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At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit International Bank for Reconstruction and Development The LCC2C Country Management Unit—hereinafter referred to as the LC2 CMU—is responsible for overseeing the World Bank’s program in Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic. Its responsibilities include country strategy formulation and implementation, policy dialogue, portfolio management, operational coordination, and country relations. The CMU works with a diverse group of client countries with different income levels, institutional contexts, development challenges, and economic structures. The LC2 CMU covers Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. The subregion includes countries that have experienced some of the fastest economic growth rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as countries facing persistent challenges related to poverty, inequality, limited fiscal space, institutional capacity, vulnerability to climate-related and natural disasters, and insufficient economic transformation. The economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded pre-existing macroeconomic, social, institutional, and governance challenges across the subregion. The countries covered by the CMU also face emerging challenges and opportunities related to climate change, migration, human capital development, infrastructure, job creation, digital transformation, private sector development, and the mobilization of private capital. In Guatemala, the World Bank Group supports the country through a combination of loans, grants, analytical and advisory services, technical assistance, policy dialogue, and private sector investments and advisory engagements. Effective implementation of this program requires close coordination among the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, the Government of Guatemala, development partners, private sector stakeholders, and other relevant actors. The Extended Term Consultant will provide operational, analytical, strategic, and coordination support to the LC2 CMU, primarily in Guatemala. The consultant will support the implementation of the World Bank Group’s country program, portfolio and pipeline management, country engagement activities, missions, strategic products, and selected regional operations tasks. II. Duties and Responsibilities: The consultant will undertake the following activities: 1. Support For the World Bank Program in Guatemala A) Operations Team Core Member: Serve as a core member of the Guatemala operations team and support strategic and operational dialogue with the Public Credit Directorate of the Ministry of Public Finance and other relevant government counterparts. Support dialogue aimed at strengthening portfolio implementation, facilitating the preparation and approval of pipeline operations, tracking institutional or procedural bottlenecks, and following up on actions agreed between the Government and the World Bank Group. B) Program Monitoring: Liaise with Task Team Leaders and relevant Global Practice and CMU staff to support the Senior Operations Officer in monitoring the Guatemala country program. Assist in tracking the preparation and delivery of lending operations, analytical and advisory services, technical assistance, and other country engagement products, while monitoring emerging implementation or delivery issues, following up on agreed actions, and facilitating coordination among country, regional, and technical teams. C) Portfolio Monitoring: Support the monitoring of the World Bank-financed portfolio in Guatemala by reviewing and tracking relevant operational variables, including: Disbursement balances and disbursement ratios; Project effectiveness and closing dates; Key implementation milestones; Project restructurings and extensions; Implementation Status and Results Reports; Implementation Completion and Results Reports; Project ratings and risk classifications; Legal covenant compliance; Results-framework indicators; Procurement, financial management, environmental, and social milestones, when relevant; and Agreed portfolio-level and project-level follow-up actions. Prepare portfolio tables, dashboards, presentations, briefs, and other monitoring instruments for management and operational teams. D) Project Review Participation: Participate in project review and decision meetings, including Concept Note reviews, Decision Reviews, Appraisal Reviews, Regional Operations Committee meetings, and other relevant quality-enhancement or decision-making processes. Provide inputs on: Country context and political economy; Government priorities and institutional arrangements; Strategic alignment with the World Bank Group’s country engagement framework; Operational feasibility; Implementation readiness; Stakeholder considerations; Interinstitutional coordination; Country sensitivities; and Potential reputational, political, or implementation risks. E) Briefing Notes and Country Analysis: Prepare concise, accurate, appropriately sourced, and audience-specific briefing documents for country, regional, and corporate teams, including briefing notes for senior management; materials for high-level visits and missions; talking points; meeting briefs; country program updates; political economy and institutional context updates; portfolio and pipeline summaries; background notes on government priorities and reforms; and contributions to reports and analytical products related to priority job creation and development issues. F) Mission Support: The consultant will also support the preparation and coordination of selected World Bank Group missions and engagement activities in Guatemala, including activities requiring coordination among multiple World Bank Group units. G) Country Engagement and Strategic Products Support the process of the Completion and Learning Review for Guatemala and preparatory or implementation work related to the relevant Country Partnership Framework cycle, among other strategic products. Responsibilities may include: • Coordinating inputs from Global Practices, Knowledge Bank, IFC, MIGA and other World Bank Group units; • Reviewing results frameworks and performance indicators; • Compiling and validating evidence; • Assessing progress toward country engagement objectives; • Supporting consultations with government, civil society, the private sector, development partners, and other stakeholders; • Preparing analytical tables, narratives, presentations, and briefing materials; • Supporting the identification of lessons learned; and • Contributing to other joint World Bank Group strategic and diagnostic products. 2. LC2 CMU Regional Support: A) Regional Operations Support: Provide operational, analytical, and coordination support for LC2 regional activities, as requested by the Country Manager, Operations Manager or Senior Operations Officer. This may include: • Supporting regional portfolio and pipeline reviews; • Preparing and formatting comparative operational data; • Contributing to regional briefs and presentations; • Supporting cross-country analytical products; • Coordinating inputs from country and technical teams; • Assisting with regional missions, workshops, and management meetings; • Supporting knowledge exchange among LC2 countries; and • Undertaking other regional operations assignments consistent with the needs of the CMU. 3) World Bank Group Country Engagement: Support coordination between IBRD and IFC teams and contribute to the preparation and implementation of joint World Bank Group country engagement products and initiatives. This may include contributions to: • Systematic Country Diagnostics; • Country Partnership Frameworks; • Performance and Learning Reviews; • Completion and Learning Reviews; • Country Private Sector Diagnostics; • Country Climate and Development Reports; • Private capital mobilization initiatives; • Joint analytical and advisory products; and • Other World Bank Group strategic or country engagement activities relevant to Guatemala. • Assist in coordinating IFC inputs, compiling supporting information, and ensuring that private sector perspectives, constraints, and opportunities are appropriately reflected in joint World Bank Group products. Pipeline and Portfolio Monitoring: Support the monitoring of IFC’s investment and advisory services portfolio and pipeline in Guatemala, including maintaining project and client pipeline trackers; compiling information on active and prospective engagements; tracking key project milestones; supporting periodic portfolio and pipeline reviews; identifying delays, risks, or information gaps; preparing summaries for the Country Manager, Country Officers, and World Bank Group management; coordinating updates from relevant IFC industry and advisory teams; and ensuring the consistency, accuracy, and timely updating of country-level operational information. The consultant’s role will be limited to analytical, coordination, and monitoring support and will not include making investment decisions, conducting independent credit approvals, or exercising formal portfolio supervision authority. Management Briefings, Stakeholder Engagement, and World Bank Group Coordination : Prepare or contribute to briefing notes, talking points, presentations, mission materials, meeting notes, country updates, senior management briefs, background documents, event materials, and other communication and outreach products. Support the preparation of materials presenting IFC’s activities, pipeline, portfolio, development impact, and contribution to private sector development in Guatemala. III. Reporting and Working Arrangements: The consultant will report to: • The Country Manager for Guatemala; • The CMU Operations Manager and • The Senior Operations Officer. While the consultant’s primary responsibilities will be to support the IBRD program, assignments related to IFC activities will be carried out under the technical guidance of the Country Manager and the IFC Senior Country Officer. The consultant will be expected to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, coordinate and collaborate effectively across World Bank Group institutions and teams, exercise sound judgment, communicate proactively, maintain confidentiality, and deliver high-quality outputs within agreed deadlines.