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External Affairs Officer

3 months ago


Washington, United States World Bank Group Full time

**Job #**:

- req27648**Organization**:

- World Bank**Sector**:

- Communications**Grade**:

- GF**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- International Recruitment**Location**:

- Washington, DC,United States**Required Language(s)**:

- English**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 6/7/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

**External and Corporate Relations Vice-Presidency (ECR)**

The mission of External and Corporate Relations (ECR) is to help deliver financial and political support for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group’s role as a global thought leader in development by enhancing and safeguarding its reputation, and supporting operational teams to achieve country outcomes. ECR manages corporate communications and global engagement with key stakeholders, including media, civil society, foundations, the private sector, donor countries, and international organizations, as well as employee engagement. ECR also manages strategic communications for the World Bank’s Regions and Global Practices and leads the management of reputation risk.

**The East Asia Pacific External and Corporate Relations Unit (ECREA)**

The East Asia and Pacific region remains one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic regions in the world. Over the past two decades, most countries in the region have achieved strong and stable growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and transformed economies across the region. Many East Asia and Pacific countries have risen to upper-middle income status and have set the goal of reaching high-income status in the near to medium term. The East Asia and Pacific region includes 23 countries and six Country Management Units.

**The ECREA team**:

- Provides strategic support to operations by embedding communications into the operations project cycle and reform processes and tells the story of the impact and results of World Bank support to its clients.
- Proactively works to strengthen strategic relationships and alliances with key influencers in civil society, media, academia, think tanks, Parliament, faith-based groups, labor groups, etc., to build political support for the WBG’s work in the region and in-country.
- Provides guidance, analysis, and advice as the trusted advisor to regional and country management teams to help position the Bank as the partner of choice, capitalize on opportunities to tell the development story, and collaborate with operational teams to manage risks.

**Responsibilities**

The External Affairs Officer works under the overall supervision of the External Affairs Manager as a member of a small HQ-based team and a larger, decentralized regional team. His/her specific duties and accountabilities include but may not be limited to the following:
**The specific duties and accountabilities include**:
**Development and implementation of communication strategies**:

- Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing strategies to promote effective communications with external and internal audiences on World Bank-financed operations, research products, and campaigns.
- Help determine the most effective content and communications interventions to address challenges.

**Production of communication products**:

- Responsible for planning and delivering a range of compelling products that tell the story of the World Bank's operational goals, results, and knowledge in EAP - ranging from press releases and Op-Eds to web features, documentary videos, brochures, Q&As, briefing notes, speeches, and updates to the country website and related World Bank social media channels.
- Produce and edit, as needed, ECREA's products, including press releases, op-eds, talking points, blogs, videos/multimedia products, and speeches, among others, and ensure that products are prepared and issued on time and to a high standard of quality. This involves assisting ECREA team members in country offices (and helping to build their capacity as needed).

**Support to operations**:

- Provide advice and support to operational teams, as well as input throughout project cycles, including comments during project preparation.

**Partnership and stakeholder relations**:

- Identify stakeholders, opinion leaders, and influential organizations in EAP and guide a strategy of engagement with these stakeholders, which might range from media and parliamentarians to faith-based organizations to business associations.
- Responsible for convening stakeholder groups for consultations and structured dialogues around projects, knowledge outputs, and country development priorities, as well as regular press briefings and other ad hoc engagements.

**Proactive positioning of World Bank support to the EAP**:

- Develop content for impact stories.
- Monitor perceptions, track shifts in opinion, and respond to inquiries.
- Package facts about project goals, milestones, and impact.
- Provide political economy analysis including regular monitorin