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The Knowledge Bank’s Transport and Logistics Solutions and Impact team is responsible for ensuring that the right mix of best practice, investment and advisory solutions are made available to public and private sector clients and WBG operational teams in the Transport and Logistics sectors. 

The team is looking to recruit a (Senior) Industry Specialist (IS) covering the Transport and Logistics sectors.  The IS will provide knowledge and criteria regarding business feasibility, assessment or diagnosis of the assigned projects. Also involved in the supervision of WBG’s ongoing transport investments along with other Industry Specialist colleagues from the Transport and Logistics Group. The (Senior) Industry Specialist will bridge operational experience with knowledge management, ensuring that lessons learned and innovative solutions are captured and shared across the World Bank Group and its clients.

The selected candidate will be based in Washington DC and will report to the Manager for Transport and Logistics Solutions and Impact. The position will have a global focus and involve regular travel commitments.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Among other duties, the (Senior) Industry Specialist will provide support to investment or advisory activities by evaluating transport projects, providing sector advice and guidance, and monitoring transport portfolio. More specifically:

• Upstream-related activities: 
    o  Identify opportunities to further support clients through advisory services at business development, appraisal, and supervision stages.
    o  Support the development of the sector strategy and the creation of new business opportunities.
    o  Advise Transport and Logistics Policy and Regulation Unit and other investment teams within the WBG in early stage assessment of investment proposals from a technical, managerial, commercial and development impact perspective.

•  Investment-related activities:
    o  Apply sector knowledge in evaluating transport projects and helping other specialists within the Knowledge Bank Transport and Logistics Group appraise new investment proposals, including the following subsectors: ports, roads, railways, urban transit, airports, transportation logistics & warehousing, shipping and barging, airlines, electric vehicles and new mobility patterns.
    o  Liaise with client’s technical staff, project engineers, consultants and lenders’ engineers as needed.
    o  Review and opine on major contracts, including EPC, O&M, and Concession agreements.
    o  Provide market assessment and identify potential for market development and revenue growth.
    o  Provide financial analysts with revenue projections and key operational and capital cost assumptions for incorporation in financial models.
    o  Draft Terms of Reference, hire and supervise technical and market consultants as necessary.
    o  Prepare timely project appraisal reports alone or collaborating with other specialists, including risk assessment, mitigation measures and impact evaluation.

•  Portfolio-related activities:
    o  Provide technical supervision of WBG’s portfolio of transport sector investments, including field inspection as necessary.
    o  Identify and assist in resolving operational weaknesses and take notes of lessons learned and best practices to apply on future projects.

•  Other activities:
    o  Assist Industry Analysts and help them develop their knowledge and capabilities while working with them. 
    o  Support other specialists in their duties when necessary.
    o  Maintain an active WBG network that provides visibility of WBG activities relevant to the sector, and coordinate activities as appropriate.
    o  Keep updated on sectoral and industry news, trends, related technology developments and cost references.
    o  Develop industry knowledge to share within WBG and with external clients as part of WBG’s knowledge management programs in a permanent format (lessons learnt, industry trends, basic technical knowledge, benchmarking, etc.) 
    o  Collaborate with operational teams of the Transport and Logistics Policy and Regulation Unit and with other teams of the WBG to integrate knowledge into project design and implementation. 

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