Date of last update: 31/08/2022 2022-08-31
The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help our client countries reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life.
The World Bank Group serves over 30 diverse clients in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, with a population of nearly 500 million people. Clients range from large sophisticated middle-income countries to IDA countries. Although eleven of ECA's clients have joined the EU and seven of these have graduated, most continue to remain active recipients of knowledge and/or lending services. Two more countries have entered negotiations for EU membership and several others aspire to do so in future. Country Partnership Strategies reflect this strong diversity with substantial variation in lending prospects, but strong demand for Bank technical services is present across the board, as reflected by a large Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) portfolio.
Staff in the Education Global Practice in ECA typically engage with clients in in-depth technical assistance and policy discussions, design, supervision and evaluation of education sector projects, and leading and participating in AAA tasks (Analytical and Advisory Activities) such as Education Sector Policy Studies, Public Expenditure Reviews, Impact Evaluations, Country Economic Memoranda, Social Assessments, Institutional Assessments, and Regional Studies. They also lead and participate in other multi-sectorial lending operations, including Development Policy Lending, as well as performance-based operations. Policy dialogue is concentrated in impact evaluation, the economics of education, skills for competitiveness and jobs, education sector service delivery – including quality, relevance, efficiency, access, and financing of education. The ECA portfolio also includes a significant number of Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) where quality and timeliness of delivery is at the heart of the growth of this line of business. Recent research and policy dialogue has centred around determining the impact of Covid on education, determining learning losses, and providing policy advice on building resilient education systems post Covid.
Your tasks and responsibilities as Research Assistant:
Part of the Talent programme 'Swiss Youth at the World Bank', this position is sponsored by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). This ensures that travel, relocation, life and health insurance costs are covered by the programme and a monthly living allowance is paid.
Please find the full job description here:
Type of contract: Volunteer
Duration: 12 months
Education level: Master's degree
Macro-area: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Level of experience: Junior Professional, 1 to 3 years
Area of work Definition: Education, Learning and Training
Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations
For the programme:
For this position:
Please find more details in the full job description.
Important details regarding your application
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Application deadline: 31 August 2022
First round of interviews carried out by cinfo: between 19 and 28 September 2022
The entire recruitment process takes about four months. The final selection is done by the host organisation based on cinfo's recommendation. Selected candidates will be informed by mid-December 2022.
Find more information about the Programmes and the other 28 Talent Programme vacancies here.
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