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These Include
The Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice delivers analytical and operational approaches and evidence-based solutions to help individuals and families manage risk, cope with chronic/transitional poverty, and access better livelihoods and jobs.
- Strategy, analysis, financing and design of programs delivering social safety nets/social assistance in the form of cash transfers, public works programs, social services, and fee waivers.
- Advisory and analytical services on design and delivery of contributory transfers (including old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, disability and survivor benefits), and their fiscal sustainability (including budget support for transitions).
- Analysis, design and delivery of labor market and youth employment programs (with a focus on supply side interventions and intermediation policies), as well as policy advice on labor market regulations and interventions.
- Strategy, analysis, financing and design of integrated social protection delivery systems (e.g., payments, identification, registries, systems assessments) as underpinnings of effective social programs that can help cope with climatic shocks or underpin fiscal reforms.
- The Social Protection and Jobs (SPJ) Global Practice has a large and growing portfolio in West Africa, which includes long-standing engagements supporting Governments to strengthen their safety net programs as well as promoting innovations around jobs and human capital investments.
The West Africa Social Protection and Jobs Unit manages operations and analytical work across the region. The successful candidate would contribute to the SP&J engagement in Senegal. S/he will be a core member of the SPJ team working on the Senegal portfolio with a focus on fostering youth skills and employment, labor market constraints and policy options, and capacity building.
Since 2013, Senegal has made considerable progress toward establishing the pillars of a Social Protection system by developing a nationwide Social Registry (RNU) covering 33 percent of the population and a nationwide Cash Transfer program covering 18 percent of the population. The scope of social protection, productive inclusion and youth employment projects keeps expanding in the country. One of the main pillars in the World Bank’s engagement with the Government of Senegal in addressing constraints to more and better jobs for young people is through strengthening the apprenticeship system and improving employability of young people that predominantly work informally.
In this context, West Africa/Social Protection and Jobs/HAWS2 is hiring an Extended Term Consultant, Operations Officer/Labor Economist (GF-level) to operationalize capacity building activities, implement complex operations, and foster the dialogue around the jobs and skills agenda in Senegal.
Duties And Accountabilities
The Extended Term Consultant (ETC) will be a core member of the SPJ-country engagement team. This will include working on key operations of the youth employment agenda throughout the project cycle, facilitating trust fund activities, managing country dialogue, and providing operational and technical assistance. The ETC will provide operational and technical support for the preparation, supervision, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects, provide TA, capacity building activities, and analytical and advisory activities. S/He will participate in the preparation and supervision of missions and draft documents throughout the project cycle, including ASAs, concept notes, aide memoires, implementation reports, project preparation advances, project appraisal documents, Trust fund documents and reports etc.
The ETC will contribute to the successful day-to-day delivery of the overall SPJ programming efforts, analytical/technical work, technical assistance, lending, and capacity building with government counterparts. The position will involve regular interaction with the project management unit, government counterparts, academic institutes including universities and think-tanks, and donor agencies in countries of focus. Within the World Bank, her/his shall work with other GPs and contribute to multi-sectoral tasks as per business requirements.
Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the task team leaders and core Project team members, the ETC will be responsible for the following
- Provide operational and technical support to the WB and government (METVTA) on the program implementation and operational monitoring.
- Develop program related content materials (as needed) to support the implementation, monitoring, and grievances redress of the program intervention. (Examples might include beneficiaries selection algorithm, program implementation roll out plan, Google sheets for operational monitoring, MIS, GRM Standard operations procedures, etc.).
- Identify innovative and practical modalities for delivery of program related activities, such as technical skills training for masters and skills training for youth including socio-emotional, functional alphabetization and business in the context of Covid-19.This may include but not limited to online platform for e-learning.
- Advise on and support the development of specific tools supporting the program implementation (beneficiary selection, beneficiary tracer).
- Advise the WB and government on monitoring and evaluation (M &E) tools for the program intervention (e.g. Google sheets until transition to integrated MIS and monitoring and GR system).
- Support the government during the implementation phase for the key service contracts including MIS, Call Center, e-learning platform, Technical training of masters, and complementary training for apprentices.
- Facilitate the planning for and launch of capacity building for Improving quality and recognition of non-formal learning.
- Follow up with the Korean institutions as identified in the TF proposal to determine the best modality of engagement.
- Participate in missions and prepare inputs for aide memoire, action plan, etc.
- Contribute to the policy dialogue on jobs and skills and provided technical guidance through intellectual and quality support to analytical work.
Selection Criteria
- Experience/Technical Ability/Qualifications
- Graduate degree and minimum of masters level qualification in economics, social policy or related sector
- Minimum of two years of directly relevant experience on labor markets, skills, and social protection.
- Strong operational skills and excellent command of the entire office package, and data analysis
Ability to engage with stakeholders and international organizations to strengthen and support the partnership under the Korean partnership TF.
- Evidence of advanced written and oral communication skills in French and English.
- Demonstrated ability to share knowledge and experience, identify and disseminate good practices and work effectively in a team setting and across organizational, cultural, and national boundaries.
- Strong interpersonal and team skills with proven ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and in a multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to perform under stress and to juggle multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
Excellent written and oral communication skills in French and English, with Arabic being a plus.
CONTRACT DURATION
The contract is for a duration of 1-year with an option for extension to another year.
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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two 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 second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.
