E T Consultant - Economic Inclusion, Disability
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Location: Washington, DC 20011
Description:
E T Consultant - Economic Inclusion, Disability
Job #:
req30906
Organization:
IFC
Sector:
Grade:
EC3
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
American sign language, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Closing Date:
1/9/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
IFC - a member of the World Bank Group - is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
Gender is a cross-cutting corporate priority for IFC, as highlighted in the World Bank Group's Gender Strategy. Gender equality is not only a social and moral imperative, but also an economic necessity. Across the world, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men. There are over one billion people in the world living with some form of disability with their collective buying power of $13 trillion globally.
To help close this gap, IFC's Gender and Economic Inclusion Department (GEID) works toward a private and public sector that provides women, LGBTI people, persons with disabilities, those at the base of the pyramid, and other underserved communities with equal economic opportunities as leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, consumers, and community members. We develop research and evidence on the business case and solutions for reducing gender gaps and including underserved groups; support mobilization through impact investing and social bond principles; work with IFC funds and clients to identify and implement good practices; forge public and private sector partnerships; and provide tailored advisory solutions that create economic opportunities for all.
In 2020, based on client demand and increasing fragility around the world due to COVID-19, GEID launched its Economic Inclusion Program to expand its focus beyond the gender binary to develop solutions and guidance for IFC staff, clients, and partners to apply an inclusion lens to their investment and advisory operations, focused on persons with disabilities and sexual and gender minorities or LGBTI people.
For GEID, advancing economic inclusion means creating an economy that works for everyone. An inclusive economy ensures that all parts of society, especially poor or socially disadvantaged groups, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, place of birth, family background, racial identity, age, ability, or other circumstances, over which they have no control, have full, fair, and equitable access to market opportunities as employees, leaders, consumers, business owners, and community members. This includes legal frameworks, labor markets, finance and entrepreneurship, and the distribution of goods and services. In IFC's operational context, GEID focuses on the economic inclusion of underserved groups such as LGBTI people and People with Disabilities.
Objective of this Assignment
GEID is seeking an External Term Consultant that will report to GEID's Thought Leadership Principal, and will serve as the Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Lead that will drive IFC's leadership on disability inclusion and accessibility by shaping IFC-GEID's 5-year Disability Inclusion and Accessibility strategy, building cross-sector partnerships, deliver high-level advisory services to clients, and support GEID in embedding disability and accessibility across IFC operations and global investments. This role will position IFC as a global leader in disability inclusion in emerging markets by advancing innovative, impactful, and sustainable initiatives that promote the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities. This role will be a key part of the Thought Leadership team's work on economic inclusion agenda.
Scope of Work
Reporting to the Thought Leadership Principal, the ETC 's specific responsibilities include:
1.Thought Leadership, Market Shaping and Engagement
Lead the design of IFC-GEID's 5-year Global Disability Inclusion Strategy, aligning with IFC's corporate priorities, global best practices, relationship building and IFC's existing Gender Strategy.
Conduct research to shape and design IFC's thought leadership on disability inclusion
Shape, design and execute IFC's Theory of Change with Monitoring and Evaluation team for disability inclusion and accessibility, embedding measurable outcomes and actionable pathways into IFC's strategic framework for investments and Gender goals.
Develop and implement comprehensive measurement and evaluation frameworks leveraging IFC's Corporate Scorecard to assess the impact of IFC's disability-inclusive investments and partnerships
Develop a global working group comprising governments, big tech, private sector companies, DPOs, NGOs, funding partners, and DFI actors to co-create strategies, market shaping tools and innovations, and investments opportunities
Lead and coordinate collaboration within the working group to align on impactful actions and investments to promote the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities
2. Disability Strategy Development and Execution
Create and execute the first IFC-GEID's Global Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Strategy, Roadmap and Action plan from 2025-2030 aligned with IFC's 2030 Gender Strategy
Design, fundraise for additional financing on innovative solutions, assistive technology and innovations
Design and conduct executive-level workshops on disability inclusion and accessibility best practices for key IFC clients.
