Operations Officer

**Operations Officer - Portfolio and Strategic Coordinator, GEID**

**Job #**:

- req34286

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Gender

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- New Delhi,India; Hanoi,Viet Nam

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

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

- 9/16/2025 (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.

IFC is deeply committed to advancing gender equality and economic inclusion as laid out in IFC's 2030 Roadmap for Gender and Inclusion to deliver game-changing private sector partnerships and programs to accelerate gender equality and inclusion in emerging markets. Aligned with the new World Bank Group (WBG) Gender Strategy (2024-30): Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet, IFC’s Roadmap is built on six priorities offering high potential for impact in and through the private sector. These areas aim to (1) Allocate Capital that Drives Inclusion, (2) Make Supply Chains Inclusive, and (3) Remove Barriers to Entrepreneurship, Employment, and Leadership (including addressing gender-based violence). Equally important are two cross-cutting themes that are foundational to achieving sustainable results across the priority areas and require action: (4) Bridging the Digital Divide; (5) Accelerating Inclusive and Gender-Smart Climate Action; and (6) Ending Gender-based Violence and Harassment.

As part of its mandate, IFC has a dedicated team - the Gender and Economic Inclusion (GEI) Department (GEID), that works with IFC’s investment and advisory teams to support private sector clients in providing all genders and underserved communities with equal economic opportunities as leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, consumers, and community members. GEID leads strategy development and implementation for the organization, provides tailored operational solutions and client advice, innovates, and incubates novel approaches, serves a thought leader and disseminator of knowledge on GEI issues, supports mobilization through impact investing and sustainable financing; and forges public and private sector partnerships with the aim of creating economic opportunities and development for all.

The Operations Officer - Portfolio and Strategic Coordinator will report to the Regional Lead, Asia, for Gender and Inclusion.

**Roles and Responsibilities**

The Operations Officer - Portfolio and Strategic Coordinator plays a vital role in supporting GEID in Asia to deliver on the ambitions of the IFC Roadmap for Gender 2030. Reporting to the Regional Lead, this position ensures gender and inclusion priorities are embedded in regional strategies and programs while supporting IFC teams and clients to drive meaningful impact.

**1. Gender Value Creation and Reporting (Gender Flag)**

**Coordination with Regional Industry Teams**

**Overview**: The Gender Flag is the International Finance Corporation’s primary tool for identifying investment and advisory projects with gender and economic inclusion components. To trigger a Gender Flag, an investment or advisory project needs to be intentionally designed and implemented with an explicit focus on closing gaps between women and men. GEID will track and report on gender-flagged projects across IFC and provide regular portfolio analyses of IFC’s GEI engagements.

**Pipeline Screening and Coordination**
- Act as the Gender Flag Lead to address inquiries and provide guidance and quality assurance to regional industry gender teams and portfolio officers.
- Coordinate across GEID, regional gender industry focal points and global industry gender and sustainability teams to ensure comprehensive screening of investment and advisory projects for gender flag.
- Conduct quarterly meetings with regional industry teams to review investment and advisory project pipelines for Gender Flag opportunities.

Flag Implementation Monitoring
- Provide quarterly updates on gender-related key performance indicators to regional leadership, including detailed reporting on flagged projects and their gender outcomes.
- Conduct at least quarterly meetings with regional portfolio and Upstream Advisory Secretariat to monitor gender flags across investment and advisory and ensure 100% screening of all high probability investments and all client