WBG Pioneer - Research Intern

WBG Pioneer Background/Organizational Context The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) project examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees across 190 economies. Its goal is to inform policy discussions on how to remove legal restrictions on women and promote research on how to improve women’s economic inclusion. The Women, Business and the Law index serves as a road map for reform by capturing three interdependent pillars that together shape women’s access to jobs: laws, policies and institutions, and enforcement perceptions across ten topics: Safety, Mobility, Work, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Childcare, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Duties and Responsibilities The fellow will primarily work on data collection and analysis for Women, Business and the Law. The position requires the ability to work in a fast-paced and multicultural environment, strong analytical and research skills as well as robust detail-orientation. Duties of the fellow will include, but not be limited to, the following: • Conduct country and/or topic specific research on legislation impacting women’s economic empowerment in the context of WBL indicators. • Research indicator-specific laws, regulations, and policies through primary data sources and publicly available information to support coding decisions. • Support data analysis and the preparation of written outputs such as briefs, blogs or presentations. • Assist with respondent outreach, including administering surveys to local experts, leading new local partners’ recruitment and maintaining existing networks, and collecting data on WBL indicators. • Deliver updated information for WBL data, including assessing survey responses with primary data sources and following up with survey respondents until a final, verified country profile is produced. • Work on knowledge and learning activities to help World Bank staff develop a more informed view on how legal gender equality relates to economic growth and poverty reduction. • Substantially contribute to several of the Women, Business and the Law functions: production, dissemination, contributor relationship, management, website, media, data analysis, etc. • Support the translation of project documents. • Provide general support to the project, as required.