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Data: 21/01/2014
La Banca Mondiale ricerca: Private Sector Development Specialist.
Job#:140094
Job Title: Private Sector Development Specialist
Job Family: Private Sector Development
Job Type: Professional & Technical
Grade: GF
Location: Vienna, Austria
Recruitment Type: International Hire
Language Requirement: English - Essential; French - Essential; Arabic - Desired; Portuguese - Desired; Spanish - Desired.
Closing Date: 02-Feb-2014
Background / General description:
The World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Department (CIC) assists governments of developing countries and transition economies in reforming their business environments, with support focused on reforms that strengthen business environments and the investment climate (IC) at economy-wide as well as industry/sector level. The department collaborates extensively with other teams across the World Bank Group in the design and delivery of advisory services and other operational work related to investment climate reform, and develops IC knowledge products for staff and clients.
Serving as the global backbone of the Bank Group’s IC activities; CIC: (i) anchors the Investment Climate Business Line (one of IFC's four Advisory Services Business Lines), and handles the global dimension of its work; (ii) anchors the Investment Climate Global Practice of the Bank's Financial and Private Sector Development Network (which covers six Practices); (iii) implements MIGA’s technical assistance mandate, and (iv) manages the multi-donor Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services (FIAS), a global funding and partnership platform for IC reform. In addition, CIC also manages the following programs for IFC: (v) the Health in Africa (HiA) initiative (in collaboration with AFTHD), (vi) the Water Resources Group (WRG) (in collaboration with CNGWA and other WBG units), (vii) a new program on private participation in infrastructure (in collaboration with C3P and other WBG units), (viii) and the coordination function for IFC’s work on fragile and conflict-affected countries (jointly with CTGDR).
CIC is organized into four main units, reflecting four global service or product lines: Business Regulation, International Trade and Investment, Investment Climate for Industry, and Private Participation in Infrastructure and Social Sectors, as well as a unit dedicated to Africa (CIC is co-managing IFC’s IC work program in Sub-Saharan Africa), an Operational Support unit, and a unit supporting FPD’s Global IC Practice.
About the Position
The Indicator-Base Reform Advisory team was established in October 2007 to respond to the demand for technical assistance by countries willing to improve their business environment in key areas measured by the World Bank’s Doing Business report. The team provides technical advice on improving the legal and regulatory business environment in the following areas measured by the Doing Business report (starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency) as well as other investment climate diagnostics and indicator sets such as Enterprise Surveys and Women, Business and the Law.
A highly motivated and enthusiastic Private Sector Development (PSD) Specialist is invited to join this dynamic unit. The PSD Specialist will report directly to the Global Product Specialist and the Business Regulation Service Line Manager in Washington, DC and will work closely with other staff in field offices in all regions.
Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 3 year term appointment.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The PSD Specialist will be a key member of the Reform Advisory team. Duties will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
Contribute to several Reform Advisory country programs. This will include:
• Preparing reform memoranda, reform action plans, and policy notes following the analysis of the investment climate of client countries, as measured by the Doing Business indicators and other datasets.
• Conduct analyses of the investment climate and main obstacles to private sector development in client countries based on a range of WBG data sets and analytical work.
• Traveling to client countries to discuss obstacles to private sector development and reform recommendations with client governments and private sector representatives, and develop action plans.
• Identifying, contracting and managing expert consultants as needed to leverage the work of the Reform Advisory team; and ensuring high quality of deliverables.
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