World Bank Young Professionals Program The World Bank is now accepting online applications for the World Bank Young Professionals Program (YP). Applications submitted for the 2011 YP selection process will be received until June 30, 2010. The Young Professionals Program is a career leaning opportunity designed to attract exceptional, highly qualified, experienced and motivated individuals from around the world. Candidates are expected to have achieved academic success, demonstrated a commitment to development, achieved professionally with leadership potentials.

JOB # 101032 JOB TITLE SENIOR TRADE FACILITATION SPECIALIST JOB FAMILY ECONOMIC POLICY LOCATION ABUJA, NIGERIA APPOINTMENT INTERNATIONAL HIRE JOB POSTED 11-MAY-2010 CLOSING DATE 07-JUN-2010 LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS : ENGLISH ESSENTIAL; FRENCH ESSENTIAL APPOINTMENT TYPE BACKGROUND / GENERAL DESCRIPTION Trade facilitation and logistics are now firmly recognized as key drivers for economic growth, with direct implications for the competitiveness and productivity of African countries. Several recent activities have contributed to raise awareness, including the logistics performance index, customs and ports modernization toolkits, and trade facilitation audits. Country demand for new knowledge products and for quality assistance in the area of trade facilitation has sharply increased. The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network plays a key role in supporting the World Bank’s strategy of mainstreaming trade and competitiveness into country policies and making the world trading system more supportive of economic development. The Trade Facilitation Facility (TFF) has been established as a mechanism for responding to the new demand, scaling-up technical assistance, and promoting the implementation of reforms and investment in trade related infrastructure. The Facility targets implementation-oriented activities in areas such as logistics, customs, transit, border management, trade finance, and product standards. The Facility is expected to make a difference by being embedded in World Bank knowledge and operations; it prioritizes projects that complement lending activities. Furthermore the Facility aims to put into practice recommendations and concepts coming from Bank knowledge products and toolkits. Projects are to be conceived and implemented such as to translate improvement in trade facilitation into poverty reduction outcomes. The Africa Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department (AFTP3) currently seeks to recruit a GG level senior trade facilitation specialist to enable the Nigerian government agencies and the ECOWAS Commission to respond effectively to Trade Facilitation Facility-related demand. The Africa Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Group (AFR PREM) plays a key role in implementing the Africa Action Plan. It has particularly significant responsibilities in strengthening efforts to assure shared growth; build sustainable and effective institutions; and deepen results orientation. The AFTP3 unit comprises about 30 staff working on Nigeria and 10 Central African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe)

The World Bank requires the services of a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, to be based in Abuja. The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will work closely with the country teams to strengthen results management, under the management of the AFTRL Sector Manager and guidance of the AFCS2 Country Director. Specifically, He/She would report jointly to the AFTRL Lead M&E Specialist and HD Sector Leathe in the Bank’s matrix environment.  He/She would spend 70% of time on Humane Development projects in the portfolio and 30% on other sectors Key responsibilities include: Providing advisory support in all aspects of monitoring and evaluation for operations, including developing results frameworks, designing monitoring and evaluation systems for Bank-supported operations, supervising the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems, and providing guidance on retrofitting ISRs and monitoring and evaluation frameworks for projects under implementation to capture Bank wide core indicators; Providing advisory support [+]