E T Consultant -FinEquity Facilitator
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Location: Washington, DC 20011
Description:
E T Consultant -FinEquity Facilitator
Job #:
req30852
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Communications
Grade:
EC2
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Spanish
Closing Date:
12/24/2024 (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 help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities - the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.
CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations dedicated to advancing the lives of people living in poverty, especially women, through financial inclusion.
CGAP works at the frontier of inclusive finance to test solutions, spark innovation, generate evidence, and share insights. CGAP's knowledge enables public and private stakeholders to scale solutions that make financial ecosystems meet the needs of poor, vulnerable, and underserved people and of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), including through advancing women's economic empowerment. As a global public good, CGAP's independent research and analysis is available to all.
CGAP envisages responsible and inclusive financial ecosystems that enable a green, resilient, and equitable world for all. CGAP is guided by a five-year strategy and annual workplans - the new strategy covering FY24-28 (CGAP VII Strategy) will contribute to strengthening responsible and inclusive financial ecosystems by elevating the focus of financial inclusion to broader development outcomes.
To achieve this, CGAP will focus on contributing to seven outcome areas through its work program: (i) mobilizing financial services for climate adaptation, mitigation, and a just transition; (ii) mobilizing financial services for building resilience to shocks and managing risk; (ii) mobilizing financial services for women and MSEs to capture economic opportunities; (iv) increasing the breadth and depth of financial inclusion; (v) promoting responsibility in financial ecosystems and enabling financial sector policies and regulations; (vi) enhancing the effectiveness of impact investing in inclusive finance and the inclusiveness of carbon markets; and (vii) generating and promoting evidence of what works, where, and for whom.
Through its work, CGAP is committed to accelerating progress toward women's financial inclusion, and we take a gender-intentional approach to our research and advocacy efforts.
CGAP is housed in the World Bank. For more information, please visit https://www.cgap.org/
CGAP plays an important role as a convener for the sector, bringing people and organizations together to collaborate, share knowledge, and address common challenges, through its two key platforms, FinEquity and FinDev Gateway.
This position will be mapped the Communications Pillar at CGAP.
About FinEquity
FinEquity is a global community convened by CGAP to advance Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) through financial inclusion. FinEquity facilitates industry dialogue on issues related to Women Financial Inclusion (WFI) and WEE, enabling community members to share experiences, identify key challenges, discuss emerging good practices, and solve common problems associated with increasing equitable access to, and use of, a broad range of financial services.
FinEquity reaches over 9,000 practitioners, policymakers, researchers and donors working on women's financial inclusion globally. It does this through curated content that is shared through newsletters, webinars, and an online platform. The community includes a smaller number of more highly engaged experts and practitioners, who connect through regional convenings, workshops and private groups on social media.
FinEquity has two regional hubs: FinEquityALC, a Spanish-language hub, intended to broaden engagement and exchange on women's financial inclusion across the Latin American and Caribbean region, and FinEquityAfrica, aimed to empower women across Africa through financial inclusion.
FinEquity has several regional knowledge partners that actively contribute to FinEquity. Knowledge partners engage to expand the sharing of knowledge of emerging best practices and solutions that advance WEE through financial inclusion, leveraging learnings from respective work programs, activities, and experience. Knowledge partners for FinEquity Africa are Graa Machel Trust, Digital Frontiers Institute and the FSD network. FinEquityALC has the following knowledge partners: CAF, Fundacin BBVA, Fundacin WWB Colombia, IPE, Andares Mujeres Network, and the regional office of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI).
FinEquity Global has a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and each of the regional hubs has a Regional Technical Advisory Groups (R-TAG) composed of advisors that are leaders in WFI and WEE. The TAC and R-TAGs advises on FinEquity's strategy and workplan, including technical priorities and learning themes.
FinEquity runs on the communications platform (web infrastructure) of the FinDev Gateway and leverages CGAP's communication resources. FinEquity is implemented as a CGAP program with a high level annual workplan and budget approved by CGAP's leadership. The "FinEquity" workstream is part of the outcome area on "mobilizing financial services for women and MSEs to capture economic opportunities".
