Job Description

E T Consultant

Job #: req39019 Organization: IFC Sector: Agribusiness Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/1/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At 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 www.worldbank.org.

The Planet Vice Presidency’s Farming and Agribusiness Department (FAB) works with regions to accelerate the transformation of the food systems through thought leadership and scalable solutions geared toward national and sub-national governments, private sector operators, investors, and financial institutions. This includes strengthening food and nutrition security to reverse rising hunger and malnutrition (healthy people), scaling up development solutions and policies for climate-smart and sustainable food systems (healthy planet), and shaping the food system to deliver better jobs, leveraging innovation and agribusiness investments (healthy economy).

Within FAB’s Solutions and Impact unit, there is a team of Industry Specialists. This position is for a Senior Industry Specialist whose subject matter expertise includes consumable crop inputs (e.g. seeds, crop protection products, fertilizer) and secondarily capital investments for farming (e.g. machinery or irrigation). Candidates should be able to draw on operational and management experience gained from employment in private sector companies involved in these segments of the agrifood system. The position is on-site, based in Washington DC and frequent travel to rural areas in Developing Countries is required.

Duties and Accountabilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the development and delivery of WBG’s farming and agribusiness strategies and support the rollout of AgriConnect, the WBG initiative to transform the agrifood system.
• Work closely with investment teams, conduct due diligence, assess project strengths and weaknesses, benchmark prospective investees against sector peers.
• Provide teams a project appraisal report and operational parameters for financial modeling.
• Prepare for/participate in investment committee meetings; respond to committee questions.
• Provide industry and best practice to external clients and add value to new business development activities and portfolio monitoring.
• Provide Cross-support to WBG colleagues (in regional and global teams) drawing on sector expertise to assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of WBG projects.
• Contribute to conferences/other events to represent WBG and/or maintain sector knowledge.

Selection Criteria

• Strong identification with the World Bank Group’s mission, strategy, and values.
• Meet and practice the WBG Competencies for E4 position.
• Maintain knowledge of current industry and sector operating parameters and developments.
• Maintain knowledge of developments around sustainability solutions in the agribusiness sector, and communicating them to clients.
• Enthusiasm to work in a multicultural environment and exercising the ability to build bridges across organizational boundaries.
• Maintain familiarity with risk management/hedging with respect to commodity price risks.
• Exercise sound business judgment and proven track record of investment screening.
• Write technical and market appraisal reports in a timely manner.
• Passion for agricultural inputs and results driven with energy, initiative, and self-motivation.

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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