Coordinator / Senior Social Protection Specialist

The Multi Donor Secretariat of the Promoting Basic Services Program in Ethiopia seeks to recruit a Coordinator / Senior Social Protection Specialist.

PBS is the principal instrument for transferring development financing to Ethiopia for basic decentralized service delivery. The purpose of the program is to protect and promote the delivery of five basic services (health, education, water & sanitation, agriculture, and rural roads) by sub-national governments in Ethiopia while promoting and deepening transparency and accountability in service delivery.  The PBS program involves six donors --- the African Development Bank, Austrian Development Agency,  the European Union, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Italian Development Cooperation and the World Bank. The program reflects a strong partnership across the PBS donors and between the donors and the Government of Ethiopia.  The PBS Secretariat is central to making this partnership work and is hosted by the World Bank.

Main responsibilities of the Coordinator / Senior Social Protection Specialist will have the following main responsibilities:

- Provide quality assurance/control over the Secretariat's analytical work and technical support services, including regional supervision missions. .

- Advise stakeholders on emerging problems and performance issues, providing solutions-oriented advice.

- Oversee the proper financial management of the Secretariat, ensuring that funds are received, budgeted, and accounted for as agreed with the PBS Donor Group;

- Liaise regularly with the PBS Donor Group Co-Chairs and key counterparts within the Government of Ethiopia;

- Manage the approved work program and activities of the Secretariat; including supervision of Secretariat staff

- Prepare and deliver six-monthly rolling work plans, budgets, as well as semi-annual and annual performance reports for approval by PBS Donor Co-chairs;

- Plan and prepare the main PBS monitoring and review exercises, specifically the semi-annual Joint Review and Implementation Supervision Missions, Joint Budget and Aid Reviews, and regional supervision missions; draft and negotiate concluding Aide Memoire.

- Coordinate and harmonize the views of the PBS Donors on program-wide issues, using data and analysis to drive evidence-based consensus positions;

- Liaise and follow-up with counterparts from Ethiopian Government and relevant ministries, and PBS implementing partners, on agreed areas of work; 

- Represent the Secretariat at major public fora, including Joint Review and Implementation

Supervision Missions, Joint Budget Aid Reviews, etc.;

- Collaborate with other national programs and with a variety of stakeholders to ensure the coordinated implementation and supervision of the PBS program; 

- Manage the execution of the planned multi-year series of PBS 3 evaluations, as well as other analytical work requested by donors; and,

- Oversee, define, and develop an approach to communications with government, donors, civil society and international stakeholders.

This is a 3 year renewable term appointment, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

For full job description and to make an application, visit:http://www.worldbank.org/careers

Vacancy  # 132629.

Closing date for applications: January 2, 2013.