About FinDev Gateway:
FinDev Gateway is CGAP's independent platform which actively promotes knowledge-sharing within the financial inclusion sector. Its primary role is to identify key issues and trends in inclusive finance by engaging with organizations and practitioners worldwide, facilitating the exchange of ideas, insights, and lessons learned. We firmly believe that knowledge-sharing accelerates learning, minimizes duplication of efforts, and fosters innovation within the sector. Through collaborative efforts, the sector can have a more significant impact in addressing important challenges and driving positive change.
Recognizing the importance of learning at both regional and global levels, FinDev Gateway adopts a multilingual approach. Our team of editors curates knowledge resources and organizes learning events in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. These tailored knowledge resources and events are hosted on four regional online platforms dedicated to promoting knowledge sharing.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
FinEquity Facilitator (75% of the time)
The Facilitator leads the FinEquity Community of Practice (CoP) and is responsible for facilitating global knowledge exchange and interactions to deepen the engagement by community participants, and curate insights and good practices generated by the community. The facilitator has strong expertise in gender and women's financial inclusion required to ensure the quality of community engagement and practices shared. The facilitator will lead FinEquity's engagement according to priority areas identified by CGAP and the community and will ensure that these underpin FinEquity's annual workplan. The Facilitator is also responsible for creating and maintaining knowledge partnerships to strengthen the regional groups in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The FinEquity Facilitator will work in close coordination with both CGAP's gender projects and the Findev Gateway team. The Facilitator recommends priorities to a committee of CGAP staff from the FIND Pillar and Communication's Pillar that approves its annual work plan and priorities.
The role of the facilitator involves:
1. Driving depth of engagement of FinEquity participants through community building, member engagement, and facilitation of learning and exchanges. The facilitator should continue to drive the growth of a dynamic and thriving community that connects FSPs, researchers, policymakers, TA providers, and funders to share and learn from good practices and the latest knowledge to inform and influence their work. The Facilitator should stay abreast of technical developments in the field of WFI to ensure FinEquity's activities remain relevant. The Facilitator is expected to facilitate community activities to advance industry knowledge through curated dialogue and to surface innovations and good examples for the global financial inclusion industry. The Facilitator will drive growth and diversity of the community as well as depth of community engagement.
Specific tasks will include:
Hosting and facilitating virtual/hybrid learning events in English and Spanish such as member-led workshops and knowledge sharing sessions. This involves technically assessing quality of the inputs and preparing speakers and sessions to ensure value for event participants.
Facilitating a community that can provide technical input into initiatives (by CGAP or other partners).
Bringing together existing knowledge from the community and curating it for the FinDev Gateway Resources library.
Liaising with FinDev editor(s) to ensure effective communication leveraging FinDev Gateway and FinEquity platforms/channels
Representing FinEquity in relevant industry initiatives globally and regionally upon request and when aligned with FinEquity priorities and goals. This involves speaking on technical issues reflected by the priorities.
2. Ensure quality execution and strategic partnerships to optimize delivery and use resources. The facilitator will work with CGAP, the Technical Advisory Committee and other key stakeholders to advance FinEquity's vision, priorities, and position the community for increased influence. Leveraging CGAP's technical and regional work, the knowledge partners, and FinDev Gateway the Facilitator will optimize limited resource allocation.
Specific tasks will include:
Undertaking a process to define FinEquity's priorities responding to community interests and based on that develop an annual workplan to be presented to and agreed with FinEquity's advisers, knowledge partners, and CGAP.
Convene, facilitate, and build a community including CGAP and other experts that can provide technical reviews and input for community participants when needed, ensuring congruence with FinEquity learning themes and technical accuracy.
Maintaining and building institutional relationships with existing and new knowledge partners, and secure commitments from partners to provide in-kind support to FinEquity.
Integrating FinEquity activities and platforms further into FinDev Gateway
Participating in 6 monthly meetings of FinEquity's Technical Advisory Committee and the two Regional Technical Advisory groups (virtually and in person) to update advisors and seek their advice on FinEquity related business (i.e. one every 2 months).
Contributing to CGAP's fundraising proposals and donor engagement.
Monitoring breadth and depth of community engagement and reporting to CGAP on it on an annual basis.
