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E T Temporary - Program Assistant
Posted on Jun 27, 2026
Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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. The Talent Acquisition and Global Mobility department (HRDTM) is a core function within the World Bank Group’s Human Resources Vice Presidency, responsible for overseeing talent acquisition and international mobility across the institution. Within HRDTM, the Global Talent Acquisition unit (HRDRE) serves as the centralized recruitment function, delivering end-to-end talent acquisition services across the World Bank Group. HRDRE manages the full recruitment lifecycle—from job launch through onboarding—ensuring timely, high-quality, and compliant hiring processes, while partnering closely with hiring managers to support organizational workforce needs. HRDRE is seeking an E T Temporary (Program Assistant), based in Washington, D.C., to support the HRDRE Manager and team. The selected candidate will report directly to the Manager. Duties and Accountabilities: The E T Temporary will provide a broad range of administrative, operational, and logistical support to the HRDRE unit, ensuring smooth day-to-day coordination and effective delivery of team priorities. Duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to: • Provide direct administrative support to the HRDRE Manager, including calendar management, meeting coordination and prioritization, travel arrangements, logistics support, preparation of agendas, and follow-up on action items. • Coordinate and support regular unit meetings, including scheduling, preparing materials, tracking follow-up actions, and ensuring timely communication with relevant stakeholders. • Participate in weekly unit meetings and maintain regular coordination with the Manager to stay informed of team priorities, ongoing activities, and emerging support needs. • Provide logistical and administrative support for HRDRE initiatives, meetings, learning sessions, focus groups, retreats, and other events, including arranging virtual meeting platforms, room bookings, catering, materials, and related logistics. • Support onboarding activities for new hires and team members, including scheduling orientation meetings, coordinating logistics, preparing onboarding materials, and facilitating smooth integration into the unit. • Prepare, compile, and organize briefing materials, background notes, presentations, and other documents required for meetings, events, or management discussions. • Generate, track, and maintain purchase orders and other administrative transactions for unit-related expenditures, ensuring compliance with applicable WBG procurement, budget, and administrative procedures. • Support knowledge management across the unit by organizing, maintaining, and facilitating access to key documents, templates, guidance materials, presentations, and other shared resources. • Assist with editing, formatting, and quality-checking reports, presentations, correspondence, and other documents to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with WBG/IFC standards. • Help monitor and follow up on pending administrative actions, deadlines, and deliverables to support timely completion of unit priorities. • Liaise with internal stakeholders, service providers, and other HR teams as needed to coordinate administrative, logistical, procurement, and operational matters. • Provide backup support to other HRDTM assistants and contribute to ad hoc assignments, special projects, and team-wide initiatives as requested.