Guide IFC advisory clients through diagnostics, data collection, and the development of actionable plans to enhance the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities
3. Global Engagement and Peer Learning
Represent IFC in global forums, engaging with DFIs, MDBs, private sector leaders, and policymakers to foster partnerships and amplify IFC's thought leadership on disability inclusion agenda.
Design and lead peer learning platforms, sharing best practices and catalyzing action among IFC's clients and partners.
Collaborate with IFC regional and industry teams to scale the adoption of disability-inclusive practices, ensuring alignment with the WBG's broader Gender efforts.
4. Any other tasks assigned by the Thought Leadership Principal to scale up IFC's thought leadership on economic inclusion.
Selection Criteria
Minimum of 8 years of work experience delivering disability specific initiatives focused on disability inclusion in a private sector context.
Proven track record of managing projects with and delivering evidence-based, innovative disability inclusion solutions to private sector companies
Experience in designing and conducting mixed methods research (including surveys, desk reviews, interviews, and focus groups), analyzing data, writing, and presenting results on the topics of disability inclusion is required.
Broader work on economic inclusion of people in poverty, disadvantages minorities, LGBTQI, youth etc. will be an added advantage.
Excellent English language skills are required; additional languages such as American Sign Language, Spanish, French and Portuguese are strongly preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of, and technical competency in, broad and cutting-edge issues and trends related to gender, accessibility, persons with disabilities and employment
Familiarity with WBG and IFC processes, systems, and initiatives is preferred.
Ability to travel and work across time zones is preferred.
Behavioral Competencies
Good interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team across boundaries in a fast-paced, multicultural, and hybrid environment.
Good and effective communication skills (written and oral); good public speaking and presentation skills and ability to connect with a diverse set of audiences.
Positive and collaborative attitude and dedication to excellence and professionalism; self-starter with significant attention to detail and decisive and confident decision-making.
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be proactive, consistent, and timely with delivery under limited supervision.
Ability to see the "big picture" of country, regional, and global private sector and disability inclusion context and translate it into the goals and activities of the project.
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 #:
req30906
Organization:
IFC
Sector:
Grade:
EC3
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
American sign language, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Closing Date:
1/9/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
IFC - a member of the World Bank Group - is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
Gender is a cross-cutting corporate priority for IFC, as highlighted in the World Bank Group's Gender Strategy. Gender equality is not only a social and moral imperative, but also an economic necessity. Across the world, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men. There are over one billion people in the world living with some form of disability with their collective buying power of $13 trillion globally.
To help close this gap, IFC's Gender and Economic Inclusion Department (GEID) works toward a private and public sector that provides women, LGBTI people, persons with disabilities, those at the base of the pyramid, and other underserved communities with equal economic opportunities as leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, consumers, and community members. We develop research and evidence on the business case and solutions for reducing gender gaps and including underserved groups; support mobilization through impact investing and social bond principles; work with IFC funds and clients to identify and implement good practices; forge public and private sector partnerships; and provide tailored advisory solutions that create economic opportunities for all.
In 2020, based on client demand and increasing fragility around the world due to COVID-19, GEID launched its Economic Inclusion Program to expand its focus beyond the gender binary to develop solutions and guidance for IFC staff, clients, and partners to apply an inclusion lens to their investment and advisory operations, focused on persons with disabilities and sexual and gender minorities or LGBTI people.
For GEID, advancing economic inclusion means creating an economy that works for everyone. An inclusive economy ensures that all parts of society, especially poor or socially disadvantaged groups, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, place of birth, family background, racial identity, age, ability, or other circumstances, over which they have no control, have full, fair, and equitable access to market opportunities as employees, leaders, consumers, business owners, and community members. This includes legal frameworks, labor markets, finance and entrepreneurship, and the distribution of goods and services. In IFC's operational context, GEID focuses on the economic inclusion of underserved groups such as LGBTI people and People with Disabilities.
