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The Senior Managing Director’s (SMD) key mandate includes overseeing the Bank’s knowledge and partnership programs and ensuring that the Bank’s analytical work continues to address the pressing development challenges facing client countries and global partners. The office is responsible for the Evolution Roadmap, G20 and G7 engagements, the implementation of the Knowledge Compact, as well as the replenishment of IDA, the Bank’s concessional lending arm for the poorest countries. It provides strategic guidance on the WB’s global knowledge and IDA corporate commitments; oversees key partnerships with shareholders, development agencies, other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and academia; helps shape and drive the Bank’s strategic directions; and through the Trust Fund portfolio in Global Practices, mobilizes support and financial resources across the international community to bring concessionally to our work.

Building on the progress of past efforts, the WBG Knowledge Compact for Action aims to empower clients, public and private, by systematically making the latest knowledge available to respond more effectively to increasingly complex development challenges. This includes knowledge embedded in policy advice, expertise and know-how, including from financing operations, as well as the latest research, data and tools to formulate robust development policies and programs. The Compact will deliver this knowledge to clients under the four pillars of enhanced products, partnerships, learning and systems. To advance the knowledge agenda, the practice groups will be organized into five vertical vice presidencies aligned with the new mission (People, Prosperity, Planet, Infrastructure and Digital). In addition, three new departments are being created to enhance coordination, integration and outcome orientation across the WBG.

• The Outcomes team will generate metrics, aggregate results and monitor in real-time how and where the Bank is driving development outcomes, and identifying cross-cutting thematic areas that require additional efforts and resources.
• The Innovation team will drive forward-thinking innovative approaches and engage in new frontiers to address the most complex development challenges.
• The Knowledge and Learning team will foster systematic and consistent curation and use of knowledge and development know-how to develop client and staff capacity and deliver tailored, world class development solutions to clients.

Position Context:

The Department for Outcomes will provide the strategic vision and direction for an effective outcome orientation across the WBG, including thought leadership on approaches to development impact measurement, proposing revisions and updates to outcome indicators and methodologies as needed, coordinating the development of outcome targets and their implications in our knowledge, operations, and financing. It will also oversee the development and implementation of metrics and systems to evaluate outcomes on cross-cutting themes such as climate, jobs, private sector capital mobilization, women and youth and the monitoring of these areas in the Corporate Scorecard, in collaboration with MDO, IFC and MIGA. In addition, the Department will convene both external and internal parties and other MDBs regarding outcome metrics, building external and internal capacity, and acting as the secretariat for external advisory groups like the Job Council.
This department will be responsible for generating metrics, aggregating results, and monitoring in real-time how and where we are driving development outcomes, and where we need to place greater focus and additional resources. As this is a new department, the internal structure is not yet finalized.

The Department for Outcomes is looking for an Economist to support the development and application of methodologies to assess the impact of WBG-financed projects and country strategies on youth and gender outcomes. In coordination with the Gender Group, the Economist will ensure accurate and effective measurement of youth and gender-related indicators. He/she will also provide data-driven recommendations that improve youth and gender outcomes in WBG-supported projects and strategies.

Duties and accountabilities:

The Economist, Gender and Youth Measurement, will be responsible for

• Data Collection and Analysis:
• Develop methodologies for measuring youth and gender outcomes in development projects, country strategies, and analytical reports.
• Design and oversee the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, ensuring robust measurement techniques are applied.
• Conduct econometric analysis to assess the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving youth and gender outcomes.
• Coordinate data collection, monitoring and reporting for the WBG Scorecard indicators disaggregated by gender, as well as for selected indicators of the Gender Strategy Results Framework.
• Monitor the implementation of Gender Targets and undertake regular and insightful analysis on the progress towards those targets.

• Support to Project Teams:
• Provide technical advice to WBG project teams on integrating youth and gender indicators into project design and implementation.
• Advise on the development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems to track progress on youth and gender outcomes at country level.
• Guide teams in the conduct of ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of project impacts related to youth and gender.

• Capacity Building:
• Support capacity-building initiatives aimed at improving stakeholders’ understanding of how to measure and evaluate youth and gender outcomes.
• Deliver training sessions and workshops to government officials, project teams, and partners on the inclusion of youth and gender in economic analysis.

• Knowledge Sharing and Learning:
• Produce knowledge products, including reports, policy notes, and blogs, to disseminate lessons learned and best