E T Consultant

E T Consultant Job #: req32542 Organization: World Bank Sector: Economics Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): French ; Spanish Closing Date: 4/15/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Please visit www.worldbank.org.
THE FISCAL POLICY AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH UNIT
The Fiscal Policy & Sustainable Growth Unit (FPSG) in the Economic Policy Department of the World Bank assists internal and external clients in developing strategies and balancing risks and trade-offs in their public expenditures and domestic resource mobilization efforts in order to advance the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. 
THE PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATION ON TAX (PCT)
The PCT was established in 2016 as a collaboration mechanism between WB, IMF, OECD, and the UN on tax issues. The Platform for Collaboration on Tax Secretariat is hosted by the World Bank. The PCT’s mission is to support countries’ efforts to improve revenue mobilization by leveraging the expertise and experience of the four Partner Organizations, each with their own mandate and policies. The PCT also enables dialogue and information exchange on revenue mobilization between the Partners and promotes broad stakeholder engagement. This effort comes at a time of great momentum around international discussions on tax issues and the heightened attention to the importance of taxation and development notably Domestic Resource Mobilization. The work of the PCT is particularly focused on the following aspects of the tax and development agenda: Taxation and the Sustainable Development Goals, International Taxation, Tax Incentives, Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS), and Environmental Taxation. 
The PCT Partners’ joint work is often driven by sub-groups composed on Partners’ technical experts on important thematic areas such as tax incentives, environmental taxation, and MTRS. The PCT Partners have also recently launched a new work stream on measuring and monitoring results in DRM.
The FPSG Unit is the home of the Platform Secretariat, which supports all aspects of the Platform’s activities. The Secretariat is led by a Senior Economist who is the Task Team Leader  and is staffed by a DRM Specialist and a Knowledge Management & Communications Specialist. This small but effective Secretariat team supports coordination and collaboration of the Partners. The Secretariat team prepares the agendas and minutes of the bi-monthly meetings of the Partners’ Technical Expert Working Group, working meetings of the thematic sub-groups, all meetings of the PCT Principals and the PCT Partnership Council.  
The PCT Secretariat is looking for a dynamic tax expert to join the Secretariat team as the DRM Specialist.
Duties and Responsibilities
The selected candidate will be based in the World Bank’s Washington DC office, working under the supervision of the Practice Manager for the FPSG unit. He/She will work with the PCT Secretariat’s Task Team Leader and the PCT Knowledge Management Specialist in support of the day-to-day Secretariat work of the PCT, including, support to the above mentioned PCT work streams.
• Actively support the PCT Partners in development and implementation of the PCT workplan including monitoring and review of the progress. • Support PCT Partners in collecting, collating, and distilling lessons on PCT Partners activities on DRM. • Lead the production of annual reports, notes, briefs, background notes on the PCT and tax issues, as needed.  • Support agenda preparation, background meeting documents and minutes of core PCT meetings such as Partnership Council, Principals Meetings, and any other high-level strategic meetings of the PCT which in turn inform the PCT work program and its strategic goals.• Support the bi-monthly Technical Working Group meetings agenda preparation and minutes-taking as part of the work program execution of the Secretariat.• Support the PCT DRM agenda focused on the following work streams i. tax incentives; ii. Update of the MTRS approach, iii. environmental taxation, iv. 
Results monitoring and reporting in DRM. Under these workstreams, actively support and contribute to the development of the PCT products and deliverables, such as reports and analytical pieces. Activities to be supported include:   a) Prepare background information as needed b) Collect, review and consolidate PCT Partners technical inputs as well as inputs from external stakeholders (e.g. Tax incentives public consultations)c) Liaise with the technical teams of partner organizations; d) Synthesize and produce materials on these work stream topics as requested by PCT Partners.• When needed, support update of tax database, and other website resource pages which are managed by the PCT Knowledge Management specialist.• Working with the PCT KM specialist, support PCT Partners in the implementation of agreed outreach activities (workshops, training, learning materials, etc.), including: i) prepare and reviewing proposals; ii) liaise with the technical teams of Partner organizations; and iii) conduct workshops and draft workshop summary/report as requested by PCT Partners. 

Selection Criteria

The successful candidate will be a professional with expertise in public finance, taxation and project management with familiarity with PCT Partners and their operations, as well as passionate about tax and its role in development. The successful candidate will exhibit the following additional skills and experience:

• Advanced degree in public finance, public policy and administration, international relations, economics, or related field. 
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience, including supporting the management and implementation of substantive analytical and operational tasks in the tax arena. 
• Proven experience with public sector management or economic issues in developing countries.
• Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates strong integrative thinking and ability to support project teams in developing of an integrated point of view around development challenge. 
• First-hand experience with operations of at least one of the Platform Partners.
• Excellent writing and quality review skills and familiarity with Bank quality standards.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality outputs while working under pressure and within tight time schedules. 
• Fluency (spoken and writing) in English (Essential).
• French or Spanish fluency is desirable.

The candidate must also have the following competencies:

• Written and Verbal Communication - Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup
• Client Orientation - Takes personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
• Drive for Results - Takes personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results and has the personal organization to do so. 
• Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion - Collaborates with other team members and contributes productively to the team's work and output, demonstrating respect for different points of view.
• Knowledge, Learning and Communication - Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
• Business Judgment and Analytical Decision Making - Analyzes facts and data to support sound, logical decisions regarding own and others' work.
• Public Administration - Understands the overall dimensions and structures of the mechanics of government and its public administration, especially revenue administration and information management.
• General Economic Knowledge and Analytical Skills - Possesses a demonstrated track record of working with economic and sectoral data and analytical tools and models to conduct economic analyses and produce user-friendly written outputs; understands underlying statistical concepts.  
• Knowledge and Experience in Development Arena - Understands policy making process; distills operationally relevant recommendations/lessons for clients. 

Behavioral Competencies: 

• Excellent communications and diplomatic and client relations skills; capable of fostering long-term, productive client relationships and identifying and respond to business development opportunities.   
• Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
• Takes personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results. 
• Proven team orientation and leadership, ability to work across unit boundaries.
• High ethical standards and a deep sense of fairness. 

Other selection criteria 

• Experience with DRM issues in developing countries is required.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.