ET Consultant – GFF Country Coordinator | World Bank Career Opportunity
The GFF partnership is supported by the GFF Country Coordinator, under the leadership of the GFF Director and the guidance of the GFF Practice Manager. The Country Coordinator collaborates closely with the GFF Secretariat, based at the World Bank within the HNP Global Practice, to advance GFF objectives. Key responsibilities include assisting countries in developing high-quality Investment Cases, coordinating with regional teams for technical support, managing aspects of the GFF Trust Fund, and facilitating engagement with the GFF Investors Group, the governance body overseeing GFF initiatives.
Duties and Responsibilities of GFF Country Coordinator
- Investment Case Development and Costing
- Facilitate transparent and timely stakeholder participation in the GFF process.
- Assist Government Focal Point with stakeholder mapping and inclusion.
- Support the Government in developing and tracking the Investment Case roadmap.
- Organize and document Country Platform meetings with actionable outcomes.
- Coordinate and support analytical work and World Bank missions for the Investment Case.
- Collaborate with the GFF Secretariat to secure external technical expertise.
- Aid in quality assurance of the Investment Case document.
- Identify political champions to advocate for the Investment Case.
- Investment Case Implementation
- Support the GFF Government Focal Point in assessing the progress and outcomes of the Investment Case (IC) priorities and reforms.
- Assist in mapping IC sub-activities, identifying responsible actors, and tracking implementation progress.
- Facilitate platform meetings, ensuring broad stakeholder participation and actionable minutes.
- Monitor IC activities quarterly via a dashboard and regular communication with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Government to track expenditures aligned with IC and operational plan priorities, with potential support from a public financial management consultant.
- Help finalize and update the IC Results Framework as needed.
- Support the institutionalization of resource management processes.
- Country Platform Functionality and Alignment
- Assist the Government in establishing or identifying a country platform for GFF and inform stakeholders about its purpose and process.
- Identify decision-making forums for resource allocation, tracking, and IC implementation at national and subnational levels.
- Support resource and stakeholder investment mapping to improve alignment of budgets, monitoring frameworks, and plans.
- Integrate IC monitoring with broader health sector and multisectoral reviews.
- Facilitate meetings with financiers, donors, civil society, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and secure additional funding.
- Identify and leverage opportunities to enhance alignment using validated diagnostics and tools.
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Selection Criteria
- Minimum Education/Work Experience: Master’s Degree in a field revenant to the work of the GFF (e.g., Public Health, Public Administration, Economics, Health Economics or any other relevant field). At least 5 years of work experience in RMNCAHN-G and/or health systems strengthening or other areas that requires strong results-focus and coordination of stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in effective coordination and stakeholder engagement, including government, donors, development partners, civil society, youth and the private sector.
- Proven leadership skills, including ability to; identify opportunities for leverage; foster collaboration, trust and accountability; serve in a representational role and support administrative and convening processes
- Strong organization skills with ability to multi-task and prioritize actions with attention to detail.
- Basic ability to analyze data to advocate for evidence information decision-making, identify outliers, develop data-driven plans of action, etc.
- Proficiency with problem-solving including risk identification and management, conflict management, negotiation.
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal (in English and local working language) with an ability to adapt information for different audiences to convey project goals, objectives and operations and convey messages diplomatically.
- Knowledge of GFF-related systems in the country (e.g., health, social protection, education, etc.)
- Experience working in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health/nutrition or health financing would be an asset
- Experience with or understanding of GFF and/or World Bank operations would be an asset.
- Knowledge of IT programs used for data collection, analysis and visualization would be an asset.
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