External Affairs Officer

4 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia World Bank Group Full time

**External Affairs Officer**

Job #:
req30836
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Communications
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

**Location**:
Sydney,Australia
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date:
1/17/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

**External and Corporate Relations Vice-Presidency (ECR)**

The mission of External and Corporate Relations (ECR) is to help deliver financial and political support for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group's role as a global thought leader in development by enhancing and safeguarding its reputation, and supporting operational teams to achieve country outcomes. ECR manages corporate communications and global engagement with key stakeholders, including media, civil society, foundations, the private sector, donor countries, and international organizations, as well as employee engagement. ECR also manages strategic communications for the World Bank's Regions and Global Practices and leads the management of reputation risk.

**The East Asia Pacific External and Corporate Relations Unit (ECREA)**

The East Asia and Pacific region remains one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic regions in the world. Over the past two decades, most countries in the region have achieved strong and stable growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and transformed economies across the region. Many East Asia and Pacific countries have risen to upper-middle income status and have set the goal of reaching high-income status in the near to medium term. The East Asia and Pacific region includes 23 countries and six Country Management Units.

The Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are part of the country management unit (CMU) managed by the Country Director in Sydney office. The World Bank's Pacific Island member countries have a combined population of about 2.3 million people, spread over an area equivalent to 15% of the earth's surface. The Pacific Island countries have substantial natural resources and extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity. However, they are physically remote, have small populations spread across many islands, and are some of the world's most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. PNG has a remarkable diversity of geographic and natural resources and has population of over 11.78 million people is young and growing with 85% of Papua New Guineans living in rural areas. The country's rich culture is complex and deeply rooted in tribal and ethnic identity and relationships to the land. These contribute both to the country's unique challenges as well as its considerable resilience.

**The ECREA team**:

- Provides strategic support to operations by embedding communications into the operations project cycle and reform processes and tells the story of the impact and results of World Bank support to its clients.
- Proactively works to strengthen strategic relationships and alliances with key influencers in civil society, media, academia, think tanks, Parliament, faith-based groups, labor groups, etc., to build political support for the WBG's work in the region and in-country.
- Provides guidance, analysis, and advice as the trusted advisor to regional and country management teams to help position the Bank as the partner of choice, capitalize on opportunities to tell the development story, and collaborate with operational teams to manage risks.

**Responsibilities**

The External Affairs Officer works under the overall supervision of the External Affairs Manager as a member of a small Papua New Guinea and Pacific communications team and a larger, decentralized regional communications team. The position will be based in Sydney.His/her specific duties and accountabilities include but may not be limited to the following:
**The specific duties and accountabilities include**:
Development and implementation of communication strategies:

- Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing strategies to promote effective communications with external and internal audiences on World Bank-financed operations, research products, and campaigns.
- Help determine the most effective content and communications interventions to address challenges.

Proactive positioning of World Bank support to PNG and Pacific:

- Develop content for impact stories.
- Monitor perceptions, track shifts in opinion, and respond to inquiries.
- Package facts about project goals, milestones, and impact.
- Provide political economy analysis including regular monitoring of the media.

**Production of communication products**:

- Responsible for planning and delivering a range of compelling products that tell the story of the World Bank's operational goals, results, and knowledge in PNG and Pacific - ranging from press releases and Op-Eds to web features, documentary videos, brochures, Q&As, briefing notes, speeches, and updates to the country website and

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