Senior Public Sector Specialist/Senior Economist

Washington D.C.

Organization: World Bank Group
Location: Washington D.C.
Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
- Economics
Closing Date: 2025-04-04

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Please visit www.worldbank.org.

The Institutions Global Department (GD)

The Institutions GD helps countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that deliver citizen-centric services, facilitate private-sector growth, and build trust in Government; and provides fiduciary support to all Bank operations.

The department brings together professionals in public financial management, taxation, public management, regulatory policy, transparency, digital governance, law and development, anticorruption, performance management, monitoring and evaluation, and social accountability to develop innovative, integrated solutions to pernicious institutional problems. The practice utilizes a problem-driven, diagnostic approach, combining global comparative knowledge of reform successes and failures with keen understanding of the institutional challenges and opportunities of developing countries.

For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/governance

Governance and Institutions are fundamental for inclusive and sustainable development. Recognizing the need for more ambition, the work on this important agenda is being scaled up and reorganized around the following three global units: public institutions, public administration, and public finance and procurement. These units will jointly push the frontiers of global knowledge and support country and sectoral teams to enable them to help client governments in thinking through and addressing critical governance challenges, so they can meet the growing demands and expectations of their citizens.

The Public Institutions unit (PI) focuses on more transversal and integrative functions and innovations. The Unit provides an analytical approach to analyze governance in public institutions through data and analytics. The PI is responsible for strengthening the data and analytics agenda in Governance, providing strategic support for cross-cutting governance engagements with a focus on how data and evidence can improve the functioning of public institutions. The unit delivers on three main programs: 1. global trends in governance though building and curating institutions indicators; 2. country level data and analytics; 3. Climate Change and Governance. The latter program is done jointly with the other two units in the Institutions Department.

The Public Finance and Procurement unit brings together the revenue and spending sides of the budget, including procurement and public investment management, to strengthen the design, development and administration of public finance and procurement policies, systems, and processes to achieve better value for money, and improve fiscal management and service delivery.

The Public Administration unit focus is on building efficient and effective national and subnational bureaucracies, marked by integrity and transparency, with strong and predictable legal and judicial systems, that deliver services efficiently and drive innovation. The unit is also responsible for the anticorruption agenda and the modernization of public administrations technologies.

The Public Institutions global unit (EGVPI) is seeking a Senior Economist/ Senior Public Sector Specialist. Reporting to the EGVPI Practice Manager.

• Contribute to the analytical and data work of EGVPI.

• Contribute to flagship reports, global reports and background papers

• Lead the development, technical delivery, and dissemination of high-quality knowledge products and presentations in collaboration with relevant partners and contribute to the management of budgets and resources to achieve this.

• The role includes coordinating with teams across Global Departments and the Bank.

• Develop and lead institutions country diagnostics, building on the Country Level Institutional Assessment Review and other Institutions Global Department knowledge products.

• Contribute to the Institutions GD input to core diagnostics reports such as CGJRs and CPFs

• Review of select country strategy documents (CPFs/CCDRs) and in governance and sectoral analytics.

We do our best to provide you the most accurate info, but closing dates may be wrong on our site. Please check on the recruiting organization's page for the exact info. Candidates are responsible for complying with deadlines and are encouraged to submit applications well ahead.

Before applying, please make sure that you have read the requirements for the position and that you qualify.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.

Apply