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Job #	091865
Job Title	Lead Public Sector Specialist
Job Family	Public Sector Management
Location	Washington, DC
Appointment	International Hire
Job Posted	16-Oct-2009
Closing Date	16-Nov-2009
Language Requirements	English [Essential]; Russian [Desired]
Appointment Type	See Job Description Below

Background / General description

Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 3 year renewable term appointment.

The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit (ECSPE) in the Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) handles the Region’s work on economic policy, governance and public sector management, poverty, and gender.  It is composed of approximately 120 staff of which about 40 are located in country offices.  ECSPE carries out a large and diverse work program of lending and analytic work for the Region.  There are three macroeconomic groups and two thematic groups on public sector management and poverty and gender.    

The ECA Public Sector group (ECSPE PSIR) supports the Bank's work on governance and public sector reform in the region, including public finance policy and management, administrative and civil service reform, decentralization, justice sector reform, and anticorruption.  

ECA Mission, Principles and Values
Our Mission: 
To meet demands in a rapidly changing Region, the World Bank partners with governments and other stakeholders to: 
* promote growth and create jobs; 
* encourage social inclusion and fight poverty; 
* foster good governance; and 
* address global needs.  
The ECA Region offers customized knowledge and innovative financial products to address these challenges in a timely manner.  
Our Guiding Principles:  
* Client centered 
* Working in partnership 
* Accountable for quality results 
* Dedicated to financial integrity and cost-effectiveness 
* Inspired and innovative 

Our Core Values:  
* Personal honesty, integrity, commitment 
* Working together in teams -- with openness and trust 
* Empowering others and respecting differences 
* Encouraging risk-taking and responsibility 
* Enjoying our work and our families

Duties and Accountabilities

General:
•	Provide leadership, advice, and assistance on issues related to public financial management in the ECA region, helping to develop and disseminate effective approaches for addressing public financial management challenges, including providing leadership and direction for the recently formed ECA Public Finance Community of Practice. 
•	Advise country teams on how to address public financial management issues in country assistance strategies, operations, analytic work and advisory services to client countries, helping them to match the strategy, reforms, and types of operations to the risks and challenges that public financial management poses for growth and poverty reduction in the country.  
•	Enhance the Bank’s reputation for excellence and topical global knowledge concerning developments in public financial management, particularly drawing from experiences in OECD and middle income countries.
•	Provide guidance through peer reviews of Public Expenditure Reviews, PEFA Assessments, Country Assistance Strategies (CASs), key operations, and other major analytic products. 

Specific products:

•	Develop and lead lending and analytic projects, and “Fee for Service” activities, resulting in improved public expenditure management – at the national and subnational levels. 
•	Identify opportunities for new lending and “Fee for Service”, and negotiate these with government counterparts and relevant country teams to ensure a growing pipeline of activities. 
•	Undertake analytic and advisory work, and provide hands-on technical assistance, in relation to:
o	Budget process reforms including the development of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks, Performance Based Budgeting arrangements and mechanisms for program/policy evaluation;
o	Accounting and financial management reforms including the development of Integrated Financial Management Systems, movements towards a Treasury Single Account, and integration of charts of accounts and budget classification;
o	Reforms to the legal framework for public expenditures and to inter-governmental fiscal relationships.

Staff Development:

•	Assist other staff working on these themes through formal and informal mentoring and dissemination of good practice. 

Partnering with Other Networks inside and outside the Bank:
•	Work with other Networks to help coordinate Bank lending and analytic work on public financial management, including capacity-building, sequencing of reforms, assessing country public financial management performance, coordinating with other development partners to support sustained reforms, provide joint training to Bank staff, and use of country public financial management systems in donor operations, including Financial Management, Procurement, and sectors such as Transport, Health and the applications of public finance and public sector reforms in sectors
•	Help build collaborative relations with key groups outside the Bank with common interest in public financial management, including the European Commission, OECD Public Sector governance Group, International Monetary Fund Fiscal Affairs Department, among others.

Selection Criteria

•	PHD and a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience or Masters Degree and 15 years of relevant experience.
•	Broad background of knowledge and experience in budget reform and public financial management. 
•	Experience on the ground in developing and/or transition countries, working successfully with constituencies in both the public and private sectors to effect change.  
•	Direct experience in strengthening the performance orientation of budgetary institutions and practices, including mechanisms for program/policy evaluation;
•	Direct experience in the public sector public financial management is desirable
•	Direct experience in some or all of the following additional areas:
•	performance budgeting and management
•	development of Integrated Financial Management Systems;
o	introduction of a Treasury Single Account;
o	integration of charts of accounts and budget classification;
o	reforms to the legal framework for public expenditures; and 
o	reforms in inter-governmental fiscal relationships.
O	public capital investment management, budgeting
•	Track record of innovation, leadership, and integrity in managing operational programs and projects. 
•	Track record of creating demand for analytic and other products from governments
•	Ability to listen and integrate ideas from varied sources, create partnerships, and communicate to diverse constituencies inside and outside the Bank.  Ability to work in teams and across organizational boundaries, respecting the views of others 
•	Ability to deliver high-quality policy and analytic products, especially analysis of the political and institutional drivers of change and the distinction between formal changes and informal working practices, within tight deadlines. 
•	Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. 

The World Bank Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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