Job Description

E T Consultant

Job #: req38493 Organization: World Bank Sector: Climate Change Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Paris,France Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 10/2/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The Global Climate Department

The Global Climate Department leads the World Bank Group's efforts to integrate climate and development objectives across operations, analytics, and partnerships. Through a portfolio of trust funds and facilities, The department supports countries to access climate finance, develop carbon markets, strengthen resilience, reduce emissions, and promote inclusive and sustainable development.

The Climate Trust Fund Communications Shared Services team sits within the Strategy, Learning & Operations team (KTCSL), and provides centralized communications support across a portfolio of 10 climate trust funds and facilities, including the Climate Support Facility (CSF), Partnership for Market Implementation (PMI), Scaling Climate Action by Lowering Emissions (SCALE), EnABLE Fund, Canada-World Bank climate funds, Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), Bio-Carbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL), Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF), and Carbon Initiative for Development (Ci-Dev).

About the Position:

KTCSL is seeking a highly motivated Extended Term Consultant (ETC) Strategic Communications Officer to play a key role in delivering the work program of the Shared Services model by providing communications leadership and advice, communications support, and project management for communication products across multiple trust funds. The position will serve as the primary communications focal point for selected programs while also supporting broader team priorities and strategic initiatives.

A central responsibility of the role will be leading the planning, coordination, and production of donor-facing and external communications products, including annual reports, results publications, newsletters, web content, and strategic communications materials. The position will also contribute to team coordination, communications planning, and quality assurance processes that support delivery across the broader trust fund portfolio.

The position will be based in Paris, France, and report to the Senior Communications Officer for Climate Trust Funds.

Duties & Accountabilities

The Communications Officer will be responsible for managing communications workstreams across assigned trust funds and supporting the effective delivery of the Climate Communications Shared Services model.

Communications Workstream Leadership

• Serve as the primary communications focal point for assigned trust funds, including CSF, PMI, Enable, and the Canada Fund.
• Develop and manage annual communications workplans in collaboration with Program Management Units (PMUs), task teams, and fund management teams.
• Advise technical teams on communications approaches, positioning, narrative development, and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor communications priorities, risks, opportunities, and delivery schedules across assigned programs.
• Coordinate communications activities across multiple trust funds to ensure consistency and alignment with institutional priorities.
• Provide back-up communications support and expertise to other trust funds as needed.

Donor Reporting and Project Management

• Lead the planning, coordination, drafting, editing, clearance, and production of donor-facing reports and publications across the trust fund portfolio - in partnership with the respective trust fund FMT.
• Manage annual report production processes, including timelines, stakeholder engagement, review cycles, and vendor coordination.
• Serve as project manager for major communications deliverables, ensuring quality control, budget oversight, and timely delivery.
• Coordinate with designers, editors, consultants, and external vendors to support publication development and dissemination.

Content Development and Editorial Leadership

• Lead the drafting, editing, and quality assurance of external communications products, including results stories, feature articles, newsletters, speeches, talking points, and web content.
• Translate complex technical information into clear, compelling, and accessible communications products for donors, government, and external audiences.
• Maintain editorial standards and ensure consistency across communications outputs.

Strategic Communications and Visibility

• Support implementation of communications strategies for assigned trust funds.
• Lead the development of visibility materials, campaign assets, briefing materials, presentations, and stakeholder engagement products.
• Identify opportunities to showcase results, lessons learned, and innovations emerging from trust fund operations.

Shared Services Coordination

• Support coordination of communications delivery across the Shared Services portfolio.
• Help manage production calendars, reporting schedules, and workflow tracking systems.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to vendors, and junior communications staff supporting trust fund communications activities.
• Contribute to strengthening team processes, standards, and operating procedures.
• Support cross-fund initiatives and special projects as assigned by management.
• Ensure continued partnership with Communications and External Relations (CER).

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, International Development, Public Affairs, Public Policy, or related field, with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading communications programs, workstreams, or major communications projects.
• Strong project management skills with experience coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder deliverables.
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with demonstrated experience producing high-quality external publications.
• Experience managing annual reports, donor communications, or institutional publications is highly desirable.
• Experience working on climate change, sustainable development, carbon markets, natural resources, or related sectors is desirable.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical information into accessible communications products.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Additional languages are an advantage.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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