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Description
WBG Pioneers, the World Bank Group’s Internship Program, offers undergraduate and postgraduate students a high impact learning experience at the heart of global development. Participants gain hands on experience in a diverse and dynamic environment, contribute fresh perspectives and innovative ideas, and connect with international professionals working to end poverty on a livable planet.
Background/Organizational Context
The World Bank Group's (WBG) Global Unit for Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism, Disaster Risk Management, Policy & Regulation (KIUPR) supports operational teams in countries across the disaster risk management (DRM), urban development, and land management agendas. A core part of the unit's offer is a set of scalable solutions: tested operational approaches and tools that can be deployed across contexts. As the unit sharpens its operational offer for fragile, conflict, and violence-affected (FCV) countries, there is growing recognition that FCV settings require tailored approaches: standard DRM, urban, and land interventions often need to be adapted to account for weakened institutions, constrained implementation capacity, political fragility, displacement dynamics, and the particular vulnerabilities of conflict-affected populations.
This work is also directly relevant to the WBG's renewed FCV strategy, which places particular emphasis on economic recovery and job creation as pathways out of fragility. Understanding how DRM, urban, and land operations in FCV settings have engaged with the jobs agenda and private sector development will help ensuring the unit's offer is well-aligned with this strategic priority.
While the Urban, Resilience and Land portfolio includes a substantial number of operations in FCV settings, the evidence base underpinning what works, and how interventions need to be designed differently in these contexts, is dispersed across project documents. Consolidating this evidence into a structured resource would allow the global team to respond more effectively to requests from task teams seeking examples of similar activities and solutions from comparable contexts.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of Lara Loussert, Junior Professional Associate in KIUPR, and in collaboration with colleagues working on DRM, urban and land, the intern will:
•Conduct a systematic review of WBG project documents (PADs, ICRs, evaluations, and knowledge notes) to identify operations in FCV settings with DRM, urban resilience, and land activities.
•Build and populate a structured, searchable repository (Excel-based) of individual activities and components implemented across these operations, organized by thematic subcategory, including but not limited to:
•DRM: flood management, hydromet, early warning systems, preparedness and response, building regulations, structural retrofitting, institutional strengthening
•Urban: urban planning, urban resilience, informal settlements, urban infrastructure
•Land: land tenure, land administration, land use planning, property rights
•For each activity captured across these three thematic areas, systematically extract and record the following dimensions: key outputs; implementation arrangements (including use of UN agencies, NGOs, and other third-party implementers); when applicable: links to jobs and income-generating activities and private sector engagement; results framework indicators, implementation challenges, lessons learned, and good practices.
•Where applicable, apply or support the application of AI-assisted methods for document analysis to improve the efficiency and scalability of the review.
•Ensure the repository is structured in a way that allows the global team to filter, update, and expand it over time as new operations are completed.
Selection Criteria
•Candidates must be currently enrolled in, or in the final year of, a postgraduate (master’s/PhD) program.
•Candidates must have 0–6 years of relevant professional experience
•Academic background in disaster risk management, urban planning, land policy, international development, environmental studies, or a related field
•Demonstrated interest in development work and the World Bank Group’s mission
•Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills
•Familiarity with AI-assisted tools or methods for document analysis, text mining, or data organization is an advantage
•Effective written and verbal communication skills
•Ability to work effectively in diverse, team-based environments
•Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities within tight deadlines
•Proficiency in English; knowledge of French or Spanish is an advantage
WBG Culture Attributes:
1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.
This position is offered under the WBG Pioneers No-Fee Internship Track. Students may be offered a no-fee STT appointment provided that they either: (a) are enrolled in a Master's, PhD, or similar graduate program during the entire internship (or are in the fifth year or higher of a degree program in countries where higher education is not divided into undergraduate and graduate stages) and provide an official letter from their university confirming that the internship fulfills academic requirements for at least one term of study; or (b) are enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies and receive a stipend from their university at least equivalent to the minimum STT T1 fee level in effect at the start of the assignment, as confirmed by an official university letter.
Note: Please limit your applications to a maximum of three positions. Applications exceeding this limit will not be considered.
The World Bank Group values diversity and encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of World Bank Group member countries to apply, regardless of gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Sub-Saharan African nationals, Caribbean nationals, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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