E T Consultant

Job Type: Location Type: Remote: open to residents of any country

 

E T Consultant

Job #:
req36635

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:

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:
5/12/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on private sector development in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2025, IFC committed a record $71.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging private sector solutions, and mobilizing private capital to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

The Infrastructure, PPPs, and Advisory Department

Effective January 1, 2026, the World Bank Group (WBG) consolidated the capabilities of International Development Association (IDA), International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) to strengthen its ability to deliver targeted policy expertise and scalable solutions to both public and private sector clients.

As part of this transformation, a new Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships, and Advisory (IPA) Department has been established, bringing together teams from IFC and the World Bank’s Infrastructure Finance Department, including the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (QII), the Public-Private Investment Facility (PPIAF), and PPP Transaction Advisory.

This integrated platform positions the WBG as a global leader in enabling private sector participation in infrastructure and public service delivery. By combining upstream policy support, knowledge, and transaction structuring under a single umbrella, the department provides a clear entry point for government clients seeking to mobilize private capital and expertise to deliver high-quality, sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)

PPIAF is the only global facility dedicated to strengthening the foundation of governments in emerging markets and developing countries to promote sustainable infrastructure with private participation. Since 1999, PPIAF has been helping governments develop the policies, laws, regulations, institutions, and capacity needed to encourage private investment in infrastructure.

PPIAF is a global, multi-donor trust fund established in 1999, dedicated to strengthening institutions to promote sustainable infrastructure with private participation and enable market finance for sub-national entities. PPIAF provides grant funding for support to EMDE governments in the areas of market creation and institutions building, policy and regulatory reforms, early development of a range of public-private partnership (PPPs) options and improving the creditworthiness of state-owned enterprises and municipal entities, as well as funding a wide range of related knowledge products.

PPIAF is also transitioning the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) into its operational structure. The GI Hub has played a critical role in informing global infrastructure decision makers and bringing together a wide range of stakeholders, including G20 governments, government policymakers, multilateral development banks, senior leaders in private investment, consultancy, and engineering, regulators, international organizations, and infrastructure practitioners from the public and private sectors.

By joining PPIAF and the WBG, the GI Hub via the GKMDTF will ensure the sustainability of the data, resources and tools established by GIH and develop a new generation of resources by leverage WBG knowledge and resources. This will enable GIH to continue to its mandate to improve access to knowledge and data to inform the delivery of sustainable, inclusive, and resilient infrastructure and to work closely to support the G20 infrastructure agenda.

Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership

The QII Partnership is a programmatic single-donor trust fund supported by the government of Japan and housed within the PPP Group of IPG. The QII Partnership was established to promote sustainable, resilient infrastructure investments in WB operations. The Partnership supports a wide array of activities in line with G20 QII Principles with a strong focus on helping our client countries build resilience against natural disasters and climate change. The objective of the QII Partnership is to raise awareness and scale up attention to quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries through financial support for project preparation, implementation, and analytical work.

Since its establishment in August 2016, the QII Partnership has supported activities that integrate QII elements into World Bank operations in infrastructure. To the end of FY21 QII Partnership has approved over $51.5 million of grants to 178 projects. With a recent additional contribution from the donor, the program has a total of $82million funds under management.

The team works across a wide range of sectors (with designated focal points in the Urban, Water, Transport, Energy, Digital and Governance Practice Groups) in the WB to generate grant opportunity and disseminate knowledge and best practice on QII.

Transaction Advisory

IFC’s Transaction Advisory department (CTA) helps national and municipal governments partner with the private sector to improve access to quality public services across sectors such as education, health, electricity, transport, and water and sanitation. CTA conducts detailed due diligence and supports government clients to design PPP transactions, take them to bid, and finalize agreements between public and private partners. The proposed role of CTA Global is to support implementation of regional strategies by providing global expertise, quality assurance and business development support. CTA Global will serve as focal point for CTA input for policy matters that impact CTA business across the regions. CTA Global will also coordinate knowledge management, disseminate standards to strengthen bankability and also coordinate across WBG key stakeholders such as MIGA, Knowledge Bank, and World Bank Operations. CTA Global would also coordinate with the Partnerships team overall donor relationship management, reporting and fundraising.

Duties and Accountabilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and dynamic team and work across a range of global infrastructure programs on high profile initiatives which are integral to achieving the World Bank’s private capital facilitation agenda. The Specialist will be expected to work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including bilateral donors, G20 and G7 members, MDBs and other international organizations to advance the knowledge and global presence of the World Bank in infrastructure and the global programs.

The Extended-Term Consultant is expected to support the department’s communication and branding efforts while continuing to maintain specific reporting requirements of the donor-funded programs PPIAF, QII, and CTA. It will be important to develop a consistent and complementary strategy across all communications channels and platforms, optimizing, cross-prompting and co-branding as necessary.

The Extended-Term Consultant (Communications Officer) will:
• Support IPA management, especially in thought leadership, internal communications and external engagement priorities (e.g., briefing notes and talking points for flagship events, partner and donor dialogues, external speeches). Ensure disciplined, consistent messaging aligned to corporate priorities. Support IPA’s external and internal branding, including written content for external and internal promotion.
• Support strategic communications for PPIAF and QII with the aim to increase visibility of results, impacts and knowledge amongst donors and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the coordination, timely delivery, editing and writing of key communications materials including PPIAF and QII Annual reports, newsletters blog posts, feature articles and project briefs/case studies, as well as donor-related reports of CTA and the broader Department of Infrastructure, PPPs and Advisory. Work effectively with the portfolio coordinators, M&E Officers, subject matter experts, and other colleagues and partners on identifying subject matter and materials for communications. Identify opportunities for multimedia content development and manage content providers.
• Work with Knowledge Officers and specialists in the department to maximize opportunities to promote and disseminate global products and analytical work and support capacity building initiatives. Work with operational colleagues to professionalize reports, guidelines, manuals, and other materials as needed. Ensure that the publications follow the WBG writing and visual guidelines and are properly filed in the correct repositories.
• Contribute content and manage user interactions with the department’s websites and social media, including PPIAF’s planned website redesign, as well as other external and internal communications channels if needed.
• Supporting donor reporting and the preparation of materials and presentations for donor meetings and major donor-related events for the Infrastructure, PPPs and Advisory Department.
• Work with Communications specialists across the Knowledge Bank and IFC, to advance strategic communication across in the infrastructure space.

Selection Criteria

Education/Experience:
• Master’s degree with 5 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience in a relevant field, for example, journalism, business, or engineering.

Strategic communications:
• Experience in strategic communication planning and branding, especially in a global or multicultural context.

Writing and editing:
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with experience of working with technical subject matter and an ability to produce outputs that can be understood by a general but knowledgeable audience.
• Report writing and editing experience, particularly with annual reports, including familiarity with the World Bank style guidelines and the Chicago Manual of Style.

Institutional experience:
• Familiarity with World Bank Group operations and knowledge of similar international organizations and non-profits, particularly those working in the infrastructure sector
• Knowledge of infrastructure sectors such as digital development, water, energy, transport, and urban development
• Experience working with donor governments, national/international bilateral partners, international organizations, development institutions, and multilateral banks on development projects/programs is an advantage.

Fluency in English is required, French, Japanese or Spanish language skills is a plus.

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

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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