E T Consultant
Washington D.C.
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Grade: 2359
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Occupational Groups:
- Closing Date: Closed
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 offices worldwide, we work 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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
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
ITS’ vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.
ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment and effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.
Unit Context
Operations Effectiveness (ITSEF) Unit delivers data and knowledge solutions that provide business insights to frontline teams and management for improved decision making, transparency, and risk mitigation, while facilitating knowledge capture, curation, and dissemination.
The ITS Operations Effectiveness unit is seeking a Product Owner to join the Knowledge Platforms team. The position requires a quality-focused and detail-oriented candidate with a demonstrated track record of providing solutions for high-priority business goals and strategic management decisions.
The candidate will assume the following responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Lead engagement with clients to fully understand pain points and needs and explore user research options with the Design team. Assess impact to end users and need for change management.
• Deliver regular status updates to clients, flag risks and delays, discuss any shift in requirements and priorities. Collaborate with the change communication team.
• Create Product Vision Board, develop Roadmap, write user stories and rank essential features for MVP.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, translating client requirements into viable product features, tracking, and communicating feature costs.
• Oversee all stages of product development, and delivery and manage an effective product team.
• Oversee and lead the User Acceptance Testing process.
• Plan and execute future releases through a data driven and agile approach.
• Develop KPIs and OKRs that are measurable, actionable, and align with user goals.
• Actively monitor and incorporate various client needs, industry trends, Bank priorities, KPIs, and user feedback into the work program.
This vacancy is now closed.