Environmental Specialist (Ethiopia)

The World Bank is seeking to recruit an Environmental Specialist with proven operational and analytical experience to join its field–based team based in the World Bank office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The position will be for an initial period of 2 years (renewable). This is a locally recruited position that will not have expatriation benefits.
 
Background
Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of around 782 million people in 47 countries, is home to 36 of the world’s poorest countries.  Making headway against poverty in sub-Saharan Africa continues to present the world with its most formidable development challenge.  The Africa Region of the World Bank is committed to working with Africans and other development partners to make faster progress toward the MDGs, particularly cutting poverty levels in half by 2015.  The Region is comprised of approximately 1750 staff members of whom over 60% are based in the Region's 37 field offices. 

The strategic thrust of the World Bank Africa Region’s Environment and Natural Resources Sector Unit includes sustainable land, water, forest, coastal and marine management; climate change adaptation and mitigation and related disaster risk management; environmental governance; and ensuring sound environmental design and implementation of all projects and programs in the Africa region, including addressing environmental issues in key natural resource extraction and large infrastructure projects, and protecting regional and global public goods.

The core values guiding our work are passion for our mission of sustainable development and poverty reduction, putting the needs of the client at the center of all our activities, trust and respect as a common currency, intellectual rigor and curiosity, honesty and integrity, teamwork, openness to learning and the courage to admit we do not always have the answer.

The Bank currently has a portfolio of nearly 40 active projects in Ethiopia, with a total commitment of nearly US$3.8 billion, covering infrastructure development, energy development, human development, natural resource management, agriculture, sustainable land management, water and sanitation, etc.

This assignment is a two-year term position with a scheduled start date of June 1, 2010.