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• Financial Stability and Integrity:
  Support teams working on financial sector regulation and oversight
• Financial Infrastructure and Access:
  Support teams working on strengthening credit infrastructure such as
  movable collateral registry and credit reporting, responsible financial
  inclusion, access to finance for small and medium enterprise finance,
  financial literacy;
• Financing for Development:
  Support teams focusing on initiatives such as housing finance,
  agricultural finance, insurance, pensions, private equity, and capital
  markets.

• Project management (project preparation
  and project supervision): For tasks where project management
  responsibility is assigned in whole or part to F&M: carry out
  necessary project preparation and supervision activities, this includes
  technical inputs on to F&M issues, as well as close attention to
  financial management, procurement and safeguards (social and
  environmental).
• Advisory Services and Analytics:
  Actively contribute to advisory and analytical work undertaken by F&M,
  such as sectorial assessments (e.g. banking, microfinance, capital
  markets), impact assessments, surveys, stakeholder analysis and other
  technical analyses, as required.
• Provide technical support to the World
  Bank Uganda office: Provide technical F&M inputs to the
  country level strategic policy dialogue (including Systematic Country
  Diagnostic and Country Partnership Framework), cross-support to relevant
  components in operations managed by other GPs (investment operations or
  development policy grants) and in multi-sectoral advisory and analytical
  work (e.g. World Bank support to the North East).
• Dialogue Coordination: Maintain
  close liaison with key Government counterparts involved in financial
  sector issues.
• Donor Coordination: Build and
  maintain close liaison with the development partners such as African
  Development Bank, United Kingdom Department For International Development
  (DFID), USAID, United Nations, and consult with them for seeking inputs on
  Finance and Markets Issues.

• The applicant for the World Bank Senior
  Financial Sector Specialist job placement should hold an advanced degree
  in relevant field (e.g. economics, finance, business, public policy or
  related relevant discipline)
• A minimum of eight years of relevant
  experience.
• Significant financial sector experience,
  either in the private sector or from a regulatory /policy /development
  perspective.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of
  financial sector issues and more in depth knowledge in one of the thematic
  areas of F&M GP (i.e. financial stability and integrity,
  infrastructure and access, and financial for development)
• Demonstrated ability in conceptualizing
  and developing high quality technical and analytical work related to
  financial sector topics.
• Ability to work well with clients, strong
  interpersonal and team skills;
• Excellent technical writing and
  presentation skills (in developing power point based reports and
  presentations) and public speaking;
• Knowledge of Uganda financial sector

• Client Orientation – Maintains
  client relationships in the face of conflicting demands or directions and
  provides evidence-based advice and solutions based on sound diagnosis and
  knowledge. 
• Drive for Results – Identifies
  the needed resources to accomplish results involving multiple stakeholders
  and finds solutions to obstacles affecting key deliverables. 
• Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion
  – Plays a strong role in teams in ensuring the team stays organized and
  focused, and actively seeks and considers diverse ideas and
  approaches. 
• Knowledge, Learning and Communication
  – Is active in the sharing of best practice, trends, knowledge and lessons
  learned across units and with clients and partners, articulating ideas
  verbally and in writing in a clear and compelling way across audiences of
  varied levels. 
• Business Judgment and Analytical
  Decision Making – Gathers inputs, assesses risk, considers impact
  and articulates benefits of decisions for internal and external
  stakeholders over the long term.
• Integrates F&M Strategic and
  Operational Activities within an Organizational Matrix Setting. Has
  experience in public policy regarding regulation, supervision and
  enforcement related to financial system stability, integrity, crisis
  management and/or development in area of expertise.
• Drafts or interprets financial
  sector-related laws and regulations. 
  Capable of assessing supervisory practices in diverse legal,
  regulatory and institutional environments.
• Delivers strategic advice and technical
  assistance to a wide range of policy makers in regulatory, supervisory,
  criminal justice, or resolution matters. Makes or influences policy, and
  writing clearly and precisely on legal, regulatory, supervisory and
  enforcement topics.
• Develops and implements communications
  strategies relevant to fields of expertise. Has access to a network of
  outside professionals relevant to field of expertise to inform and enhance
  work program and outputs. Is recognized for expertise within WBG, as
  evidenced by frequent requests by multiple regions for cross support and
  consultations, and by client demand.

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