Senior Agriculture Economist
Washington D.C.
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Grade: 2359
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Occupational Groups:
- Economics
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Closing Date: Closed
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 solve the world’s greatest development and sustainability challenges. Established in 1944, the World Bank Group (WBG) 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, promoting transformative policies, and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
The Global Engagement Unit of the Global Department for Agriculture and Food (SAGGL) supports a global vision of delivering a triple bottom line of a healthy economy, healthy people, and a healthy planet. SAGGL has a broad mandate to manage and promote the Global Department’s global and corporate responsibilities. To serve this mandate, the unit is responsible for managing global programs, coordinating with global partners and across regions to ensure the global nature of solutions the Bank brings to the agriculture and food agenda in specific countries, facilitating knowledge and technical support to operational teams, and providing corporate and high-quality client services across the full range of IBRD and IDA countries. It also engages in high-priority, strategic analytical work, policy dialogue, and engagements at the global and regional levels. SAGGL has an active work program on climate change adaptation and mitigation in relation to agriculture and food. SAGGL provides thought leadership and knowledge exchange via strategic analytical work, partnership strengthening across key international institutions, and policy engagement in major global climate fora; supports moving from a global vision to climate action at the country level, through building countries’ capacity to plan, mitigate, and adapt to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food systems; and builds the Bank teams’ capacity to design and implement projects and analytical work to support climate smart agriculture and food systems.
The World Bank is looking to scale up its support for the climate agenda in the agrifood system, as well as enhancing its engagement on other aspects of environmental sustainability, such as biodiversity, agricultural pollution control, and sustainable land and water resource management.
SAGGL seeks to engage the services of a dynamic Senior Agriculture Economist to strengthen efforts to promote climate mitigation and adaptation, and environmental sustainability, in World Bank agriculture and food (AGF) investments, analytical work and policy dialogue using innovative and rigorous economic analysis, modeling, and behavioral insights.
Duties & Accountabilities
The Senior Agriculture Economist will have the following responsibilities:
• Lead or contribute to key analytical and advisory products related to climate, agriculture and nature.
• Play a leading role in furthering the thought leadership of the Department on the Climate and Nature agenda and the technical and analytical underpinnings for a dynamic climate and nature economics program, including by contributing to the design and implementation of a new multi-year Programmatic ASA.
• Serve as a core team member and leader on the economic analysis and modeling aspects of the new country-level Food System Climate Action Plans (FS-CAPs).
• Lead the Department’s efforts to engage with macro economists and climate and environment specialists across the World Bank Group working on Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs).
• Spearhead the promotion of the climate change agenda in AGF operations, ensure consistent global approaches and best practices, and coordinate with colleagues in the Climate Change Group and elsewhere through corporate climate commitments, including climate co-benefits, GHG accounting, and resilience rating, and scaling up innovative approaches to financing.
• Provide global technical and thought leadership on the economics of climate and nature in AGF, and promote knowledge sharing on the topic, including by organizing events of the internal Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Solutions Group, and representing the World Bank at global, regional and country events.
The Senior Agriculture Economist will join the team working under the leadership of the Global Lead on Climate and Nature. S/he will report to the SAGGL Practice Manager.
This vacancy is now closed.