SENIOR GOVERNANCE SPECIALIST Washington, DC
Note: A potential candidate has been identified and intends to apply for this position. However, this remains a competitive process and interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
In support of the knowledge and learning agenda of the World Bank Group, the World Bank Institute (WBI) aims to support countries in achieving their development goals by acting as a catalyst for creating, sharing and applying cutting edge knowledge necessary for poverty reduction and economic and social development, and by stimulating the conditions for client countries to be able to utilize knowledge to achieve development goals. To help operationalize this mandate, the Leadership Practice (WBILG) aims to develop programs that can help “in-country” leadership teams facilitate and manage the complex process of implementing policy and institutional change.
Over the past three years, WBILG has developed two major programs, Greater Than Leadership (GTL) and Leadership for Results (L4R), and is in the process of scaling them up, expecting to launch at least eight (8) initiatives in FY13 - which have been entirely demand driven (from Operations) – while establishing delivery partnerships with select regional institutions. As part of its medium term strategy for the scale up, WBILG intends to offer the L4R as an instrument to support the mainstreaming of the Bank’s new lending instrument, the PforR (Program for Results). The PforR links loan disbursements to the achievement of sector outcomes/results. But meaningful results do not emerge naturally, for often times the road to attaining them requires significant changes in the way people and organizations do things. And managing the change process requires leadership. The L4R has been designed precisely to enable leadership teams acquire skills through a learning-by-doing approach which will enable them to manage and navigate the complex change process that often underpins most development efforts.
The L4R is a practitioner focused program based on a multi-disciplinary, open source (i.e. capable of incorporating and continuously assimilating new tools/approaches/ideas) platform. The said platform currently includes/spans six distinct areas of specialization – adaptive leadership, collective action, net mapping, strategic communications, self mastery, rapid results, and retreat facilitation. The conceptual tools of microeconomics provide the glue that binds each of these expert areas into a coherent, practitioner friendly platform. WBILG is thus seeking a senior governance specialist with solid training in microeconomics , an openness and willingness to engage constructively and collaboratively with experts from very distinct areas and apply his or her skills to enhance the coherence of the leadership platform, and with a penchant for addressing practical (albeit complex) problems on the ground. Note: A potential candidate has been identified and intends to apply for this position. However, this remains a competitive process and interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
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 3 year term appointment.
The selected candidate will work under the general supervision of the manager for the Leadership Practice (WBILG) and will:
• Be primarily responsible for shepherding the continuous evolution and refinement of the Leadership for Results (L4R) Program, engaging closely with staff and consultants working on various modules of the Leadership curriculum/platform – adaptive leadership, constraints to collective action and change, net mapping, strategic communications, the Rapid Results Approach, self mastery, and visioning – with the aim of continuously improving the program’s alignment with the needs of Bank Operations.
• Participate as a core member of a three person leadership faculty team delivering Leadership programs in client countries, with specific tasks of facilitating sessions (within a program) pertaining to constraints to collective action and change, stakeholder net-mapping, and self-mastery and providing continuous input throughout the fiscal year to improving the substance and pedagogy for these sessions. In cases where the two other members of the team are external consultants and/or staff members not sufficiently steeped in Bank Operations, the selected candidate shall serve as the task team leader for the delivery.
• Be principally responsible for designing/improving and co-delivering the curriculum module on constraints to collective action and change for the Global Faculty Development Program, building on key concepts in institutional and behavioral economics, and strengthening the links between this and other modules within the curriculum – adaptive leadership, stakeholder net-mapping, strategic communications, the rapid results approach, and visioning cum strategic prioritization. Over the medium term, the selected candidate shall be tasked with managing a team of consultants to develop Volume 2 of the Handbook on Coalition Building focusing on practical applications of behavioral economics to challenges of coalition building (volume 1, which is soon to be published under World Bank Publications, is anchored in institutional economics).
• Develop and implement an analytically grounded methodology to assess the progress made by participating teams in applying their leadership skills.
• Support the Practice Manager in establishing partnership agreements with regional institutions for the delivery of WBI’s Leadership programs within their respective regions, working with the senior curriculum and pedagogy specialist within the unit in adapting the curriculum as needed to specific needs/gaps of each institution.
• Be responsible for liaising with various Operational units/Networks to introduce and explain the objectives of WBI’s Leadership programs and how they can be of help to addressing implementation challenges in Bank operations.
• Provide guidance and advice to other staff in the unit on the workings, demands, and needs of Operational teams so that the latter can shape their respective deliveries more responsively to Bank operations.
• Be expected to contribute and share new ideas towards the development of new programs, i.e. product lines, and help seek resources to fund the testing/piloting of these programs.
• Provide support on addressing leadership related issues that the supervisor may assign from time to time.
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