The World Bank Group 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.
World Bank Burundi contributes to Vision Burundi 2025, which serves to guide national policies and strategies, including on sustainable management of natural resources, and the related Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II. Under the latter, it is directly contributing to promoting development through sustainable environmental and spatial management as well as increasing productivity in agriculture and expanding access to better‐quality economic infrastructure.
Your tasks and responsibilities as Environmental and Social Analyst:
- Assist with emergency responders and local emergency management authorities in identifying and addressing significant environmental issues in relation to the primary humanitarian objectives;
- Provide support in information-sharing between all concerned stakeholders (Government, humanitarian actors, private sector, communities);
- Provide oversight and quality assurance on the project portfolio. This will include direct operational support on social safeguards;
- Support mainstreaming of environmental sustainability in World Bank country programmes throughout the programme management cycle;
- Support the coordination and implementation of climate change and green economy related activities;
- Support production and continual updating of maps of resilience, adaptation and mitigation activities related to climate change at district, provincial and national level.
Part of the UN Youth Volunteers [Programme](https://www.cinfo.ch/fr/talent-programme-swiss-youth-world-bank), this position is sponsored by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). To ensure one can fully immerse in these assignments, all travel, relocation, life and health insurance costs are covered.
Please find the full job description here:
For the programme:
- Swiss nationality;
- Master's degree in a relevant field (by end of March 2021);
- Ideally 12 months of relevant professional experience (min. 3 months - max. 24 months);
- Max. 28 years old at the start of the assignment in July 2021;
- Excellent command of English and 2 official Swiss languages (one active = C1/C2, one passive = A2/B1);
- Interest in joining the international cooperation sector.
For this position:
- Master's degree in environment and/or social sciences (including environment management, environmental law, anthropology, sociology, political economy, social development);
- Demonstrated interest and/or experience (ideally one year) in addressing issues covered by the World Bank's Environmentaland Social Framework (ESF) and environmental and social safeguards policies or similar policies in other international finance institutions in complex and challenging settings, and across practices;
- Demonstrated interest and/or experience in the area of climate change, advocacy and/or, country's environmental needs and development;
- Fluent in English and French.
Please find more details in the full job description.
Important details regarding your application
Make sure your profile on cinfoPoste is complete and up to date:
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Motivation letter in English
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CV in English (the length and the % of your employments should be indicated)
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Work certificates, diplomas and university credentials (as PDF) uploaded under the section "documents"
Application deadline: 7 March 2021
The entire recruitment process takes about four months. Interviews are carried out by cinfo and take place between 22 and 26 March 2021. The final selection is done by the World Bank based on cinfo's recommendation. Selected candidates will be informed by the end of April 2021.
You will find more information about the Programme [under this link.](https://www.cinfo.ch/fr/talent-programme-swiss-youth-world-bank)
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