E T Consultant - Health Advisory Operations Officer

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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. Health has been elevated to one of nine corporate priorities of the World Bank Group, a recognition that health is not merely a social sector concern but a foundational driver of poverty reduction, human capital development, and economic growth. This elevation is institutionalized through the WBG Health Targets and Results Scorecard, where health accounts for two corporate indicators: (1) the number of people receiving quality health, nutrition, and population services, and (2) the number of countries benefitting from strengthened capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to health emergencies. Health is also one of five priority sectors under the WBG Jobs Framework, reflecting the recognition that health systems are among the largest employers in most economies and that investment in health generates economic returns well beyond the sector itself. The Global Health Directorate is part of the WBG Knowledge Bank, which brings WBG's collective sector expertise together into a single, integrated system—combining insights from IBRD/IDA, IFC, and MIGA to deliver solutions that drive impact at scale in line with the WBG’s Health targets. Within the Global Health Directorate, the Health Solutions Impact team works on delivering scalable solutions to the WBG public and private sector clients to enable the achievement of WBG Health targets. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. IFC has an active portfolio of $3.5 billion in health care companies in emerging markets. Through these investments and private sector advisory services, IFC enables private sector contribution to the WBG Health targets. WBG Global Health Advisory Services to the Private Sector WBG's Healthcare Advisory global programs targeting the private sector, under the Health Solutions unit, aim to establish the necessary conditions that will attract the private capital at scale in support of the WBG Health targets. This is also complemented by wide public outreach efforts which has the following objectives: • Engage with IFC’s existing and target clients, positioning IFC as a long-term partner and smart investor with strong sector expertise in healthcare sector. • Promoting the importance of quality, ethics and operational excellence in private healthcare services and life sciences sectors to raise standards and fill gaps in overall health systems. Portfolio of these Global Health Advisory programs currently includes the following: Healthcare Quality Advisory . To enhance quality assurance practices at its existing and prospective clients in healthcare services, IFC provides direct advisory support that gives health facilities an evidence-based overview of their strengths and gaps in operations, and a roadmap for improving quality to reach national or international standards of care. For more information, please visit www.ifc.org/iqhealth. Ethical Principals in Health Care (EPiHC) is helping to build transparent, resilient health systems through a set of shared principles that promote ethical decision making and behavior. EPiHC is a set of ten fundamental principles to be shared across the health care ecosystem—from front line providers to top leadership—adding welcome clarity to the decisions, transactions, practices, and encounters that affect every aspect of health care services. For more information, please visit www.epihc.org DigiHealth/Digipharm a works with healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to plan, prioritize, finance, implement and adopt successful digital transformation strategies. For more information, please see section Digital Solutions under https://www.ifc.org/Health Health Benchmarking. IFC rolled out an international healthcare benchmarking survey. IFC collaborates with healthcare companies worldwide to develop a Benchmarking approach based on their performance needs. Additionally, IFC enhances knowledge of performance management and improvement techniques so that participating companies can leverage the Benchmarking outputs. Resource Efficiency/Decarbonization in Pharma Manufacturing. IFC works with pharmaceutical manufacturers globally to increase efficiency along energy-water-material nexus which would lead to reduced costs, while responding to climate change by decarbonizing and reducing greenhouse gas and water footprint. The Extended Term Consultant – Health Advisory Operations Officer will support project management, governance requirements, and monitoring, evaluation and reporting of results across the evolving WBG Healthcare Advisory global programs. Roles Responsibilities: Project management support: • Work with Global Lead for WBG Health Advisory to ensure delivery of the relevant results within budget timeline as approved in the project concepts and implementation plans across the portfolio. • Act as Project Lead proxy for Resource Efficiency/Decarbonization in Pharma Manufacturing and ensure high level of quality of client and knowledge management deliverables as well as observing all governance and results reporting requirements. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting of results: • Establish and coordinate the M E processes, work closely with the Global Health Directorate Impact team and advisory project leads and analysts to set up a comprehensive results reporting framework; review the theory of change, and consult with IEG (Internal Evaluation Group) if applicable. • Impact Data Analysis: work with project leads to structure requests and analyse impact data; contribute to developing and communicating main messages and learnings from outcome and impact data analysis. • Coordinate M E reviews with clients and keep accurate and up-to-date records of results, drive required follow up as per project targets. Develop client profiles to capture achieved outcomes and impacts. • Proactively prepare for projects’ Completion Reports: review evidence and results and write the completion reports (PCR). • Draft or review PSRs and donor reports: collate data and evidence specific to reporting period required by IFC internal systems and different deadlines and reporting scope for donor reports. Draft reports for approval, check data accuracy. • Work with IFC donor and portfolio teams to proactively monitor reporting timelines and requirements. • Prepare slides and summaries for internal and external reporting requests. Client engagement support: • Support business development efforts by preparing client pitch presentations, proposals etc. • Support drafting, signing and filing of advisory engagement letters; run respective IDD screening and (for approx. 20-30 clients per year). • Proactively ensure that all client engagement governance related approvals are secured timely. • Keep all advisory pipeline and portfolio lists current, analyse and present pipeline and portfolio data in cuts tailored to audience needs. • Work with finance team to invoice clients and follow up on payment. • Contribute to delivery of client engagements with analytical support, preparation of select client deliverables as required. Knowledge management: • Capture learnings from client engagements, and programmatic efforts and share them within WBG, and if relevant externally. • Conduct interviews with stakeholders and synthesize findings into a learning piece as required. • Contribute to the sector teams’ knowledge management, through the development of client case studies, sector impact analysis etc. • Contribute to periodic review of advisory offerings, help shape necessary adjustments depending on maturity of clients and markets.