Job Description

E T Consultant

Job #: req38939 Organization: World Bank Sector: Other Grade: EC3 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English, Spanish Preferred Language(s): French Closing Date: 11/13/2026 (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 World Bank’s Financial Integrity team mandate is to support safeguard countries’ financial systems them from illicit finance risks. It strengthens financial integrity frameworks—including AML/CFT, beneficial ownership transparency, and asset recovery—to combat illicit financial flows and protect public resources. At the same time, it provides technical assistance, diagnostics, and policy support to enhance financial integrity and institutional capacity for preventing, detecting, and responding to financial crime. The Financial Integrity Team works closely with the Fiscal Policy Unit, which focuses on supporting countries to modernize tax systems to better adapt to the globalization and digitalization of the economy, in support of tax transparency by supporting countries to improve 1) their tax transparency framework, and 2) measures to tackle BEPS (base erosion and profit shifting).

Duties and accountabilities:

• Design and deliver technical assistance to strengthen AML/CFT, asset recovery, and broader financial integrity frameworks in client countries, including national risk assessments.
• Develop policy advice and knowledge products on financial integrity topics (e.g., beneficial ownership, financial disclosure, IFFs).
• Coordination of technical assistances for countries on tax transparency work including advice on recommendations on peer review processes of the Global Forum of Tax Transparency of the OECD (GF), reviewing bills and regulations and EOI units (design, responsibilities, data security issues).
• Lead technical assistance for countries on the implementation of other international tax standards (tax treaty policy and implementation, BEPS minimum standards).
• Contribute to knowledge management, dissemination and capacity development operations, including the organization of seminars/workshops on topics of interest in the area of domestic resource mobilization, especially on international taxation

Selection Criteria

• Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in economics, finance, law, public policy, international development, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in financial integrity and tax transparency–related areas, asset recovery, beneficial ownership transparency, financial sector regulation, or anti-corruption.
• Strong ability to analyze complex financial integrity issues and produce high-quality analytical and policy outputs (e.g., reports, policy notes, toolkits).
• Demonstrated experience in designing and delivering technical assistance, conducting diagnostics (e.g., NRAs, AML/CFT assessments), and supporting legal and regulatory reforms in client countries.
• First-hand experience on tax reform in developing countries, and legal analysis.

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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