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GLOSSARY<br />

Practice managers (PM)<br />

Region<br />

Regional Management Team<br />

Regional m<strong>at</strong>rix<br />

Regional sector department<br />

Regional sector director (RSD)<br />

Regional sector manager<br />

Regional vice president (RVP)<br />

Regional vice president unit<br />

Regional functions<br />

Sector anchor<br />

Sector Board<br />

VPU<br />

<strong>The</strong> PM serves as the chief oper<strong>at</strong>ing officer of the Global Practice.<br />

She or he serves as the “right hand” of the FPD director for all<br />

global practice activities. <strong>The</strong> PM helps formul<strong>at</strong>e practice str<strong>at</strong>egy,<br />

conducts portfolio reviews, handles corpor<strong>at</strong>e mand<strong>at</strong>es, serves as<br />

a broker for project staffing, and serves as a “secretari<strong>at</strong>” for the<br />

Practice Management Team (PMT)<br />

One of six geographic clusters of countries which serves as the<br />

primary organiz<strong>at</strong>ional unit responsible for oper<strong>at</strong>ional delivery<br />

<strong>The</strong> management team of each region, chaired by the RVP<br />

constituting all the directors of CMUs, sector departments, front<br />

office units, and the chief economist of th<strong>at</strong> region<br />

<strong>The</strong> rel<strong>at</strong>ionship between country management units and sector<br />

management units within a region, sometimes referred to as the<br />

“small m<strong>at</strong>rix”<br />

<strong>The</strong> administr<strong>at</strong>ive unit containing a front office and all the relevant<br />

SMUs th<strong>at</strong> fall under the jurisdiction of a network<br />

<strong>The</strong> head of a regional sector department; the RSD reports both to<br />

the NVP and the RVP and is a member of the Network Council and<br />

the Regional Management Team<br />

<strong>The</strong> head of a SMU responsible for the delivery of the SMU’s work<br />

program, the quality of all SMU oper<strong>at</strong>ional products and services,<br />

and management of SMU staff; the regional sector manager is a<br />

member of the relevant Sector Board, representing his or her region<br />

on the Sector Board, and is also a member of the Extended<br />

Leadership Team in the region; in some cases sector managers<br />

have responsibility for more than one sector<br />

<strong>The</strong> administr<strong>at</strong>ive and oper<strong>at</strong>ional head of a region who also<br />

chairs the Regional Management Team; currently the Bank has six<br />

RVPs<br />

Same as the region, sometimes called the regional VPU<br />

Responsibilities and budgets under the RVP, not managed by the<br />

CMUs, SMUs or regional sector departments; this includes <strong>at</strong> a<br />

minimum the front office, chief economist’s office, str<strong>at</strong>egy and<br />

oper<strong>at</strong>ions, and the oper<strong>at</strong>ional services and quality unit<br />

Secretari<strong>at</strong> of the Sector Board loc<strong>at</strong>ed within the network anchor<br />

<strong>The</strong> governing body of a sector, constituted by the managers of the<br />

regional sector management units and the sector anchor, as well as<br />

represent<strong>at</strong>ives of other relevant vice presidencies; the sector<br />

board is chaired by the director of the relevant sector anchor and is<br />

responsible for the sector str<strong>at</strong>egy, quality including knowledge,<br />

learning and oper<strong>at</strong>ional quality, and human resources<br />

management of sector staff including staff recruitment, mentoring,<br />

deployment, and promotion<br />

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