Analyst

World Bank Group•Washington, DC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The World Bank Group (WBG) offers a unique opportunity to contribute to solving global development challenges. As a leading source of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG fosters a global partnership dedicated to ending extreme poverty, enhancing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With a presence in 189 member countries and over 120 offices worldwide, the WBG collaborates with public and private sector partners on innovative projects, utilizing data, research, and technology to address urgent global issues. The Middle East and North Africa Region (MENAAP) faces significant development challenges, including geopolitical instability, regional conflicts, and climate change, exacerbated by structural economic issues such as a large state presence, high youth and female unemployment, and limited intraregional trade. The WBG's strategy for MENAAP focuses on inclusive, sustainable, and resilient development, balancing crisis response with reforms that drive structural transformation, job creation, gender equity, regional cooperation, and green transitions. This strategy is tailored to the specific circumstances of each client country. The MENAAP region includes a diverse range of countries, from active borrowers to those receiving advisory services. The Infrastructure Practice Department, specifically the MENAAP urban, resilience and land unit (IMAPU), manages a substantial portfolio of projects and analytical services focused on improving urban productivity, jobs, and livability. IMAPU's work supports resilient infrastructure, safe housing, vibrant local economies, and effective local governments, with cross-cutting themes including climate change, digitalization, private capital mobilization, gender, inclusion, fragility, and job creation. The unit has a particular demand for projects related to regional development, tourism, competitiveness, and improved municipal finance and service delivery.

Requirements

Master's degree in a relevant field (Economics, International Development/Affairs, Public Policy, or related field) and a minimum of 2 years of work experience.
A thorough knowledge of World Bank instruments, policies, procedures, guidelines, and instruments.
Direct experience in portfolio monitoring at the unit level.
Direct experience and working knowledge of policies and procedures for a range of lending and non-lending activities and trust funds.
Direct experience in RAS budget planning and monitoring.
Demonstrated ability to use the Operations Portal, Client Connection, STEP, and Standard Reports, along with judicious use of AI tools.
Good understanding of the Bank's corporate priorities and initiatives.
Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work effectively in a multicultural working environment.
Strong communication skills and superior client orientation, with proven ability to work cooperatively with multi-disciplinary country teams and staff and managers at all levels.
Excellent workflow management and task organization skills, with a strong drive for results and demonstrated ability to multitask, attend to detail, and follow through.
Ability to handle concurrent activities efficiently under pressure, with minimum supervision, and to meet tight deadlines.
Full understanding of and ability to work with Bank operational systems, including Standard Reports, BI, SAP, TF Portal, and various OPCS and regional dashboards.
This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience in public policy, international development, and/or economics is preferred.
Experience doing so at the departmental level is an advantage.
Direct experience in MENAAP and with both IBRD and IDA is an advantage.
Prior experience supporting budget management for regional operational units.

Responsibilities

Conduct unit-level pipeline and portfolio data analysis, monitor and analyze portfolio data (including TFs), prepare materials for portfolio reviews, and identify cross-cutting issues and key trends, including customized reports using BI dashboards.
Maintain close collaboration and synergies with other members of the MENAAP infrastructure operational teams to enhance synergies, innovation, and learning – and provide ad-hoc cross-support at departmental level if needed.
Support the coordination of large and, at times, complex RAS programs, such as programmatic engagement, by tracking timelines, monitoring progress, and planning and executing budgets to ensure timely and budget-efficient delivery of advisory outputs.
Prepare tables, regular operational updates, reports, and spreadsheets on the status of the portfolio and large contracts (e.g., STEP, Standard Reports, Operations Portal, Business Warehouse, SAP, etc.).
Contribute to active portfolio monitoring by identifying risks, issues, and bottlenecks affecting disbursements.
Monitor and report on follow-up actions resulting from portfolio reviews and discussions.
Coordinate unit inputs and updates to the Corporate and Portfolio Risk Lists.
Handle ad-hoc duties on operational matters and corporate initiatives or requirements as needed.
Track budget planning and execution to ensure smooth and balanced implementation of the budget (fixed/variable, BB and TF).
Analyze key trends, including through the creation of customized reports and the use of various dashboards in close collaboration with RM.
Coordinate the preparation of bi-weekly budget meetings, including by routinely addressing low-level issues and working closely with TTLs.
Lead follow-up actions stemming from budget reviews, working closely with TTLs.
Work closely with Resource Management to ensure seamless flows of budget information.
Support complex and time-sensitive operational delivery at all stages of the project cycle. This includes creation of Activity Initiation Note (AIN) codes and targeted inputs to project documents, such as PID, Concept Paper, Project Document, Negotiation Package, ISRs, Aide Memoire, ICRs, and other relevant documents.
Monitor and update active project and task milestones in SAP, coordinate formal Board date change requests, and follow up on completion of the Activity Completion Summary (ACS) for ASA.
Advise teams and TTLs on key operational policies and regional processing guidelines. Liaise as needed with ITS and OPCS to troubleshoot issues related to the Operations Portal or other operational systems, and provide time-sensitive, constructive assistance in resolving operational issues, including those related to the Operations Portal and STEP.
Provide guidance and advice to teams in the design, preparation, and implementation of trust-funded activities. In particular, provide guidance to task teams on operations and trust fund procedures, help resolve operations and trust fund issues, and assist teams with trust fund administration and reporting.
Contribute to the unit’s weekly update series by identifying and showcasing selective operational, policy, administrative, and portfolio updates.
Assist in the review of Implementation Status Reports (ISRs), Aide Memoires, simple project restructurings, ICRs, Trust Fund (TF) proposals, and other TF programs, terms of reference (ToRs), portal project management tasks and various operational documents.
Help ensure that the World Bank's responsibilities for administrative, operational and performance reporting are fulfilled.