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 WBG Knowledge Bank
In 2026, the WBG launched the Knowledge Bank — a WBG-wide institutional transformation that fundamentally reshapes how the institution generates, shares, and applies knowledge across its public and private sector work. The Knowledge Bank is organized around five cross-institutional Verticals — People, Planet, Prosperity, Infrastructure, and Digital and AI — each bringing together IBRD/IDA and IFC teams under a unified structure to develop enabling policies and scale proven solutions. It is overseen by a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) at Managing Director level. The Knowledge Bank represents a decisive shift away from siloed, institution-specific knowledge production toward an integrated "One WBG" approach in which global expertise is consistently applied to country-level challenges and private sector opportunities, supported by AI-enabled platforms including Knowledge 360 and Data 360, and by the WBG Academy, which builds capacity among policymakers and practitioners to apply WBG knowledge in their country contexts.
People Vice Presidency (People Vertical)
The People Vice Presidency promotes investment in our most precious resource — people. It delivers knowledge for impact and provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact in support of the WBG’s mission. Better lives and better futures are only possible when all people have equal access to quality health care, education, and social protection, and when all people have the opportunity to build and draw on their human capital throughout life to learn, work, create businesses, and have dignity.
The People Vice Presidency works with countries and global partners to:
- provide quality, affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030 through a combination of financing, knowledge and partnerships.
- cut learning poverty in half by 2030 and empower futures through education and job-relevant skills.
- close gender gaps, end gender-based violence, and support women’s health and economic inclusion and empowerment.
- connect policymakers, facilitate cross-learning, and foster investments and policy action on human capital through the Human Capital Project—our global network of nearly 100 countries.
- reach half a billion people with social assistance programs by 2030.
The People Vertical’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. It draws on the immense knowledge base of staff, clients, development partners, and civil society to tailor development solutions that meet the unique circumstances and goals of a country. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/human-development
Global Health Directorate
The Global Health Directorate leads the WBG's health agenda, partnering with governments and the private sector to strengthen health systems, improve health outcomes, and accelerate progress to expand access to quality, affordable health care. The Directorate provides intellectual leadership, technical expertise, and operational support to country teams working across the full spectrum of health systems challenges — from primary care delivery and health financing to health emergency preparedness and response and healthy longevity. Collaborating across technical, geographic and institutional boundaries, the Global Health Directorate supports regional teams to deliver on the Bank's corporate health commitments — reaching 1.5 billion people with quality, affordable health services and building resilience in 66 countries — while supporting the creation of more and better jobs.
The Global Health Directorate is led by a Global Director supported by two Practice Managers that oversee the Directorate’s two units — Policy & Regulations (P&R) and Solutions and Impact (S&I) — and a Front Office responsible for strategy, partnerships, risk management, external and internal engagement, and talent and budget management. A Central Health Secretariat reports jointly to both Managers and serves as the operational bridge between the two units, managing portfolio and pipeline, Health Compacts, CPF upstream engagement, and regional outreach. Two cross-cutting layers — Methods, Impact Measurement and Innovation and Digital and AI — provide foundational technical support to all programs within the Directorate.
Health Policy and Regulation Team
The Health Policy and Regulation team within the Global Health Directorate is responsible for the normative, policy, and regulatory frameworks that underpin the WBG's global health agenda. It houses four dedicated programs: Mission 1.5 Billion Health Beneficiaries (health service delivery, health financing, and healthy longevity); Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems (PPPs, health sector value chains, and the Health for Jobs agenda); Resilient Health Systems (health emergency preparedness, response and resilience, climate change, and public health and disease prevention); and Nutrition. Together, these programs generate the evidence, norms, and policy tools that guide both WBG country operations and broader global health policy dialogue.
Opportunity
The Methods, Impact Measurement, and Innovation (MIMI) team within the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Directorate is seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) based in Washington, D.C., to lead work on supporting country operations with best practices in measurement, data system strengthening, monitoring and evaluation (M&E); corporate reporting; portfolio monitoring; and knowledge systems that support results-driven decision-making across the HNP portfolio.
The ETC will play a central role in strengthening the Global Directorate’s ability to support the design and implementation of HNP projects with strong M&E and data systems components and monitor progress against corporate commitments—including the World Bank Group Corporate Scorecard, Targets and internal KPI frameworks—and to generate high-quality, actionable insights on portfolio performance. The position will also contribute to advancing the methodological and knowledge agenda of the Directorate, including the development of a methods library and engagement with innovation initiatives across the WBG.
The ETC will work closely with Global Directorate teams; regional operations teams; and internal research, innovations, and results units to ensure a coherent and forward-looking approach to data systems strengthening, M&E, results measurement, analytics, and methodological innovation. The ETC is expected to be a self-starter with strong analytical and communication skills, M&E and data systems expertise, experience in portfolio analytics and corporate reporting systems, and the ability to translate complex data into clear messages for senior management. Travel to client countries and/or representing the World Bank at external events may be required.
DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
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.
