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Introductory textual content: World Financial institution

Do you need to construct a profession that’s really worthwhile? The World Financial institution Group is likely one of the largest sources of funding and information for creating international locations; a novel world partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty and selling shared prosperity. With 189 member international locations and greater than 120 places of work worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking initiatives and utilizing knowledge, analysis, and expertise to develop options to essentially the most pressing world challenges.  For extra data, go to www.worldbank.org.

Jap and Southern Africa

 

Residence to about half a billion of Africa’s folks, Jap and Southern Africa is a geographically, culturally and economically various area of 26 international locations stretching from the Purple Sea within the North to the Cape of Good Hope within the South. Youngsters beneath 18 make up nearly half of the whole inhabitants. The subregion boasts of a few of the world’s richest human and pure sources and, other than South Africa, the international locations are predominantly uncooked materials exporters.

 

The subregion harbors a few of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering lots of its international locations fragile, whereas vital gaps in training, well being, and abilities growth continues to maintain folks from reaching their full potential. This creates an enormous growth problem, impacts closely on the lives and livelihoods of individuals, and hinders regional integration and commerce. However it additionally creates a chance to work intently with nation leaders, civil society, growth companions, and younger folks to chart a brighter course for the longer term. 

 

The World Financial institution’s Jap and Southern Africa Area, comprised of roughly 1,207 employees, principally primarily based in 26 nation places of work, has been serving to international locations notice their appreciable growth potential by specializing in the next priorities:

 

• Creating Jobs and Reworking Economies: We’re working with international locations throughout Africa to stimulate job creation and financial transformation by leveraging all sources of finance, experience, and options to advertise funding.
• Increase the Digital Financial system: We’re supporting Africa’s imaginative and prescient to make sure that each African particular person, enterprise, and authorities is related by 2030 – a imaginative and prescient that, if realized, can enhance progress by as much as 2 share factors per 12 months, and cut back poverty by 1 share level per 12 months in Sub-Saharan Africa alone.
• Establishments extra Environment friendly and Accountable: Our assist helps governments strengthen public coverage processes, handle sources successfully, and reinforce truthful and dependable supply of public providers.
• Investing in Individuals: We’re on the forefront of serving to African international locations speed up human capital beneficial properties and empower ladies by bettering their entry to training and abilities acquisition, sexual and reproductive well being providers, and employment alternatives. With the inflow of COVID-19, we’re mobilizing monetary assist and well timed evaluation and recommendation to international locations throughout the subregion to cope with the pandemic.
• Supporting Local weather Change Mitigation and Adaption:  Within the face of accelerating climate-related dangers, we’re working with African international locations to advance efforts to undertake renewable vitality, climate-smart agriculture, and inexperienced infrastructure. A lot of East African international locations lately needed to cope with a debilitating Desert Locust infestation that threatened the already precarious meals safety scenario. The Financial institution has put collectively a program to assist affected international locations cope with the scourge.
• Addressing the Drivers of Fragility, Battle, and Violence: Given the cross-border nature of conflicts in Africa, we’re using an method that concurrently focuses on the drivers of fragility whereas additionally supporting well-targeted regional initiatives to create alternatives for peace and shared prosperity.
• Constructing Partnerships and Working throughout the African Continent: We’re scaling up our work on regional integration, taking a holistic view of the continent that covers each North and Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

The World Financial institution is a devoted associate for Jap and Southern African international locations, serving to them ship robust growth outcomes for his or her folks. A brighter future for Africa is a greater future for the world.

 

The Infrastructure Apply Group

 

Globally, 840 million folks stay greater than 2 kilometers from all-weather roads, 1 billion folks lack electrical energy, and 4 billion folks lack Web entry. Entry to primary infrastructure providers is essential for creating financial alternatives for the poor. The Infrastructure Apply Group is charged with creating sustainable options to assist shut infrastructure gaps in creating and rising economies.

 

Transport World Apply

 

Higher transport has the potential to enhance the lives and livelihoods of billions of individuals by facilitating entry to jobs, markets, and important providers resembling healthcare or training. The World Financial institution gives monetary and technical help to assist international locations implement sustainable mobility options that create actual, lasting growth advantages. For extra data: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/transport   

 

Overview

 

The  IAET2 unit of the World Financial institution serves 14 consumer international locations. Shoppers vary from middle-income international locations resembling South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius, Seychelles to low-income IDA international locations resembling Lesotho, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Mozambique, Madagascar and Comoros. Areas of specific curiosity for the transport sector in these international locations embody rural transport for agricultural productiveness; city transport for enhancing functioning of city areas and bettering accessibility to jobs and social providers by the poorer segments of the inhabitants; regional integration corridors for facilitating commerce and decreasing logistics prices; investments in ports, railway, and air transport, for bettering connectivity inside and throughout international locations; PPPs to usher in efficiencies within the provision of infrastructure and providers; street security interventions to scale back the excessive variety of site visitors fatalities within the consumer international locations and addressing mobility constrains of ladies.

 

The IAET2 unit is in search of to rent a extremely motivated Senior Transport Specialist (GG) to be situated in Gaborone, Botswana. and reporting to the Transport Apply Supervisor of IAET2.

