E T Consultant

E T Consultant

Job #: req38601

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

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: 10/22/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd

ITS Vice Presidency Context

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w

Unit Context: as applicable:

The ITSIG (Data, Information and AI Governance) Unit is the strategic driver of trust, agility, and responsible innovation in the organization’s data, information, and AI landscape. The unit develops and oversees governance frameworks, policies, and stewardship models that enable the Group, and the public, to maximize the value of its data and information. By embedding governance into product and service delivery, platform design, and business engagement, the unit positions governance as a catalyst for AI transformation and business impact. The unit also fosters partnerships and thought leadership, ensuring the Group remains at the forefront of global best practices in data, information, and AI governance.

Duties and accountabilities:

• Conduct a needs and landscape assessment covering existing learning assets, policies, standards, guidelines, related requirements, stakeholder needs, gaps, overlaps, and reuse or consolidation opportunities.

• Design a role- and topic-based literacy curriculum with clear learning objectives, sequencing, formats, content ownership, accessibility, and maintenance arrangements.

• Develop pilot-ready learning and support materials and a coordinated approach to communications, community engagement, intranet content, measurement, feedback, and continuous improvement.

• Research and benchmark relevant internal requirements, international standards, regulatory developments, and recognized data, information and AI governance practices to inform fit-for-purpose policy instruments.

• Draft and revise priority data, information, and AI governance policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and supporting tools using a clear hierarchy, consistent terminology, defined scope, roles, controls, exceptions, and compliance expectations.

• Plan and facilitate stakeholder consultation, reconcile comments, maintain traceability and version control, prepare approval packages, and support publication, implementation, adoption, review, and maintenance planning.

• Define and track measures for communications reach, learning participation, usefulness, and adoption. Use feedback and lessons learned to improve learning, policy implementation, and outcomes.

Selection Criteria

• Typically requires a Master's degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Expertise in data governance and information governance and management, plus working knowledge of responsible AI and AI risk governance. Must translate governance principles into institutional policy and practical guidance; familiarity alone is insufficient.

• Demonstrated experience both designing and delivering learning, literacy, capability-building, or change initiatives for varied professional audiences, and developing or substantially revising enterprise policies, standards, guidelines, or procedures.

• Strong instructional design skills in needs assessment, adult learning, objectives, curriculum architecture, sequencing, storyboarding, accessibility, assessment, and evaluation.

• Strong policy analysis and drafting skills in research, benchmarking, options, policy architecture and hierarchy, requirements, roles, controls, exceptions, compliance, implementation, and lifecycle maintenance.

• Experience managing consultations and governance reviews, including facilitating sessions, synthesizing divergent input, documenting decisions, resolving comments, and preparing senior-review or approval materials.

• Experience applying recognized frameworks and standards organizationally and aligning policies across privacy, records management, data quality, metadata, access and sharing, and AI risk management.

• Excellent plain-language writing, facilitation, collaboration, project management, and stakeholder synthesis. Able to produce authoritative governance instruments and engaging staff learning and communications products. Experience in complex, matrixed, or international organizations is desirable.

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.

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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