Operations Officer

**Operations Officer - Environment and Social / Upstream Advisory**

**Job #**:

- req34436

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Environment

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- New Delhi,India; Colombo,Sri Lanka; Nepal,Kathmandu

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

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

- 10/20/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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.

The position will report to the ESG Regional Manager for South Asia and be supervised by the Senior ESG Advisory Lead for South Asia and East Asia Pacific. The position will focus on South Asia but will also support projects in EAP.

**Roles and Responsibilities**

**Upstream / Advisory Delivery**
- Lead or contribute to ESG Upstream and Advisory projects.
- Lead or contribute to the assessment of environmental and social risks, management of these risks and identification of solutions through upstream and advisory.
- Define tailored measures to manage the identified E&S risks and value-added solutions for the upstream and advisory projects and formulate E&S input throughout the project cycle.
- Develop new concept notes, implementation plans, project supervision reports and project completion report as required.
- Coordinate E&S firm level consultants and/or individuals as needed to successfully implement the projects.
- Provide capacity-building training courses for clients or groups of clients including consultants to build their expertise in the IFC Performance Standards and various E&S thematic areas.
- Develop and maintain relationships with project clients including governments, market associations, financial institutions, and corporates.
- Prepare draft Terms of Reference, select, and oversee quality of project outputs.
- Produce project case studies highlighting the business case for action, lessons from implementation and results.
- Keep abreast of industry, national and sub-area developments, and research to ensure that IFC’s ESG Upstream and Advisory services continuously benefit from emerging best practices. Ensure that international good practices are included in developing and implementing projects.
- Foster innovation and knowledge exchange between IFC colleagues involved in the program and other key partners.

**Project Coordination and Monitoring**
- Working closely with the Senior ESG AS Lead, develop annual workplans and

conduct bi-annual project supervision reports which track progress against project log frame targets, assess lessons learned and update and manage risks.
- Coordinate closely with ESG Analyst on project pipeline and portfolio management aligning work with the Advisory Services Project Governance and Environmental and Social Review Procedures.
- Provide day-to-day budget oversight, report on financial performance according to plan. Control expenditures according to IFC policies and guidelines and within approval thresholds.
- Produce formal reports on project progress for donors; informally update donors periodically through briefings or informal reports as needed and in coordination with the Senior ESG AS Lead.
- Travel as necessary through South Asia and EAP and undertake ad-hoc tasks assigned by ESG Regional Manager and ESG AS Lead.
- Work with the ESG AS Lead and Communication consultants to contribute to the programs innovative communication materials for awareness raising and sharing of outputs. These include videos, podcasts, newsletters, feature stories, website articles, etc.

**Selection Criteria**

**Minimum requirements**
- Master’s degree in relevant discipline (e.g., environmental management,

science, social sciences, or another related field) with eight years of relevant or related work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Work experience in an emerging market environment required.
- Excellent project management skills including work planning, budgeting; monitoring and evaluation.
- Driven initiative-taker with a high degree of responsiveness and proactivity; collaboration skills and commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion within IFC, the program and with the private sector companies and governments.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to prioritize, deal with frequent unexpected changes, and manage multiple tasks