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External Affairs Officer

Job #: req30836

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Communications

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Sydney,Australia

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 singular alternative for you to assist our purchasers clear up their best growth challenges. The World Bank Group is likely one of the largest sources of funding and data for creating nations; a singular world 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 know-how to develop options to essentially the most pressing world challenges. For extra info, 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 help for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group’s function as a worldwide thought chief in growth by enhancing and safeguarding its fame, and supporting operational groups to attain nation outcomes. ECR manages company communications and world 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 fame threat.

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 planet. Over the previous twenty years, most nations within the area have achieved sturdy and secure progress that has lifted tons of of tens of millions 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 aim 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 Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are part of the nation administration unit (CMU) managed by the Country Director in Sydney workplace. The World Bank’s Pacific Island member nations have a mixed inhabitants of about 2.3 million folks, unfold over an space equal to fifteen% of the earth’s floor. The Pacific Island nations have substantial pure assets and extraordinary linguistic and cultural variety. However, they’re bodily distant, have small populations unfold throughout many islands, and are a few of the world’s most weak nations to the impacts of local weather change and pure disasters. PNG has a exceptional variety of geographic and pure assets and has inhabitants of over 11.78 million folks is younger and rising with 85% of Papua New Guineans residing in rural areas. The nation’s wealthy tradition is advanced and deeply rooted in tribal and ethnic id and relationships to the land. These contribute each to the nation’s distinctive challenges in addition to its appreciable resilience.

The ECREA group:

• Provides strategic help to operations by embedding communications into the operations challenge cycle and reform processes and tells the story of the affect and outcomes of World Bank help to its purchasers.
• 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 help for the WBG’s work within the area and in-country.
• Provides steering, evaluation, and recommendation because the trusted advisor to regional and nation administration groups to assist place the Bank because the companion of alternative, 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 underneath the general supervision of the External Affairs Manager as a member of a small Papua New Guinea and Pacific communications group and a bigger, decentralized regional communications group. The place will likely be primarily based in Sydney.His/her particular duties and accountabilities embrace however is probably not restricted to the next: The particular duties and accountabilities embrace:

Development and implementation of communication methods:

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

Proactive positioning of World Bank help to PNG and Pacific:

• Develop content material for affect tales.
• Monitor perceptions, monitor shifts in opinion, and reply to inquiries.
• Package info about challenge targets, milestones, and affect.
• Provide political financial system evaluation together with common monitoring of the media.

Production of communication merchandise:

• Responsible for planning and delivering a variety of compelling merchandise that inform the story of the World Bank’s operational targets, outcomes, and data in PNG and Pacific – starting from press releases and Op-Eds to net 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, Papua New Guinea and Pacific group merchandise, together with press releases, op-eds, speaking factors, blogs, movies/multimedia merchandise, and speeches, amongst others, and make sure that merchandise are ready and issued on time and to a excessive customary of high quality. This includes helping Papua New Guinea and Pacific group members in nation workplaces (and serving to to construct their capability as wanted).

Support to operations:

• Provide recommendation and help to operational groups, in addition to enter all through challenge cycles, together with feedback throughout challenge preparation.

Partnership and stakeholder relations:

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• Identify stakeholders, opinion leaders, and influential organizations in EAP and information a technique of engagement with these stakeholders, which could vary from media and parliamentarians to faith-based organizations to enterprise associations.
• Responsible for convening stakeholder teams for consultations and structured dialogues round initiatives, data outputs, and nation growth priorities, in addition to common press briefings 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 exhibit logic and prioritize a number of calls for, typically 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 abilities, together with the power to talk persuasively and current concepts clearly and concisely; capacity to put in writing rapidly/concisely on quite a lot of subjects in a well-structured method.
• Strong analytical and integrative abilities; in a position to synthesize advanced points and substantial documentation into efficient oral and written briefs.
• Understanding of the Bank Group’s inside and exterior working setting. 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 info.
• Demonstrated capacity to work flexibly on a variety of assignments, modify 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 degree.
• Strong diplomacy abilities and sensitivity to the WBG’s inside and exterior relationships. Ability to train judgment, tact, and discretion, together with in coping with delicate and confidential issues.
• Ability to investigate and synthesize advanced points and to speak to others in a transparent and concise manner.
• Strong organizational abilities, confirmed capacity to carry out a number of duties, prioritize deliverables and work underneath stress and tight deadlines with accuracy and professionalism.
• Ability to work each independently and in various groups.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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

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