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ET Consultant - Governance & Public Administration
Posted on Sep 22, 2026
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 The Institutions Global Department at the World Bank Group aims to help countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that provide citizen-focused services, promote private-sector growth, and foster trust in government. The ability of governments to efficiently deliver public goods, support an environment that creates jobs and growth, address market failures, and involve citizens in the process is more crucial than ever. Countries with strong institutions are more resilient, better at encouraging private sector development, reducing poverty, delivering valuable services, and gaining citizens' confidence. The Institutions Department brings together experts in public financial management, public administration and service delivery, state-owned enterprise management, public employment, regulatory policy, transparency, digital governance, law and development, anti-corruption, performance management, monitoring and evaluation, and social accountability to develop innovative, integrated solutions to complex institutional issues. The practice employs a problem-driven, diagnostic approach, merging global knowledge of reform successes and failures with a deep understanding of the institutional challenges and opportunities faced by developing countries. Public Administration Global Unit The Public Administration Global Unit within the Institutions Global Department is dedicated to helping countries develop capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that provide citizen-centric services, promote private-sector growth, and foster trust in government. The Global Unit concentrates on five key thematic areas and related programs: Public Administration Performance; Anticorruption; Public Sector Innovation and GovTech; Justice and Rule of Law; and Coalitions for Reforms. Each program is organized around four main functions: knowledge and innovations; data and analytics; operational work; and convening and partnerships. Because many governments lack the necessary capabilities to leverage innovation and expertise to collect, manage, and analyze data effectively, hindering their ability to implement evidence-based policies and interventions, the unit program supports countries and World Bank teams through various activities under four main pillars.: • Knowledge and Innovation: Supports in-depth research and case studies on public sector innovation across regions and countries. The activities aim to contribute to the global debate on innovation, as well as to provide good practices and guidance to client countries and World Bank teams. It also supports the development of innovative public sector interventions as prototypes and proof of concepts to support client countries. • Data and Analytics: Supports the development of cross-national datasets and sophisticated data analytics that can assist World Bank task teams, development partners, academia, civil society, the private sector, policymakers, and client governments. • Operational Work: Provides direct technical support on innovative methods, tools, prototyping to World Bank country and regional teams. • Convening and Partnerships: Supports the development of partnerships and convening activities by mobilizing external and internal partners through peer-to-peer learning, global/regional events on Public Sector innovation, as well as thematic working groups with global representation that explore frontier work. Duties and accountabilities: The candidate will contribute to the implementation of key activities across the programs, in particular on Gov Tech, Public Administration, and Coalitions for Reform. The candidate will report to the Practice Manager of the Global Public Administration Unit and will closely coordinate his/her work program with the Program Manager. The candidate’s main duties and responsibilities will be to: • Lead the production of knowledge products and global public goods related to center of government and the work of reform, delivery and\or coordination agencies within public administration, with a special focus on their core functions of strategic planning, the use of data for results and performance tracking, interministerial coordination and multistakeholder engagement, change management, and performance management to incentivize collaboration of senior civil servants. • Support regional Task Teams by providing technical advice and input for the design and/or implementation of operations in client countries, specifically on reforming organizational structures and strengthening the center of government for better policy formulation, coordination, and implementation. • Develop partnerships and lead convening activities by mobilizing external and internal partners through peer-to-peer learning, global/regional events on the above-listed topics • Fulfill reporting, monitoring, and evaluation requirements as part of your responsibilities.