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Senior Public Sector Specialist Abuja, Nigeria

The Africa Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Group (AFR PREM) plays a key role in implementing the recently published Africa Region Strategy which identifies governance and public sector capacity as the foundational challenge for growth and development in the region. AFR PREM has particularly significant responsibilities in strengthening efforts to build sustainable and effective institutions that can help bring about shared growth and poverty reduction in the countries of the region.

In Nigeria, governance challenges and weak institutions for financial management and service delivery are major challenges. The World Bank and development partners have committed significant resources to support the Government of Nigeria in its efforts to strengthen institutions and improve governance. Policy dialogue and technical assistance engagements are aimed at the federal level as well as the state level. Starting fiscal year 2012, the Bank will be engaged in public sector institutional strengthening in 21 states through analytical work, lending operations and grant funded tasks.

In addition, governance and political economy is being mainstreamed into the Bank portfolio in all sectors to strengthen development impact.

To respond to increasing client demand AFR PREM is looking to recruit a dynamic and problem-solving individual as a Senior Public Sector/Governance Specialist to support the developing program of.

The selected candidate will be based in the World Bank’s Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria for a period of at least three years. Working as a member of the PREM Team and in close collaboration with the Lead Public Sector Governance Specialist, she/he will work directly with key federal and state government and non-government entities as well as with other development partners. Depending on the profile and language skills of the selected candidate she/he might be tasked to join teams in neighboring countries as well.

The candidate will ensure close collaboration with staff in the Human Development and Sustainable Development Networks and will foster multi-sector approaches to addressing systemic constraints in countries to public service delivery and effective management across sectors.

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 report to the Cluster Leader and to the Sector Manager (SM), and will be expected to carry out the following duties:

Lead or support multi-sector teams to deliver the Bank’s analytical, lending, and grant operations pertaining to public sector reform, including political economy and governance diagnostic work. In so doing, the candidate will provide advice and support to other World Bank sector operations involving public sector management/governance challenges.

Manage the preparation and supervision of assigned tasks and deliverables and ensure effective response and delivery of programs requested by Country Management Unit as well as ensure the quality of the analytical and lending program.

Generate and exchange knowledge relating to concepts, techniques and lessons of experience pertaining to governance, public sector reform and capacity building, advise on governance issues for Country Assistance Strategy preparation, and facilitate multi-sectoral approaches to governance reforms.

Support the Cluster Leader in work program discussions and in supervising the quality and timeliness of work program deliverables for the Nigeria program.