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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 The WBG Gender Department, within the WBG People Vice Presidency, and its two main units (Policy Regulations and Solutions Impact), aims to inspire, connect, support, and deliver alongside teams across the World Bank Group to drive action and impact in accelerating gender equality.

It defines the strategic direction to deliver the WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30 and Targets through the WBG’s knowledge agenda, operational approaches, and partnerships, collaborating across the WBG Gender Network, Verticals, Horizontals, Regions, and Industries to foster and harness the collective expertise of the WBG to deliver innovative, impactful solutions for clients. A key function of the Department is the curation, generation, and dissemination of actionable knowledge, evidence and learning for policy and solutions to accelerate gender equality.

The Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE), hosted in the department, is the World Bank Group's only multi-donor trust fund fully dedicated to generating innovative knowledge, and evidence and data to help governments and the private sector invest effectively in policies and programs. The UFGE operates in a multi-year framework, tackling medium and long-term barriers to achieving gender equality, aligned with the new World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-30, the Gender Strategy Implementation Plan and Targets, and IDA commitments.

The multidisciplinary knowledge financed by UFGE includes impact evaluations, proof-of-concept pilots, capacity building, and studies that employ innovative ways of delivering smart solutions to advance gender equality and promote jobs and growth. Moreover, the UFGE openly shares the knowledge and data it finances, making it available to policymakers, development partners, and researchers across the world. For more information, see the UFGE website and the FY25 Annual Report.

The UFGE Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day operations of UFGE, including preparing materials for the Gender Leadership Council Sub-Committee and the UFGE Partnership Council; preparing governance documents, managing the call-for-proposal process, and reporting process, guiding implementing teams on UFGE processes or requirements; supporting implementing teams in their ongoing activities, including promoting learning and understanding from UFGE’s experience; and managing relations with donor partners, communications and advocacy related to UFGE.

To strengthen the Secretariat's monitoring, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management functions, UFGE seeks an Extended-Term Consultant (EC2) to support portfolio-wide results tracking, reporting, learning initiatives, and dissemination of knowledge products.

Key Responsibilities

The consultant will support the UFGE Secretariat's monitoring, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management functions and contribute to portfolio reporting, stakeholder engagement, and dissemination of evidence and lessons learned. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Support the collection, validation, analysis, and reporting of portfolio-level results across UFGE-funded activities.
• Maintain and update portfolio tracking systems, dashboards, databases, and reporting tools.
• Assist in monitoring progress against results frameworks, indicators, and work plans.
• Support the preparation of annual reports, semi-annual progress reports, donor updates, governance materials, and management briefings.
• Conduct data analysis and prepare summaries of portfolio performance, lessons learned, and emerging trends.
• Coordinate with implementing teams to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Knowledge Management and Learning
• Support the implementation of UFGE's knowledge management and learning agenda.
• Synthesize evidence, lessons learned, and good practices from across the UFGE portfolio.
• Draft learning briefs, case studies, presentations, newsletters, web content, and other knowledge products.
• Coordinate webinars, workshops, communities of practice, and other knowledge-sharing activities.
• Maintain and organize UFGE knowledge repositories and learning resources.
• Support dissemination of evidence and lessons learned across the World Bank Group and external stakeholders. Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Support
• Conduct analytical reviews of portfolio results and emerging thematic trends related to gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
• Support preparation of presentations, briefing materials, and background notes for senior management, governance bodies, and donors.
• Contribute to analyses that inform strategic planning, reporting, and portfolio management.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to strengthen learning, reporting, and knowledge-sharing across the portfolio. Stakeholder Engagement
• Liaise with task teams and implementing units to collect information and reporting inputs.
• Support donor reporting and preparation of materials for donor and governance meetings.
• Respond to requests for information related to portfolio performance, results, and knowledge products.
• Support coordination with internal and external partners involved in UFGE activities.