World Bank Young Professionals Program

World Bank Young Professionals Program
The World Bank is now accepting online applications for the World Bank Young Professionals Program (YP). Applications submitted for the 2011 YP selection process will be received until June 30, 2010.

The Young Professionals Program is a career leaning opportunity designed to attract exceptional, highly qualified, experienced and motivated individuals from around the world. Candidates are expected to have achieved academic success, demonstrated a commitment to development, achieved professionally with leadership potentials. Essentially candidates for this highly selective program are recruited based on business needs of the World Bank. Candidates selected to join the World Bank Young Professionals will carry out assignments through on-the-job learning, specialized training, and mentoring. Operational and policy areas identified include: economics, finance, education, public health, social sciences, engineering, urban planning, and natural resource management.

World Bank Young Professionals Program Requirements

• Be 32 years of age or younger when entering the YP Program in September 2011 (born on or after September 30, 1978, for this selection year)
• Have obtained a Master’s degree or equivalent at the time of submitting your application (your degree must have been already awarded and you already obtained the Degree Certificate)
• Have a minimum of three (3) years of relevant professional and policy-level experience, or continued academic study at the doctoral level
• Specialize in a field relevant to the World Bank’s operations such as economics, finance, education, public health, social sciences, engineering, urban planning, and natural resource management
• Be fluent in English
• Be fully proficient in one or more of the Bank working languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and/or Spanish

Please note that the Young Professionals Program does not recruit individuals with degrees in disciplines such as: Computer Science, Accounting, Marketing, Law and Linguistics unless they are combined with other relevant degrees that are listed above.

Those selected to the Program spend 24 months as Young Professionals before they are confirmed into a regular position in the World Bank.
HOW TO APPLY for the World Bank Young Professionals Program
A limited number of positions are available for the World Bank Young Professionals Program. Get complete details and apply Online through the following World Bank Young Professionals Program link: World Bank Career

World Bank Young Professionals Program

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JOB # 101032
JOB TITLE: SENIOR TRADE FACILITATION SPECIALIST
JOB FAMILY ECONOMIC POLICY
LOCATION ABUJA, NIGERIA
APPOINTMENT INTERNATIONAL HIRE
JOB POSTED 11-MAY-2010
CLOSING DATE 07-JUN-2010
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS : ENGLISH ESSENTIAL; FRENCH ESSENTIAL
APPOINTMENT TYPE
BACKGROUND / GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trade facilitation and logistics are now firmly recognized as key drivers for economic growth, with direct implications for the competitiveness and productivity of African countries. Several recent activities have contributed to raise awareness, including the logistics performance index, customs and ports modernization toolkits, and trade facilitation audits. Country demand for new knowledge products and for quality assistance in the area of trade facilitation has sharply increased.
The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network plays a key role in supporting the World Bank’s strategy of mainstreaming trade and competitiveness into country policies and making the world trading system more supportive of economic development.
The Trade Facilitation Facility (TFF) has been established as a mechanism for responding to the new demand, scaling-up technical assistance, and promoting the implementation of reforms and investment in trade related infrastructure. The Facility targets implementation-oriented activities in areas such as logistics, customs, transit, border management, trade finance, and product standards. The Facility is expected to make a difference by being embedded in World Bank knowledge and operations; it prioritizes projects that complement lending activities. Furthermore the Facility aims to put into practice recommendations and concepts coming from Bank knowledge products and toolkits. Projects are to be conceived and implemented such as to translate improvement in trade facilitation into poverty reduction outcomes.
The Africa Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department (AFTP3) currently seeks to recruit a GG level senior trade facilitation specialist to enable the Nigerian government agencies and the ECOWAS Commission to respond effectively to Trade Facilitation Facility-related demand.
The Africa Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Group (AFR PREM) plays a key role in implementing the Africa Action Plan. It has particularly significant responsibilities in strengthening efforts to assure shared growth; build sustainable and effective institutions; and deepen results orientation.
The AFTP3 unit comprises about 30 staff working on Nigeria and 10 Central African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe). The countries in the unit are Anglophone, Francophone or Lusophone and include countries with widely varying performance levels and capacities (including two MICs). The work program will involve a high level of individual responsibility and visibility as the individual will be responsible for support to the TFF, interacting with government as well as other development partners.
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