Senior Partnership Specialist

Position description

Established in 1944, the World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions. It is 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 www.worldbank.org.
 
Human Development Practice Group (HD PG)
 
The WBG is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries to develop country-tailored solutions for human development (HD) under the themes of education, health, social protection, jobs and gender. The HD PG coordinates with other Practice Groups to ensure a systematic and integrated approach to development challenges, and through the WB Regional Units is expected to deliver the strongest and most pertinent support to our client countries. 
 
Social Protection & Jobs (SPJ) Global Practice
 
The SPJ Global Practice delivers analytical and operational approaches and evidence-based solutions to help individuals and families manage risk, cope with chronic/transitional poverty, and access better livelihoods and jobs. These include:

• Strategy, analysis, financing, and design of programs delivering social safety nets/social assistance in the form of cash transfers, public works programs, social services, and fee waivers.

• Advisory and analytical services on design and delivery of contributory transfers (including old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, disability, and survivor benefits), and their fiscal sustainability (including budget support for transitions).

• Analysis, design and delivery of labor market and youth employment programs (with a focus on supply side interventions and intermediation policies), as well as policy advice on labor market regulations and interventions.

• Strategy, analysis, financing, and design of integrated social protection delivery systems (e.g., payments, identification, registries, systems assessments) as underpinnings of effective social programs that can help cope with climatic shocks or underpin fiscal reforms. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/socialprotection

Unit Context

Partnership Unit 

The partnership unit is in charge of strengthening existing and exploring new partnerships with key actors contributing to the goal of Universal Social Protection. It also manages the 3 Multi-donor Trust funds that provide seed funding to stimulate demand to reach SP goals and to test innovations that have replicability and scalability potential and potential externalities as global public goods. 

The partnership is led by the SPJ Global Director; the day-to-day management is the responsibility of the Global Practice Manager. The Partnership Unit, works to deliver on the Compass objectives. This includes working with countries to develop quality investment cases, managing the Trust Funds, technical assistance to regional teams, and support to the governance structures of the MDTFs.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The Senior Partnerships Officer/Lead Resource Mobilization works under the direction and guidance of the SPJ Global Practice Manager and in close coordination with the Lead for External Relations.
The selected candidate will be the lead person responsible for mobilizing revenue to deliver the objectives of the Practice and Corporate Priorities to which SPJ contributes.  This requires defining donor engagement and resource mobilization strategies, leading a team that will ensure the implementation of these strategies, coordinating high-level relationships, and managing a diverse set of partnership and strategic initiatives in support of SPJ fundraising goals. The selected candidate will be responsible for ensuring strong and effective coordination with other teams, the donors and the broader World Bank ecosystem.

Responsibilities include, but are not be limited to:

Donor engagement and resource mobilization 

• Lead the overall development and implementation of SPJ’s resource mobilization and donor engagement strategies.
• Manage a team responsible for relationships with donor governments and philanthropic partners. Coordinate strategic and day to day engagement and with senior government and philanthropic representatives.
• Define and implement market engagement strategies including developing stakeholder mapping, political economy analysis, advocacy strategies and strengthening network of influencers and advocates in support of SPJ’s mission.
• Guide a team in tracking political, budgetary and policy developments in key donor markets, and provide timely intelligence and briefings to Senior World Bank Leadership.  
• Ensure the team addresses donor needs and requests including fulfilling donor reporting requirements with high quality documentation and reports.
• Provide strategic and timely advice to SPJ’s leadership on donor relations, in close coordination with External Relations Lead.
• Contribute to positioning SPJ strategically in global processes, in order to help the partnership to ensure high profile and cross donor support to deliver on its mission.
• Inform and drive strategic initiatives in support of SPJ’s current strategy and contribute to the work program for external relations.

 

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree (International Relations/Public Affairs, Political Science, or other related field) plus a minimum of ten years of relevant work; More experience preferred.
• Proven track-record of resource mobilization from sovereign donors and international foundations required.  Track record of mobilizing resources from emerging market donors and private sector/private foundations preferred.
Extensive knowledge of the global social protection architecture, of the donor landscape and of the SPJ’s position in this ecosystem. 
• Demonstrated ability to develop and track implementation of resource mobilization strategies and to mobilize relevant internal stakeholders to deliver a donor engagement strategy. Track record of leading hybrid teams of direct and indirect reports, staff and consultants. 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with internal and external partners in both written and spoken. Solid understanding and ability to communicate clearly on global health topics and ability to identify engagement opportunities and risks in an international environment. 
• Excellent English language skills and proficiency to write and edit complex products for purposeful structure, clarity of ideas, and logical, persuasive presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and rapidly and analyze diverse information from varied sources.
• Demonstrated ability and the necessary personal organization skills to take initiative, personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, and achieve agreed-upon results, including securing financial contributions from donors.
• Demonstrated ability for teamwork in a multicultural environment.

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