Senior Operations Officer-FCV Country Coordinator
Nairobi
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Nairobi
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- Managerial positions
- Closing Date: 2025-11-04
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The World Bank engagement in FCV situations and the FCV Group
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) is a central development challenge. Global extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict-affected settings, and the global FCV landscape has deteriorated in recent years, with rising levels of conflict, violence and forced displacement. In this context, in 2020 the World Bank Group (WBG) launched its first FCV Strategy to enhance its effectiveness to support countries in addressing the drivers and impacts of FCV and strengthening their resilience, especially for the most vulnerable populations.
In the context of the World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 2020-2025, the WBG is making significant efforts to strengthen its ability to address such challenges. For the FCV Group, this includes: (1) ensuring support to operational teams, including by engaging directly, by facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges of experience, and by sharing innovative approaches and hard-earned lessons; (2) working with internal partners to review standard Bank processes and practices (e.g. related to operational flexibilities, security, use of new technologies, etc.); and (3) strengthening the knowledge and understanding of the overall FCV portfolio, and helping identify challenges and reflect lessons learned to maximize impact.
The FCV Group aims to steer and drive the FCV agenda within the WBG, and to ensure consistency, and complementarity in approaches across the WBG. The FCV Group is led by a Director and is comprised of approximately 45 staff distributed across two separate units.
AECE2 CMU (Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda)
As part of the implementation of the FCV Strategy, the FCV Group is providing support to country management units (CMUs) to address specific country- and regional-level FCV challenges. In the AECE2 CMU (consisting of Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda), the FCV Group is providing strategic and analytical support on a range of issues, providing implementation support, and engaging with key humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding partners. This is important to address the diverse fragility risks impacting countries in the CMU, including rising regional tensions and instability, subnational fragility, high levels of conflict, forced displacement crises, and compounding climatic shocks.
The Senior Operations Officer based in Nairobi; Kenya will play a critical role in leading the FCV Group’s support to the AECE2 CMU. In particular, a strong focus will be on supporting the operationalization of the Somalia Country Partnership Framework (FY24-28) and providing tailored support to the CMU and task teams, including through the implementation of the Somalia FCV Risk Platform, which focuses on strengthening the FCV sensitivity of the World Bank’s Somalia portfolio and enhancing the country team’s understanding and management of the evolving FCV and political economy risk landscape. The Senior Operations Officer will also lead the implementation of the IDA Turn Around Allocation (TAA), which provides additional financing and facilitates a policy dialogue with the government to support Somalia’s turnaround and long-term transition out of FCV.
In addition, the Senior Operations Officer will provide support for Kenya, including as it relates to addressing subnational and cross-border fragility challenges, and for Uganda, including to help manage and mitigate FCV and political economy risks to the World Bank’s engagement. In addition, it also includes support for the implementation of the Kenya Country Partnership Framework (FY23-28) and the World Bank’s NEDI Initiative, which strives to address spatial inequities and socioeconomic disparities that contribute to FCV risks. In both Kenya and Uganda, the Senior Operations Officer may provide support through FCV and political economy risk monitoring and analysis, building on previous regional, country and subnational analyses produced. Across the CMU’s countries, the Senior Operations Officer will also coordinate support for portfolio mapping and project-level M&E and supervision through digital tools, including the Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS).
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Senior Operations Officer will have a dual reporting – to the GTFS2 Practice Manager (full line) and to the Country Manager for Somalia (dotted line). The Senior Operations Officer is expected to work with proactivity and autonomy to spearhead the FCV Group’s effort in the AECE2 CMU countries – in close coordination with colleagues from the CMU and Global Practices, as well as external stakeholders.
Key responsibilities will include:
• Leads the FCV Group’s strategic, operational, and analytical support for the AECE2 CMU and country teams
• Leads the effective implementation of the Somalia FCV Risk Platform, including by delivering regular FCV risk updates and providing tailored support for task teams to identify, mitigate, and manage specific FCV risks upstream in project design and during implementation
• Provides tailored FCV and political economy analysis to the CMU and task teams as needed, including on delivering in highly insecure areas and localized FCV and political economy risks
• Leads the implementation of the IDA FCV Envelope for the AECE2 CMU, including the IDA Turn Around Allocation for Somalia, particularly as it relates to delivering eligibility notes and/or annual reviews, and leading the dialogue with the CMU, government, and partners
• Coordinates the delivery of capacity-building for enhanced supervision and implementation support for PIUs and task teams (including through tools such as GEMS), and directs the systematic roll-out of portfolio mapping of World Bank investments to strengthen strategic oversight of the portfolio
• Supports the implementation of the forced displacement agenda in Kenya, including the effective implementation of investments under the IDA Window for Host Communities and Refugees and the management of the PROSPECTS Partnership
• Leads engagement on regional and cross-border FCV risks, building on the Horn of Africa RRA, and provides support to CMUs and task teams delivering under the Horn of Africa Initiative
• Leads the FCV Group’s support and inputs to country engagement products (including CPFs, PLRs, SCDs), and support and inputs to key analytical products (including CCDRs and CPSDs)
• Supports and leads relevant FCV Group corporate tasks as required, and regularly shares relevant lessons, best practices, and experiences from effective engagement in FCV settings
• Engages with key internal stakeholders on the FCV agenda, including, but not limited to, the CMU, AFR Regional Integration, Global Practices. Corporate Security, DFI, OPCS, ECR, LEG, and IFC
• Leads engagement with key external stakeholders on the FCV agenda, including, but not limited to, the UN, bilateral partners, think tanks, and humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding actors.
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