Location:

Vienna, Austria
Salary:

negotiable / YEAR
Job type:

FULL_TIME
Posted:

2 months ago
Category:
Deadline:

09/08/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB SUMMARY:

Description

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 our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group 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 and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.

Junior Professional Associates – Program Description

The Junior Professionals Associate Program (JPA) offers an exceptional opportunity for recent graduates to embark on a professional journey, providing a three-year contract with valuable work experience within a diverse and dynamic environment and the potential of field work experience. The program is an excellent platform to sharpen your existing skills and to develop new ones, all while gaining a profound understanding of the challenges associated with reducing poverty and fostering shared prosperity on a livable planet.

We will provide you with the opportunity to gain entry-level professional experience in a premier development institution, on an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) contract with benefits. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org/careers/jpa

The following are minimum requirements to be eligible for the JPA program:

Be 32 years of age or younger
Hold a bachelor’s degree
Be fluent in English

The JPA program at the World Bank is a highly competitive initiative. Candidates who are being actively considered for positions may be required to present academic transcripts and professional references. The World Bank’s Human Resources team and hiring team will reach out exclusively to individuals selected for assessment and interviews.

Positions may be in any of the World Bank’s offices worldwide.

ECA Transport Unit (IECTR)

The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is comprised of 58 countries including about 900 million people and representing in 2019 about 26 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. This region, which extends to Western Europe to the borders with China is extremely diverse: the region ranges from low-income countries (Tajikistan), lower-middle income (the Kyrgyz Republic, IDA; Moldova, recent IDA graduate; Uzbekistan, blend; plus Ukraine, IBRD) to high-income economies (Croatia, Poland, Romania). Fragility and conflict also impact the region. Overall, the ECA region faces inclusion challenges, even at higher income levels, compounded by slow growth – even prior to 2020. Acceleration of reforms is needed as structural challenges persist: in addition to the aging population and demographic challenges, the ECA region features a legacy of incomplete market transition; governance challenges remain, with a strong presence of State-owned enterprises. In ECA, environmentally unsustainable economic models threaten the quality and resilience of growth and progress on key SDGs, in particular as regards carbon-intensity and fossil-fuel dependence, environmental degradation and climate change vulnerability. Finally, in the last years the ECA region has been hit with multiple shocks: conflict, political developments, and natural disasters.

The ECA Transport Unit (IECT1) has an active portfolio of 21 lending operations with total commitments of about USD5 billion, 10 ongoing ASA and reimbursable advisory services (RAS) and approximately 2-4 new lending deliveries per FY. The current portfolio is diversified which reflects different client needs, with the following development objectives: (i) improving regional connectivity to enhance trade opportunities through regional integration and efficient freight logistics, (ii) enhancing national connectivity and urban mobility to support more inclusive urban development; (iii) strengthening the capacity of clients to plan and implement transport interventions across transport modes through policy and institutional reforms, improving the knowledge-base and feedback loops, strengthening planning processes, managing environmental and social safeguards and mainstreaming social accountability; (iv) leveraging resources through strong partnerships (donor coordination and PPPs), including increasing commercial and domestic financing for connectivity, mobility and logistics projects in the countries, and (v) ensuring sustainability by improving governance and efficiency in the sector, bringing transformative technologies on transport planning and service delivery, and increasing resilience of transport infrastructure and supporting a low carbon path.

In line with the ECA general context, transport operations focus on improving mobility and connectivity in a social and environmentally sustainable manner. In line with the 2016 Paris Agreement and the EU Green Deal, the World Bank interventions in the transport sector are increasingly geared towards climate goals, including clean urban mobility development. This lending portfolio is complemented by a strong set of analytical work, focusing on logistics and connectivity, clean mobility, urban transport, private capital mobilization, institutional modernization, road safety and gender.

