E T Consultant : Impact Evaluation Officer
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Location: Washington, DC 20011
Description:
E T Consultant : Impact Evaluation Officer
Job #:
req30463
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Economics
Grade:
EC2
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Korean
Closing Date:
12/11/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to join us to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank (WB) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID) dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development on a livable planet. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
About Development Impact (DIME):
A department of the World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC), DIME's purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy.
DIME's work focuses on:
Evaluating programs at scale to answer policy-relevant questions;
Developing innovative data systems and data analytics tools for real-time decisions;
Using causal inference analysis to identify mechanisms to improve results;
Building capacity to strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policymaking.
DIME aims to overcome the challenge of identifying cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence, which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. Through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs, DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community of practice.
DIME accompanies IEs during their entire life cycle. It starts with assessing demand, identifying research questions, as well as supporting project implementation, high-quality data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results.
With a portfolio of more than 200 IEs, DIME operates across all sectors spanning the globe. DIME IEs test a variety of interventions and mechanisms to understand why policy succeeds or fails and how to improve policy design and implementation to obtain better results. By working proactively in collaboration with clients, DIME employs experimental methods (in about 80 percent of IEs) and non-experimental methods (about one out of seven IEs), as well as a combination of the two to illuminate and enhance impacts.
DIME is structured into 4 World Bank units:
- DIME 1 "Economic Growth and Structural Transformation"
- DIME 2 "Gender, Economic Opportunity, and Fragility"
- DIME 3 "Governance and Institution Building"
- DIME 4 "Infrastructure and Climate Change"
More information can be found at http://www.worldbank.org/dime.
Roles and Responsibilities
DIME4 and DIME1 are seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) with substantive experience in client-facing, policy-driven impact evaluation. The candidates will have a strong track record of working with multiple partners across diverse settings to execute research projects and related activities in the context of complex operations - within the government system and driven by the donor community. They will be highly adept at employing rigorous and cutting-edge research methods, building and managing teams and relationships, negotiating common ground between divergent interests, and strategically communicating to various audiences to advance an agenda. Candidates will collaborate with and report to project Task Team Leaders (TTLs) and their unit's Research Program Managers on academic-, policyand field-research programs, at times executing projects of their own. Topics include:
1. IE partnerships with Korean contributing partners
2. IE partnerships with World Bank Global Practices (GP) including Transport, Agriculture, and Energy
3. IE partnerships with Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and Green Climate Fund (GCF)
4. Other IEs
The main responsibility will be to coordinate IE engagement with Korean contributing partners including Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The program will begin with waste-management IE design, implementation, and advisory engagements in Peru and Sri Lanka. The program will also involve analogous engagements in Kenya on electric-vehicles transition topics in collaboration with the World Bank Transport GP. The program will also involve analogous engagements with the CIF and other partners.Hence, experience with rigorous IEs, Korean partners, and research in waste-management practices, electric-vehicles adoption, jobs, climate change topics would be preferred.
Specific responsibilities for the positions will include:
IEs and Outputs
o Deliver select IEs from concept development to final dissemination.
o Prepare and co-execute in-country missions.
o Work jointly with the Principal Investigators (PIs) to execute and deliver high-quality and relevant research outputs, including the identification of research questions that feed into project execution and the unit-wide research agenda.
o Promote and disseminate DIME's work through reports, presentations, briefs, blogs, and other dissemination channels.
o Promote policy uptake based on intermediate and final IE-related analyses and outputs.
o Produce data systems through survey instruments, large-scale data collections, and alternative data sources (research, administrative, M&E, geospatial, etc.).
o Collaborate with research teams to manage RAs and FCs as well as workflows.
o Contribute to ongoing and future working papers and peer-reviewed publications.
DIME Strategy and Management
o Support DIME management in its strategy, portfolio, processes, and workflows.
o Contribute to internal and external DIME strategic initiatives.
o Represent DIME in internal and external policy forums, workshops, and conferences.
o Contribute to training and capacity building of clients on IEs and DIME's co-production model, including through international workshops and country/client-focused training.
DIME Programs
o Co-execute the development and delivery of DIME thematic / regional program(s) in the context of large-scale development interventions, with DIME PIs and management.
o Co-execute on the building of partnerships, sustaining engagements, and promoting buyin with WB operations, governments, and external partners.
o Collaborate on fundraising efforts, including proposal writing and integration of IEs into operational documents and budgets.
o Work closely with PIs to draft actionable policy outputs that can support project teams and clients in the delivery and design of better projects.
Selection Criteria
Master's degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
PhD in economics, public policy, or a related field with a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in impact evaluation, empirical research, development policy and program execution.
Analytical skills and relevant experience with a track record of delivering IE-related products in developing-world settings. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement all stages of the IE cycle, including research execution, fundraising, client engagement, data collection, analysis, dissemination, and capacity building of clients for strengthening policy-making.
Demonstrated experience working across multiple countries in diverse sectors, in particular in the waste-management, electric-vehicles adoption, climate change, and transport sectors.
Experience contributing to research involving dynamic structural labor models preferred.
Track record of building partnerships across and within the WBG, including but not limited to with Korean, Asian, African and South American partners.
Commitment to teamwork, knowledge-sharing, and working across sectoral and organizational boundaries.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required. Excellent oral and written communication skills in Korean preferred.
Experience in leading day-to-day interactions with clients and mentoring analysts and consultants.
Knowledge of and experience with relevant WBG operational and business processes.
Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and to multitask as the need arises. High degree of self motivation, positive attitude, commitment, and drive.
Willingness and ability to travel to developing countries.
