Operations Analyst - San José, Costa Rica - World Bank Group

Descripción

Job #:

- req22674
Organization:

• World Bank
  Sector:
• Operations
  Grade:
• GE
  Term Duration:
• 2 years 0 months
  Recruitment Type:
• Local Recruitment
  Location:
• San Jose,Costa Rica
  Required Language(s):
• Spanish and English
  Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

• 5/19/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
  Description

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 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, the WBG Board of Governors has 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 was the establishment of fourteen Global Practices and five Cross-Cutting Solution Areas that, in concert with the WBG Regions 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


About the World Bank Group:

Established in 1944, the WBG is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions.

In fiscal year 2018, the WBG committed $67 billion in loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to its members and private businesses, of which $24 billion was concessional finance to its poorest members.

It is governed by 188-member countries and delivers services out of 120 offices with nearly 15,000 staff located globally.

The WBG consists of five specialized institutions: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

The World Bank is organized into six client-facing Regional Vice-Presidencies, several corporate functions and thirteen Global Practices to bring best-in-class knowledge and solutions to regional and country clients.

Regional Context:

The World Bank Group serves 30 client countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR). Clients range from large rapidly-growing sophisticated middle-income clients to IDA countries to small Caribbean states to one fragile state.

Despite immense resources, dynamic societies, and an average annual per capita income of about $4,000, deep inequalities persist in most LCR countries, with nearly a quarter of the Region's people living in poverty.

The Bank's strategy in LCR is focused on five pillars:
(a) stimulating growth and improving competitiveness; (b) reducing poverty and inequality; (c) making governments and institutions work for people; (d) providing a platform for tackling global issues (climate change, trade, disease, migration); and (e) reducing risk, whether from extreme weather events, climate change, crime and violence or other.


CMU and Country Office Context:

The Central America CMU (LC2 CMU) is based in Washington, D. C.

and is responsible for overseeing the World Bank's program in the six Central American countries:
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

The CMU bears the responsibility for ensuring the implementation of the Bank's business model and the effective delivery of services through country strategy formulation and implementation, policy dialogue, portfolio management, and country relations.

Costa Rica is an upper middle-income country with an evolving Bank program, which includes investment and policy lending, technical assistance, and cooperation on global development issues.

The Costa Rica country office is based in San José and has XX technical and support staff, overseen by a Country Manager based in San Salvador.

The Costa Rica Country Office is looking for an energetic and proactive team member for the position of Operations Analyst who possesses adaptability and flexibility in providing support to t