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Senior Environmental Economist/Specialist

Job #: req31766

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Environment

Grade: GG

Term Duration: 4 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: International Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): French

Closing Date: 2/28/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you need to construct a profession that’s actually worthwhile? The World Bank Group is likely one of the largest sources of funding and information for creating nations; a singular world partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty and selling shared prosperity. With 189 member nations and greater than 120 workplaces worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking tasks and utilizing knowledge, analysis, and expertise to develop options to probably the most pressing world challenges. For extra info, go to www.worldbank.org.

Working on the World Bank Group supplies 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 information 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 tasks and utilizing knowledge, analysis, and expertise to develop options to probably the most pressing world challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org .

The Environment (ENV) Department has 5 key enterprise strains consisting of Lending and non-lending companies in (1) Forests, Watersheds and Sustainable Landscapes (‘Green Business line’); (2) Marine, Coastal, Aquatic Resources and Ocean Health (‘Blue Economy Business line’); (3) Pollution Management and Environmental Health (‘Pollution Management Business line’); (4) Environmental Economics, Policies and Institutions Business line, and (5) Safeguards/ Environmental Risk Management Business line: supply of efficient environmental threat administration and sustainability by managing threat on the challenge stage and creating alternatives to advance sustainable growth. This contains provision of high-quality and well timed safeguards companies throughout the Bank, together with present safeguards insurance policies and the efficient implementation of the brand new Environment and Social Framework (ESF) that was rolled out on October 1, 2018

The ENV Department in Sub Saharan Africa consists of 4 items: Two in West and Central Africa Region, and two in East and Southern Africa Region. SAWE4 covers elements of West and Central (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Gabon). The unit manages operations and analytical actions in quite a lot of areas equivalent to pure assets administration (together with land, coastal and marine assets), air pollution and local weather change. In addition, the unit, like different ENV GP items supplies environmental safeguards and ESF companies throughout all sectors and tasks.

We are in search of a extremely skilled Senior Environmental Economist/Specialist with a powerful observe document in operational management, together with TTL accreditation for IPFs, ideally additionally DPOs and with expertise in PforRs. The candidate will need to have efficiently led advanced, multi-sectoral operations throughout areas, with a confirmed capability to have interaction with purchasers, the non-public sector, and exterior companions. Experience in managing belief funds is important, together with a historical past of coordinating cross-disciplinary actions inside various organizational constructions. Other space s of curiosity for this place contains demonstrated capability to guide high-quality analytical duties that embrace environmentally associated knowledge and knowledge, linking these analyses to nation growth priorities and financial impacts, and skill to establish long-range targets and aims, develop strategic approaches, and conceptualize multi-year plans to operationalize and implement these methods utilizing Bank devices. Experience working in a number of areas, together with FCV nations, in addition to management and mentoring expertise, are essential for this place.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Senior Environment Economist/Specialist will likely be primarily based in Washington, DC and will likely be main and/or supporting a broad and evolving portfolio of lending and coverage dialogue in all ENV enterprise strains. The place requires frequent journey throughout the nation, together with FCV settings. The chosen candidate will work underneath the supervision of the Practice Manager for SAWE4 primarily based within the WB’s Washington Office. He/she could have the next essential duties and obligations:

• Lead the identification, design and implementation help of environmental lending packages and tasks.
• Lead and help strategic dialogue and with a giant emphasis on enterprise growth, working throughout all ENV enterprise strains. Facilitate, have interaction in, and form coverage dialogues, figuring out purchasers’ precedence wants for lending, analytical help, and advisory companies in relation to pure useful resource economic system, together with fisheries and forestry.
• Support nation group with ENV inputs to preparation of nation technique merchandise (SCD, CPFs, PLRs, and so forth.).
• Provide and mobilize technical help in help of shopper wants to enhance capability for NRM, from inside the Bank’s world community and out of doors.
• Working throughout sectors, have interaction with different practices, apply teams and entities of the WBG to innovate and develop impactful packages. Collaborate intently with World Bank Global Practices and IFC/MIGA colleagues on joint tasks and with different colleagues from different multilateral growth establishments.
• Mobilize grant and/or local weather co-financing for IBRD/IDA operations or standalone grants.
• Provide strategic and technical management of programmatic ASAs/deliverables that span a spread of environmental and NRM subjects.
• Coordinate and perform different duties as requested by the Manager, equivalent to contributing to the group of coaching or information sharing occasions.
• Support the Practice Manager within the WPA preparation and dialogue with the nation groups.
• Prepare briefs and speaking factors on key ENV points and report, as wanted to PM, on progress of ENV actions,
• Lead and/or contribute to inputs from ENV on authorities’s strategic planning; and
• Participate in Country and Planet Team conferences.
• In collaboration with the Regional Manager, coach and mentor unit workers working within the nation workplace.

