Senior Strategy Officer

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IEG’s Role

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)'s mission is to improve World Bank Group (WBG) development results through excellence in evaluation. IEG is responsible for the assessment of the relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of WBG operational policies, programs and activities, and their contribution to development effectiveness. IEG's evaluations aim to enhance accountability and learning to inform the formulation of new (and course corrections of ongoing) core work of the WBG.

IEG is directly responsible for:

• Evaluating whether the WBG Institutions' core work is producing the expected results, including global, regional, and other programs in which the institution(s) is a participant.

• Incorporating evaluation assessments and findings into recommendations designed to help improve the development effectiveness of the WBG's core work, and their responsiveness to member countries' needs and concerns.

• Reviewing the Institutions' operational self-evaluations.

• Reporting regularly to the Boards on actions taken by the institution(s) in response to evaluation findings, and on the measures, being taken to improve the overall operations evaluation system and enhance learning, including dissemination and outreach activities.

• Identifying, disseminating, and promoting the uptake of evaluation findings and lessons to maximize contributions to the WBG's learning and knowledge framework and reinforce learning and accountability within the WBG in reference to achieving the corporate goals.

•  Contributing to the international evaluation community, including knowledge-sharing with other multilateral and bilateral institutions. 

• Proposing strategic choices about the IEG work program after consultations with external stakeholders, the Boards, and WBG management, ensuring it is relevant and aligned with the Institutions' key strategic priorities, overall resources, and with the main development challenges affecting its member countries.

•   Encouraging and assisting member countries to build effective monitoring and evaluation partnerships, capacities and systems. 

•  Leading the work of the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), a multi-donor trust fund, established to support evaluation capacity development, in developing countries, and to share evaluation knowledge, skills, and methods.  

• Incorporating evaluation assessments and findings into recommendations designed to help improve the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s programs and activities, and their responsiveness to member countries’ needs and concerns.

• Appraising the Institutions’ self-evaluations of strategies and projects and attesting to their adequacy to the Boards.

• Reporting periodically to the Boards on actions taken by the Institution(s) in response to evaluation findings, and on the measures being taken to improve the overall operations evaluation system including dissemination and outreach activities.

• Identifying and disseminating evaluation findings and lessons to maximize contributions to the World Bank Group’s learning and knowledge framework and reinforce learning and accountability within the World Bank Group in service of achieving its corporate goals.

• Encouraging and assisting developing member countries to build effective monitoring and evaluation associations, capacities and systems.

• Working closely with development partners among donors and developing countries in order to foster international evaluation harmonization, to develop evaluation capacity in developing countries, and to encourage best practice in international development evaluation.

Internal and external contexts

IEG’s work is aligned with the changing internal and external contexts.  In addition to validating the ratings for projects, IEG carries out a number of thematic, country, and corporate evaluations that are aligned with the WBG priorities, as laid out in the Evolution Roadmap. For example, the WBG has identified a number of “Global Challenge Priorities”, and IEG’s work program has been adapted to reflect those priorities.  

Organizational structure

IEG is led by the Vice President/Director-General, Evaluation (DGE), who reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors through the Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE). IEG’s organizational structure comprises:

• The Office of the Vice President/Director-General, Evaluation (IEGDG)

• The Human Development and Economic Management Department (IEGHE)

• The Finance, Private Sector, Infrastructure, Digital and Planet Department (IEGSP)

• The Knowledge and Communications Unit (IEGKC).

Through the Vice President and Director-General of Evaluation (DGE), IEG reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors.

IEG is seeking to hire an experienced Senior Strategy Officer to work with the Director of Strategy and Operations (DSO) to manage the front office of the VP/DGE.  
Among other tasks, the Senior Strategy Officer will 

•Work on improving the functioning of the workflow of the VPU, including operational systems, to ensure that tasks are delivered in a timely manner. The Senior Strategy Officer will need to work closely with the management team and task leads on delivery issues

•Contribute to regular reports to CODE, including quarterly updates and work program documents

•Work on documentation such as ADM, procedures, guidance, etc. 

•Support research on a range of economic and evaluation topics.

•Work with data using a range of data tools and be able to write succinctly and use data visualization tools to present clear findings. 

•Be able to read and quickly summarize Bank documents from a range of sectors and identify and raise any concerns that may affect IEG.

•Interact with counterparts in WBG operations, the Board, and SEC, to ensure coordination of work, and clarity of issues.