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External Affairs Officer

Job #: req30835

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Communications

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Jakarta,Indonesia

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 1/17/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you wish to construct a profession that’s really worthwhile? Working on the World Bank Group offers a novel alternative for you to assist our shoppers clear up their best growth challenges. The World Bank Group is without doubt one of the largest sources of funding and data for growing nations; a novel 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 workplaces worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking initiatives and utilizing knowledge, analysis, and expertise to develop options to essentially the most pressing international challenges. For extra data, go to www.worldbank.org

External and Corporate Relations Vice-Presidency (ECR)

The mission of External and Corporate Relations (ECR) is to assist ship monetary and political assist for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group’s position as a worldwide thought chief in growth by enhancing and safeguarding its status, and supporting operational groups to realize nation outcomes. ECR manages company communications and international engagement with key stakeholders, together with media, civil society, foundations, the non-public sector, donor nations, and worldwide organizations, in addition to worker engagement. ECR additionally manages strategic communications for the World Bank’s Regions and Global Practices and leads the administration of status danger.

The East Asia Pacific External and Corporate Relations Unit (ECREA)

The East Asia and Pacific area stays one of many fastest-growing and most dynamic areas on the earth. Over the previous 20 years, most nations within the area have achieved sturdy and steady development that has lifted lots of of hundreds of thousands of individuals out of poverty and remodeled economies throughout the area. Many East Asia and Pacific nations have risen to upper-middle revenue standing and have set the purpose of reaching high-income standing within the close to to medium time period. The East Asia and Pacific area consists of 23 nations and 6 Country Management Units.

The largest economic system in Southeast Asia, Indonesia – a various archipelago nation of greater than 300 ethnic teams – has charted spectacular financial development since overcoming the Asian monetary disaster of the late Nineteen Nineties. Today, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous nation and tenth largest economic system by way of buying energy parity. Further, Indonesia has made huge features in poverty discount, slicing the poverty charge by greater than half since 1999, to beneath 10 p.c in 2019 earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Indonesia is pursuing a 20-year growth plan, spanning from 2005 to 2025. The plan is segmented into 5-year medium-term growth plans referred to as RPJMN (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional), every with a distinct set of growth priorities. The present plan, the final part of the 20-year imaginative and prescient, goals to additional strengthen Indonesia’s economic system by enhancing the nation’s human capital and competitiveness within the international market.

The ECREA staff:

• Provides strategic assist to operations by embedding communications into the operations undertaking cycle and reform processes and tells the story of the influence and outcomes of World Bank assist to its shoppers.
• Proactively works to strengthen strategic relationships and alliances with key influencers in civil society, media, academia, suppose tanks, Parliament, faith-based teams, labor teams, and many others., to construct political assist for the WBG’s work within the area and in-country.
• Provides steerage, evaluation, and recommendation because the trusted advisor to regional and nation administration groups to assist place the Bank because the accomplice of selection, capitalize on alternatives to inform the event story, and collaborate with operational groups to handle dangers.

Note: If the chosen candidate is a present Bank Group employees member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he’ll retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. Others will likely be appointed to a Term appointment.

Responsibilities

The External Affairs Officer works beneath the general supervision of the External Affairs Manager as a member of a small HQ-based staff and a bigger, decentralized regional staff. His/her particular duties and accountabilities embody however will not be restricted to the next: The particular duties and accountabilities embody: Development and implementation of communication methods:

• Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing methods to advertise efficient communications with exterior and inner audiences on World Bank-financed operations, analysis merchandise, and campaigns.
• Help decide the simplest content material and communications interventions to deal with challenges.

Production of communication merchandise:

• Responsible for planning and delivering a spread of compelling merchandise that inform the story of the World Bank’s operational targets, outcomes, and data in EAP – starting from press releases and Op-Eds to internet options, documentary movies, brochures, Q&As, briefing notes, speeches, and updates to the nation web site and associated World Bank social media channels.
• Produce and edit, as wanted, CMU merchandise, together with press releases, op-eds, speaking factors, blogs, movies/multimedia merchandise, and speeches, amongst others, and be sure that merchandise are ready and issued on time and to a excessive customary of high quality.
• Advise, share data on greatest observe in growing communciations merchandise focused to nation wants. This includes helping ECREA staff members in nation workplaces (and serving to to construct their capability as wanted).

Support to operations:

• Provide recommendation and assist to operational groups with the purpose of reaching numerous audiences and constructing assist and a greater understanding of the World Bank’s contribution to ending excessive poverty on a livable planet.
• Provide insights on reputational danger by means of common evaluate of media/specifically social media

Proactive positioning of World Bank assist to the EAP:

• Develop content material for influence tales.
• Monitor perceptions, monitor shifts in opinion, and reply to inquiries.
• Package information about undertaking targets, milestones, and influence.

Partnership and stakeholder/beneficiary relations:

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• Identify alternatives to kind partnerships each inside and outdoors the Bank to enhance dialogue, outreach and public understanding of the Bank and its work, collaborating with others to deal with the wants of the beneficiaries
• Convene numerous stakeholder teams for consultations and structured dialogues round initiatives, data outputs, and nation growth priorities, in addition to common and different advert hoc engagements.

Selection Criteria

• A Master’s diploma with 5 years of related expertise or equal mixture of training and expertise in a related self-discipline (communication, journalism, worldwide affairs, or different associated fields).
• Ability to display logic and prioritize a number of calls for, usually arising on quick discover.
• Self-starter, fast learner, ready to go searching the nook; problem-solving and outcomes mindset; monitor file of delivering high-quality work.
• Excellent communication expertise, together with the flexibility to talk persuasively and current concepts clearly and concisely; means to write down rapidly/concisely on a wide range of subjects in a well-structured method.
• Strong analytical and integrative expertise; capable of synthesize complicated points and substantial documentation into efficient oral and written briefs.
• Understanding of the Bank Group’s inner and exterior working atmosphere. Sound communications/stakeholder engagement expertise, and stable understanding of Bank operations.
• High diploma of ethics, discretion, tact, and sensitivity in coping with others and in dealing with confidential and delicate data.
• Demonstrated means to work flexibly on a spread of assignments, alter to adjustments in schedule and priorities, juggle concurrent duties, and work with very tight deadlines.
• Strong proclivity for teamwork together with an open and collegial work type and a excessive vitality stage.
• Strong diplomacy expertise and sensitivity to the WBG’s inner and exterior relationships. Ability to train judgment, tact, and discretion, together with in coping with delicate and confidential issues.
• Ability to research and synthesize complicated points and to speak to others in a transparent and concise approach.
• Strong organizational expertise, confirmed means to carry out a number of duties, prioritize deliverables and work beneath strain and tight deadlines with accuracy and professionalism.
• Ability to work each independently and in numerous groups.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group gives complete advantages, together with a retirement plan; medical, life and incapacity insurance coverage; and paid go away, together with parental go away, in addition to cheap lodging for people with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal alternative and inclusive employer with a devoted and dedicated workforce, and don’t discriminate based mostly on gender, gender id, faith, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or incapacity.

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