Job Description

E T Consultant - Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Türkiye

Job #: req39344 Organization: MIGA Sector: Operations Grade: EC1 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Vienna,Austria Required Language(s): English and one of Romanian, Russian, Kazakh, Turkish, or Uzbek Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/24/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), 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. 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. MIGA’s guarantees help mitigate risks. In fiscal year 2026, the WBG Guarantee Platform delivered a total of $17.8 billion in guarantees. For more information, visit https://www.miga.org/.

MIGA’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Regional Hub is currently recruiting an Operations Analyst on Extended Term Consultancy contract, to support MIGA activities in ECA including business development, relationship management with key clients and partners, and coordination of relationships with MIGA stakeholders including shareholders, development partner agencies, development financial institutions, and private sector players in Eastern Europe. The position will be based in Vienna, Austria or Paris, France and, supervised by the Eastern Europe Regional Head.

Duties and accountabilities:

Business development:

• Perform independent research on various topics across different sectors and regions, including preparation of briefing notes for senior management; background information and financial analysis of specific companies; trends in foreign direct investment (FDI); identification of business opportunities across sectors and regions
• Conduct mapping of potential clients and partners for MIGA, including coordination with country and sector specific business development strategies
• Collect data, analyze, and synthesize data from public and WBG sources for business development and project assessment
• Research and identify investor/sector conferences relevant for sectors and regions
• Prepare reports, presentations, talking points and minutes for the team and other groups in MIGA
• Support relationship activities with clients and partners: use the client management system and provide reports as requested; prepare client pitch books and other marketing presentations; support client meetings and necessary follow-ups
• Develop and maintain database and tracking systems related to special sector initiatives
• Use approved AI-enabled tools in recurring research, analysis and drafting; validate material outputs against primary sources; and remain accountable for recommendations and decisions.

Execution:

• Assist in underwriting political risk insurance (PRI) and credit enhancement guarantees in various sectors and support team members on complex transactions with an emphasis on financial modeling and credit analysis
• Prepare sections of relevant reports (sector updates, sub-sector information, strategy documents, briefing notes, underwriting papers, etc.) and contribute to the formulation of conclusions and recommendations
• Liaise with counterparties to ascertain data quality in MIGA databases
• Coordinate follow- up as required with sponsors, financiers, and public sector counterparties involved in project specification, definition, bidding preparation, negotiation, awarding of contract and project implementation and monitoring
• Track status of projects at various stages in MIGA systems and provide regular updates as agreed with country representative or another designated person
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the manager.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree (e.g., in international business administration, finance or related field) plus a minimum of 2 years’ experience (e.g., in project / export finance, investment banking, corporate finance and/or credit analysis work for a major bank/financial institution, management consulting firm, or company) or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and sound business judgment to identify issues and present creative and practical solutions
• Strong credit analysis and modeling skills
• Ability to work successfully in multicultural teams and across boundaries
• Ability to use commercially available LLM tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot for research, analysis, and drafting, validate outputs against primary sources, and remain accountable for recommendations.
• Demonstrated teamwork skills
• Strong client service orientation with an openness to feedback and new ideas
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills (oral and written)
• Language requirements: English (required) and one of the following languages (required): Kazakh, Romanian, Russian, Uzbek or Turkish

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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