Global Practice Senior Director, Health, Nutrition and Population
THE WORLD BANK GROUP’S VISION AND STRATEGY
The global development community is at an auspicious turning point in history. Thanks to the success of the past few decades and favorable economic growth, developing countries now have an unprecedented opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation. This is the vision of the World Bank Group (WBG): to eradicate extreme poverty by reducing the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day to 3 percent by 2030, and promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country.
The global development community is at an auspicious turning point in history. Thanks to the success of the past few decades and favorable economic growth, developing countries now have an unprecedented opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation. This is the vision of the World Bank Group (WBG): to eradicate extreme poverty by reducing the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day to 3 percent by 2030, and promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country.
To achieve this vision, this year the WBG Board of Governors approved a strategy for the organization. This strategy leverages, for the first time, the combined strength of the WBG institutions and their unique ability to partner with the public and private sectors to deliver customized development solutions backed by finance, world class knowledge and convening services. The strategy has three components: (1) maximizing development impact by engaging country clients in identifying and tackling the most difficult development challenges; (2) promoting scaled-up partnerships that are strategically aligned with the goals; and (3) crowding in public and private resources, expertise and ideas.
The architecture underpinning the strategy and instrumental to its success is the establishment of fourteen Global Practices and five Cross-Cutting Solution Areas that, in concert with the WBG Regions, will design solutions that address clients’ most pressing developmental challenges, and ultimately, enable the WBG to meet its twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
The WBG seeks to recruit a dynamic professional as a Global Practice Senior Director, Health, Nutrition and Population, to be based in Washington, DC, under a 4 year renewable term appointment.
THE ROLE OF THE WBG IN HEALTH, NUTRITION AND POPULATION
The primary challenges of health development relate to health, nutrition, and demographic transitions that are stratifying inequitably opportunities and outcomes in HNP globally, regionally and within countries. The fundamental challenge is to preempt, prevent and mitigate the developmental impact of these challenges now and into the future, recognizing that there are residual pockets of slow change alongside rapid predictable and unpredictable change. Specific challenges include: providing equitable, efficient, accountable and sustainable financing of health care; providing equitable, quality, appropriate and scaled-up delivery of priority public health and healthcare services according to need; mobilizing the appropriate quantity and quality of key health systems inputs related to health workers, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare technology and facilities; and strengthening models of governance for the health sector that recognize core functions for government, responsibilities/accountability of key actors and enhance competencies for governance across levels (local, national, regional and global) and sectors (public/private/civil society, as well as government sectors such as education, transport, social protection, etc.).
The primary challenges of health development relate to health, nutrition, and demographic transitions that are stratifying inequitably opportunities and outcomes in HNP globally, regionally and within countries. The fundamental challenge is to preempt, prevent and mitigate the developmental impact of these challenges now and into the future, recognizing that there are residual pockets of slow change alongside rapid predictable and unpredictable change. Specific challenges include: providing equitable, efficient, accountable and sustainable financing of health care; providing equitable, quality, appropriate and scaled-up delivery of priority public health and healthcare services according to need; mobilizing the appropriate quantity and quality of key health systems inputs related to health workers, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare technology and facilities; and strengthening models of governance for the health sector that recognize core functions for government, responsibilities/accountability of key actors and enhance competencies for governance across levels (local, national, regional and global) and sectors (public/private/civil society, as well as government sectors such as education, transport, social protection, etc.).
These challenges have regional and sub-regional specificity, such as persistent malnutrition in Africa and South Asia, and in parts of Middle East, as well as more global commonality in defining the best approaches to purchasing high yielding health interventions. They also have multiple transnational dimensions related to disease outbreaks and epidemics that demand coordinated international responses to support countries for global health security.
The WBG’s comparative advantages in supporting improved performance of health systems relate to: the ability to engage and convene heads of state, ministers of finance, and other key development sectors and partners around priority HNP issues in order to forge consensus on knowledge and solution agendas: comprehensive knowledge and know-how competencies from description to development to delivery and independent evaluation of HNP solutions; multiple financing instrumentalities; ability to provide high quality and timely technical assistance; multi-sectoral expertise; and consolidate lessons learned, facilitate exchange across countries and build capacity to address HNP challenges.
Looking ahead the WBG priorities in the HNP Practice are to address priority HNP challenges across regions and countries ranging from the last 800+days of the health MDGs to maternal/child malnutrition, sustainable financing for health with national and global financing mechanisms, service delivery, systems inputs, governance, and monitoring and evaluation. The HNP practice is projecting to commit an additional $2,958.71 billion in new lending, IDA credits and grants in FY14, and currently oversees an active financing portfolio of $10,845.47 billion. It is also planning $108 million on advisory and analytical engagements to expand the global knowledge base on how to bring solutions to key challenges.
The Global Practice Senior Director will collaborate technical, geographic and institutional boundaries to help design and deliver development solutions to a diverse range of clients. S/he will be supported by a management team and approximately 235 globally placed staff. The Global Practice Senior Director will report to the two Global Practice Vice Presidents.
Details for this vacancy are available in the World Bank Careers site:www.worldbank.org/careers, Vacancy Number 132484. All applications must be submitted through this website. The World Bank Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Closing date is December 5, 2013.
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