The chosen specialist shall be working with a broader group of specialists managing and additional creating the transport program in Botswana and contributing to the regional integration work and dialogue. The position of the GG primarily based in Gaborone is to assist the day-to-day dialogue with the totally different stakeholders and authorities counterparts and lead or co-lead the actions in this system. The present program consists of: (i) street sector engagement supporting investments in feeder and nationwide roads, street asset administration (together with OPRC contracts and routine upkeep microenterprises), resilience and adaptation insurance policies to handle the impacts of local weather change and catastrophe dangers, street security; (ii) city mobility to enhance entry to jobs and financial alternatives to the inhabitants in city; and (iii) regional integration initiatives encompassing the maritime sector and waterways.  

 

The Senior Transport Specialist shall be anticipated to steer or co-lead a number of complicated transport lending operations and should display a stable monitor document as a group chief/member with key infrastructure and transport sector information. On this regard, the candidate ought to have:

 

(i) Stable operational expertise to supply shut implementation assist to purchasers within the area and managing an lively and various transport sector portfolio
(ii) Sturdy entrepreneurial abilities and vitality to develop enterprise alternatives and a pipeline of initiatives consistent with the Africa Transport Technique and the RI Technique for the southern Africa sub-region
(iii) Expertise in regional integration (infrastructure, transport providers, logistics, and so on);
(iv) Sturdy analytical abilities
(v) Sturdy communication and other people abilities with a capability to work in a various and multidisciplinary group

 

Key Duties and Obligations:

 

• Handle and assist the supervision of transport initiatives masking the core parts of planning, design, procurement, development, contract administration, upkeep, and operations, whereas paying shut consideration to the design and monitoring the implementation of safeguards and different cross-cutting points, together with the alternatives for addressing ladies mobility constrains, street security, inexperienced mobility, security, increasing the incorporation of the personal sector within the financing and/or provision of transport infrastructure and providers.
• Handle and assist identification and preparation of latest operations.
• Handle and assist chosen analytical research (ASA actions) or Belief Funds, notably on points associated to the supply of transport infrastructure and providers, financing choices, asset upkeep and operations, local weather resilience, gender, influence analysis, and basic greatest practices within the funding, administration and supply of infrastructure and providers.
• Underneath the steering of the Apply Supervisor, lead sector coverage dialogue and institutional reforms and assist the event of latest enterprise alternatives.
• Determine alternatives in coordination with multi-disciplinary models the world over financial institution, together with Power, Digital Improvement, City Improvement, Local weather Change, and others.
• Contribute in cross-sectoral groups liable for preparation of coverage notes, Nation Partnership Frameworks, public expenditures evaluations, sectoral research, and analysis and coverage growth actions on the subjects/sections pertaining to move, poverty discount, environmental administration, agriculture and commerce and competitiveness.
• Help the Financial institution-wide skilled group of employees engaged within the transport apply by collaborating in a specific variety of thematic technical teams (World Options Teams) and collaborating in drafting of technical notes in collaboration with different World practices to reinforce the creation and dissemination of latest information and increasing the present information base.
• Keep abreast of latest developments within the transport sector world-wide, and on cross-cutting points, in relation to the subjects of specialization for this place; figuring out information gaps and disseminating related information to purchasers.

 

The Senior Transport Specialist shall be primarily based within the World Financial institution’s Gaborone workplace.  She/He’ll report back to the IAET2 Apply Supervisor. Her/His actions shall be recognized with the Apply Supervisor and adjusted primarily based on enterprise wants. She/He’ll actively take part within the related Nation Administration Unit (CMU) discussions, notably on the preparation of Systematic Nation Diagnostics (SCD) and Complete Partnership Frameworks (CPFs), in addition to on portfolio evaluations. She/He may even liaise and work with different world practices and cross-cutting options areas, as related, and guarantee acceptable collaboration and partnership between Authorities, the World Financial institution Group, and different worldwide and bilateral organizations concerned within the transport sector in Botswana and the southern Africa sub-region. 

Choice Standards

 

• Superior diploma (at the least Masters or PhD) in transport economics, engineering, or comparable self-discipline related for the project.
• Sustained document of reaching high-quality substantive leads to the transport sector over a interval of at the least 8 years.
• Confirmed expertise within the transport sector (street, railways, inland waterways, ports), with demonstrated potential to work on at the least three of the next areas: (a) growth of transport coverage and nationwide planning devices (street, railways, ports); (b) coverage, institutional and financing elements of transport and the weather to encourage personal sector participation within the supply of transport infrastructure or providers; (c) street sector together with rural mobility; (d) regional integration, logistics, regional financial corridors.  A very good working information on the procurement of works, items and providers, in addition to the choices to harness Digital Improvement applied sciences into the transport sector initiatives and operations shall be a plus.
• Expertise in working with and main cross-sectoral groups, together with groups for safeguards and fiduciary elements, and information of key cross-cutting points that impinge on the efficiency of the transport sector and on which the event of transport sector infrastructure and providers must create constructive impact, together with environmental and social impacts, land acquisition and resettlement, gender equality, street security, local weather change, and the interaction with digital applied sciences for improve transport sector efficiency.
• Confirmed monitor document of design and implementation of transport applications, and expertise of engaged on applications financed by the World Financial institution or different growth companions, multilateral or bilateral.
• Excessive diploma of dynamism and self-motivation, in addition to the flexibility to work with minimal supervision. Confirmed sensible expertise in undertaking growth and administration could be a powerful benefit.
• Familiarity with the challenges dealing with the transport sector in Sub-Saharan Africa could be a bonus.
• Confirmed potential to construct consumer relationships involving a number of stakeholders, to debate transformative transport insurance policies or reforms.
• Good oral and written communications abilities.
• English important. Portuguese/Spanish extremely desired.

For details about WBG Core Competencies, please go to: https://bit.ly/2kbIA7O.

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