Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? 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 and promoting shared prosperity. 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. The World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is responsible for evaluating the activities of the World Bank Group institutions. The Director-General of IEG reports directly to the World Bank Group”s Board of Directors. The goals of evaluation are to provide an objective assessment of the results of the World Bank Group’s work and to identify and disseminate lessons learned from experience. IEG’s secondary mandate concerns “encouraging and assisting developing member countries to build effective monitoring and evaluation associations, capacities and systems”. IEG has a long-standing track record and strong reputation in evaluation Official Use Only capacity development globally. Since 2000, IEG’s evaluation capacity development (ECD) program has supported institutions and practitioners across the developing world, through dedicated learning products and studies; the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), established in the early 2000s; the CLEAR centers, launched in the early 2010s; and other initiatives and partnerships. In 2020, IEG, in collaboration with its partners, founded the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). GEI pursues ECD through the lens of M&E systems strengthening, with the objective to improve monitoring and evaluation frameworks, capacity, and use in supported developing countries for improved evidence-informed policy making. GEI’s approach, therefore, also addresses the broader institutional architecture, political economy, and network of actors in which M&E functions operate. Within this broad domain, GEI maintains a strategic focus on evaluation when engaging with M&E systems, ensuring its support strengthens evaluation capabilities and/or evaluative thinking and practice. GEI works at two mutually reinforcing levels: 1) partnering with governments to strengthen national M&E systems; and 2) advancing evaluation practice globally and regionally by coproducing knowledge and building a cadre of evaluators and M&E practitioners across government, civil society, academia and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). GEI is seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to strengthen the GEI Global Team. The position is based in Brussels, Belgium. The ETC term will be for 1 year and may be extended if successful (up to 3 years). The ETC will report to the GEI program manager. Responsibilities The successful candidate will perform the following duties: • Support partnership management activities with GEI implementing partners, particularly the CLEAR Centers. Provide substantive (M&E capacity development related) support to CLEAR Centers in the framework of GEI-funded activities. • Contribute to the GEI Global Team’s work program in the field of M&E professional development; this includes but is not restricted to the following activities: (co-) organizing and occasionally (co-)delivering webinars, trainings, workshops, and other learning events (e.g. in the framework of gLOCAL Evaluation Week or the National Evaluation Capacities Conference). • Conduct background research and produce short synthetic (technical) content on new developments in the field of M&E. • Support knowledge curation in the framework of GEI’s Better Evaluation platform (www.betterevaluation.org). • Contribute to other tasks implemented by the GEI Global Team as needed.

The successful candidate has the following qualifications and skills: • Master’s degree in a relevant field/discipline (economics, evaluation, public policy, business administration, finance, international relations or other discipline relevant to the WBG’s mission) plus at least 5 years of relevant work experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation or applied policy-oriented research in the field of international development (required). • Experience in training professionals in the field of policy-oriented research, particularly training M&E stakeholders on M&E systems, practices and/or methods (desired). • Knowledge of national M&E systems (desired). • Knowledge of evaluation processes and products in the context of Multilateral Development Banks (desired). • Knowledge and understanding of Multilateral Development Banks’ operational strategies, processes, and instruments (desired). • Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills, capacity to motivate, develop and supervise teams, and ability to operate collaboratively across organizational boundaries (required). • Proven ability to handle multiple tasks independently, and work under pressure with short deadlines (required). • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including the ability to speak and write persuasively and present ideas clearly and concisely (required). • Proficiency in additional languages such as French, Portuguese or Spanish (desired).

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