The region’s demand for transport infrastructure and services has grown alongside the needs required by its, generally, strong economic growth and strategies for decarbonization and poverty reduction and shared prosperity. The countries in the region seek high quality support from the Bank and the key strategic areas of our assistance are: (a) planning and programming of transport infrastructure and services, with particular attention to the reduction of economic imbalances across intra-country regions and to the enhancement of accessibility in rural and urban areas; (b) strategies and mechanisms for managing, financing, and maintaining infrastructure assets (with continued strong interest in expanding private sector participation and private-public partnerships); (c) decarbonization strategy and attention to externalities of transport modes, including environmental, climate change, and air quality issues and travel safety; (d) promotion of technological innovations (transport on demand platforms, e-tolling, digital development in transport), logistics and connectivity, modal shift and commercial practices (incorporating private sector participation); and (e) the institutional/governance setup and financial frameworks, and the rules and regulations in support of the above strategic areas. In addition, fueled by governments’ interest in improving the competitiveness of their economies, the transport and logistics agenda has gained momentum as client government request Bank support in the form of analytical studies.

The ECA unit of the Transport Global Practice seeks to recruit a Junior Professional Associate (JPA) based in Vienna or Washington D.C.

Duties and Responsibilities

The JPA will focus on transport sector initiatives in the ECA Region and will be posted with the operational teams within the Transport Unit in that Region. She/he will work under the supervision of the Practice Manager and Transport Lead Specialist, and in close association with the Task Team Leaders of selected operational teams.

The duties of the JPA will include the following:

Contribute as a team member in a portion of the Bank’s transport portfolio the ECA transport team on sector technical issues ranging from general transport sector institutional setups and reforms to planning and impact evaluation analyses.
Prepare documentation for lending and technical assistance activities, with a focus on transport planning, policy and operations, transport modeling, and data analytics.
Participate with the teams in operational missions, supporting the identification, preparation or appraisal of potential new operations and the supervision of the implementation of a selected number of ongoing projects.
Provide analytical support in the preparation of presentations, documentation, proposals, notes, and other material that might be required for the dissemination of the unit activities or strategies. Analytical tasks cover transport policies (transport planning, transport system governance issues, transport asset management and financing, private sector participation, subsidy and tariff policies, demand management and NMT), the provision of multimodal and logistics and connectivity transport infrastructure and services, decarbonization and urban transport initiatives, financing options, asset management and operations, gender, impact evaluation, and management and delivery of infrastructure and services.
Support project teams in the preparation of analytical activities including transport modeling, financial and economic modeling, application process for resources from trust funds, the revision of outputs, and the monitoring or the activities of the pertinent consulting companies and individuals.
Assist in the preparation of different documents including Aide Memoire, Implementation Status Reports, Implementation Completion Reports, Concept Notes, and Appraisal Documents.
Participate in research activities in the areas of strategic planning of transport infrastructure, data analytics, and modeling aimed at sharing the knowledge generated by the unit’s operations and initiatives across the GP.
Participate in research and knowledge-sharing initiatives across the GP, as well as in the dialogue with client governments pertaining of decarbonization, logistic, data analytics, modeling, and strategic planning of transport infrastructure.

Selection Criteria

Advanced degree (Master’s level) in Transport/Urban Planning, Transport Engineering, Public Policy, Transport Economics, Finance, or related disciplines.
Strong research and analytical skills in one or more technical areas, such as: logistics and connectivity transport project financing and operations, urban transport, decarbonization, public-private partnerships, or infrastructure regulatory issues.
Strong organizational skills, as well as the ability to prioritize tasks and ensure timely completion of tasks under pressure.
Enthusiasm for and ability to work in teams.
Experience working in the ECA region is a plus.
Knowledge of the transport institutions and programs of the European Union is a plus.
Excellent communications skills, including writing and presentation skills in English. Knowledge of any other language in Europe would be a plus.

Diversity and Inclusion

The World Bank continually searches for qualified individuals with a diverse set of backgrounds from around the globe. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Individuals with different abilities may be provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential functions and support in receiving other workplace accommodations.

Poverty has no borders, neither does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the globe.

ABSTRACT:

World Bank Other Austria World Bank Jobs 2024

World Bank looking for “Other”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 09-Aug-24.

The World Bank has published a job vacancy announcement on 18/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Other to be based in Vienna , Austria. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: World Bank

Job Title: Other

Duty Station: Vienna , Austria

Country: Austria

Application Deadline: 09-Aug-24

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