Job Description

E T Consultant

Job #: req39037 Organization: World Bank Sector: Operations Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Mumbai,India Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 10/31/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd

Forced displacement remains a major global development challenge, with growing numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), increasingly protracted displacement situations, and declining humanitarian financing. These trends underscore the importance of development approaches that complement humanitarian assistance and protection efforts by strengthening national systems, expanding socioeconomic opportunities, and supporting sustainable solutions for displaced populations and host communities.

Over the past decade, the World Bank Group (WBG) has significantly expanded its engagement on forced displacement in low- and middle-income countries, including through dedicated financing instruments such as the IDA Window for Host Communities and Refugees (WHR) and the Global Concessional Financing Facility (GCFF). The Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Group, through its Forced Displacement Team, leads and coordinates this agenda in collaboration with Country Management Units, Global Practices, and external partners.

Building on the WBG's refreshed FCV Strategy (2026–2030), the FCV Group is developing a Forced Displacement Roadmap to guide the WBG's strategic and operational engagement over FY27–FY30. The Roadmap seeks to strengthen country-level responses to forced displacement, with a focus on expanding jobs and self-reliance, inclusion in national services, sustainable returns, and development responses to internal displacement. It also aims to strengthen the WBG's operational delivery, knowledge and partnerships, and financing instruments.

A key priority under this agenda is the WBG's collaboration with UNHCR to advance the 50by35 initiative, which aims to halve the number of aid-dependent refugees in protracted situations by 2035. This effort focuses on translating the objective of refugee self-reliance into country-level policies and operations, strengthening the evidence base and measurement of progress, and supporting greater alignment between humanitarian and development interventions. This builds on UNHCR's Sustainable Responses approach under the Global Compact on Refugees, which seeks to move away from short-term subsistence approaches toward government-led responses that promote self-reliance, and on the WBG's Development Approach to forced displacement (together, the Sustainable Responses / Development / 50by35 Approach).

Roles and responsibilities

The Extended Term Consultant (ETC) will report to the GTFS2 Manager under the supervision of the Forced Displacement Team Lead. The selected candidate is expected to work with proactivity and autonomy within the broader forced displacement team to support the planning and implementation of the Sustainable Responses / Development / 50by35 Approach in refugee-hosting countries, with a focus on analytics and advisory work, global analytics and stakeholder engagement, knowledge-sharing, and institutionalization of the approach. The ETC will coordinate closely with colleagues in Global Practices, Country Management Units, field-based colleagues, UNHCR, and other partners. Travel may be required.

Specific activities will include:

Lead and contribute to global-level engagement and analytics, including:

• Oversee the drafting and finalization of analytical reports relevant to the self-reliance effort, including the report on encampment;
• Contribute to short (10 to 20 pages), operationally focused papers on issues deemed critical by hosting countries, including: grounding the responsibility-sharing debate in data (including the alignment of refugee financing with sustainable responses, resource allocations, instruments, and architecture); options for engaging in countries of origin; principles and operational recommendations for development actors to support sustainable refugee returns; preparedness frameworks when shocks can be predicted; and a socio-economic lens on IDP solutions, including analytics on the use of socio-economic data to define and measure solutions;
• Participate in the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) subgroup on IDP exit and contribute to the related analytical work, including a paper on IDP exit;
• Engage proactively with relevant stakeholders for follow-up in the appropriate fora;
• Represent the forced displacement team externally through presentations and country dialogue.

Advance 50by35, knowledge-sharing, and institutionalization, including:

• Support the team operationalizing the 50by35 measurement effort, including baseline estimates and the development, with UNHCR teams, of a 50by35 monitoring framework;
• Co-lead the preparation of the World Bank Playbook in support of the High Commissioner's 50by35 goal, and lead or co-lead subsequent strategic pieces;
• Lead or contribute to knowledge-sharing and dissemination of good practices, including events and other activities as appropriate.

Support the work of the forced displacement team, including:

• Lead or contribute to analytical products, policy briefs, presentations, dashboards, and other materials to inform strategic and operational dialogue;
• Contribute to programming efforts under the Forced Displacement Trust Fund (FDTF) and the Partnership for Improving Prospects for Forcibly Displaced Persons and Host Communities (PROSPECTS);
• Lead and/or participate in WHR eligibility missions as appropriate;
• Undertake other related responsibilities as agreed with the GTFS2 Manager.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree in a relevant field and at least 8 years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience working on forced displacement, particularly refugees and host communities.
• Experience with development strategies, forced displacement, and policy dialogue.
• Experience with refugee costing and the measurement of self-reliance using household surveys.
• Familiarity with World Bank projects, operations, policies, and processes, and their implementation.
• Experience leading and undertaking political, economic, and social analysis with due consideration for forced displacement sensitivity.
• Strong knowledge of social science and/or economic research methods, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• Excellent existing network of contacts (including local researchers) and proven ability to build relationships with local, regional, and national stakeholders.
• Strong skills in producing clear and concise reports, presentations, and dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex technical workstreams, exercise sound judgment, and deliver high-quality outputs within tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills, initiative, and ability to collaborate across institutions and disciplines.
• Strong analytical and strategic skills, with demonstrated ability to translate complex policy and operational challenges into practical recommendations.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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