E T Consultant Job #: req34679 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology 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: 11/3/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help client countries 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 poverty on a livable planet.
With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the World Bank Group works with public and private partners, invests in groundbreaking projects and uses data, research, and technology to develop solutions to pressing global, regional and local challenges. For more information, please visit http://www.worldbank.org
The organization has undertaken an ambitious exercise to revise its mandate, products and structure to adjust to the multiple, intertwined crises affecting the world today (see Evolution Roadmap), in the move to becoming a better Bank.
Business Unit Overview
The mission of the Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) is to leverage information and technology as a force multiplier to accelerate, deepen, and sustain development impact. Their vision is to harness information and technology for a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more information on ITS, check this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w
Department Context
The WBG Corporate Solutions Department (ITSCO) is focused on the digital transformation of essential corporate services to ensure WBG operations are seamless, resilient, and future‑ready. Uniting digitalization roadmaps, experience design, process optimization, application delivery, systems management, and technology modernization across some 170 products and services, the department links business ambition with operational excellence—from intuitive employee experiences and precision payroll to data-driven decision making, intelligent automation, and AI enablement. Operating from Washington, Chennai, Sofia, and Singapore in a global delivery model, the team seeks to combine disciplined strategic planning with focused roadmaps, agile product delivery, design‑forward innovation, digital engineering, automation, and AI to produce solutions that are engaging, impactful, and efficient. The goal is a unified, OneWBG corporate backbone—streamlined, connected, and adaptive—that empowers leaders, staff, partners, and shareholders with the processes, capabilities, and insights to advance the WBG's mission at scale.
The department comprises of four distinct but complementary units which work closely together to deliver on the department's mandate:
- Corporate Digital Acceleration unit: Accelerates digital transformation for corporate business functions through design thinking, digital innovation, rapid prototyping, reimagining processes, and AI enablement, e.g. AI-first work digitalization strategies.
- Corporate Experience Solutions unit: Delivers optimal digital experiences for WBG employees, clients, partners, shareholders, and beneficiaries through engaging, effective, and user-centric solutions, e.g. intranets, self-service, work productivity and decision-support systems.
- Corporate Business Solutions unit: Enables critical corporate business processes and functions of the WBG through accurate, efficient, and resilient back-office systems, e.g. ERP systems supporting human resources and budget functions.
- Corporate Digital Backbone unit: Creates an autonomous digital backbone for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the diverse corporate portfolio, e.g. application modernization, technology debt reduction, efficient data exchange, enterprise integration, automated business processes, and agentic-AI.
Duties and Responsibilities
Program & Portfolio Management
- Prepare clear and compelling executive-level presentations and detailed diagrams that define program design and implementation strategies for leadership and stakeholders.
- Coordinate technology-driven transformation programs across the department, ensuring alignment with evolving business strategies.
- Define and guide project and program requirements, including product roadmaps, resource allocation, and timeline estimation.
- Drive continuous improvement by rationalizing technology portfolios, reducing redundancies, and optimizing resource utilization.
- Establish and standardize program management frameworks and methodologies across diverse teams to create consistent, repeatable processes.
- Produce consistent, scheduled reporting, ensuring updates are timely, accurate, and actionable for stakeholders.
Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Communicate complex technology modernization initiatives effectively, translating technical concepts into understandable and actionable information for diverse audience.
- Contribute to the design, architecture, and execution of technical implementation for products, ensuring robust delivery.
- Contribute to full lifecycle from product ideation and prototyping to enterprise launch ensuring scalability, performance, and commercial success.
- Advocate for best practices in performance, reliability, security, and compliance within program deliverables.
Agile & Product Management
- Support and drive adoption of Agile practices, modern engineering tools, and continuous integration/deployment methods.
- Support the product managers to manage dependencies, prioritize product features, enhancements, and resolve roadblocks.
- Introduce product-centric approaches to enterprise transformation to balance innovation with operational efficiency.
Selection Criteria
* Master’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Strong technical acumen, including expertise in software development, system architecture, or cloud technologies.
* Proven ability to manage and deliver complex technical programs from inception to completion.
* Experience leading cross-functional teams and motivating team members towards common goals.
* Advanced project and program management skills (including Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies.
* Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal abilities: able to align product, engineering, and business interests.
* Experience with risk identification, mitigation strategy, and maintaining project delivery on schedule.
* System design and architecture expertise, including the ability to design scalable systems.
* Experience reporting to senior management and executives with a focus on data-driven recommendations, metrics, and program health transparency.
* Strong influencing skills, able to lead without direct authority and manage conflicts constructively.
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
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.
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.