Location: Washington, DC
Deadline: Thursday, 15 August 2013
Description
WORLD BANK GROUP CONTEXT
Innovation and partnership bond the five institutions of the World Bank Group (WBG): the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), which together form the World Bank; the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help poor nations reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life. To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the World Bank Group is constantly seeking to improve the way it works. Key priorities include delivering measurable results, promoting openness and transparency in development, and improving access to development information and data.
UNIT CONTEXT
Established in 2002, the Global Partnership for Education ('Global Partnership' or GPE), formerly the Education for All Fast Track Initiative, has grown and evolved to become the premier partnership focused on basic education in developing countries. Its members include 57 of the world's poorest developing countries, over 30 bilateral, regional, and multilateral agencies; development banks; the private sector; local and global civil society groups; and teachers.
The Global Partnership provides its developing country partners the incentives, resources, and technical support to build and implement sound education plans. In this respect, GPE manages trust funds that have allocated $2.2 billion over the past eight years and will be allocating a further $2 billion by 2014. The Global Partnership aims to achieve Education for All by financing developing countries' own education strategies and plans. Since its formation, the Global Partnership has achieved outstanding successes in education.
The GPE Board of Directors, the Global Partnership's governing body, sets its policies and strategies and approves all funding. It includes 19 constituencies/organizations. Board members serve for two years. The GPE Secretariat, led by a new CEO, has approximately 50 staff, and is hosted by the World Bank in Washington, DC.
It is both a challenging and an exciting time for the education sector and the strategic vision and future operating model of the GPE are evolving. The Global Partnership is coming of age in many ways and is being required by its Board of Directors to take on a greater global leadership role in the sector. Expectations from GPE's stakeholders are high for the partnership to continue to demonstrate concrete results and outcomes as well as clear value for money.
The Manager will be a member of the GPE Secretariat's Senior Management Team ('SMT') and will report to the Secretariat's Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The World Bank Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of race, gender, nationality, culture, and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to
apply.
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.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Manager of Partnerships and External Relations is a member of the senior management team, reporting directly to the CEO. Leading a staff of about 15, the Manager will focus on the following:
Business Management (incl. strategy, operations and quality control) responsibilities:
- Implements and plans the Partnerships and External Relations strategy
- Leads the dialogue with partners and donors, and in some settings with clients
- Takes the accountability for the results outlined in the Partnerships and External Relations strategy
- Supports the development of high quality work programs attuned to the strategic context.
People/ Talent Management responsibilities:
- Manages the unit staff, including the recruitment, evaluation and career development of staff
- Manages and oversees the engagement of technical consultants
- Setting a clear direction and assuring results
- Fostering high performance of teams and individuals
- Coaching staff and helping to develop their careers
- Building a culture of respect and camaraderie
Resource Management responsibilities:
- Manages own group's budget.
- Ensures effective formulation of own group's budget proposal, input into budget decisions and managing the unit's financial resources effectively and efficiently
Relationship Management responsibilities (Internal and External):
- Provides ongoing representation of the Secretariat and outreach to key stakeholders
- Keeps the unit abreast of that dialogue
- Coordinates and collaborates in the field with other development partners to further the aid effectiveness agenda
- Promotes effective donor coordination and relations with other development partners and stakeholders.
- Manages good relations, collaborating and coordinating with the on-the-ground donor community - bilateral agencies, regional and other multilateral agencies - to strengthen country-led development processes.
- Represents the Secretariat at public and professional fora to help and promote the Partnership's leadership position
Knowledge Management responsibilities:
- Disseminates best practices and lessons learned
- Manages the learning and knowledge flows
Other:
Donor Relations:
- Develop and implement a successful campaign to replenish the GPE Fund in 2014 and thereafter in accordance with GPE's financing cycle
- Establish, maintain, and expand strong relationships with current donor partners
- Identify and recruit high-level donor-partner champions for the 2014 replenishment campaign
- Cultivate potential new donor partners and work to align non-GPE donors' funding with GPE's in GPE developing country partners
- Lead advocacy efforts among donor partners to increase their bilateral support for education
Advocacy:
- Lead GPE's replenishment strategy and campaign
- Engage donor and developing country partner champions to advocate on behalf of GPE throughout the replenishment campaign and beyond
- Build civil society support for GPE's mandate and required financing
Communications:
- Develop and implement a communications strategy designed to increase awareness of and support for GPE's partnership model and mandate among target audiences
- Elevate education as a key component of the current and post-2015 development agenda
- Provide visibility to and support for GPE partners' collective impact on education and learning
- Oversee the development of quality materials - print, electronic, and social media - to promote the 2014 replenishment campaign and to provide information to all partners that helps them promote the value of their contributions to GPE
Partnership Constituency Outreach:
- Build and strengthen the full value of the Global Partnership
- Strengthen information flow and knowledge-sharing with and among GPE developing country partners
- Enhance the voice of GPE developing country partners
- Encourage significantly stronger focus and engagement from GPE developing country partners on the Strategic Plan priorities and a clear alignment with delivering on the Implementation Plan
- Facilitate innovative collaboration with key partners to further increase intra-constituency dialogue
- Collaborate on engagement of the private sector/private foundations to advance global education goals
- Advocate among developing country partners to increase their domestic financing for education.
The ideal candidate will bring a breadth of senior-level experiences, including working in an emerging global fund, a rapidly growing NGO, a growing division of a corporation, managing a significant service delivery program.
Other selection criteria include:
- Demonstrated success as a strong partner to the CEO and the senior management team
- Prior work experience in achieving results on the ground in more than one world region
- Deep knowledge of international development
- A record of successful organizational decision-making and business experience managing within a complex organization and through partnerships
- Deep experience and demonstrated success with public donors and multilateral replenishment strategy and processes, especially campaign implementation
- Proven track record in developing and executing strategy
- Deep experience working with Boards at the international level
- An in-depth international/multi-cultural understanding
- A thoughtful, articulate, inspiring leader who will work closely with the CEO, the senior technical/scientific leadership, the staff, Board, and external partners to build on the partnership's successful history
- Ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization with excellent communication, listening, and judgment skills; highly collaborative
- Builds strong relationships at high levels
- Persuasive, Strong negotiation skills
- High energy level
- Expertise in the field of Education is helpful but not required
Education / Experience:
- Master's degree with at least 15 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience; Sample degrees include MBA, JD or MS in a relevant technical domain.
Managerial Competencies
- Courage of your Conviction: Promotes and role models speaking with candor.
- Leading the Team for Impact: Drives sustained team performance
- Influencing Across Boundaries: Persuades indirectly
- Fostering Openness to New Ideas: Cultivates diversity and inclusivity
- Building Talent for the Future: Stretches Others
Core Competencies
- Client Orientation - Translates insight into practice across disciplines, hierarchies, geographies and organizational units in service of clients.
- Drive for Results - Ensures successful implementation and delivery of key programs and projects, ensuring that outputs positively impact results.
- Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion - Creates a team climate of practical and innovative action, facilitating collaboration between competing interests and stakeholders.
- Knowledge, Learning and Communication - Demonstrates command of all forms of communication and presents in a clear, objective and engaging manner in high-level settings; ensures knowledge is captured and shared in a variety of ways.
- Business Judgment and Analytical Decision Making - Serves as a trusted advisor to others on their decisions, ensuring alignment across units and optimal impact on the organization as a whole.
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