WORLD BANK RECRUITING ECONOMIST

The World bank is recruiting Lead Agriculture Economist with Msc/PhD in Agricultural Economics and 12yrs experience
Lead Agriculture Economist
Agriculture & Rural Development
Abuja, Nigeria

CLOSING DATE 10-Feb-2013

Background / General description:
The Africa Region is committed to working with Africans and their development partners to make faster progress toward the MDGs, particularly cutting poverty levels in half by 2015. With a wide-ranging work program that covers the environment, agriculture and rural development, social and post conflict, water, urban, energy, and transport sectors, the Region's Sustainable Development (SD) Department is critical to the delivery of the region’s goals for sustainable development in the region. The department has 320 staff and an overall portfolio (including IDA/IBRD,GU, large RE TF, and GEF) of about 250 projects with net commitments totaling about $30 bn.

Duties and Accountabilitie s:
The Lead Agriculture Economist will assist the AFTA 1 Sector Manager in delivery of the unit’s work program, assurance of quality, interaction withinternal and external clients, including the private sector, staff development and partnerships. The primary responsibility of the Lead Agriculture Economist will be to provide technical and strategic leadership to the development and implementation of the AFTA 1 program in Nigeria. In particular, the Lead Agricultural Economist will:
• Lead complex operations as Task Team Leader (TTL), both in agriculture and multi-sectoral operations, assuring quality in all stages of the project cycle;
Selection Criteria:
•Masters or PhD in Agricultural Economics or related discipline
•Advanced degree in Agricultural Economics or related discipline with substantive professional experience (a minimum of at least 12 years in the case of a PhD or 15 years in the case of a Master’s degree) in areas relevant to agricultural developmentin more than one world region.

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