E T Consultant-Analytical and Operational programs Job #: req34673 Organization: World Bank Sector: Economics Grade: EC1 Term Duration: 1 year 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Brasilia,Brazil Required Language(s): English, Portuguese Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 11/14/2025 (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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
The World Bank Group (WBG) goal of ending extreme poverty within the revamped corporate scorecard highlights the need for a broad approach within a new global landscape: one in which Latin American and Caribbean countries have an unprecedented opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation. Nonetheless, the progress that many countries had seen at the turn of the century came to a full stop -and even lost- due to the global crises and ever-changing economic landscapes. To protect the vulnerable and regain the pace of sustainable economic growth, countries will need to address several critical development challenges. The Poverty and Equity Global Practice is accompanying the challenge with renewed efforts to provide high quality monitoring of poverty, inequality and other welfare-related indicators, as well as the development of analytics that can inform policies that can help countries succeed. Brazil presents a case of interest in the Latin American context and the Poverty and Equity team working in Brazil develops an analytical agenda to better understand the livelihoods of vulnerable populations in Brazil, as well as closely monitoring the evolution of welfare in the country.
The Poverty & Equity Global Practice is a family of empirical micro-economists with deep expertise in household surveys and poverty measurement, and broad experience in using household and other \"micro\" data to inform the design and implementation of policies and programs to reduce poverty and enhance shared prosperity. We work with government and external partners, at the country-level and globally, in ensuring their efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity are enhanced by integrative empirically grounded analyses of household welfare. Internally, we work with country, regional and global teams across all practices to operationalize the goals of the WBG by providing robust evidence base and analytics using micro data.
The Poverty and Equity Global Practice delivers the following to our clients in support of these critical development challenges:
• Advice and knowledge to help better understand the relationship between growth, poverty, and inequality.
• Diagnostics that help identify key policies and multisectoral solutions that effectively reduce poverty and benefit the less well-off.
• Monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs to enhance the poverty impact of interventions and inform mid-stream correction.
• Monitoring and tracking poverty and other welfare outcomes.
• Capacity-building and knowledge sharing (in client countries and within the WBG) of distributional impacts analytics.
• Innovative data collection and measurement methods that can help fill crucial data gaps.
Scope of Work
The Poverty and Equity Global Practice in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region is seeking to locally hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to contribute to its analytical and operational programs in the LC5 Task Team (Brazil). The consultant will participate as a core member of the Poverty team, responsible for:
• Conduct analysis using Brazilian microdata (such as PNAD-C, RAIS and others), harmonized databases and World Bank datasets and tools (such as datalibweb, WB-SEDLAC, LABLAC, LEL, and others).
• Conducting data management and analysis, combining the above-mentioned data sets with other sources (such as administrative, online, satellite, and others). Analyses should consider alternative up-to-date methodologies and pursue the most suitable empirical methods and data sources in each case. Whenever possible, the analysis should address distributional issues.
• Producing literature reviews on relevant topics for the analytical agenda and the policy dialogue with the country.
• Supporting the implementation, update and maintenance of microsimulation tools to obtain poverty projections, and the likely distributional impact of policy changes, especially those related to fiscal and social policies.
• Support dissemination of findings of analytical work under different formats: research papers, policy notes, briefs, notes, presentations, conferences.
• Develop excellent working relationships with country management units and other Global Practices within the WBG.
Timing
This contract is for a full-time position in Brasilia. The contract is for one year starting in December 2025.
Selection Criteria
• Master’s in economics, statistics, or other related disciplines, with strong analytical and quantitative skills, and at least 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Outstanding analytical skills and experience in: (a) poverty, inequality and labor markets; (b) econometrics and quantitative analysis of household surveys including panel data.
• Advanced programing knowledge in Stata. Working knowledge of R is highly desirable.
• Highly motivated, with initiative and a positive attitude. Ability to work flexibly on a range of assignments, to adjust to changing needs, and to prioritize evolving tasks.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary bank staff teams. Strong interpersonal, and team skills; demonstrated client orientation; sensitized in working in a diverse and multicultural environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present sophisticated analyses to non-technical audiences.
• Full proficiency in Portuguese and English.
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.