Description

• Social Inclusion: enhancing opportunities for equality and inclusion of all people irrespective of income level, geography, gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or other grounds of discrimination; Advancing inclusive laws, regulations, policies and institutions; and Investing in access to markets and services for hard to reach and marginalized groups living in lagging regions.
• Social Resilience: Strengthening social risk management for social sustainability; Enhancing social cohesion and opportunities in fragile communities; Strengthening social resilience to climate extremes and natural hazards; and Supporting emergency response and an inclusive recovery from COVID-19.
• Social Empowerment: supporting community empowerment for more effective service delivery; Fostering accountable governance including from the bottom up; and Promoting community-driven women empowerment and livelihood support programs.

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  Provide, Crisis management and technical expertise regarding social development and social risk management for the entire CMU portfolio in close collaboration with the Social Practice Manager (PM), the Regional Safeguards Coordinator (RSC) and the SSI CMU Coordinator. In addition to supporting compliance with the ESF, this includes leading the general social development engagement with the CMU governments regarding improving overall social risk management and building national capacity and expertise through Environment & Social (E&S) country systems.
• Actively participate as the main responsible social specialist or as part of the core project team for projects and provide high quality technical support to task teams, Borrowers and clients regarding the identification, preparation and implementation of social risk management measures, ESF compliance and other efforts to enhance the social sustainability of projects.
• Proactively track the social requirements for projects and programs and communicate upcoming deadlines and issues to task teams. Thereafter work with clients on practical measures to mitigate and manage social risks.
• Provide technical review and advice to clients on preparing and implementing social risk assessments and management plans (e.g. social assessments, stakeholder engagement plans, resettlement action plans, labor management procedures).
• Provide technical cross-support as required to other teams and colleagues across the CMU to share knowledge and experience, manage challenging cases of social risk management including responding to complaints, and support overall compliance with the World Bank ESF.
• Provide guidance for management regarding project related complaints and work to resolve them directly with the task team, Regional Safeguards Advisor (RSA), Grievance Redress Service (GRS), Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) and the PM and RSC.
• Actively participate in regular coordination/review meetings with RSCs, RSAs, Global Leads and Cross-Cutting Solutions Areas (CCSAs) as needed and coordinate CMU level review meetings.
• Coordinate capacity building for Project Implementation Units (PIUs), project teams, consultants and lead social risk management Brown-Bag Lunches (BBLs) on key topics especially related to ECA SSI specific issues.
• Build capacity with clients on issues related to social risk management and broader social issues, including clients’ monitoring and evaluation of social development activities and outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of learning products/activities such as Technical Assistance, internal learning events, guidance notes, peer learning events.
• Keep abreast of relevant social regulatory, policy and institutional developments and updates in the CMU countries, and inform task teams and management about these issues.
• Travel to field sites, where possible.

Selection Criteria

• Advanced university degree (Masters or Ph D) in relevant social science (e.g., Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Gender, Law, Development Studies, and Political Science) or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in social development topics, including social safeguards and social risk management, social inclusion, gender and ethnic minorities.
• Knowledge and experience in addressing issues covered by the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and social safeguards policies, particularly social assessment, social risk management, involuntary resettlement, labor and working conditions, community health and safety, gender-based violence, stakeholder engagement and information disclosure and/or similar policies in other international finance institutions in complex and challenging settings, and across sectors. Experience with grievance redress mechanisms.
• Experience with involuntary resettlement and integration of relevant planning instruments such as Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) in overall project planning and implementation.
• Operational (task management) and analytical skills and demonstrated ability to translate analytical work into policy advice and actionable, practical recommendations.
• Experience in engaging in policy dialogue with government, development partners in at least one relevant social development areas.
• Experience with managing donor-funded projects/programs a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English essential. Knowledge of Russian is desirable.

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  Social Development Implications on Policy, Institutions, and Operations: solid understanding of the implications of social development on policy, institutions, and operations.
• Analytical Tools for Social Sustainability: Robust experience conducting social development analyses, producing meaningful results, and applying the tools in operations.
• Participation and Consultation: Solid experience conducting social development consultative and participatory approaches and applying the approaches in operations.
• Knowledge and experience in development arena - understands policy making process; distills operationally relevant recommendations/lessons for clients.
• Policy Dialogue Skills - Identifies and assesses policy issues and plays an active role in the dialogue with the government and/or other stakeholders.
• Deliver Results for Clients: Proactively addresses client’s stated and unstated needs.
• Collaborate within teams and across boundaries: Collaborates across boundaries, gives own perspective and willingly received diverse perspectives.
• Lead and Innovate: Develops innovative solutions.

World Bank Group Core Competencies
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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three 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 third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.