Jobbe strategisk og operasjonelt fra Washington med bærekraftig energi for Øst-Afrika?
JPO - Energy Specialist
Som JPO i Verdensbanken vil du få en to-års kontrakt. En forlengelse kan være mulig på bankens initiativ.
Lønn og vilkår vil være etter bankens regulativ, og du vil ha Verdensbanken som arbeidsgiver.
Generelle krav for å kunne søke på stillinger under denne ordningen er:
- Mastergrad i et relevant fagfelt
- Minst tre års relevant arbeidserfaring
- Svært gode engelskkunnskaper, eller evne til å arbeide på et annet språk dersom stillingen krever det
- Norsk statsborgerskap
Se informasjon under for informasjon om Verdensbanken, fullstendig stillingsbeskrivelse og krav til søkere.
Merk at stillingen kun er åpen for norske borgere og at søknad og CV må være på engelsk for denne stillingen.
Spørsmål om JPO-ordningen kan rettes via e-post: fn_stillinger@norec.no
Please note that this position is funded by Norway and therefore open to Norwegian nationals only!
Background - About the World Bank Group
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile?
Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work 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.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
Eastern and Southern Africa
Home to about half a billion of Africa’s people, Eastern and Southern Africa is a geographically, culturally, and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. Children under 18 make up almost half of the total population.
The subregion boasts of some of the world’s richest human and natural resources and, apart from South Africa, the countries are predominantly raw material exporters. The subregion harbors some of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering many of its countries
fragile, while significant gaps in education, health, and skills development continues to keep people from reaching their full potential. This creates a huge development challenge, impacts heavily on the lives and livelihoods of people, and hinders regional integration and trade. But it also creates an opportunity to work closely with country leaders, civil society, development partners, and young people to chart a brighter course for the future.
The World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region, comprised of approximately 1,207 staff, mostly based in 26 country offices, has been helping countries realize their considerable development potential by focusing on the following priorities:
- Creating Jobs and Transforming Economies: We are working with countries across Africa to stimulate job creation and economic transformation by leveraging all sources of finance, expertise, and solutions to promote investment.
- Building up the Digital Economy: We are supporting Africa’s vision to ensure that every African individual, business, and government is connected by 2030 – a vision that, if realized, can boost growth by up to 2 percentage points per year, and reduce poverty by 1 percentage point per year in Sub-Saharan Africa alone.
- Institutions more Efficient and Accountable: Our support is helping governments strengthen public policy processes, manage resources effectively, and reinforce fair and reliable delivery of public services.
- Investing in People: We are at the forefront of helping African countries accelerate human capital gains and empower women by improving their access to education and skills acquisition, sexual and reproductive health services, and employment opportunities. With the influx COVID- 19, we are mobilizing financial support and timely analysis and advice to countries across the subregion deal with the pandemic.
- Supporting Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: In the face of increasing climate-related risks, we are working with African countries to advance efforts to adopt renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, and green infrastructure. A number of East African countries are currently facing a debilitating Desert Locust infestation, threatening the already precarious food security situation. The Bank has put together a program to help affected countries deal with the scourge.
- Addressing the Drivers of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Given the cross-border nature of conflicts in Africa, we are employing an approach that simultaneously focuses on the drivers of fragility while also supporting well-targeted regional initiatives to create opportunities for peace and shared prosperity.
- Building Partnerships and Working across the African Continent: We are scaling up our work on regional integration, taking a holistic view of the continent that covers both North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The World Bank is a dedicated partner for Eastern and Southern African countries, helping them deliver strong development outcomes for their people. A brighter future for Africa is a better future for the world.
Unit context
The Energy & Extractives Global Practice (EEX GP) of the World Bank Group is made up of more than 300 professionals, a lending program in the order of US$5-7 billion a year, an active portfolio of some $40 billion, and a rich program of Advisory and Analytical Work. The EEX GP focuses on: providing affordable, reliable and sustainable energy to meet the needs of fast growing economies and to ensure universal access to modern energy services for people in client countries; and, strengthening policy and institutional frameworks to promote transparent and equitable growth of the extractive sectors for public benefit. There is a strong emphasis on private sector resource
mobilization and catalyzing financing from commercial and other sources of development and climate finance.
