Background / General description: | | Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year renewable term appointment. The International Finance Corporation is the largest global development institution that is focused exclusively on the private sector. Part of the World Bank Group, IFC s vision is that people should have the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives. IFC finances private sector investments, mobilizes capital in international financial markets, facilitates trade, helps clients improve social and environmental sustainability, and provides technical assistance and advisory services to businesses and governments. IFC has significantly strengthened its focus on measuring development results over recent years, driving our strategy, operations and staff incentives. A results-focused culture expands the value we bring to our clients and beneficiaries, helps foster best practice among development finance institutions, and demonstrates IFC s development impact to all stakeholders. The Development Impact Department, CDI, unites DC-based staff working centrally on results measurement, both from Advisory Services and from Investment Services. The Department also coordinates the network of results management staff across IFC in all geographic locations. The Department has two primary units: CDIIS focused on Investment Services results measurement; and CDIAS focused on Advisory Services results measurement. This position is in CDIAS. | Duties and Accountabilities: | | The Results Measurement Officer will work in the CDIAS team under the supervision of its Head, Claudio Volonte, and will assist in planning and implementing policies and activities in the following seven areas, with specific tasks to be allocated within the team: 1. Ensure standard approaches on results frameworks (development and implementation), ensuring consistency across Business Lines, in particular regarding its indicators; Act as central clearinghouse on standard AS indicators Lead process of indicator revision on a rolling basis Optimize AS/IS indicator consistency Oversee results measurement tracking systems, guidelines Coordinate work on IDGs (sign-off) and lead aggregate monitoring & reporting. Conduct analysis, in particular data aggregation at the business lines levels. 2. Ensure quality of results reporting: approval review, PSR review, PCR analysis and DE ratings, negative ratings review, bi-annual portfolio / product reviews. 3. Oversee quality assurance of IFC corporate results reporting; liaise with assurance provider on external reporting. 4. Promote evaluation of programs to increase understanding of IFC s contribution to achieving development results. 5. Provide results measurement related training for IFC staff, develop standard training modules and conduct periodic training needs assessments 6. Communicate development results with relevant stakeholders in a consistent approach 7. Promote learning from development results and evaluations and ensure those lessons feed back into strategy & project design across Business Lines & across AS-IS. | Selection Criteria: | | 1. Technical training: Masters degree or higher qualification in the social, natural or applied sciences; excellent knowledge of statistical software (e.g. STATA, SPSS). 2. Technical experience: At least 8 years of world class experience with M&E and with the design and implementation of operational activity in multilateral institutions. 3. Leadership experience: Evidence of inspiring others to proactively meet development objectives; evidence of using influence to achieve impact; ability to take initiative and manage a variety of activities concurrently. 4. Communication skills: Ability to communicate technical issues effectively and persuasively; demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationship with colleagues and a wide range of external parties; 5. Building and sharing expertise: Evidence of applying expertise and experience to innovate, challenge the status quo & ensure good outcomes; evidence of contributing substantially to training, knowledge sharing and results measurement infrastructure (e.g. tools, lessons learned, benchmarks). Only online applications are accepted: applications by email will neither be accepted nor acknowledged. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. |
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