Selection Criteria

• A Master’s diploma or above in Applied Economics, Environmental Economics, Finance, Environmental Science, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Management, environmental engineering or one other environmental self-discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years of worldwide skilled expertise within the atmosphere and pure assets administration sector, together with confirmed expertise in ENV enterprise strains.
• Quantitative coaching in economics, econometrics or quantitative financial modeling.
• Candidates with macroeconomics and monetary administration coaching centered on atmosphere and pure assets coverage in addition to with the intersection with jobs are additionally inspired to apply.
• Knowledge and expertise engaged on built-in financial and ecosystem modeling could be a bonus
• Familiarity and a few work expertise with Natural Capital Accounting, notably within the context of the System of Economic and Environmental Accounts (SEEA)
• Environmental Economics – Deep technical information of financial ideas related to atmosphere.
• Deep information of the atmosphere sectors, insurance policies, and establishments, together with forestry, Sustainable land administration, and/or fisheries.
• Proven observe document of main preparation and implementation help with robust operational expertise (together with being TTL-accredited for IPFs; ideally additionally DPFs, expertise with PforRs, in addition to TF and ASAs), with stable expertise in shopper engagement and a track-record in main regional/multisectoral work. emrvGXw DPiG6b
• A demonstrated track-record in managing advanced operations, engagement with the non-public sector and multisectoral work and fund-raising for and administration of belief funds is essential.
• Demonstrated capability to guide high-quality policy-relevant analytical duties linked to nation growth priorities and financial impacts and translate analytics into coverage and operational related actions.
• Demonstrated capability to successfully coordinate actions involving a number of disciplines and organizational items. Demonstrated observe document managing a portfolio of large-scale funding tasks, is required.
• Having labored as TTL/co-TTL for a CCDR is a plus.
• Ability to establish long-range targets and aims, develop strategic approaches, and conceptualize multi-year plans to operationalize and implement these methods utilizing Bank devices.
• Strong outcomes orientation, with capability to comply with up a number of work-streams concurrently working underneath tight timelines.
• Ability to speak concepts clearly and confidently, articulate points and advocate options.
• Field expertise in challenge preparation and supervision, working intently with shopper and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated capability to guide high-quality analytical duties that embrace atmosphere associated knowledge and knowledge, linking these analyses to nation growth priorities and financial impacts.
• Excellent inter-personal and group management expertise and skill to simply work together with folks of various backgrounds and seniority inside and out of doors the World Bank, together with purchasers and companions.
• Experience working in FCV is required.
• Strong nation workplace expertise could be a plus.
• Ability and willingness to journey steadily, together with to distant, fragile and battle affected areas, is required.
• Excellent verbal and written English language expertise are important; and French language expertise could be extremely desired.
• Good group participant with expertise as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural group, and confirmed capability to encourage and lead group efforts, and community successfully throughout boundaries. Competencies
• Knowledge and Experience in Development Arena – Understands coverage making course of; distills operationally related suggestions/classes for purchasers.
• Policy Dialogue Skills – Identifies and assesses coverage points and performs an lively function within the dialogue with the federal government and/or different stakeholders.
• Integrative Skills – Working to develop an built-in view throughout all aspects of present sector.
• Environmental Policy, Strategy and Institutions – Familiarity with environmental insurance policies, methods, establishments, and laws.
• Environmental Sciences – Depth in a minimum of one space: water; ecosystems; forests; conservation; agriculture issues, and so forth.
• Lead and Innovate – Develops revolutionary options.
• Deliver Results for Clients – Proactively addresses purchasers acknowledged and unspoken wants.
• Collaborate inside Teams and Across Boundaries – Collaborates throughout boundaries, provides personal perspective and willingly receives various views.
• Create, Apply and Share Knowledge – Applies information throughout WBG to strengthen options for inner and/or exterior purchasers.
• Make Smart Decisions – Interprets a variety of data and pushes to maneuver ahead

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