Job Description

E T Consultant - Crosscutting Advisory and Upstream

Job #: req39342 Organization: IFC Sector: Operations 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: 11/23/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), 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. In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

IFC’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Department (CPV) plays an integral role in this mission. CPV is a core driver of jobs, MSME growth, equity capital, and mobilization for IFC. Our $9bn portfolio spans 125 startups, 400+ funds, and 4,700 companies and these companies support 3M+ jobs, including 880k held by women. CPV invests in digital economy focused private sector companies and it takes a lifecycle approach to investment to accelerate development and growth with a successful track record of equity investments in start-up accelerators, venture capital and growth equity and working with the larger IFC group to support businesses from seed to scale. CPV is unique for both its regional and global perspective on venture and growth equity, long-term approach to investments, and ability to leverage the resources of the entire World Bank Group towards value creation. Complementing its investment activities, CPV has a Cross-Cutting Advisory and Upstream Team that collaborates across the WBG to catalyze venture capital and private equity ecosystems, promote fund institutionalization, enhance value creation in direct and indirect portfolio companies, and generate early-stage upstream opportunities to strengthen investment pipelines. Within these priorities, CPV implements multiple upstream advisory programs such as SME Ventures (SMEV) for developing local equity capital formation to support high-growth SMEs in traditional and service industry sectors; Startup Catalyst for supporting entrepreneurs through incubators and accelerators with investments and advisory; and Gender programs for increasing the flow of capital to female entrepreneurs, improving the enabling conditions for female-led businesses, and entrepreneurial skills development for female business owners.

IFC is now seeking to recruit a qualified ETC to deliver and coordinate value creation, upstream, and knowledge activities supporting both global strategic initiatives and funds and direct clients. The role is intended to serve as a connector across CPV teams, helping strengthen operational delivery, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and execution of department-wide initiatives. This role will contribute to IFC and WBG priorities of scaling entrepreneurship / MSME growth, creating jobs across emerging markets, accelerating disruptive technologies and digitalization, enabling private capital mobilization, and advancing gender equality and sustainability.

Duties and Accountabilities

The ETC will provide operational and coordination support for the implementation of CPV’s Value Creation Strategy through upstream and advisory interventions. The ETC will enable linkages between investment teams, product area leads, sector/industry specialists, and World Bank Group teams, ensuring alignment and effective delivery of internal knowledge initiatives and value creation solutions across the investment lifecycle. The role will spend 60% of their time on client delivery and stakeholder management, and 40% on knowledge and learning activities, including the external GP Academy.

Client Delivery and Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead workstreams for the development, piloting, and roll out of value creation products, advisory solutions, tools, and operational frameworks.
• Collect, organize, and analyze market, portfolio, and client data to support development of advisory and upstream interventions.
• Prepare project documentation (Concept Notes, Implementation Plans, Supervision Reports, Completion Reports) and engage with peers including ESG, legal, M&E, finance, and sector experts, etc. to integrate feedback.
• Draft high-quality analytical and client deliverables, including presentations, reports, case studies, training materials, technical guidance, best-practice guides, standards, and recommendations, under the guidance of senior industry specialists and respective regional and product Leads.
• Support management of advisory projects and workstreams, helping ensure timely delivery, budget management, and coordination across stakeholders.
• Coordinate and deliver client and learning and advisory engagements, including workshops, courses, technical discussions, peer learning, participant communications, scheduling, materials, enrollment, attendance, and follow-up.
• Manage community engagement for CPV’s external knowledge platform for fund managers and ecosystem partners, including newsletters, program updates, external content, and digital resources, while tracking participation and feedback to strengthen engagement and client experience.
• Manage consultants, partners, and implementing firms contributing to project delivery.

Knowledge and Learning

• Lead workstreams for the development, rollout, and ongoing management of the CPV intranet, SharePoint platforms, Teams sites, and knowledge repositories.
• Coordinate department-wide learning events, knowledge sessions, communities of practice, and peer-learning activities.
• Capture, curate, and disseminate lessons learned, best practices, case studies, playbooks, templates, and guidance materials.
• Develop practical tools and resources that promote knowledge sharing and operational excellence across teams.
• Coordinate the CPV Equity Knowledge Network and work with designated knowledge focal points across teams.
• Manage community engagement for CPV’s external knowledge platform for fund managers and ecosystem partners.
• Curate and disseminate external knowledge products including case studies, insights, toolkits, training materials, and learning resources.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification in Business, Finance, Economics, International Relations, Science, Engineering, or another relevant field.
• 5+ years of relevant work with preferred business area related to project planning & analysis, financial management, management consulting
• Demonstrated capacity to innovate and challenge the status quo, including generating new ideas, developing initiatives from concept to implementation, and identifying practical ways to improve processes and ways of working.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills, with demonstrated attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder initiatives and collaborating effectively across global teams, clients, and other stakeholders in an internationally diverse environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with experience producing high-quality reports, presentations, communications materials, and knowledge products.
• Experience with digital collaboration and knowledge-management platforms, including SharePoint, Teams, intranets, content management systems, and other knowledge-sharing platforms.
• A proactive, hands-on approach to communications and community building, with demonstrated ability to manage engagement activities, develop compelling content, and increase participation and visibility with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to develop practical and reusable tools, templates, learning resources, and operational guidance, including using data, analytical tools, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, automate processes, and strengthen quality assurance.
• Willingness to travel, as required.
• Genuine commitment to development and to the World Bank Group and IFC’s mission, strategy, and values, an understanding of IFC’s strategic priorities and evolving business model is preferred.

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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