Job # 100280
Job Title Environmental Spec.
Job Family Environment
Location Abuja, Nigeria

Appointment Local Hire
Job Posted 04-Feb-2010
Closing Date 25-Feb-2010
Language Requirements English [Essential]
Appointment Type
Background / General description
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 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.
Nigeria: With a population of 148 million people, Nigeria is the largest country in Africa and accounts for 47 percent of West Africa’s population.. Nigeria is also the second largest economy in Sub Sahara Africa and accounts for 41 percent of the region’s GDP.  Development partner coordination in Nigeria is strong.   A Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY10-13 has been prepared by the World Bank, DFID, USAID and AfDB to increase development effectiveness and its main components are driven by the Government’s 7-Point Agenda.  In addition to support in response to the global financial crisis, the partnership will focus on three themes of: (i) improving governance; (ii) maintaining non-oil growth; and (iii) promoting human development.  The International Development Agency (IDA) is the Bank’s interest-free lending arm for the poorest countries. The Nigeria portfolio currently supports twenty eight IDA projects and 2 GEF grants.  Bank commitments have tripled from $1.5 billion in FY05 to $4.5 billion in early FY10.  The Bank is the largest development partner in Nigeria and the country’s portfolio is the largest in terms of net commitments in the Bank’s Africa Region. The strong focus on the current portfolio is on project implementation for results.  The country portfolio cuts across a range of sectors including: Infrastructure (water supply, energy/energy and transport); Human Development (health, HIV/AIDS, education and social projects), Agriculture and Rural Development; Urban Development, Public Sector Governance, Financial and Private Sector and so on.

The strategic thrust of the Environment and Natural Resources group 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.

Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year renewable term appointment.

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 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.
Nigeria: With a population of 148 million people, Nigeria is the largest country in Africa and accounts for 47 percent of West Africa’s population.. Nigeria is also the second largest economy in Sub Sahara Africa and accounts for 41 percent of the region’s GDP.  Development partner coordination in Nigeria is strong.   A Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY10-13 has been prepared by the World Bank, DFID, USAID and AfDB to increase development effectiveness and its main components are driven by the Government’s 7-Point Agenda.  In addition to support in response to the global financial crisis, the partnership will focus on three themes of: (i) improving governance; (ii) maintaining non-oil growth; and (iii) promoting human development.  The International Development Agency (IDA) is the Bank’s interest-free lending arm for the poorest countries. The Nigeria portfolio currently supports twenty eight IDA projects and 2 GEF grants.  Bank commitments have tripled from $1.5 billion in FY05 to $4.5 billion in early FY10.  The Bank is the largest development partner in Nigeria and the country’s portfolio is the largest in terms of net commitments in the Bank’s Africa Region. The strong focus on the current portfolio is on project implementation for results.  The country portfolio cuts across a range of sectors including: Infrastructure (water supply, energy/energy and transport); Human Development (health, HIV/AIDS, education and social projects), Agriculture and Rural Development; Urban Development, Public Sector Governance, Financial and Private Sector and so on.

The strategic thrust of the Environment and Natural Resources group 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.

Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year renewable term appointment.

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