplace paperwork.
• Provides specialist procurement inputs, with supporting knowledge, to: o market analysis, together with assessing the industrial context for Bank procurement; o market evaluation, together with appraisal of business choices; o strategic procurement greatest practices; o senior administration briefings; o improvement and supply of coaching supplies.
• Produce descriptive statistics
• Produce regression evaluation utilizing the datasets in Stata or R
• Contribute to producing studies and briefs for shopper and the World Bank crew
• Document work electronically and put together the next information: a. Data queries offered to groups, responses acquired, and actions taken; b. Data cleansing in a single file, (a working grasp file when a number of clear information are produced); c. Merging knowledge and setting up variables; d. Scripts or code developed in Stata or R; e. A dictionary of the ultimate knowledge set.
• Contribute to the analytical work within the unit.
• Undertakes knowledge evaluation that varieties well timed, correct inputs into administration studies and responses to exterior data requests.
• Develops collateral and communications supplies to help OPCS initiatives, together with the event of steering, coaching and e-learning supplies. ehUeBK2 DdvqkN
• Supervises of third-party contractors, such IT builders.
• Delivers coaching to each inside and exterior audiences.
• Supports the event of information on rising net-zero methods.
• Supports the event of procurement instruments that could be utilized by the Bank’s shoppers to cut back GHG emissions and obtain their web zero targets.
• Supports the Environmental and Social Framework optimization program.
• Supports the roll out of sustainable procurement steering and instruments, together with the event of a coaching pack and the event of user-specific steering for Borrowers, TLs and different goal audiences.
• Support the event of a expertise roadmap, together with endeavor analysis on the evolution of e-procurement methods and the usage of AI in procurement.

Selection Criteria

• Bachelor’s or Master’s diploma with 2 years of related expertise or equal mixture of training and expertise.
• Strong analysis and knowledge evaluation expertise.
• Skilled in analyzing a number of databases and collating knowledge to supply correct,
• Excellent oral and written expertise, complemented by the flexibility to articulate points and advocate options.
• Ability to draft parts of main studies, working papers and related paperwork.
• Sound data of worldwide public procurement practices.
• Ability to translate advanced messages and concepts into instruments which are related and helpful for practitioners working at totally different ranges of procurement complexity.
• Ability to draft technically correct studies which are fit-for-purpose, user-friendly and relevant to totally different classes of procurement, together with works, items, consultants, non-consulting providers.
• Ability to supply efficient skilled help to senior workers.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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