Reporting to and under the supervision of the Country Director (CD) and the Operations Manager (OM) of the Nepal CMU, the Operations Officer will support the Nepal Country Office in ensuring strong linkages, information flows and coordination within various project teams in advancement of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF), and with Development Partners. This will require a constant engagement across World Bank Group teams, as well as technical counterparts of other Development Partners, NGOs and members of Civil Society to ensure that there is coordination of engagements, and information flow on current and planned activities.
Similarly, the Operations Officer will also work closely with the Program Leader for Social Development to support the Government of Nepal (GoN) operationalize the Green, Resilient, Inclusive Development (GRID) Agenda.
Specifically, the Operations Officer will undertake the following duties and responsibilities:
A. Development Partner Engagement and CMU Support (40%):
1) Facilitate and enhance strategic engagement between World Bank and Development Partners (DPs).
a. Organize and facilitate at least two bilateral retreats with DPs to enhance bilateral collaboration (i.e., FCDO, ADB, EU), and follow up on agreed actions
b. Serve as the Core Team Member for the Green, Inclusive Development (GRID) Support DP Team to help the government operationalize GRID Platform for Nepal’s long term sustainable recovery from COVID-19. This will also include helping to ensure DP presence and engagement in GRID events such as the high-level roundtable on GRID
c. Organize and facilitate Heads of Agency (HOA) level consultations during concept stage and appraisal for all World Bank projects going to Board in FY23-24
d. Working together with CD, identify and organize consultations, closed-door meetings with DPs on strategic issues such as provincial and local roads, vaccines, federalism
e. Support CD/ OM in maintaining dialogue and relationship with key DPs
f. Organize one joint Heads of Agency level field visit to World Bank (WB) project site, working together with the relevant GP (COVID-19 situation permitting, in areas such as vaccine, federalism implementation)
g. Identify potential DPs to collaborate with on the upcoming digital development.
2) Ensure effective and relevant information flow between WB and Development Partners for better collaboration.
a. Organize briefings to DPs on critical WB analyses and WBG management decisions such as on Budget, monetary policy, Public expenditure review, and discontinuation of Doing Business Report
b. Serve as the focal person for information flow between Headquarter (HQ)and Nepal Country Office(NCO) on DP collaboration and on Corporate Functions. This includes preparing DP collaboration briefs for Regional Vice President’s (RVP) DP engagements
c. Maintain and update DP collaboration briefs, as required
d. Identify relevant DP colleagues to engage with to explore collaboration opportunities at the technical level
e. Engage in technical discussions between and GPs and DPs, and keep CMU informed of any important conversation with DPs at the technical level
f. Identify opportunities for WB to discuss issues at International Development Partner’s Group (IDPG) meetings
g. Clear letters to DPs before they are signed by the OM
h. Prepare briefs for CD’s meeting with DPs in Nepal.
3) Contribute to Nepal Program’s strategic engagements and support the CMU.
a. Support CD and OM on strategic discussions and engagements, and step in as the informal special assistant to the CD, as required
b. Lead the quality control of all briefs prepared for the CD until a Short-Term Consultant (STC) is hired to take over this function
c. Serve as a core member in preparation of high-level visits, especially to help with Briefing Books, are required
d. Lead the preparation of the Reopening Plan (3-1), working together with the Country Management Team (CMT) sub team
e. Facilitating discussions with Development Partners as required regarding the Reopening Plan
