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Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit <https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/home> The WBG’s Trade, Competition and Business (TCB) department provides expertise in private sector-led development to foster private-sector-led growth and help facilitate private investment and jobs in client countries. Through this work, TCB strengthens WBG’s evolving approach to leverage private sector investments for sustainable and inclusive growth. The SMEs and Enterprise Development team (WKPTS) provide evidence-based support to help countries foster an enabling business environment, maximize the benefits of private investment, and secure a share in global value chains. By leveraging a comprehensive approach that addresses the legal, regulatory, administrative, and institutional barriers affecting all phases of the business and investment lifecycle, the WBD helps countries establish a competitive investment climate favorable for stimulating investment for business-led growth. Capable of mobilizing a wide range of World Bank Group instruments—including advisory services and analytics (ASAs) and diverse lending products (DPFs, P4Rs, and IPFs)—to help developing countries, the private sector experts on the business environment and investment policy and promotion support governments to design and implement investment climate reform programs in the context of a broader trade, investment, and competitiveness agenda. Roles and Responsibilities As part of the WKPTS team, the Extended Term Consultant will provide support and from time to time independently lead analytical, advisory, and coordination work across a range of activities. The Consultant will provide coordination support across a range of activities related to horizontal and sector-specific regulatory reforms and digital public service delivery to businesses, investment facilitation, small and medium enterprise development, and green investment climate agendas. Roles and activities may evolve in agreement with the WKPTS Practice Manager. The consultant’s responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following: •Lead comparative analysis of global policy indicators, including good practice regulatory and policy frameworks to inform context‑specific analysis of regulatory barriers to firms (both domestic and foreign), and actionable reform recommendations in the context of the unit’s cross-support to regional WBG teams on business environment (e.g. in the context of ICA 2.0 diagnostics or B-READY motivated requests), and sectoral investment and regulatory assessments (e.g. RISE), among others. •Draft country-specific policy assessments spanning policy, legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks, and prepare recommendations aligned with international standards and country-specific institutional contexts. •Review and assess the quality of analytical outputs and deliverables produced by the team before delivery to ensure institutional standards of rigor and relevance. •Conduct structured consultations with government counterparts and relevant stakeholders as part of policy, legal and institutional assessments. •Prepare high-quality policy and technical notes and other deliverables that meet institutional quality standards of rigor, clarity, and conciseness. •Leverage expertise to contribute to global knowledge product development and various analytical initiatives, including preparing dissemination materials and participating in knowledge sharing sessions with WBG operational teams and external stakeholders. •Design, organize, and deliver peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange activities, including preparation of background materials and follow-up materials. •Help prepare the unit’s inputs to various corporate requests. •Coordinate inputs from specialists across functional areas to produce integrated, cross-cutting policy assessments. •Provide substantive inputs to core WBG diagnostics (CPSDs, CGJRs) in select countries.