Contributing to the evaluation of FinEquity
FinDev Editor (25% of the time)
The FinDev editor role involves leading the content and community engagement strategy for Portal FinDev, FinDev's Spanish-language platform that serves practitioners across LAC. Key responsibilities include managing content curation, developing partnerships, overseeing editorial processes, hosting webinars, and representing Portal FinDev at regional events. The role also supports CGAP's outreach to Spanish-speaking audiences, ensures collaboration with the CGAP's LAC team.
Specific tasks will include:
Oversee content curation and ensure compliance with FinDev's editorial policies for all published materials.
Manage Portal's partnerships within the LAC region, fostering new collaborations as needed.
Represent Portal FinDev at key national and regional events to identify opportunities for engagement, content development, and partnerships.
Oversee Portal's editorial calendar to ensure a steady flow of high-quality blog contributions.
Lead FinDev's Spanish-language webinar strategy by identifying relevant topics and speakers, developing content, and hosting at least four webinars annually.
Contributes to CGAP's engagement with key influencers in the LAC region and advises CGAP on influence strategies targeting Spanish-speaking audiences.
Maintain strong connections with CGAP's LAC regional team to ensure FinDev continues to e of high value to the financial inclusion community, including CGAP.
Provide training and guidance to junior editors as needed.
Selection Criteria
The successful candidate(s) will demonstrate the WGB Core Competencies:
Deliver Results for Clients
Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries
Lead and Innovate
Create, Apply, and Share Knowledge
Make Smart Decisions
In addition, the selected candidate will meet the following criteria (in order of importance):
Master's degree in international development, business administration, finance, women's studies or a related field
At least 5 years (preferably 8 years) of experience in financial inclusion with focus on gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
Demonstrates a solid working knowledge of the core women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment topics, relevant policy and legal/regulatory issues and a solid understanding of financial intermediaries' operations needed to identify and curate relevant good practices
Experience facilitating learning collaboratives and managing high-level stakeholder engagement
Strong track record of project management and leadership in membership organizations
Strong writing and editing skills, experience writing for the web and knowledge of web best practices.
Strong communication and facilitation skills
Fluent in English and Spa
Job #:
req30852
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Communications
Grade:
EC2
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Spanish
Closing Date:
12/24/2024 (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 help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities - the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.
CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations dedicated to advancing the lives of people living in poverty, especially women, through financial inclusion.
CGAP works at the frontier of inclusive finance to test solutions, spark innovation, generate evidence, and share insights. CGAP's knowledge enables public and private stakeholders to scale solutions that make financial ecosystems meet the needs of poor, vulnerable, and underserved people and of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), including through advancing women's economic empowerment. As a global public good, CGAP's independent research and analysis is available to all.
CGAP envisages responsible and inclusive financial ecosystems that enable a green, resilient, and equitable world for all. CGAP is guided by a five-year strategy and annual workplans - the new strategy covering FY24-28 (CGAP VII Strategy) will contribute to strengthening responsible and inclusive financial ecosystems by elevating the focus of financial inclusion to broader development outcomes.
To achieve this, CGAP will focus on contributing to seven outcome areas through its work program: (i) mobilizing financial services for climate adaptation, mitigation, and a just transition; (ii) mobilizing financial services for building resilience to shocks and managing risk; (ii) mobilizing financial services for women and MSEs to capture economic opportunities; (iv) increasing the breadth and depth of financial inclusion; (v) promoting responsibility in financial ecosystems and enabling financial sector policies and regulations; (vi) enhancing the effectiveness of impact investing in inclusive finance and the inclusiveness of carbon markets; and (vii) generating and promoting evidence of what works, where, and for whom.
Through its work, CGAP is committed to accelerating progress toward women's financial inclusion, and we take a gender-intentional approach to our research and advocacy efforts.
CGAP is housed in the World Bank. For more information, please visit https://www.cgap.org/
CGAP plays an important role as a convener for the sector, bringing people and organizations together to collaborate, share knowledge, and address common challenges, through its two key platforms, FinEquity and FinDev Gateway.
This position will be mapped the Communications Pillar at CGAP.
