E T Consultant

E T Consultant

Job #

req37358

Organization

World Bank

Sector

Gender

Grade

EC1

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type

Local Recruitment

Location

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s)

English

Preferred Language(s)

Closing Date

7/10/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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.

The Africa Gender Innovation Lab, which sits within the People Vertical of the World Bank's AFE and AFW regions, conducts impact evaluations and other rigorous research in Sub-Saharan Africa to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity, assets, and agency. With this evidence, the Africa GIL aims to support the design of innovative, scalable interventions to address gender inequality in the productive economic sectors across Africa. The impact objective of the Africa GIL is to increase take-up of effective policies by governments, development organizations, and the private sector to address the underlying causes of gender inequality in Africa, and through that, promote growth.

VPU Context: The Africa Gender Innovation Lab spans two regional units in the People Vertical, one in AFE and one in AFW, both working to increase take-up of effective policies that can address the underlying causes of gender inequality in Africa, particularly in terms of women's economic and social empowerment, and through that promote growth.

Unit Context: The Africa Gender Innovation Lab has a clear and actionable impact objective: to increase take-up of effective policies that can address the underlying causes of gender inequality in Africa, particularly in terms of women's economic and social empowerment, and through that promote growth. The AFW GIL carries this work forward in the AFW region, within the People Vertical. It aims to do this by strengthening knowledge, in particular, by producing and delivering a new body of evidence and developing a compelling narrative, geared towards policymakers, on what works and what does not work in promoting gender equality. The ETC will work within AFW and will provide budget and resource management support to the AFW GIL.

Duties and accountabilities: Financial Control and Fiduciary Responsibilities, and Donor Relations

• Together with AGIL’s Senior Program Officer, plan and monitor AFW GIL’s budget.
• Work with AGIL’s Senior Program Officer to provide ongoing monitoring of all TF transactions within AFW GIL to ensure compliance with donor and TF policies and to pre-empt end-of-year problems.

Recruitment / HR

• Assist the Senior Program Officer and TTL in the formulation of staffing strategy, and its resource implications for AFW GIL; including assisting in coordinating any required unit recruitments. Research Uptake, Capacity Building and Communications
• Support the research uptake and dissemination of AFW GIL’s work as needed.

Impact Evaluations

• Provide operational support for AFW GIL’s impact evaluations, including firm and consultant procurement; and monitoring field work contracts, deliverables, and funding sources.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in relevant field (Economics, International Development/Affairs). Masters’ degree desirable. • 2+ years of work experience. Experience in the field(s) of public policy, international development and/or economics preferred.
• Excellent workflow management and task organization skills. Strong drive for results and demonstrated ability to multitask and to exercise strategic thinking to make decisions under complex circumstances and with little supervision.
• Very strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to develop effective relations within and outside the Bank; to promote collaboration within the team to meet AGIL objectives
• Takes personal ownership, responsibility and accountability for timely response to queries, requests, or needs in order to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results.
• Experience with monitoring budgets and planning budget projections.

WBG Culture Attributes

• Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders. 2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact. 3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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