La Banque Mondiale recrute un agent des opération, N’Djaména, Tchad

La Banque Mondiale recrute un agent des opération, N’Djaména, Tchad

Description :

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 http://www.worldbank.org

The WBG consists of five specialized institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank is organized into six client-facing Regional Vice-Presidencies, several corporate functions and fifteen Global Practices and five Global Themes to bring best-in-class knowledge and solutions to regional and country clients.

The Africa Region, which is comprised of approximately 800 staff members, mostly based in about 44 field offices, is committed to helping Africa realize its considerable development potential, with a focus on employment generation. The core values guiding our work are passion for our mission of sustainable poverty reduction with keen attention to quality and transformative impact, putting the needs of the client at the center of all our activities, trust and respect as a common currency, intellectual rigor and curiosity, honesty and integrity, teamwork, openness to learning and the courage to admit we do not always have the answer.

Department and Country Context :

The AFCW3 Country Management Unit (CMU) for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger provides a range of financial, knowledge and convening services to help address the countries’ most complex development issues. The CMU covers staff in the four country offices (CO) supported by an Anchor team based at Headquarters in Washington DC and consisting of a Sr. Operations Officer (SOO) and a Senior Program Assistant. The Country Director (CD) is based in Bamako, together with an Operations Manager, a Senior Operations Officer, and three Program Leaders (PL), coordinating and overseeing the AFCW3 CMU. The Country Manager (CM) manages the day-to-day operations of the country program, with the assistance of an Operations Officer.

Chad is an low income country receiving financing from the International Development Association (IDA). With 42% of the population living below the national poverty line ($1.2/day), Chad is faced with a poverty challenge affecting women disproportionately. Chad is also currently the lowest in the world on the Human Capital Index (HCI) ranking. Like other AFCW3 countries, Chad is a member of the G5 Sahel and benefits from the strong support of the Sahel Alliance, an initiative launched in July 2017 by France, Germany and the European Union, with the World Bank Group, UNDP and African Development Bank as founding partners. With its long history of conflict and instability, Chad is officially classified as a FCV (fragility, conflict and violence) country. In light of its FCV challenges, Chad will benefit from a Prevention and Resilience Allocation (PRA) over the IDA19 cycle.

Bank assistance to Chad includes . analytics, studies and advisory (ASA) and lending services. Ongoing and planned major ASA products include: Poverty Assessment, Economics of gender, Risk and Resilience Assessment, and Improving learning outcomes.  The ongoing portfolio includes eight national projects and four regional projects spanning all Practice Groups AFCW3 manages a broad portfolio of projects and development policy financing across all four Practice Groups (Sustainable Development; Human Development; Infrastructure; and Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions).  The Country Partnership Frameworks (CPF) for Chad ends in June 2020, and the successor CPF FY21-26  is scheduled for Board discussion in February 2021.

The key responsibilities of a country unit, of which the Operations Officer is a key member, include formulation and implementation of the country partnership strategy cycle, country relations and policy dialogue, work program and portfolio management, and promotion of country and global knowledge sharing.

The CMU’s goals are to ensure that the Bank’s programs are :

1. Carried out in a client-responsive manner ;
2. Relevant to the development challenges facing the country ;
3. Realistic and feasible to implement while meeting the Bank’s quality standards, and
4. Focused on achieving development results.
   

Duties and accountabilities :

The Operations Officer will work in close collaboration with the Country Manger (CM) for Chad, the Operations Manager (OM), and the other members of the CMU management and country teams on all aspects of the Chad work program to ensure strategic focus, integration and consistency across and within the portfolio.

More specifically (s)he will, under the overall supervision of the Country Manager :

• Play a key role in the formulation and implementation of the Chad  Country Partnership Framework (including Performance/Completion and Learning Reviews – PLRs/CLRs), and assess sector and thematic issues in relationship with the broader country developments ;
• Make substantive contributions to Chad country and sector strategies, lending and non-lending work programs ;
• Analyze and monitor the delivery of AFMTD work program; and this will entail liaising with relevant members of AFCW3 management team, Global Practices (GPs), other Bank units and internal partners such as IFC, MIGA and IEG, as required ;
• Take the lead on portfolio management, monitoring,  analysis and problem resolution; this will include managing the periodic working sessions with Government technical teams and project coordination units, country portfolio performance reviews (CPPRs), regular analysis of operational performance, quality and trends ;
• Monitor and interpret political, social and economic developments; develop and maintain understanding of country socioeconomic and political conditions ;
• Prepare briefing notes (e.g., for Spring and Annual Meetings, Sr. Management country visits,  etc.) and other internal complex reports; and draft and review operational correspondence ;
• Help foster teamwork and cross-sectoral cooperation on program preparation and implementation, and contribute to country team meetings and activities ;
• Assume a supervisory role of GA-GD staff (administrative and country services staff –ACS) ; this entails leadership in managing ACS work program and performance, ensuring delivery of high quality administrative and operational services,  and providing mentoring and coaching as needed.

Selection Criteria :

• Masters in a relevant field (Economics, Business Studies, Political Science, Finance, International Relations, or similar filed relevant to the Bank’s mission.)  ;
  
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. Knowledge of Bank operational policies and business practices would be a plus ;
  
• Proven ability to think strategically, and to apply this to the design and implementation of country assistance programs ;
  
• Outstanding inter-personal skills with proven ability to work cooperatively with a multi-disciplinary country team, other groups throughout the Bank, and development partners ;
  
• Demonstrated initiative, leadership skills and drive for results, including ability to undertake diverse tasks within a rapidly changing and demanding environment on short deadlines ;
  
• Strong problem-solving skills and solutions-oriented attitude ;
  
• Political sensitivity and mature judgment; and ability to focus on  the big picture, while not losing sight of details ;
• Highly developed spoken and written communications skills; including the ability to draft concise briefs ,reports and correspondence ;
• Language proficiency in French and English (speak, read and write).
  

Behavioral Core Competencies :

• Client Orientation: Builds linkages across boundaries for optimal performance ;
  
• Drive for Results: Facilitates and impacts results across units ;
  
• Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion: Leverages capabilities of others within and across boundaries ;
  
• Knowledge, Learning and Communication: Produces and disseminates knowledge products to create added value ;
  
• Business Judgment and Analytical Decision Making: Provides leadership in analytical decision making across boundaries.
  

Required Competencies :

• Integrative Skills – Integrating divergent viewpoints of multiple external and internal stakeholders into a coherent project/program/strategy ;
  
• Internal and External Stakeholder Engagement – An ability to independently coordinate and engage with stakeholders from various parts of WBG, including IFC and MIGA. Providing substantial inputs into and participating in the dialogue with external clients and stakeholders, including governments, NGOs and CSOs, and development partners ;
  
• Strategy formulation and policy and program design – Proficiency in playing a leading role and making substantive contributions to the strategy formulation process and related strategic products.
  
• Project Design, Implementation, and Management – Proven skills to design and provide implementation support on projects ;
  
• Portfolio Management and Results Monitoring and Evaluation – An ability to independently monitor portfolio and pipeline and provide signals to management when the program goes off track. Preparing and leading country/GP portfolio reviews. An ability to design and implement results frameworks; and to provide key inputs in business planning/Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) exercises ;
  
• Team Leadership – Solid experience of being a team leader or core task team member on one or more strategic or operational tasks. Demonstrated talent in forming, leading and making changes to team composition and delivering tasks on budget and high quality ;
  
• Knowledge of Bank instruments, policies, and procedures, and ability to proactively apply them is desirable ;
  
• Poverty has no borders, neither does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the globe.

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