E T Consultant

E T Consultant

Job #

req37414

Organization

World Bank

Sector

Social Protection

Grade

EC3

Term Duration: 1 year

Recruitment Type

Local Recruitment

Location

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s)

English

Preferred Language(s)

Arabic, French, or Spanish

Closing Date

7/14/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.

Social Policy (SP) Global Department Context

Social Policy (SP) brings together the former Social Protection and Labor (SPL) and Social Development (SD) Global Practices into a unified platform for building inclusive and resilient social and labor systems. By addressing fragmentation across social, labor, and inclusion programs, SP strengthens policy coherence and places human capital accumulation at the center of social policy—recognizing that capabilities are built over time across the home, neighborhoods, and the workplace.

Social protection is a core pillar of this framework. Through social assistance, social insurance, and labor-linked programs, it reduces poverty, manages risk, and guarantees a basic standard of living while enabling households to invest in nutrition, health, and education. By stabilizing incomes and protecting against shocks, social protection supports human capital formation in the home, promotes inclusion and equity through contributory and non-contributory systems, and strengthens resilience during crises.

Labor markets are equally central, shaping income distribution, social inclusion, and economic stability. Active labor market programs, labor regulations, skills development, and links to social protection systems support human capital accumulation in the workplace by helping workers build skills through either wage or self-employment, access quality jobs, ensure safe and balanced working conditions, and manage transitions as economies evolve—combining opportunity with security.

Community and local development anchor social policy in neighborhoods, where local institutions, service delivery, and social cohesion shape opportunity. By strengthening local capacity and resilience, improving access to services, and linking community priorities with national policy, these approaches create environments that reinforce human capital development beyond the household and workplace.

Together, social protection, labor markets, and community development form an integrated social policy framework that links protection, productivity, and participation. The merger reflects a shift from fragmented sectoral programs toward coherent social policies that support people across the life cycle—from childhood to old age—and across the spaces where human capital is built, deployed, and enhanced.

The Social Policy Global Unit performs the following functions:

• Defining strategic directions and business plans for the Social Policy Global Department.
• Capturing and leveraging knowledge effectively across regions, and in collaboration with DEC.
• Developing and coordinating the policy and regulations that support the WBG’s strategic directions and deploying impactful solutions globally.
• Coordinating global engagements, partnerships, and convening efforts.

Nutrition Sensitive Social Protection

The Nutrition Sensitive Social Protection (NSSP) team consists of specialists within the Social Policy Global Unit, working directly with country teams to integrate nutrition into social protection programming worldwide. As part of the broader World Bank SP500 agenda and in response to growing global demand from client countries, the team leads the expansion of operational support on NSSP, providing technical guidance, analytical tools, and knowledge products across the full project cycle.

The integration of nutrition within social protection systems has emerged as a critical operational priority across both development and Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) settings. This includes strengthening the nutritional adequacy of transfers, improving targeting of nutritionally vulnerable populations, integrating accompanying measures and social behavior change communication (SBCC), and strengthening linkages between social protection systems, food systems, and essential services through instruments such as nutrition-sensitive cash transfers, economic inclusion and livelihoods programming, school meals, and other social safety net programs.

To support this agenda, the World Bank seeks two (2) Extended Term Consultants (ETCs) to provide technical leadership, operational support, and strategic engagement on NSSP across country engagements. The ETCs will work under the guidance of the nutrition lead in Social Policy Global Practice and collaborate closely with global and country-based task teams and cross-sectoral colleagues. Please note this position is financed by a grant, and renewal is contingent upon availability of funding, in addition to other factors, including but not limited to business needs, staff performance and skills fit.

Roles and Responsibilities

The role will include the following objectives

• Provide operational, analytical, and strategic support to strengthen the integration of nutrition-sensitive approaches within social protection systems and operations across World Bank client countries.

