Program Officer

Description

Selection Criteria

• A master’s degree plus a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
• Demonstrated ability to capture, curate, codify, and mobilize knowledge from diverse sources and translate it into practical products, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Strong experience supporting projects, programs, or senior leadership workstreams, including planning, coordination, tracking, monitoring, reporting, and risk identification.
• Excellent written, oral, visual, and digital communication skills, with the ability to develop compelling briefs, presentations, stories, videos, podcasts, and other engagement products.
• Strong content management, information management, and document management skills, including the ability to organize materials, maintain trackers, support repositories, and improve searchability and reuse.
• Ability to build and maintain constructive relationships with internal teams, universities, academic networks, knowledge partners, and other external stakeholders.
• Experience organizing learning events, retreats, strategic conversations, seminars, communities of practice, or other knowledge-sharing activities.
• Ability to collect, analyze, synthesize, and visualize information to support monitoring, evaluation, learning, management updates, and decision-making.
• Proficiency with collaboration platforms and digital tools; openness to applying responsible AI and innovative technologies to improve knowledge flows and efficiency.
• Strong judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and ability to deliver high-quality work under tight timelines in a fast-paced Front Office environment.
• A proactive, creative, and service-oriented mindset, with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, curiosity, and willingness to go the extra mile.
• Excellent command of English; ability to work effectively across teams, functions, and cultures.

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

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

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.

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