The Africa energy sector grouping consists of four Units across two regions of East and Southern Africa and newly created VPU of West and Central Africa. The position is based in Washington, D.C supporting the East Africa unit (IAEE1).
The Bank is engaged in all aspects of the electricity sector – generation, transmission, distribution, rural electrification, and off-grid– through development policy financing, program for results, investment financing support, technical assistance, and guarantee operations.
Assisting the government with policy reforms to attract investments in generation and renewable energy along with the promotion of the regional energy trade in the Southern and Eastern Africa Power Pools, modernizing the electricity network for the needs of a modern economy and increasing energy access are among the key areas of the Bank’s deepening engagement in the sector.
Duties and Responsibilities
The East Africa unit (IAEE1) of the World Bank seeks an Energy Specialist to be a key member of the AFE Energy Team with emphasis on Access project development to support the provisioning of clean, affordable, and sustainable electricity. The work entails strategic, advisory, and operational work. As part of the IAEE1 energy team, the main responsibility of the candidate will be to support the ongoing sector dialogue, implementation of the investment lending operations, preparation of pipeline, as well as analytical work.
The responsibilities of the selected candidate will include:
The selected candidate will provide implementation support to energy access operations with the aim to enhance quality and accelerate implementation, with a focus on both grid and off-grid electrification. The candidate will also contribute to the regional DARES platform aimed at accelerating decentralized renewable energy solutions, pursued jointly with IFC and MIGA.
In addition, the selected candidate is expected to engage in a regional energy access analytical and technical assistance programs aimed at enhancing the Africa energy team and client capacity to delivery ambitious and innovative energy access operations.
The selected candidate will participate in the oversight and implementation of energy operations with the aim to enhance quality and accelerate implementation.
Other responsibilities will include technical support to lending and non-lending programs:
- Support the development of new lending, preparation and supervision of investment operations in the energy sector with the aim to enhance quality, efficiency and pro-poor focus and accelerate implementation;
- Prepare drafting and inputs for sector and country briefings, analytical and advisory reports and studies on utility reform, transmission and distribution, renewable energy, climate change, energy efficiency, and potentially other regional energy programs;
- Support the unit's analytical agenda on improving access to energy services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Contribute to the preparation of analytical and advisory reports and studies on energy access, utility reform, transmission and distribution, renewable energy, climate change, energy efficiency, and potentially other regional energy programs, as well as inputs to report management;
- Draft inputs for sector and country briefings, analytical and advisory reports and studies on energy access, utility reform, transmission and distribution, renewable energy; energy efficiency, and other programs within the AFR Energy portfolio;
- Support the AFE Regional energy programs;
- Assume an active role in the IAEE1 energy team with the aim to ensure adequate and appropriate integration of relevant aspects of the energy development agenda in core Bank products, including the country partnership framework, strategic country diagnostic, country economic memorandum etc;
- Develop working relationships with the staff of other donor and financing agencies and cooperate with them in the preparation and supervision of projects.
Note:
The selected candidate will not be assigned to programs involving his/her own government such as donor coordination and trust fund management.
Selection criteria
- Educational Degree: At least a Master’s degree in engineering, finance, economics or a related discipline.
- At least 3 years relevant experience in the energy sector or related field.
- Enthusiasm for, and commitment to development work in the Energy sector including the green Energy transition and Access to affordable energy for all.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate hands-on project management experience, an ability to efficiently manage a large number of activities simultaneously, a flair for problem-solving and an ability to self-navigate through complex bureaucratic environments.
- Good communications and client engagement skills, with demonstrable commitment to working in a collegiate fashion with World Bank counterparts.
- Work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa is a strong asset.
- Full fluency in written and spoken English is essential; good knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish is an asset.
The position is open to Norwegian nationals only.
Om bedriften
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