IFC Careers 2025: Apply for Operations Officer – Gender & Inclusion, South Asia

Are you captivated with driving inclusive progress and gender equality in rising markets? The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the world’s largest improvement establishment targeted on the non-public sector, is searching for a dynamic and skilled Operations Officer – Gender & Inclusion to hitch its South Asia workforce. This position is an thrilling alternative to form and ship impactful gender and inclusion initiatives in collaboration with non-public sector companions throughout South Asia, particularly in New Delhi, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Mumbai, India.

As a member of the Gender and Economic Inclusion Department (GEID), you’ll play a key position in designing and implementing transformative packages that align with the WBG Gender Strategy (2024-30) and IFC’s 2030 Roadmap for Gender and Inclusion. You will work intently with shoppers, companions, and IFC colleagues to create financial alternatives for all, serving to to take away obstacles and unlock the complete potential of girls and underserved communities.

If you’re able to deliver your experience, ardour, and strategic mindset to ship impactful gender-smart options, we invite you to apply and be part of us in shaping a extra inclusive and affluent future.

Learn extra about this position under!

Basic Information

• Position: Operations Officer – Gender & Inclusion, South Asia
• 3 Locations Available: New Delhi, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Mumbai, India
• Job #: req33297
• Organization: IFC
• Sector: Gender
• Grade: GF
• Term Duration: 3 years 0 months
• Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
• Required Language(s): English
• Closing Date: 6/10/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the most important international improvement establishment targeted on the non-public sector in rising markets. We work in additional than 100 nations, utilizing our capital, experience, and affect to create markets and alternatives. Our mission is to leverage the facility of the non-public sector to finish excessive poverty and enhance shared prosperity on a livable planet.

Aligned with the brand new World Bank Group (WBG) Gender Strategy (2024-30): Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet, IFC’s Roadmap is constructed on six priorities providing excessive potential for affect in and thru the non-public sector. These areas goal to:

• (1) Allocate Capital that Drives Inclusion,
• (2) Make Supply Chains Inclusive, and
• (3) Remove Barriers to Entrepreneurship, Employment, and Leadership (together with addressing gender-based violence). Equally essential are two cross-cutting themes which might be foundational to attaining sustainable outcomes throughout the precedence areas and require motion:
• (4) Bridging the Digital Divide;
• (5) Accelerating Inclusive and Gender-Smart Climate Action; and
• (6) Ending Gender-based Violence and Harassment.

As part of its mandate, IFC has a devoted workforce – the Gender and Economic Inclusion (GEI) Department (GEID), that works with IFC’s funding and advisory groups to assist non-public sector shoppers in offering all genders and underserved communities with equal financial alternatives as leaders, workers, entrepreneurs, customers, and group members.

GEID leads technique improvement and implementation for the group, offers tailor-made operational options and shopper recommendation, innovates, and incubates novel approaches, serves a thought chief and disseminator of data on GEI points, helps mobilization via affect investing and sustainable financing; and forges private and non-private sector partnerships with the goal of making financial alternatives and improvement for all.

The GEID Operations Officer South Asia will report back to the South Asia Sub-Regional Lead for Gender and Inclusion.

Roles and Responsibilities

Regional portfolio supply and enterprise improvement: 

•  The Program Officer is anticipated to ship gender and inclusion shopper tasks and handle shopper relationships throughout key markets in South Asia.
•  Portfolio: Manage the supply of present portfolio tasks and design and implement new tasks throughout the area, making certain provision of high-quality providers to inside (industries/regional) and exterior shoppers and robust undertaking governance.
•  Accelerate Opportunities to incorporate Gender and Inclusion Solutions: assist SA nation administration models and trade colleagues to determine and embed gender and financial inclusion options of their present and pipeline funding and advisory tasks by supporting the screening of undertaking pipeline and figuring out alternatives. Work on implementing outlined gender options.
•  Support implementation of latest flagship initiatives and nation gender packages throughout the area, together with lively participation within the design and implementation of a rustic gender program and joint IFC-IBRD programming for India.

SA technique, communications and partnerships:

•  Support SA nation administration in choose markets (together with in joint WBG illustration nations) on gender and financial inclusion.
•  Coordinate and supply IFC nation administration models constant inputs within the nation, and trade/sector tasks, packages and techniques.
•  Support the nation and regional communications workforce on gender and financial inclusion subjects externally, akin to at occasions, with companions, via case research and different associated affect reporting and within the media.
•  Support IFC partnerships workforce with fundraising and donor relationship administration, together with collaborating in donor relationship conferences and fundraising actions as requested.  Provide inputs for donor reporting as requested.

SA Regional Team:

• Recruit, oversee, and mentor SA regional operations consultants, together with marketing consultant efficiency and contract administration.
  
• Build, convene, and nurture a group of gender consultants throughout SA regional industries.

The candidate must be a seasoned candidate with expertise working with the non-public sector and throughout institutional buildings to ship impactful options. S/he routinely leads workers, initiatives, packages, tasks, and integrates the work of others (usually multi-disciplinary). S/he confidently delivers high quality output and might work and encourage others with a way of urgency. S/he can proficiently work together with firms’ senior administration, improvement companions and talk with senior authorities counterparts and different organizations with confidence within the matter at hand.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s diploma in economics, finance, enterprise, or different related self-discipline required.
• Seven years {of professional} expertise in non-public sector improvement in rising markets (required) with growing ranges of decision-making accountability.
• Experience in structuring advisory tasks, together with outcomes frameworks to seize improvement outcomes and impacts, expertise with girls’s financial empowerment and inclusion is a plus.
• Experience and information of the event finance panorama in South Asia, specifically India and/or Bangladesh.
• Broad expertise throughout girls’s financial empowerment and financial inclusion subjects with a personal sector lens and the demonstrated capability to have interaction with credibility and confidence.
• Experience working in a extremely complicated, matrix atmosphere.
• Ability to self-manage, multitask, and work beneath time constraints.
• Successful report of managing workers/consultants/temporaries in a undertaking, monitoring undertaking points and duties, assembly deadlines and setting priorities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, sound enterprise judgment to determine points, and current artistic and sensible options.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal abilities in English, together with robust capability to speak concepts clearly and confidently and articulate points and suggest options.
• Demonstrated dedication to IFC core values, together with excellence, mutual respect, collegiality, teamwork, range and inclusiveness, integrity, innovation, transparency, and accountability.

Salary and Benefits (What IFC affords)

The International Finance Corporation affords complete advantages, together with:

• a retirement plan;
• medical, life and incapacity insurance coverage;
• paid depart, together with parental depart;
• and cheap lodging for people with disabilities.

Explore the complete vary of our worldwide advantages right here: www.ifc.org/en/about/careers/benefits.

The World Bank Group is dedicated to offering aggressive compensation and transparency in wage ranges. For most of our positions, we usually supply beginning salaries between the minimal and the midpoint of the wage scale, commensurate together with your abilities, expertise, and {qualifications}. For extra info go to the WBG Compensation Scales web site.

WBG Culture Attributes

1. Sense of Urgency – Anticipating and rapidly reacting to the wants of inside and exterior stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful Risk Taking – Taking knowledgeable and considerate dangers and making brave selections to push boundaries for larger affect.
3. Empowerment and Accountability – Engaging with others in an empowered and accountable method for impactful outcomes.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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How To Apply

Application

• 10 June 2025 at 11:59pm UTC

Contact

 

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