New Job Posting at The World Bank
POSITION: Social Development Specialist
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Region: Western and Central Africa (AFW)
The Ghana context
On the Atlantic Ocean, Ghana borders Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. About 31.1 million people live there (2021). Ghana has made significant economic and social improvements in the previous 30 years. It is one of the most tranquil countries in the area and a lower middle-income country with a 2020 GDP per capita of US$2,063.
POSITION
The Social Development Specialist will support the Ghana portfolio’s social risk management, covering matters relating to the old Bank safeguarding policies and the new Environmental and Social Framework, in Accra, Ghana. The specialist may also assist CMU projects in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Moreover, the specialist will offer technical assistance on gender, social accountability, and youth-focused social development. The specialist will work closely with the Regional Safeguards Coordinator and CMU Social Risk Management Coordinator and report to the SAWS1 SSI Practice Manager.
Accountabilities and Duties
Social Development Specialist duties include:
Manage Social Risks
- Provide technical guidance to Borrowers on social risk management and sustainability to help them prepare and implement bank-financed projects using IPF and PforR.
- Develop client capacity on safeguards/ESF and broader SSI issues, including monitoring and evaluating social development activities and outcomes and providing high-quality training and other learning events on social assessments, social safeguards, and broader social development issues.
- Respond to complaints and manage complex social risk management issues to ensure World Bank ESF compliance.
- Provide thorough on-site field support to project teams and Borrowers preparing and implementing social risk management instruments.
- Conduct field visits and work with clients to monitor social risks, impacts, and performance of Bank-financed operations.
- Provide project-related feedback to management and resolve issues with the task team, RSC, Regional Safeguards Advisor, Grievance Redress Service (GRS), Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS), and PM.
- Review chosen social risk, sustainability, and inclusion portfolios.
- Support other CMU portfolio teams with technical cross-support for social risk management and share expertise and experience.
- Collaborate with environment colleagues to help clients implement the Bank’s ESF.
Wider Social Development:
- Support mainstream social development, including analytic inputs to operational efforts, focusing on social sustainability, inclusion and cohesion, youth, and migration.
- Help build new social sustainability and inclusion business areas in growth and transition (gender, youth, employment, migration, etc.).
- Help create Technical Assistance, internal BBLs, guiding notes, and peer learning events.
- Advise task teams and counterparts on technical options for social development programs and operations, covering social cohesion, citizen engagement, social inclusion, gender and youth, social dimensions of climate change, and fragile regions.
- Help build new social development business areas around growth and transition concerns including gender, youth, employment, migration, etc.
- Help create Technical Assistance, internal BBLs, guiding notes, and peer learning events.
Other:
- Find new alliances and engagement possibilities to advance social development and social risk management in Ghana.
- Be engaged in the Country Office, Country Team, and CMU Coordinator team.
- Perform autonomously under PM, RSC direction and collaborate with SSI Ghana staff.
- Visit field sites as needed. Remote sites may have few facilities.
Criteria for Selection
- Masters or PhD in social science (e.g., Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science) or comparable discipline.
- At least 5 years of expertise handling complex and hard issues addressed by the World Bank’s ESF and social safeguards policies or similar policies in other international financing organizations.
- Experience preparing, implementing, and monitoring Stakeholder Engagement Plans (SEPs) and other safeguard mechanisms such LMPs, SEA/SH Action Plans, and Grievance Redress Mechanisms.
- Social assessments and analysis of social risks and impacts on different population groups; involuntary resettlement in different socio-economic contexts and tenure systems; coordination of transparent consultative and stakeholder engagement processes; grievance redress mechanisms; integration of relevant planning instruments like Resettlement Action Plans in project planning and implementation; labor and working conditions community health and
- Experience in social sustainability and risk management policy development, including government discussion, international development agency partnership, business evaluations, and policy development and improvement.
- Experience directing complicated cross-cutting social sustainability and inclusion analyses.
- Ability to communicate complex social development and ESF/safeguards concerns to task teams and Bank audiences and work successfully with government, private sector, project beneficiaries, and civil society.
- Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, communication, and team skills, and ability to think creatively and strategically to solve difficult development problems with a client focus.
- Leading or joining a team with integrity to build trust and an enabling work environment.
- Energy, initiative, and self-motivation; readiness to travel and work in difficult conditions.
- Ability to create teamwork across practices and thematic teams
- Excellent English writing and speaking.
The World Bank Group provides retirement, medical, life, and disability insurance, paid leave, including parental leave, and reasonable disability accommodations.
We are happy to be an equal opportunity and inclusive company with a focused and engaged workforce that does not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or handicap.
Note: World Bank Group Staff Members holding Regular or Open-Ended appointments will retain their appointments. If the selected applicant is a World Bank Group Staff Member with a Term appointment that expires later than this appointment, they will keep it.
How to Apply for this Job Posting at The World Bank
Closing Date: November 22, 2024
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