The ETCs will support the design, implementation, supervision, and knowledge generation of NSSP interventions and contribute to the broader institutionalization of nutrition-sensitive approaches within the Social Policy portfolio.

The role will include the following tasks

• Provide technical and operational support to World Bank task teams and client countries to integrate nutrition into social protection operations globally, including support throughout the project cycle from preparation to implementation, with a focus on cash transfer programs, employment support encompassing active labor market programs, public works, productive and economic inclusion, livelihoods and microenterprise support, school meals, and related social-safety net interventions.
• Contribute technical inputs to operational and analytical products, including Project Appraisal Documents (PADs), Operational Manuals (POMs) Results Frameworks, policy notes, implementation plans, operational guidance and knowledge products for both technical and global teams.
• Contribute to analytical work, operational learning and thought leadership related to nutrition-sensitive cash transfers, employment support (including ALMPs, public works, livelihoods, and economic inclusion), school meals, food and nutrition security and human capital outcomes.
• Engage with bilateral donors, foundations, UN agencies, CSO and implementing partners, including support to donor-funded activities, fundraising efforts, partnership engagement and preparation of technical materials and reports.
• Coordinate closely with colleagues across Social Policy, Global Health, Agriculture and Food, and Education Global Practices to support cross-sectoral collaboration, learning events, technical exchanges and integration of Nutrition-Sensitive approaches into global social protection knowledge systems.
• Support and develop key materials and efforts to enhance nutrition-sensitive social protection capacity among clients, World Bank teams and other key stakeholders.
• Perform other duties to support the needs of the team as assigned.
• International travel required (20-30%)

Solutions and Impact

The role sits within the Social Policy Global Unit’s Solutions and Impact function, which focuses on developing, scaling, and embedding proven approaches across the World Bank’s social protection portfolio. In this capacity, the ETCs will:

• Share authoritative sectoral knowledge and emerging good practice with operational staff, including through Communities of Practice.
• Support the crafting of vetted solutions into operational platforms that can be scaled.
• Contribute to monitoring the impact of solutions and adaptations needed for different contexts.
• Support country teams to apply global knowledge, adapted to local contexts.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and delivery of learning and capacity building programs for clients, including through the WBG Academy.
• Support the design, implementation, and delivery of learning and capacity building programs for sectoral staff.
• Within the Social Protection Global Unit, this specifically entails contribution to:
• Supporting the Global Director and Department management team in articulating a clear and compelling Social Policy narrative anchored in protection, productivity, and participation.
• Supporting the unit's contribution to SP500, contributing to results tracking, high-quality interventions, and client satisfaction.
• Supporting the Knowledge Bank agenda on integrated social policy by contributing to the development and rollout of innovative social policy and employment diagnostics.
• Contributing to analytical work, operational guidance, and diagnostic toolkits with a strong labor market and jobs focus, including solution design and financing.
• Supporting the systematic capture and dissemination of lessons from operations, particularly those related to labor market and employment interventions.
• Supporting the adaptation and scaling of proven solutions in priority sectors, jointly with Unit management.
• Contributing to the design, implementation, and delivery of academies, impact programs, and knowledge platforms on critical social policy and employment topics.
• Supporting South–South learning and exchange.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in Nutrition Sciences, Public Health, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant professional experience in nutrition, school meals, food systems transformation, or closely related sectors.
• Extensive experience supporting the design and implementation of nutrition-sensitive social protection operations and/or multisectoral nutrition programs in low- and middle-income countries.
• Strong understanding of multisectoral nutrition challenges, particularly maternal and child nutrition and system-based approaches; experiences working and programing within FCV contexts preferred.
• Experience working across sectors including social protection, health, education, and/or agriculture.
• Experience working with governments, multilateral organizations, and development partners.
• Familiarity with World Bank operations, lending instruments, and operational processes is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English required.
• Additional language skills, particularly Arabic, French, or Spanish, are an advantage.

WBG Culture Attributes

• Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders. 2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact. 3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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