E T Consultant - Evaluation & Learning Officer

World Bank Group • Washington, DC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG helps solve the world’s greatest development challenges. The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is the world's largest multilateral climate fund, with $13.5 billion channeled through six Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to 78 countries. CIF financing catalyzes climate action in developing and middle-income countries by funding transformational projects that reduce emissions, build resilience, and accelerate the transition to clean energy and sustainable development. CIF operates through a unique partnership model that brings together governments, MDBs, the private sector, and civil society. The CIF Secretariat, hosted by The World Bank, supports the work of the CIF governing bodies, including strategy and policy development as well as reporting; manages internal and external institutional relations as well as strategic partnerships; supports program development; delivers a large program of thought leadership, knowledge and learning work; is responsible for portfolio risk management and new private sector capital mobilization modalities and initiatives. The CIF Evaluation and Learning (E&L) Initiative supports this work through a range of strategic and demand-driven evaluations covering some of the most important and pressing challenges facing climate finance funders and practitioners. The E&L Initiative uses evaluation to enable learning that is relevant, timely and used to inform decisions and strategies, for both the CIF and the wider climate finance sector.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Economics, Energy policy, International development, Public Policy or other related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in economics, environmental studies, social sciences, or related fields.
• Excellent written communication and editing skills, particularly conveying technical information for diverse audiences.
• Works well under pressure and competently manages multiple tasks within tight deadlines without compromising quality.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong team player with a proactive attitude, a high degree of initiative, independence, reliability, adaptability, and ability to anticipate and resolve problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills including ability to promote strong collaboration and facilitate and achieve consensus with partners, clients, and colleagues in a multicultural environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in, and knowledge of the policies and procedures of, the World Bank Group or other multilateral development bank policies and procedures would be helpful.

Responsibilities

• Providing research support which will entail background analysis on emerging topics of relevance, sourcing data for knowledge products, and co-developing knowledge and communications pieces.
• Supporting the development and delivery of learning events (both on-line and in-person) in support of CIF programs and on key thematic topics relevant to CIF’s strategy.
• Supporting new knowledge generation including evaluations, case studies, thematic reviews, and innovation focused consultations.
• Preparing briefs, background notes, talking points, and presentations for different team leads to share CIF’s work related to evaluation and learning.
• Cataloguing, organizing, and presenting existing CIF knowledge products to make them accessible and useful to a range of CIF partners.
• Proactively seeking opportunities for collaboration with key CIF stakeholders and external agencies working on similar themes and objectives.
• Developing and implementing dissemination strategies for E&L’s knowledge products through a variety of formats and channels, and tailoring these to different audiences.
• Support the ongoing work of the Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) including new knowledge generation in the field of transformational change, operationalizing transformational change in CIF related activities, promoting and managing the work of the TCLP, working with the other Multilateral Climate Funds and MDB partners to embed TC within their work and evaluations of this work.
• Other ad-hoc support as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level