Description

 2. The Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation (FCI) GP helps client countries to create an enabling environment in which financial stability, efficiency and firm-level solutions to crowd in the private sector, support the creation of markets, and accelerate equitable growth.

 4. The Poverty and Equity GP supports the design, implementation, and monitoring of the WBG and client countries’ policies and programs aimed at poverty reduction and shared prosperity.

 6. CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations to share knowledge and research about financial inclusion to advance the lives of poor people, protect their economic gains, and reach broader development goals.

MINDSET has already been applied in numerous World Bank studies, including assessments of subsidies and taxes for energy GHG, coupled to changes in income and payroll taxes, or sectoral investment and spending measures.

Selection Criteria

A Ph.D. and a background in economics, quantitative or technical sciences, with considerable experience on climate and development is preferred. The required minimum is a master’s degree with 5 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

The ETC must have substantial prior experience with macroeconomic modeling and be able to demonstrate systems thinking. They should be well connected in the academic modeling community, and, ideally, able to discuss and work with a wide spectrum of modeling techniques in the context of developing countries, and of climate policy scenarios in general.

Required Competencies

•    Macroeconomic modeling – expertise in large-scale systems modelling (e.g. sectoral macro-structural, MRIO, or CGE models).
•    Technical skills – coding in python, software management, version control, validation.
•    Expertise in any or all of the following:

o   data science,

o   econometrics

o   network analysis

o   machine learning

Other Selection Criteria

•    Organized and systematic
•    Able to take initiative
•    Able to write clearly and succinctly
•    Proficient in manipulating and wrangling data, visualizing data and summarizing key insights
•    Integrative analytic capacity, including the ability to situate sectoral issues within a broader economic development framework
•    Experience working on and in developing countries and with ministries/policymakers is a strong plus
•    Strong communications skills, including the ability to present complex analyses to non-specialist audiences
•    Ability to work flexibly on a range of assignments and adjust to a variety of complex evolving tasks to meet tight deadlines
•    Strong interpersonal skills and the capacity to work in teams across organizational boundaries within a multi-cultural environment
•    Willingness to relocate to Washington DC is required. Exceptional circumstances can be considered.

How to Apply

[The position will be posted on the World Bank Compass website soon, and formal application will be required.]

In the meantime, if this opportunity sounds exciting to you and you feel you could be a good fit, please, send your CV, a relevant coding sample and, if you like, a cover letter to idorband@worldbank.org, subject line [Modeling Position].

If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to reach out to the same email address.

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.