Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges.

The World Bank is seeking an ET Consultant - Gender Specialist to be based in Sydney Australia, to support our work in promoting social inclusion and reducing gender inequalities within the Pacific portfolio.

According to the EAP Regional Gender Action Plan (RGAP) the target is for all new operations to be informed by an assessment identifying if there are project relevant gaps between males and females, especially within the priority areas of the country gender action plan and country partnership framework.

A central instrument for addressing this agenda will be the Pacific Gender Program. The program aims to strengthen policies and programs for promoting gender equality in the Pacific. The program takes a 3-pronged approach for the World Bank to meet corporate and national targets for increasing gender equality, including:

1.  Technical assistance to task teams across operations;
2. Support to analytical work that will inform the current and pipeline portfolio on existing gender gaps and their underlaying causes; and
3. Capacity building with clients and task teams to inform policy and investments and establish a shared understanding of the business case for gender equality targets.

The ET Consultant - Gender Specialist will play a central role in implementing the Pacific gender program.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in relevant economic or social sciences with a minimum of five years’ experience in the application of economic and/or social development skills to evaluate and address gender based social inclusion issues in the context of development projects in several sectors (e.g. transport and water infrastructure).
• In-depth knowledge of gender gaps in the Pacific Region and good understanding of underlying causes and global best practices for addressing specific gender gaps.
• Solid background as task team member responsible for gender and social inclusion and proven competencies in carrying out economic or social analysis (e.g. social impact assessment, RCT evaluation, poverty analysis, labor market analysis). An advantage if some of this experience have been gained on World Bank funded projects.
• Strong technical foundation in monitoring and evaluation, either in the form of undertaking impact evaluation work or in preparing/implementing a Logical Framework Approach.
• Solid experience in preparing and implementing development operations.
• Proven capacity to translate analytical work into policy advice and operational, actionable, recommendations.
• Candidates should have the legal rights to work in Australia.

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.