About FinEquity
FinEquity is a global community convened by CGAP to advance Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) through financial inclusion. FinEquity facilitates industry dialogue on issues related to Women Financial Inclusion (WFI) and WEE, enabling community members to share experiences, identify key challenges, discuss emerging good practices, and solve common problems associated with increasing equitable access to, and use of, a broad range of financial services.
FinEquity reaches over 9,000 practitioners, policymakers, researchers and donors working on women's financial inclusion globally. It does this through curated content that is shared through newsletters, webinars, and an online platform. The community includes a smaller number of more highly engaged experts and practitioners, who connect through regional convenings, workshops and private groups on social media.
FinEquity has two regional hubs: FinEquityALC, a Spanish-language hub, intended to broaden engagement and exchange on women's financial inclusion across the Latin American and Caribbean region, and FinEquityAfrica, aimed to empower women across Africa through financial inclusion.
FinEquity has several regional knowledge partners that actively contribute to FinEquity. Knowledge partners engage to expand the sharing of knowledge of emerging best practices and solutions that advance WEE through financial inclusion, leveraging learnings from respective work programs, activities, and experience. Knowledge partners for FinEquity Africa are Graa Machel Trust, Digital Frontiers Institute and the FSD network. FinEquityALC has the following knowledge partners: CAF, Fundacin BBVA, Fundacin WWB Colombia, IPE, Andares Mujeres Network, and the regional office of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI).
FinEquity Global has a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and each of the regional hubs has a Regional Technical Advisory Groups (R-TAG) composed of advisors that are leaders in WFI and WEE. The TAC and R-TAGs advises on FinEquity's strategy and workplan, including technical priorities and learning themes.
FinEquity runs on the communications platform (web infrastructure) of the FinDev Gateway and leverages CGAP's communication resources. FinEquity is implemented as a CGAP program with a high level annual workplan and budget approved by CGAP's leadership. The "FinEquity" workstream is part of the outcome area on "mobilizing financial services for women and MSEs to capture economic opportunities".
About FinDev Gateway:
FinDev Gateway is CGAP's independent platform which actively promotes knowledge-sharing within the financial inclusion sector. Its primary role is to identify key issues and trends in inclusive finance by engaging with organizations and practitioners worldwide, facilitating the exchange of ideas, insights, and lessons learned. We firmly believe that knowledge-sharing accelerates learning, minimizes duplication of efforts, and fosters innovation within the sector. Through collaborative efforts, the sector can have a more significant impact in addressing important challenges and driving positive change.
Recognizing the importance of learning at both regional and global levels, FinDev Gateway adopts a multilingual approach. Our team of editors curates knowledge resources and organizes learning events in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. These tailored knowledge resources and events are hosted on four regional online platforms dedicated to promoting knowledge sharing.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
FinEquity Facilitator (75% of the time)
The Facilitator leads the FinEquity Community of Practice (CoP) and is responsible for facilitating global knowledge exchange and interactions to deepen the engagement by community participants, and curate insights and good practices generated by the community. The facilitator has strong expertise in gender and women's financial inclusion required to ensure the quality of community engagement and practices shared. The facilitator will lead FinEquity's engagement according to priority areas identified by CGAP and the community and will ensure that these underpin FinEquity's annual workplan. The Facilitator is also responsible for creating and maintaining knowledge partnerships to strengthen the regional groups in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The FinEquity Facilitator will work in close coordination with both CGAP's gender projects and the Findev Gateway team. The Facilitator recommends priorities to a committee of CGAP staff from the FIND Pillar and Communication's Pillar that approves its annual work plan and priorities.
The role of the facilitator involves:
1. Driving depth of engagement of FinEquity participants through community building, member engagement, and facilitation of learning and exchanges. The facilitator should continue to drive the growth of a dynamic and thriving community that connects FSPs, researchers, policymakers, TA providers, and funders to share and learn from good practices and the latest knowledge to inform and influence their work. The Facilitator should stay abreast of technical developments in the field of WFI to ensure FinEquity's activities remain relevant. The Facilitator is expected to facilitate community activities to advance industry knowledge through curated dialogue and to surface innovations and good examples for the global financial inclusion industry. The Facilitator will drive growth and diversity of the community as well as depth of community engagement.
