E T Consultant
Apply NowCompany: The World Bank Group
Location: Washington, DC 20011
Description:
E T Consultant
Job #:
req32085
Organization:
MIGA
Sector:
General Services
Grade:
EC3
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date:
3/7/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 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 MIGA
Do you want to build a career that is truly rewarding? The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is a member of the World Bank Group, and our mission is to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries to help end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. We do that through the provision of political risk insurance, credit enhancement and trade finance guarantees to investors and lenders against losses caused by non-commercial risks. For more information, www.miga.org.
Objective of Partnerships
The purpose of the Partnerships team is to forge, nurture, and sustain strategic alliances and cooperative networks to enhance and expand MIGA's capacity to offer Guarantee Products, thereby advancing our core mission of promoting foreign direct investment in emerging markets.
MIGPT is engaging a consultant to support the Partnership team's efforts to bolster donor relations and enhance fundraising capabilities to support MIGA's strategic objectives. The consultant will formulate a donor fundraising strategy to fund MIGA's existing and planned multi-donor trust funds. The target donors should include both sovereign bilaterals and philanthropies/private foundations. The consultant will also be responsible for on-going communication with donors and coordinate responses for information requests and reporting.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for a range of strategic activities aimed at enhancing donor engagement and optimizing fundraising efforts for MIGA MSP trust funds. Key responsibilities include:
Independent Research and Data Collection: Conduct thorough research to understand donor priorities and grant-making strategies, analyzing current trends to identify key performance indicators that drive donor decisions.
Partnership Development: Create a framework for prioritizing and sequencing potential partnerships with other institutions, ensuring optimal engagement with organizations that align with MIGA's mission.
Fundraising Support: Compile detailed background information essential for supporting fundraising initiatives and strengthening donor relations. This includes conducting research on donor priorities and assembling a list of donors whose interests aligns with the goals of the MIGA MSP trust funds.
Donor Engagement and Communication Development: Act as the primary contact for day-to-day interactions with donors, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring regular updates about MIGA's work. Additionally, design and produce communication materials such as brochures and reports to enhance MIGA's visibility and outreach.
Collaboration in Fundraising Program Development: Contribute and actively participate in the development of MIGA's fundraising programs, ensuring cohesive efforts throughout.
Data Tracking and Reporting: Collect and consolidate operational indicators for fund activities, analyze data, and produce detailed reports evaluating fund performance against established objectives and targets.
Operational Improvement: Monitor ongoing fund results, identify areas requiring improvement and suggest effective strategies to address these challenges while regularly reviewing fund activities and generating performance reports to share with MIGA Partnerships heads.
Knowledge Dissemination: Facilitate the sharing and integration of reports, tools, lessons learned, and best practices across projects, regions, and MIGA portfolios.
Concept Note Development and Stakeholder Coordination: Assist in crafting new Fund Concept Notes, coordinate the submission of proposals for establishing new Trust Funds, and act as a liaison among stakeholders to handle all related matters.
Legal Compliance and Policy Maintenance: Collaborate with the Legal Department to prepare and finalize legal agreements for the establishment of Trust Funds, ensuring adherence to all MIGA/WBG GP policies and procedures relevant to fund management and operations.
Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Coordinate engagements with relevant World Bank units on policy, procedural and operational matters related to trust funds and partnerships.
Funds Management Enhancement: Lead the review of funds management practices, recommend enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness, monitor activities, and report progress toward expected outcomes.
The consultant shall report directly to the Co-Heads of Partnerships ensuring a cohesive and productive working relationship with these key stakeholders.
Selection Criteria
Master's degree in economics, finance, international relations and/or public policy with minimum of 8 years relevant work experience in an international environment or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Substantial and diverse experience in WBG trust funds and donor relations.
Thorough understanding of trust fund policies, procedures, guidelines, and results agenda.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, conceptualize and implement activities, and produce complex reports.
Good knowledge of political risk insurance and credit enhancement.
Fluent and excellent verbal and writing skills in English.
Strong ability to conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
Outstanding interpersonal, diplomatic and partnership skills and proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with team members, across organizational boundaries and with external stakeholders and to build alliances for results, with strong degree of tact and judgment.
Demonstrated ability to undertake tasks within a rapidly changing and demanding environment on short deadlines.
High institutional and strong organizational ability.
