Senior Innovation Officer - Learning

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Office of the Senior Managing Director for Development Policy and Partnerships

The Senior Managing Director’s (SMD) key mandate includes overseeing the Bank’s knowledge and partnership programs and ensuring that the Bank’s analytical work continues to address the pressing development challenges facing client countries and global partners. The office is responsible for the Evolution Roadmap, G20 and G7 engagements, the implementation of the Knowledge Compact, as well as the replenishment of IDA, the Bank’s concessional lending arm for the poorest countries. It provides strategic guidance on the WB’s global knowledge and IDA corporate commitments; oversees key partnerships with shareholders, development agencies, other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and academia; helps shape and drive the Bank’s strategic directions; and through the Trust Fund portfolio in Global Practices, mobilizes support and financial resources across the international community to bring concessionally to our work.
 
Building on the progress of past efforts, the WBG Knowledge Compact for Action aims to empower clients, public and private, by systematically making the latest knowledge available to respond more effectively to increasingly complex development challenges. This includes knowledge embedded in policy advice, expertise and know-how, including from financing operations, as well as the latest research, data and tools to formulate robust development policies and programs. The Compact will deliver this knowledge to clients under the four pillars of enhanced products, partnerships, learning and systems. To advance the knowledge agenda, the practice groups will be organized into five vertical vice presidencies aligned with the new mission (People, Prosperity, Planet, Infrastructure and Digital). In addition, three new departments are being created to enhance coordination, integration and outcome orientation across the WBG.

Department for Innovation

The Department for Innovation was established to drive forward-thinking approaches to address complex development challenges facing the world today. It has three pillars to its work program: (i) lead innovation initiatives -in collaboration with the verticals, regions, corporate units, IFC and MIGA, that help strengthen the implementation of the evolution agenda and find new solutions for development challenges; (ii) build a collaborative and experimental innovation ecosystem within the institution; and, (iii) evaluate innovation initiatives to measure their effectiveness, efficiency, and impact for potential scaling in the Bank's interventions. 

Duties and accountabilities:

 
The Department for Innovation is looking for a highly motivated Senior Innovation Officer - Learning. The selected candidate is expected to be entrepreneurial, resourceful and with extensive experience in leading and delivering innovation workshops to equip organizations with innovation toolkits to approach challenging issues in new ways and developing and deploying innovation learning curriculums.

• Develop the innovation learning strategy for the WBG with an objective of embedding innovation in the culture and how we do things.
• Lead user group research to identify key skill gaps, design user-oriented learning modules, and inform learning priorities. Design and pilot engaging learning solutions that enhance learner engagement and retention.
• Design, develop, and implement human-centered innovation (aka, “Design Thinking”) learning curriculums and content to equip the WBG staff with core innovation skills to innovate more effectively and efficiently at their job.
• Manage the development of engaging and impactful learning content for virtual, in-person, and blended learning environments.
• Monitor, track, and analyze innovation learning progress and metrics. Translate insights into actionable recommendations and align leadership to further improve innovation learnings.
• Serve as a core member in developing, refining, and executing the Department’s strategy and priorities to make innovation a core part of the WBG culture.
• Manage innovation learning curriculums to align with institutional goals and diverse staff learning needs.
• Design and implement learning and development initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with colleagues within the Department and outside the Department to identify learning needs for different groups and proactively offer appropriate learning modules to support teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across global teams to support learning programs for diverse audiences.
• Research and curate the latest external learning resources and best practices, including generative AI applications, to better serve the purpose of enhancing innovation capabilities.
• Deliver effective and engaging innovation learning curriculum with a focus on in-person training and workshops.
• Establish and implement an innovation advisory network with internal and external experts to provide various innovation support and services (e.g., pitch refinement, idea generation workshops) to meet internal teams’ needs.
• Contribute to building and strengthening the innovation ecosystem by incorporating findings and insights from staff learning to inform other innovation efforts.
• Support other priorities of the Department.