Objective of this Assignment
GEID is seeking an External Term Consultant that will report to GEID's Thought Leadership Principal, and will serve as the Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Lead that will drive IFC's leadership on disability inclusion and accessibility by shaping IFC-GEID's 5-year Disability Inclusion and Accessibility strategy, building cross-sector partnerships, deliver high-level advisory services to clients, and support GEID in embedding disability and accessibility across IFC operations and global investments. This role will position IFC as a global leader in disability inclusion in emerging markets by advancing innovative, impactful, and sustainable initiatives that promote the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities. This role will be a key part of the Thought Leadership team's work on economic inclusion agenda.
Scope of Work
Reporting to the Thought Leadership Principal, the ETC 's specific responsibilities include:
1.Thought Leadership, Market Shaping and Engagement
Lead the design of IFC-GEID's 5-year Global Disability Inclusion Strategy, aligning with IFC's corporate priorities, global best practices, relationship building and IFC's existing Gender Strategy.
Conduct research to shape and design IFC's thought leadership on disability inclusion
Shape, design and execute IFC's Theory of Change with Monitoring and Evaluation team for disability inclusion and accessibility, embedding measurable outcomes and actionable pathways into IFC's strategic framework for investments and Gender goals.
Develop and implement comprehensive measurement and evaluation frameworks leveraging IFC's Corporate Scorecard to assess the impact of IFC's disability-inclusive investments and partnerships
Develop a global working group comprising governments, big tech, private sector companies, DPOs, NGOs, funding partners, and DFI actors to co-create strategies, market shaping tools and innovations, and investments opportunities
Lead and coordinate collaboration within the working group to align on impactful actions and investments to promote the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities
2. Disability Strategy Development and Execution
Create and execute the first IFC-GEID's Global Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Strategy, Roadmap and Action plan from 2025-2030 aligned with IFC's 2030 Gender Strategy
Design, fundraise for additional financing on innovative solutions, assistive technology and innovations
Design and conduct executive-level workshops on disability inclusion and accessibility best practices for key IFC clients.
Guide IFC advisory clients through diagnostics, data collection, and the development of actionable plans to enhance the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities
3. Global Engagement and Peer Learning
Represent IFC in global forums, engaging with DFIs, MDBs, private sector leaders, and policymakers to foster partnerships and amplify IFC's thought leadership on disability inclusion agenda.
Design and lead peer learning platforms, sharing best practices and catalyzing action among IFC's clients and partners.
Collaborate with IFC regional and industry teams to scale the adoption of disability-inclusive practices, ensuring alignment with the WBG's broader Gender efforts.
4. Any other tasks assigned by the Thought Leadership Principal to scale up IFC's thought leadership on economic inclusion.
Selection Criteria
Minimum of 8 years of work experience delivering disability specific initiatives focused on disability inclusion in a private sector context.
Proven track record of managing projects with and delivering evidence-based, innovative disability inclusion solutions to private sector companies
Experience in designing and conducting mixed methods research (including surveys, desk reviews, interviews, and focus groups), analyzing data, writing, and presenting results on the topics of disability inclusion is required.
Broader work on economic inclusion of people in poverty, disadvantages minorities, LGBTQI, youth etc. will be an added advantage.
Excellent English language skills are required; additional languages such as American Sign Language, Spanish, French and Portuguese are strongly preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of, and technical competency in, broad and cutting-edge issues and trends related to gender, accessibility, persons with disabilities and employment
Familiarity with WBG and IFC processes, systems, and initiatives is preferred.
Ability to travel and work across time zones is preferred.
Behavioral Competencies
Good interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team across boundaries in a fast-paced, multicultural, and hybrid environment.
Good and effective communication skills (written and oral); good public speaking and presentation skills and ability to connect with a diverse set of audiences.
Positive and collaborative attitude and dedication to excellence and professionalism; self-starter with significant attention to detail and decisive and confident decision-making.
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be proactive, consistent, and timely with delivery under limited supervision.
Ability to see the "big picture" of country, regional, and global private sector and disability inclusion context and translate it into the goals and activities of the project.
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.