Demonstrated ability to complete work in specified timeframes consistently.
This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered
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 #:
req32085
Organization:
MIGA
Sector:
General Services
Grade:
EC3
Term Duration:
1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date:
3/7/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 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 MIGA
Do you want to build a career that is truly rewarding? The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is a member of the World Bank Group, and our mission is to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries to help end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. We do that through the provision of political risk insurance, credit enhancement and trade finance guarantees to investors and lenders against losses caused by non-commercial risks. For more information, www.miga.org.
Objective of Partnerships
The purpose of the Partnerships team is to forge, nurture, and sustain strategic alliances and cooperative networks to enhance and expand MIGA's capacity to offer Guarantee Products, thereby advancing our core mission of promoting foreign direct investment in emerging markets.
MIGPT is engaging a consultant to support the Partnership team's efforts to bolster donor relations and enhance fundraising capabilities to support MIGA's strategic objectives. The consultant will formulate a donor fundraising strategy to fund MIGA's existing and planned multi-donor trust funds. The target donors should include both sovereign bilaterals and philanthropies/private foundations. The consultant will also be responsible for on-going communication with donors and coordinate responses for information requests and reporting.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for a range of strategic activities aimed at enhancing donor engagement and optimizing fundraising efforts for MIGA MSP trust funds. Key responsibilities include:
Independent Research and Data Collection: Conduct thorough research to understand donor priorities and grant-making strategies, analyzing current trends to identify key performance indicators that drive donor decisions.
Partnership Development: Create a framework for prioritizing and sequencing potential partnerships with other institutions, ensuring optimal engagement with organizations that align with MIGA's mission.
Fundraising Support: Compile detailed background information essential for supporting fundraising initiatives and strengthening donor relations. This includes conducting research on donor priorities and assembling a list of donors whose interests aligns with the goals of the MIGA MSP trust funds.
Donor Engagement and Communication Development: Act as the primary contact for day-to-day interactions with donors, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring regular updates about MIGA's work. Additionally, design and produce communication materials such as brochures and reports to enhance MIGA's visibility and outreach.
Collaboration in Fundraising Program Development: Contribute and actively participate in the development of MIGA's fundraising programs, ensuring cohesive efforts throughout.
Data Tracking and Reporting: Collect and consolidate operational indicators for fund activities, analyze data, and produce detailed reports evaluating fund performance against established objectives and targets.
Operational Improvement: Monitor ongoing fund results, identify areas requiring improvement and suggest effective strategies to address these challenges while regularly reviewing fund activities and generating performance reports to share with MIGA Partnerships heads.
Knowledge Dissemination: Facilitate the sharing and integration of reports, tools, lessons learned, and best practices across projects, regions, and MIGA portfolios.
Concept Note Development and Stakeholder Coordination: Assist in crafting new Fund Concept Notes, coordinate the submission of proposals for establishing new Trust Funds, and act as a liaison among stakeholders to handle all related matters.
Legal Compliance and Policy Maintenance: Collaborate with the Legal Department to prepare and finalize legal agreements for the establishment of Trust Funds, ensuring adherence to all MIGA/WBG GP policies and procedures relevant to fund management and operations.
Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Coordinate engagements with relevant World Bank units on policy, procedural and operational matters related to trust funds and partnerships.
Funds Management Enhancement: Lead the review of funds management practices, recommend enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness, monitor activities, and report progress toward expected outcomes.
The consultant shall report directly to the Co-Heads of Partnerships ensuring a cohesive and productive working relationship with these key stakeholders.
Selection Criteria
Master's degree in economics, finance, international relations and/or public policy with minimum of 8 years relevant work experience in an international environment or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Substantial and diverse experience in WBG trust funds and donor relations.
Thorough understanding of trust fund policies, procedures, guidelines, and results agenda.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, conceptualize and implement activities, and produce complex reports.
Good knowledge of political risk insurance and credit enhancement.
Fluent and excellent verbal and writing skills in English.
Strong ability to conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
Outstanding interpersonal, diplomatic and partnership skills and proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with team members, across organizational boundaries and with external stakeholders and to build alliances for results, with strong degree of tact and judgment.
Demonstrated ability to undertake tasks within a rapidly changing and demanding environment on short deadlines.
High institutional and strong organizational ability.
Demonstrated ability to complete work in specified timeframes consistently.
This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered
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.