E T Consultant Job #: req34576 Organization: World Bank Sector: Communications 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: 10/23/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
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 ET Consultant/External Affairs Officer serves as a trusted advisor and operational lead to the Director of Global Engagement. This role supports the Director in translating strategic vision into action, ensuring the effective delivery of ECRGE’s stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and campaign management priorities. The incumbent works across teams to align activities with the Bank’s mission, track progress on initiatives, and help ensure that Global Engagement efforts deliver tangible, measurable results.
The position requires a mix of strategic acumen, organizational insight, and executional discipline—someone who can move fluidly between high-level strategy and day-to-day implementation. This role plays a pivotal part in advancing the Director’s strategic vision—driving execution, enabling collaboration, and ensuring that priorities translate into measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Planning and Execution
• Support the Director in defining and operationalizing ECRGE’s strategic priorities, aligning them with the World Bank Group’s goals of eliminating poverty and boosting shared prosperity.• Translate ideas and strategic directions into actionable plans, timelines, and deliverables across Global Engagement pillars (CSOs, philanthropy, think tanks, academia, private sector, and youth).• Track progress on initiatives and ensure timely follow-up, providing analysis, recommendations, and adjustments as needed.• Develop briefing materials, concept notes, and synthesis documents that distill complex stakeholder dynamics into actionable insights.
Program and Campaign Management • Work closely with internal and external partners to advance key global engagement campaigns and initiatives.• Support the Director with coordination across ECR, regions, and Global Practices across World Bank Group to ensure coherence and consistency in stakeholder engagement and partnership activities.• Support the Director with monitoring the progress on campaigns, track outcomes, and document lessons learned to inform future initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships • Support the design and management of partnerships with civil society, philanthropy, think tanks, academia, private-sector associations, and technology organizations.• Help identify opportunities for collaboration, strategic dialogues, and joint initiatives to mobilize resources, build alliances, and strengthen advocacy.• Monitor stakeholder landscapes to anticipate emerging trends, opportunities, and potential areas of risk or tension.
Operational Support and Coordination • Serve as a central coordination point for the Director—ensuring follow-through on commitments, smooth workflow, and alignment among teams.• Support the Director in preparing for senior-level engagements, managing follow-ups, and ensuring that meeting outcomes are translated into concrete next steps.• Lead or coordinate special projects, pilots, and reviews to advance the Global Engagement delivery model.• Work closely with the department’s managers to track work programs, budget planning, and reporting cycles.
Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting • Oversee the collection and analysis of data on stakeholder engagement, campaign impact, and partnership outcomes.• Prepare strategic updates and reports highlighting achievements, risks, and opportunities for improvement.• Ensure consistent documentation and institutional learning across initiatives.
Selection Criteria
• Master’s degree in International Relations, Development, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in stakeholder engagement, strategy, partnerships, or development operations.
• Demonstrated experience in cross-sector collaboration (e.g., multilateral institutions, private sector, philanthropy, civil society).
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver under tight deadlines.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across teams and influence without direct authority.
• Deep understanding of the World Bank Group’s mission, structure, and operations 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
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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.