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Global Practice for Urban, Resilience and LandThe World Bank’s Urban, Resilience, and Land Global Practice (GPURL) works with cities and governments throughout the world to help them tackle the challenges of disaster risks and climate change. We do this through comprehensive investments in infrastructure, social programs, and the support to policy and regulatory reforms to plan cities better and leverage their financing capacity. Ultimately, these efforts aim to contribute to the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity by improving the living standards of the poorer segments of the population, oftentimes the most affected by uncontrolled urbanization.
GPURL covers a wide array of issues including: (i) supporting the development of green, inclusive, resilient and productive cities, including harnessing urbanization to contribute to growth and poverty reduction, and strengthening local governments’ capacity to plan, finance and deliver services and infrastructure investments; (ii) promoting efficient, well-coordinated spatial and territorial development processes including strengthening rural-urban linkages and developing lagging regions; (iii) strengthening disaster risk management policies, institutions and regulations and mainstreaming resilience across development sectors including risk assessment and mapping, risk reduction (including urban flood management, stormwater drainage, coastal management, and retrofitting of infrastructure), disaster preparedness (including hydromet services, early warning systems, and civil defense), risk financing (including CAT-DDO), and resilient reconstruction and recovery (including post-disaster damage and needs assessment); (iv) post-conflict reconstruction and recovery; (v) strengthening land tenure, management and information systems; and (vi) supporting the development of national and sub-national spatial data infrastructure and supporting the development of geospatial information.
Global Unit for Disaster and Climate Risk ManagementThe Global Unit for Disaster and Climate Risk Management funds and provides through paid services technical assistance to World Bank teams in the regions and their clients. The unit houses the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) umbrella trust fund partnership and a number of standalone trust funds, and manages technical partnerships and delivers services through 14 global technical programs. The Unit has the majority of its staff in Washington with smaller satellite offices in Brussels, Paris, and Tokyo. The GFDRR Secretariat is responsible for resource mobilization, awarding and managing grants, reporting on results, and carrying out outreach and partnership development. The Global Unit acts as the support hub for a decentralized network of Disaster Risk Management experts within the World Bank.
Senior Specialist – Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Expert
The GFDRR is seeking a Senior Specialist to lead the Global Unit’s and GFDRR’s evaluation and learning work, in close collaboration with our portfolio team currently comprised of one other Sr. Specialist as well as several analysts who oversees our grant monitoring functions. The Unit has been working to improve development impact measurement and monitoring related to both our knowledge and technical services as well as to our grant allocation functions. The Senior Specialist will be leading the continuation of this work. In addition to working closely with the unit’s portfolio team, the Sr. Specialist will build relations and be working with the team leads of the Unit’s 14 technical lines of work, work with the Sr. DRM Specialist leading the Unit’s involvement supporting the World Bank’s corporate work on disaster and climate risk related indicators, and become a core member of the team delivering the GFDRR Annual Report and the GFDRR Annual Work Plan, as well as lead the delivery of the commitments to the GFDRR donor group related to GFDRR Umbrella TF monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan.
Role and Responsibilities• Oversee the implementation and when needed update the GFDRR’s MEL framework, including theory of change, results framework and indicators, evaluation and learning plans covering both the GFDRR Umbrella and other trust funds managed by the Unit.• Support and advise GFDRR’s results data collection, monitoring and reporting including data validation and quality control; • Assist the Unit’s global technical teams in selecting appropriate M&E indicators for their lines of work• Lead the work to set baselines and targets for GFDRR’s new strategy phase (starting FY25), annual work plan as well as GFDRR funded projects and programs. • Plan and organize periodic MEL workshops to agree on major decisions relating to GFDRR’s MEL plan and activities based on consultation and feedback from donors, GFDRR teams and other key stakeholders. • Design and carry out or coordinate GFDRR’s multiyear and multifaceted evaluations (formative and summative as well thematic, country level and programmatic evaluations) with support from the GFDRR teams and outsourced consultants/firms. • Prepare high-quality reports on the GFDRR’s monitoring and evaluation progress and results, including periodic progress updates to donors, Annual Progress Report as well as other reports as needed.• Identify major gaps, lessons and areas for improvement based on M&E’s findings and recommendations; extract, synthesize, and craft compelling lessons learnt from GFDRR-funded projects or programs in support of the GFDRR’s key decision making, learning and communications needs and activities. • disseminate key findings and recommendations from M&E activities and promote or facilitate internal learning accordingly. • Represent the GFDRR’s M&E perspectives at different fora, as needed, including within WB and other key stakeholders.• Other duties and tasks as might be specified from time to time.
Selection Criteria
• Master’s degree in in in international development, public policy, economics, statistics, social science, or other related fields and at least 8 years of relevant professional experience in World Bank or other IFI operations that can be applied to evaluation work. Some experience and/or an aptitude for designing and conducting evaluations.• Good understanding of monitoring and evaluation principles and best practices with proven knowledge of a range of monitoring and evaluation methods, results-based management, monitoring, and participatory approaches. • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in developing and implementing theories of change, results frameworks, evaluation and learning plans, especially in monitoring and evaluation analysis of development projects and programs, using quantitative, statistical and qualitative analysis for complex, multicomponent programs and funds across sectors, regions, and topics.• Good understanding of international development topics, especially those relating to climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation, and disaster risk management, gender and social inclusion, or sector exposure to sustainable development in developing countries.• Knowledge of WBG operational and trust fund policies and procedures is a plus.• Ability to conceptualize and produce concise, logical, clear, user-friendly, and persuasive written outputs, reports and presentations; Data visualization and/or IT skills a plus• Proven project management, planning, and organizational skills; able to multi-task, deal with conflicting priorities and deliver high quality work on time.• Demonstrated excellent analytical, writing and oral skills. Communicates and presents information in a clear and organized manner in writing and orally. Capacity to develop visual systems and presentations that help summarize and visualize evaluation findings; and multimedia and video content is a plus.• Demonstrated ability to work independently, seeking guidance as needed from more senior colleagues and task team leaders and effectively supervising junior colleagues.• Intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial skills and demonstrated ability to adapt and innovate to answer difficult questions or analyze new subjects.• Demonstrated ability to engage with others independently: identifies potential sources of information to gather required information or data needed for monitoring and evaluations.• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to engage proactively and constructively with diverse, multi-cultural teams; including peers, junior and senior colleagues across units.• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
Competencies• Ability to deliver in a dynamic environment with multiple demands and quick turnaround of outputs. Ability to work under pressure while retaining perspective and professionalism.• Strong technical skills and ability to translate analytical results into actionable guidance at a project level.• Results oriented, with an ability to work independently as well as devise and produce results in collaboration with departments across the WBG.• High degree of motivation, initiative, flexibility, reliability, and responsiveness to changing demands; capacity for effective multi-tasking, with demonstrated ability of being an independent starter with minimal supervision, and a high capacity to persevere for results.• Highly developed communication and advocacy skills, including ability to write concisely and clearly in English and synthesize complex documentation and ideas into fluent, understandable, English.• Strong interpersonal, organizational and team management skills, with demonstrated ability to build strong networks and teams to achieve results. Strong team skills with successful history working effectively across organizational and units and/or sectoral boundaries.• Knowledge of social media and other knowledge communications tools is an advantage.
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