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A career at the World Bank Group is a journey of opportunity.
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With the ability to grow across our five organizations, over 120 locations, and job families, staff can continuously develop their skills, explore new paths, and make meaningful global impact throughout their careers.
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Across 18 diverse career areas, the World Bank Group relies on a wide range of skills — from economics and operations to technology, climate, and private‑sector investment — to advance development impact around the world. These career areas offer opportunities for talented professionals to apply their expertise to complex global challenges.
Advisory
Provides tailored market insights as well as advice on how to improve operational performance and sustainability. Assists in the adoption of good practices and standards to increase client’s competitiveness and productivity. Identifies and implements interventions that remove barriers and unlock investment opportunities. Creates and disseminates knowledge internally and for external audiences.
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Economics
Collects and analyzes economic data on economic conditions that affect the organization's programs and policies for use in studies and reports to management. Prepares reports discussing economic forecasts and their impact on the development sector and the organization. Provides advice on a variety of economic issues.
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External Affairs, Corporate Relations & Communications
Strengthens the organization's development impact by increasing public support for, and awareness of, the mission and work. Manages corporate communications and global engagement with key stakeholders, including media, civil society, private sector, donor countries, and international organizations, as well as staff communication. Manages the corporate identity and branding. Responsible for the corporate online and social media presence and produces content for a wide variety of platforms, including print, broadcast, and web.
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Finance & Accounting
Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, preparing financial reports and safeguarding the organization's assets. Maintains accounting and financial records and reports, including general ledger, financial statements, regulatory and management reports. Conducts financial analyses. Develops and prepares the organization's financial plans and budgets, interprets financial reports and tax returns, and maintains good corporate relations with the investment and banking communities.
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General Management
Responsible for managing organizational functions including developing policies, organizing, planning, controlling, and directing organization resources to achieve objectives.
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General Services
Provides various office and location support activities, including administration, procurement, events, logistics, facilities, and security. Identifies, enhances and follows specific processes and procedures to maximize the efficiencies of the business to which the support is being provided; ensures the correct functioning of facilities, office and/or business support services. Protects the organization's employees, properties and all items of value on the organization's premises from any preventable harm or danger, as relevant.
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Health and Safety
Protect and promote staff health and safety by managing risks, providing quality occupational health services, and maintaining professionalism and confidentiality.
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Human Resources (HR)
Designs, implements and monitors human resource programs and policies, including recruitment, learning and development, performance management, compensation, benefits, equal opportunity and diversity, etc. Anticipates and plans for long-term human resource needs and trends.
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Information Technology (IT)
Designs, develops, modifies, adapts and implements short- and long-term solutions to information technology (IT) needs through new and existing applications, systems architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure. Reviews system requirements and business processes; codes, tests, debugs and implements software solutions. Manages the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure within an organization, including the physical network as well as server applications and software. Configures, installs, maintains and upgrades server applications and hardware.
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Investment
Enables clients to manage risk and broaden their access to foreign and domestic capital markets. Investment services include loans, equity, trade and commodity finance, derivatives, blended finance, and structured finance. Identifies and implements interventions that remove barriers and unlock investment opportunities. Manages the organization's assets in order to meet specified investment goals.
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Knowledge Management & Learning
Promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing the organization's information and learning assets. Coordinate the development of a standard knowledge management system across the institution ensuring the dissemination of knowledge.
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Legal
Provides legal advice and services on issues concerning the rights, obligations and privileges of the organization. Represents the organization to customers, suppliers, competitors and government agencies. Provides resolution of business or technical issues by identifying legal solutions and recommending a course of action. Examines legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuits.
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Operations & Business Enablement
Provides expertise for the organization's areas of operations including analysis and management of operational effectiveness. Analyzes, plans, conducts and/or prepares plans or procedures that provide operational and/or technical support to operations to achieve specific objectives. Maintains an ongoing interface with various organizational colleagues to ensure effective and efficient utilization of resources, planning and execution.
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Oversight
Involves roles and functions responsible for monitoring, managing, investigating, and ensuring the effectiveness of controls and compliance for various processes and activities within the institution. Provides supervision, control, and strategic direction for critical areas and encompasses activities related to risk management, compliance, internal control, and governance.
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Corporate Procurement
Provides a systematic approach for buying the goods and services required for an organization's growth and sustainability. Responsible for identification of needs, sourcing and qualifying suppliers, developing and administrating proposal, negotiations with suppliers and contracting for services.
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Research & Quantitative Analysis
Initiates, leads, conducts and supports discovery and validation of research for organizational projects and programs. Develops an understanding of complex development issues and analysis methodologies and applies mathematical principles to identify trends in data sets. Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses. Publishes activities, findings and conclusions in recognized publications, and presents same at appropriate conferences and forums.
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Risk Management & Compliance
Develops, recommends and implements controls and cost-effective approaches to minimize the organization's risks. Identifies and analyzes potential sources of loss to minimize risk and estimates the potential financial consequences of an occurring loss. Develops policies and guidelines around risk management and compliance ensuring that the institution adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. It involves continuous monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation of risk management strategies to address emerging threats and changes in the regulatory environment.
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Sectoral
Provides deep technical and specialized expertise on areas of focus for the organization, advancing the mission, goals and objectives. Develops, recommends or implements the organization's core programs and projects. Collaborates with stakeholders, serving as the organization's representative.
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A career at the World Bank Group offers the opportunity to work globally at the intersection of ideas and impact—where your skills can help shape innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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HR Director, Talent Acquisition and Global Mobility
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From intern to full-time staff, for me working at the World Bank Group means immersing in a brilliant mosaic of diverse backgrounds that converges to pioneer impactful solutions that resonate across the world.
Hayley
Hayley Xiwen Hu
Venture Capital Analyst
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MIGA as part of the World Bank Group is truly a bridge between the private and the public sector which makes it a particularly interesting and impactful place to work, and it has unique products that keeps evolving and reinventing continuously for the sake of our overall mission.
Mathias
Program Manager. MIGA - Office of the Managing Director
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Working for the World Bank Group in Haiti a unique opportunity to impact people’s lives where our help is needed the most. One transaction in the energy sector, for example, is bringing light to millions of people.
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Ismael
Investment Officer
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A career in recruitment at the World Bank Group is deeply rewarding, as it brings purpose and people together by connecting talent to meaningful opportunities and building teams that drive real impact across global development priorities.
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Macaya
Human Resources Officer
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At the World Bank Group, careers are built around purpose, collaboration, and measurable impact—where talented people help shape solutions that advance development and expand opportunities worldwide.
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Rodolfo Perecin Mareno
Global Talent Discovery Lead
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