Extended Term Consultant - Senior Trade Facilitation and SPS Expert

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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The Trade Policy and Facilitation Unit (WKPTT) is part of the Prosperity Vice-Presidency and delivers analytical, advisory, financial, and convening services in trade facilitation, trade policy, logistics and connectivity, and regional integration. The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) contains provisions to expedite the movement, release, and clearance of goods, including goods in transit, and to strengthen cooperation between customs and other relevant border authorities. Developing and least-developed country members may sequence implementation through Category A, B, and C commitments, with Category C commitments linked to technical assistance and capacity building. World Bank Group flagship support program in this area includes diagnostics, policy dialogue, legislative and regulatory reform, border agency modernization, border agency coordination, and operational support. The ETC will combine specialized trade facilitation and SPS expertise with a focus on supporting the implementation of key trade facilitation and SPS reforms. Duties and Accountabilities The expert will work across trade facilitation, border management, SPS-related measures, non-tariff measures, and where relevant quality infrastructure. The assignment will combine diagnostics, and implementation support to regional teams to implement the WTO TFA and related SPS reforms. Scope of Work Diagnostics and Country Assessments • Assess the status of TFA implementation, including relevant legal and regulatory frameworks, customs procedures, border agency coordination, and notified Category A, B, and C commitments. • Review SPS-related border processes and institutional arrangements, including the interface between customs and competent food safety, animal health, and plant health authorities, as applicable to the project. • Assess the performance of single-window arrangements, particularly e-phyto implementation, risk management frameworks, authorized economic operator programs, time-release studies, transit procedures, and coordinated border management mechanisms. • Prepare country-specific diagnostics that synthesize trade facilitation performance, TFA implementation, SPS-related constraints, and recommendations to reduce time and cost for private sector traders. Technical Advisory and Operational Inputs • Provide technical inputs on Trade Facilitation, SPS-related border controls, risk management, coordinated border management, single-window systems, authorized economic operator programs, second testing and e-phyto design and implementation of other related TFA provisions • Prepare advisory notes, policy briefs, background papers, reform roadmaps, and implementation plans for client countries. • Provide inputs to operational documents, including Project Appraisal Documents, Development Policy Operations, Implementation Status and Results Reports, technical assistance activities, and related analytical and advisory engagements. • Provide policy-relevant insights on market access requirements, regulatory compliance burdens, quality infrastructure, and regional integration and multilateral commitments, particularly in regard to plant product imports and exports. Capacity Building and Knowledge Dissemination • Develop training materials, workshop curricula, facilitator guides, presentations, and practical tools on agreed SPS and trade facilitation topics. • Provide technical inputs to capacity-building programs for customs, SPS agencies, other border authorities, and relevant private-sector stakeholders.