Specific tasks will include:
Hosting and facilitating virtual/hybrid learning events in English and Spanish such as member-led workshops and knowledge sharing sessions. This involves technically assessing quality of the inputs and preparing speakers and sessions to ensure value for event participants.
Facilitating a community that can provide technical input into initiatives (by CGAP or other partners).
Bringing together existing knowledge from the community and curating it for the FinDev Gateway Resources library.
Liaising with FinDev editor(s) to ensure effective communication leveraging FinDev Gateway and FinEquity platforms/channels
Representing FinEquity in relevant industry initiatives globally and regionally upon request and when aligned with FinEquity priorities and goals. This involves speaking on technical issues reflected by the priorities.
2. Ensure quality execution and strategic partnerships to optimize delivery and use resources. The facilitator will work with CGAP, the Technical Advisory Committee and other key stakeholders to advance FinEquity's vision, priorities, and position the community for increased influence. Leveraging CGAP's technical and regional work, the knowledge partners, and FinDev Gateway the Facilitator will optimize limited resource allocation.
Specific tasks will include:
Undertaking a process to define FinEquity's priorities responding to community interests and based on that develop an annual workplan to be presented to and agreed with FinEquity's advisers, knowledge partners, and CGAP.
Convene, facilitate, and build a community including CGAP and other experts that can provide technical reviews and input for community participants when needed, ensuring congruence with FinEquity learning themes and technical accuracy.
Maintaining and building institutional relationships with existing and new knowledge partners, and secure commitments from partners to provide in-kind support to FinEquity.
Integrating FinEquity activities and platforms further into FinDev Gateway
Participating in 6 monthly meetings of FinEquity's Technical Advisory Committee and the two Regional Technical Advisory groups (virtually and in person) to update advisors and seek their advice on FinEquity related business (i.e. one every 2 months).
Contributing to CGAP's fundraising proposals and donor engagement.
Monitoring breadth and depth of community engagement and reporting to CGAP on it on an annual basis.
Contributing to the evaluation of FinEquity
FinDev Editor (25% of the time)
The FinDev editor role involves leading the content and community engagement strategy for Portal FinDev, FinDev's Spanish-language platform that serves practitioners across LAC. Key responsibilities include managing content curation, developing partnerships, overseeing editorial processes, hosting webinars, and representing Portal FinDev at regional events. The role also supports CGAP's outreach to Spanish-speaking audiences, ensures collaboration with the CGAP's LAC team.
Specific tasks will include:
Oversee content curation and ensure compliance with FinDev's editorial policies for all published materials.
Manage Portal's partnerships within the LAC region, fostering new collaborations as needed.
Represent Portal FinDev at key national and regional events to identify opportunities for engagement, content development, and partnerships.
Oversee Portal's editorial calendar to ensure a steady flow of high-quality blog contributions.
Lead FinDev's Spanish-language webinar strategy by identifying relevant topics and speakers, developing content, and hosting at least four webinars annually.
Contributes to CGAP's engagement with key influencers in the LAC region and advises CGAP on influence strategies targeting Spanish-speaking audiences.
Maintain strong connections with CGAP's LAC regional team to ensure FinDev continues to e of high value to the financial inclusion community, including CGAP.
Provide training and guidance to junior editors as needed.
Selection Criteria
The successful candidate(s) will demonstrate the WGB Core Competencies:
Deliver Results for Clients
Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries
Lead and Innovate
Create, Apply, and Share Knowledge
Make Smart Decisions
In addition, the selected candidate will meet the following criteria (in order of importance):
Master's degree in international development, business administration, finance, women's studies or a related field
At least 5 years (preferably 8 years) of experience in financial inclusion with focus on gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
Demonstrates a solid working knowledge of the core women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment topics, relevant policy and legal/regulatory issues and a solid understanding of financial intermediaries' operations needed to identify and curate relevant good practices
Experience facilitating learning collaboratives and managing high-level stakeholder engagement
Strong track record of project management and leadership in membership organizations
Strong writing and editing skills, experience writing for the web and knowledge of web best practices.
Strong communication and facilitation skills
Fluent in English and Spa