Experience fundraising for DIME projects preferred.
World Bank Group Core Competencies
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.
Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.
Job #:
req30463
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Economics
Grade:
EC2
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Korean
Closing Date:
12/11/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to join us to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank (WB) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID) dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development on a livable planet. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
About Development Impact (DIME):
A department of the World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC), DIME's purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy.
DIME's work focuses on:
Evaluating programs at scale to answer policy-relevant questions;
Developing innovative data systems and data analytics tools for real-time decisions;
Using causal inference analysis to identify mechanisms to improve results;
Building capacity to strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policymaking.
DIME aims to overcome the challenge of identifying cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence, which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. Through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs, DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community of practice.
DIME accompanies IEs during their entire life cycle. It starts with assessing demand, identifying research questions, as well as supporting project implementation, high-quality data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results.
With a portfolio of more than 200 IEs, DIME operates across all sectors spanning the globe. DIME IEs test a variety of interventions and mechanisms to understand why policy succeeds or fails and how to improve policy design and implementation to obtain better results. By working proactively in collaboration with clients, DIME employs experimental methods (in about 80 percent of IEs) and non-experimental methods (about one out of seven IEs), as well as a combination of the two to illuminate and enhance impacts.
DIME is structured into 4 World Bank units:
- DIME 1 "Economic Growth and Structural Transformation"
- DIME 2 "Gender, Economic Opportunity, and Fragility"
- DIME 3 "Governance and Institution Building"
- DIME 4 "Infrastructure and Climate Change"
More information can be found at http://www.worldbank.org/dime.
Roles and Responsibilities
DIME4 and DIME1 are seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) with substantive experience in client-facing, policy-driven impact evaluation. The candidates will have a strong track record of working with multiple partners across diverse settings to execute research projects and related activities in the context of complex operations - within the government system and driven by the donor community. They will be highly adept at employing rigorous and cutting-edge research methods, building and managing teams and relationships, negotiating common ground between divergent interests, and strategically communicating to various audiences to advance an agenda. Candidates will collaborate with and report to project Task Team Leaders (TTLs) and their unit's Research Program Managers on academic-, policyand field-research programs, at times executing projects of their own. Topics include:
1. IE partnerships with Korean contributing partners
2. IE partnerships with World Bank Global Practices (GP) including Transport, Agriculture, and Energy
3. IE partnerships with Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and Green Climate Fund (GCF)
4. Other IEs
The main responsibility will be to coordinate IE engagement with Korean contributing partners including Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The program will begin with waste-management IE design, implementation, and advisory engagements in Peru and Sri Lanka. The program will also involve analogous engagements in Kenya on electric-vehicles transition topics in collaboration with the World Bank Transport GP. The program will also involve analogous engagements with the CIF and other partners.Hence, experience with rigorous IEs, Korean partners, and research in waste-management practices, electric-vehicles adoption, jobs, climate change topics would be preferred.
Specific responsibilities for the positions will include:
IEs and Outputs
o Deliver select IEs from concept development to final dissemination.
o Prepare and co-execute in-country missions.
o Work jointly with the Principal Investigators (PIs) to execute and deliver high-quality and relevant research outputs, including the identification of research questions that feed into project execution and the unit-wide research agenda.
o Promote and disseminate DIME's work through reports, presentations, briefs, blogs, and other dissemination channels.
o Promote policy uptake based on intermediate and final IE-related analyses and outputs.
o Produce data systems through survey instruments, large-scale data collections, and alternative data sources (research, administrative, M&E, geospatial, etc.).
o Collaborate with research teams to manage RAs and FCs as well as workflows.
o Contribute to ongoing and future working papers and peer-reviewed publications.
DIME Strategy and Management
o Support DIME management in its strategy, portfolio, processes, and workflows.
o Contribute to internal and external DIME strategic initiatives.
o Represent DIME in internal and external policy forums, workshops, and conferences.
o Contribute to training and capacity building of clients on IEs and DIME's co-production model, including through international workshops and country/client-focused training.
DIME Programs
o Co-execute the development and delivery of DIME thematic / regional program(s) in the context of large-scale development interventions, with DIME PIs and management.
o Co-execute on the building of partnerships, sustaining engagements, and promoting buyin with WB operations, governments, and external partners.
o Collaborate on fundraising efforts, including proposal writing and integration of IEs into operational documents and budgets.
o Work closely with PIs to draft actionable policy outputs that can support project teams and clients in the delivery and design of better projects.
Selection Criteria
Master's degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
PhD in economics, public policy, or a related field with a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in impact evaluation, empirical research, development policy and program execution.
Analytical skills and relevant experience with a track record of delivering IE-related products in developing-world settings. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement all stages of the IE cycle, including research execution, fundraising, client engagement, data collection, analysis, dissemination, and capacity building of clients for strengthening policy-making.
Demonstrated experience working across multiple countries in diverse sectors, in particular in the waste-management, electric-vehicles adoption, climate change, and transport sectors.
Experience contributing to research involving dynamic structural labor models preferred.
Track record of building partnerships across and within the WBG, including but not limited to with Korean, Asian, African and South American partners.
Commitment to teamwork, knowledge-sharing, and working across sectoral and organizational boundaries.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required. Excellent oral and written communication skills in Korean preferred.
Experience in leading day-to-day interactions with clients and mentoring analysts and consultants.
Knowledge of and experience with relevant WBG operational and business processes.
Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and to multitask as the need arises. High degree of self motivation, positive attitude, commitment, and drive.
Willingness and ability to travel to developing countries.
Experience fundraising for DIME projects preferred.
World Bank Group Core Competencies
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.
Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.