E T Consultant

Job #: req38744
Organization: IFC
Sector: Gender
Grade: EC1
Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Mexico City,Mexico
Required Language(s): English, Spanish
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 10/31/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org

Commitment to Gender Equality and Economic Inclusion
The World Bank is dedicated to advancing gender equality and economic inclusion under the World Bank Group Gender Strategy (2024–2030): Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet.

The Solutions & Impact Team within the Knowledge Bank’s Gender Department plays a central role in driving this agenda. S&I; supports IFC’s investment and advisory teams to enable private and public sector clients to provide equal economic opportunities for all genders and underserved communities. The department’s key functions include:

• Developing and implementing strategy organization-wide.
• Offering tailored operational solutions and client advice.
• Innovating and piloting Gender new approaches to gender and inclusion challenges.
• Disseminating knowledge and thought leadership.
• Mobilizing resources through impact investing and sustainable financing.
• Forging partnerships with public and private sectors to expand economic opportunities.
• Providing corporate support services for gender flagging activities in investment and advisory projects

The Mexico Gender and Inclusion Officer plays a vital role in achieving the objectives of the S&I; LAC-EUR Regional Hub, which supports IFC’s investment and advisory teams in integrating gender and economic inclusion into programs across the region. The hub’s focus includes fostering closer collaboration with regional leadership, industry teams, and clients to accelerate progress in these areas. Reporting to the LAC EUR Hub Lead, this position ensures gender and inclusion priorities are embedded in strategies and programs in Mexico and other LAC countries while supporting IFC teams and clients to drive meaningful impact.

Duties and Accountabilities

1. Care4Mexico Program Coordination (60%)

Research Supervision
• Coordinate the review process of a market assessment on private care services in Mexico, carried out by an external consultant, ensuring deliverables meet WBG quality standards and are completed on schedule.
• Provide substantive feedback on draft outputs, facilitating input from relevant internal stakeholders including MAS Education, FIG, and the IBRD Social Policy and Jobs team.
• Ensure findings from the assessment are effectively translated into project design decisions, particularly for the WMSME capacity-building curriculum, the access-to-finance workstream, and the public-private dialogue agenda.

Peer Learning Platform (PLP) Design and Implementation
• Lead outreach and engagement of at least 12 private companies operating in Mexico to participate in the PLP, in coordination with the Mexico Country Office, IFC industry Investment Officers, and partner networks such as Red CCE por la Primera Infancia.
• Support participating companies through the commitment-setting process, ensuring each company identifies at least two actionable commitments to care-friendly workplace policies, including employer-supported childcare.
• Review and adapt workshop content from previous care-focused initiatives (Care Arabia,



Care2Equal El Salvador, FamilyForward@Indonesia) and develop session materials, practical tools, and resources for each learning workshop and Solutions Lab.
• Identify, contract, and manage external mentors and partners with expertise in HR policy design, labor law, and workplace care practices in Mexico.
• Coordinate and facilitate PLP learning sessions, Solutions Labs, and events, including the in-person kick-off and closing events, five thematic workshops, and two to three Solutions Lab cycles.
• Monitor company progress through one-on-one check-ins and baseline, midline and endline surveys; produce a final report summarizing lessons learned, aggregate outcomes, and best practices.

Strengthening Supply of Private Care Providers
• Coordinate a competitive procurement process to select a qualified local vendor to deliver the WMSME capacity-building program and manage the vendor relationship throughout implementation.
• Coordinate the outreach and selection of at least 50 women-owned or women-led childcare enterprises (WSMEs), including the design of eligibility criteria, information sessions, and the pre-screening process.
• Support the vendor in delivering a structured capacity-building curriculum covering business planning, financial management, legal compliance, child safeguarding, and market access, ensuring alignment with IFC's E&S; standards.
• Organize networking events connecting trained WSMEs with PLP-participating companies and financial institutions.
• Engage one to three financial institution partners, in coordination with IFC's FIG and IBRD's FCI teams, to build the investment case for lending to the childcare sector.

Advisory Product Pilot
• Coordinate the internal co-design process for the new IFC advisory product on care, facilitating workshops with relevant IFC teams and ensuring peer review prior to client engagement.
• Identify and approach suitable pilot clients, prioritizing PLP participants, and manage the structured advisory engagement from scoping through delivery of the final advisory report.
• Implement at least one pilot firm-level advisory service engagements with clients, documenting the advisory process, client experience, and outcomes in a structured lessons-learned note to support replication across the WBG’s care portfolio.

Public-Private Collaboration
• Support the design and facilitation of at least two structured public-private dialogues on childcare policy, coordinating with IMSS, SEMUJERES, DIF, private sector actors, and development partners, and ensuring production of a final policy brief with prioritized recommendations.
• Support coordination with IFC's CTA team and IBRD to engage IMSS on the design of a mixed-investment model for childcare infrastructure and/or operation of public daycare centers, including procurement of a consultant to develop a screening and prioritization study and propose mixed-investment business model options.

Project Management
• Ensure Care4Mexico moves smoothly through the project cycle, including compliance with WBG internal reporting systems, legal documentation, procurement processes, and financial reporting requirements.
• Provide timely progress and donor reports as required by the WBG, tracking performance indicators against targets and produce project supervision reports every six months.
• Collaborate with the S&I; LAC team through regular team meetings and contribute to broader S&I; team activities.

Communications and Knowledge Management
• Keep country and regional management, as well as key stakeholders, informed of project developments and results.




• Supervise the development of communication materials (e.g. website content, blogs, press releases, or briefs) in collaboration with IFC's communications teams and relevant partners.
• Systematically consolidate and analyze lessons learned from project implementation across all components and share findings with team members and colleagues across the WBG's care portfolio.
• Stay informed of public and private sector developments related to childcare, gender equality, and the care economy in Mexico, and integrate relevant insights into project design and delivery.

2. Regional Strategy Support in LAC (10%)

• Work with the S&I; Integral Strategy team and regional strategy and industry teams in designing and implementing the LAC activities relevant to the WB Gender Strategy 2024-2030 and the Regional Gender Action Plan for LAC-EUR.
• Provide input into core diagnostics for LAC countries as relevant, like the World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework, IFC’s Country Private Sector Diagnostic, and IFC’s Country Strategy, focusing on analyzing gender gaps and policy impacts on women and women-led businesses.
• Prepare internal briefing materials, talking points, and speeches for regional and senior management in LAC countries, as necessary.
• Coordinate with Gender Department’s communications and regional communications teams on internal and external messaging (e.g. press releases, social media, intranet, etc.) and events in LAC countries.
• Participate in design, implementation, and results management of other S&I-delivered; projects in LAC countries, as deemed relevant by LAC-EUR Hub Lead and in coordination with project teams.

3. Gender Flag Support for LAC Projects (30%)

• Engage with investment and operations officers to identify relevant projects, especially in Mexico and other LAC countries.
• Support LAC region in delivering gender KPIs and strategy, including monitoring progress and leading the flagging process.
• Develop and support initiatives advancing gender and economic inclusion, ensuring compliance with corporate KPIs.

Selection Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, international relations or other relevant discipline required; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least seven years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated excellent communication at all levels of the organization; ability to communicate insights from data effectively.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate with diverse stakeholders, fostering strong internal relationships across departments to drive collaboration and achieve project goals.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, positive and collaborative attitude, ability to participate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication skills (written and spoken) in English and in Spanish.
• High degree of passion, commitment to development impact and gender equality. Understanding of the key concepts around gender and private sector development.
• Previous experience with IFC and World Bank is a plus.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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