E T Consultant (Regional Engagement Analyst )

Job #: req37978
Organization: World Bank Group
Sector: Information Technology
Grade: EC2
Term Duration:  1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Nairobi,Kenya
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 8/19/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe. 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
Department Context
ITS Operations and Country Engagement Department (ITSOE) delivers innovative products and services to frontline staff working on over 6,000 projects throughout every Region and Global Practice. Our teams support and enable Bank priorities, boost operations efficiency and effectiveness, and facilitate Operational knowledge discovery. Our delivery model leverages global expertise, design and architecture, leading technology, and robust processes to deliver business solutions that ensure value for money. 
Unit Context 
The ITS Country Engagement unit (ITSCE) delivers digital support for global and country-specific products, supports systems aligned with the new Country Engagement model, and provides geospatial solutions to improve spatial visibility and impact tracking. It also drives the delivery of AI-powered business solutions to support business priorities and accelerate data-driven decision-making across the institution. The unit’s geospatial portfolio supports operational teams in applying location-based insights, mapping, imagery, and related digital tools to strengthen project design, implementation, monitoring, and communication.
The Regional Engagement Analyst serves as a focal point for the ITSCE Solutions. The incumbent supports stakeholder engagement, solution awareness, and adoption across both portfolios, helping country teams, regional teams, and Global Practices identify opportunities where technology, geospatial capabilities, and advisory services can address operational challenges and support development outcomes.
Working closely with management, product owners, geospatial specialists, architects, and advisory teams, the coordinator will facilitate engagement, connect stakeholders with relevant expertise and solutions, and help make the ITSCE geospatial portfolio visible, accessible, and relevant across regional, country, and local engagements. The role does not require technical implementation of geospatial solutions but does require sufficient familiarity with available products and geospatial concepts to identify use cases, communicate value propositions, and support adoption.
Specific Responsibilities
Regional Operations Studio
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Regional Operations Studio and act as an ambassador for ITSOE products, advisory services, and innovation initiatives.

• Coordinate Studio activities, ensuring country teams are welcomed, oriented, and connected to appropriate ITSOE products, advisory services, and subject matter experts.

• Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, co-design sessions, and engagement activities involving country teams, OPCS, and ITSOE specialists.

• Capture and qualify operational needs, technology challenges, and business opportunities and connect stakeholders to the appropriate product, service, or advisory pathway.

• Lead outreach, communications, and stakeholder engagement activities to expand awareness, participation, and adoption of the Regional Operations Studio.

• Build and maintain relationships with country teams, Regional teams, Global Practices, OPCS, and other stakeholders to strengthen regional engagement and utilization of ITSOE services.

• Monitor engagement outcomes and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve the Studio experience and operational impact.

Geospatial Solutions Engagement and Adoption

• Act as a regional engagement and promotion focal point for the ITSCE Geospatial Solutions portfolio, working closely with product owners and geospatial specialists to identify and advance opportunities with country teams, Regional teams, and Global Practices.

• Promote awareness and adoption of geospatial products, services, and advisory capabilities through demonstrations, clinics, roadshows, and targeted outreach activities.

• Maintain working knowledge of the ITSCE geospatial portfolio, including project geo-tagging, mapping solutions, imagery-enabled applications, and digital twin use cases, and communicate their operational value in accessible language.

• Identify operational challenges that may benefit from geospatial approaches and connect stakeholders with the appropriate product owners, advisors, and technical specialists.

• Support the development of presentations, communication materials, demonstrations, and map-based narratives that showcase how geospatial insights can strengthen project design, implementation, monitoring, and decision-making.

Selection Criteria

• Master's degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship-building, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate technology and geospatial concepts into practical operational value propositions and support adoption of products, services, and advisory offerings.

• Strong understanding of how technology, AI, data, and geospatial solutions can support operational teams and improve business outcomes. The role is not a deep technical-specialist position but requires sufficient technology awareness to understand stakeholder needs, discuss solution options credibly, identify opportunities, and connect teams with appropriate products and specialists.

• Basic familiarity with geospatial technologies and concepts, including maps, location-based data, geospatial analysis, and the operational application of spatial information.

• Familiarity with digital twins and their potential role in planning, infrastructure management, urban development, asset management, project monitoring, and operational decision-making is highly desirable.

• Strong storytelling, presentation, and visual communication skills, including the ability to use maps, dashboards, and visual materials to communicate insights and support engagement activities.

• Familiarity with satellite imagery, remote sensing, drone imagery, or imagery-enabled operational workflows would be an advantage.

• Strong coordination, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements, stakeholder relationships, and follow-up activities.

• Practical, curious, proactive, and client-focused, with the ability to identify opportunities, increase awareness, and strengthen stakeholder engagement.

• Familiarity with WBG operational workflows, including country engagement, mission support, project preparation, supervision, procurement, and portfolio management, is highly desirable.

• Experience organizing or supporting outreach activities, roadshows, clinics, demonstrations, workshops, conferences, communities of practice, or similar engagement initiatives is highly desirable.

• Experience within the World Bank Group, multilateral development banks, international development organizations, or similarly complex global institutions would be an advantage.

• Proficiency in English.

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.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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