Job #: req38841 Organization: World Bank Group Sector: Gender Grade: EC2 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/10/2026 (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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd
The WBG People Vice Presidency is responsible for bringing the right public- and private-sector solutions to operational teams and clients and delivering impact at scale. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to enable and support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission, specifically related to human capital, education and skills, health, social protection and gender, supporting and accelerating specific strategies and targets. The VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams.
The WBG Gender Department, and its two main units (Policy & Regulation (P&R) and Solutions & Impact (S&I)), aim to inspire, connect, support, and deliver alongside teams across the World Bank Group to drive action and impact in accelerating gender equality. It sets the strategic direction to deliver the WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30 and Targets through the WBG’s knowledge agenda, operational approaches, and partnerships. It collaborates across the WBG Gender Network, Verticals, Horizontals, Regions, and Industries to foster and harness the collective expertise of the WBG to deliver innovative, impactful solutions for clients.
A key function of the Department is to accelerate gender equality through analytics, operational support, and innovation. The Results & Innovation Team strengthens data-driven decision-making by improving analytics and reporting systems, and by generating knowledge across Regions and Industries. The team supports implementation of the WBG Gender Strategy, the Gender Equality Scorecard, and all other gender and inclusion indicators. This requires high-quality data management, rigorous validation, and development of innovative tools, including AI-enabled solutions. The ETC will support all aspects of data related to Gender WBG Scorecard results measurement and reporting working closely with the S&I unit, engaging with counterparts in Industries, Regions, Development Impact (CDI), and IT. This work will help ensure that all eligible gender-flagged projects report results disaggregated by sex, disabilities and youth, and that data gaps across the full eligible portfolio are identified and resolved.
Selection Criteria
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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The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our vision is to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
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