Job Description

E T Consultant- Economist

Job #: req38845 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 getting the right public and private sector solutions to our operational teams and to our clients, and to produce scalable impact. 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 & Regulations and Solutions & Impact), aims to inspire, connect, support, and deliver alongside teams across the World Bank Group to drive action and impact in accelerating gender equality. It defines the strategic direction to deliver the WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30 and Targets through the WBG’s knowledge agenda, operational approaches, and partnerships, collaborating 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 the curation, generation, and dissemination of actionable knowledge, evidence and learning for policy and solutions to accelerate gender equality. In this context, the Policy & Regulations team has the role of ETC/Economist. The ETC will report to the WBG Gender Department Policy & Regulations Manager/or a senior staff member with delegated responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• As part of the P&R team, ETC will support all aspects of the knowledge agenda related to gender equality and financing of gender solutions. ETC will support producing innovative knowledge and operational solutions on innovative financing models for gender. The ETC will also work on other data-driven products that provide easily understandable and actionable insights based on strong and rigorous analysis. The consultant's primary responsibility will be supporting the sustainable finance workstream, including leading the review and analysis of bond issuances, maintenance of the project database, market analysis, and development of insights and recommendations to inform research, stakeholder engagement, and advisory products. The ETC will also work on developing other types of innovative financing mechanisms including outcomes-based financing, blended financing and others. And support the development of operational tools and guidance notes This role will have responsibilities that include, but are not limited to:
• Support the gender department in producing frontier knowledge on innovative financing models for driving gender lens investing.
• Support the development of scalable solutions and operational solution notes especially on themes of frontier knowledge, using non-traditional datasets and addressing innovative areas where gender knowledge is missing
• Lead the review and assessment of sustainable finance issuances, including bond frameworks, second-party opinions, allocation reports, and impact reports, ensuring consistent application of the project's analytical methodology and identifying key trends, insights, and areas for deeper investigation.
• Manage and continuously enhance the bond database, overseeing data quality, validation, documentation, and methodological consistency, while refining coding approaches and ensuring the database serves as a robust foundation for analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Recommend priority bonds, issuers, countries, and topics for deeper analysis, and propose analytical questions and areas for further investigation.
• Support stakeholder consultations with issuers, investors, ministries, development banks, and other market participants, including background research, briefing materials, and synthesis of findings.
• Work closely with WBG Treasury, JCAP, and other teams on developing innovative financing models, and operational tools for advisory work, and policy dialogue on gender lens investing. Contribute to reports, presentations, case studies, and other knowledge products related to sovereign sustainable finance and gender equality.
• Support the development of practical guidance and advisory tools for both public and private clients on mobilizing private capital for gender

As needed, contribute to other workstreams focused on sustainable finance and the use of sustainability-linked finance to advance gender outcomes, including market mapping of SLLs for gender, case studies on transactions, analysis of potential KPIs for underserved areas (e.g., care, supply chains, GBV), and internal SLF guidance transaction teams

• Analyze gender data, collaborate with WBG departments and external teams, develop data-driven operational and solutions notes
• Provide analytical support to the P&R team on any analytical/knowledge/data task assigned to the team
• Conduct literature reviews and preliminary scoping for new research areas. Contribute to research design, data collection, analysis, and report-writing for knowledge/research initiatives.
• Support knowledge management and communication efforts for the P&R team. This includes client features, case studies, webinars, event planning and management, and organizing internal and external communities of practice.
• Collaborate with other WBG units such as WBL, Treasury, MTI, Economic and Market Research (CEI), Development Impact (CDI), DEC, and other Global Practices to ensure alignment of gender research objectives with organizational goals.
• Design data-driven products with easily understandable and actionable insights in a user-friendly format.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in business, economics, finance, international relations, or other relevant disciplines.
• Solid analytical, quantitative, and data science skills, especially in using and analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets and the ability to conduct rigorous research. Experience with STATA, Python and econometric tools is mandatory and experience in Tableau and Power BI is a plus.
• Relevant professional experience in sustainable finance, capital markets, development finance, public policy, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience working on gender and economic inclusion topics, including through research, market analysis, advisory work, program implementation, etc
• Ability to collaborate within and across teams and to work in a diverse culture.
• Excellent writing skills, including the ability to synthesize existing economic research and data.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Organized, responsible, detail-oriented, and results-driven.
• Demonstrated commitment to our core values, including excellence, mutual respect, collegiality, teamwork, diversity and inclusiveness, integrity, innovation, transparency, and accountability.

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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