E T Consultant

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 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 VPU Context: The South Asia Region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) is at a crucial stage of development. Rapid economic growth, driven by urbanization and demographic dividend, has brought down poverty rates, but severe forms of exclusion and disparities based on ethnicity, caste, and gender remain. Rapid growth has also come with congestion and pollution in cities. South Asia is also significantly affected by changes in temperature and extreme weather events. Additional challenges are that South Asia as a whole is underperforming in exports, has large informal sectors and low female labor force participation rates. All these challenges must be addressed to secure rapid economic growth in coming decades. Private sector led growth, focused on investments in infrastructure, energy, logistics, skills and cities are essential to generate the jobs needed to employ South Asia’s sizeable youth population. At the same time, the region needs to continue building human capital so that South Asia’s population is well equipped for the jobs of the future. The World Bank Group in South Asia: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/sar Unit Context: Social Policy Department (SPOL) SPOL brings together the former Social Protection and Labor (SPL) and Social Development (SD) Global Practices to form a unified platform for inclusive and resilient social and labor systems. Fragmented social, labor, and inclusion programs limit the impact of policies designed to reduce poverty and inequality. The merger addresses this by linking protection, productivity, and participation in a single framework. This integration reflects a fundamental shift toward a more comprehensive approach that combines managing risk with expanding opportunity to access gainful employment; moving from fragmented sectoral programs to integrated, coherent social and labor policies that accompany people across their life cycle, from childhood to old age. The SAR Social Policy Department also houses the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL), a regional solutions platform to promote gender equality and women’s access to more and better jobs. The ETC will report to the SPOL Practice Manager overseeing the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL). Duties and Accountabilities: • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in the World Bank, government and other implementing partners to develop new collaborations and manage ongoing collaborations; • Participate in the design, development, and oversight of all aspects of impact evaluation activities, including RCT design, survey design and rollout, analysis, and dissemination; • Coordinate with implementing partners in the country; lead meetings between implementing partners, survey firms, and TTLs, and manage follow-up tasks; • Support evidence uptake activities including outreach meetings with stakeholders on the findings of IEs and applicability for their work; • Conduct basic data cleaning and analysis (using STATA); • Act as the contact person for stakeholders to address concerns and facilitate collaboration; • Conduct literature and evidence reviews to inform the design of impact evaluations and overall direction of the SAR GIL program; • Conduct technical workshops and training sessions targeted at government counterparts, project teams and other audiences; • Support fundraising efforts by contributing to fundraising proposals and reports to donors and trust funds, tracking performance metrics, documenting results, etc.; • Contribute to the writing of project proposals, concept notes, working papers, and policy briefs; • Prepare briefs, presentations, blogs, and other written outputs to document lessons learned and key achievements of project interventions.