WBG Young Professional

WBG Young Professional

• Translate climate priorities into practical operational and investment solutions across IBRD/IDA and IFC, including sustainable finance approaches and proportionate application of PA, CCB, and climate risk.
• Advance climate outcome measurement through technical and operational pilots for net GHG and resilience beneficiaries, and coherent approaches to gross, net, and financed emissions, coordinating with other stakeholders.
• Contribute to One Climate’s integrated A&R agenda by linking physical climate-risk intelligence, adaptation finance, outcome metrics, and origination to ready-to-use solutions, including adaptation-focused sustainability-linked finance.
• Support material, complex, innovative, or precedent-setting operations and transactions; identify climate risks and opportunities; and contribute to structuring credible sustainable finance instruments and frameworks, including KPIs, targets, and other transaction features.
• Partner with operational, sector, financial, legal, treasury, data, and technology teams to develop and test new financial products and digital or AI-enabled tools; codify lessons into guidance and training that support consistent delivery and replication at scale.
• Support One Climate’s WBG-wide and global leadership through research, MDB harmonization, stakeholder engagement, and coordinated briefs for management and the Board.
• Manage workstreams and contribute to cross-institutional and country assignments under the YPP rotation model.

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in climate science, economics, engineering, hydrology, geography, environmental or data science, statistics, public policy, finance, development studies, or a closely related field, completed by the start date; interdisciplinary training spanning climate risk, development, and decision-making is highly desirable.
• 2-6 years of relevant professional or applied research experience in climate adaptation and resilience, climate or disaster-risk analytics, development policy, public investment, infrastructure or sector planning, adaptation finance, or related operational work.
• Strong grounding in the climate-risk framework—hazard, exposure, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and residual risk—and in contemporary approaches to adaptation planning, risk management, and robust decision-making under uncertainty.
• Demonstrated quantitative capability in one or more of the following: climate-impact or catastrophe-risk modeling; probabilistic, scenario, spatial, or geospatial analysis; econometrics and causal inference; socioeconomic or fiscal-risk analysis; optimization; or cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and distributional analysis.
• Proficiency in assembling, validating, integrating, and interpreting climate, hazard, exposure, asset, household, firm, and macroeconomic data; practical experience with reproducible analytical workflows and relevant programming, statistical, GIS, remote-sensing, cloud, or applied-AI tools is desirable.
• Experience translating technical evidence into country, sector, or system diagnostics and actionable policy, regulatory, institutional, planning, or public-investment recommendations; familiarity with development operations, sovereign financing instruments, private-sector solutions, or adaptation-finance structures is an advantage.
• Ability to assess adaptation options and portfolios across multiple objectives and uncertainties, including effectiveness, economic and financial viability, equity, feasibility, maladaptation risk, scalability, and measurable resilience outcomes.
• Strong analytical judgment, intellectual curiosity, client orientation, and ability to frame complex problems, communicate uncertainty clearly, synthesize quantitative and qualitative evidence, and develop practical solutions for decision-makers.
• Demonstrated commitment to international development and the WBG’s mission; ability to collaborate across disciplines, institutions, and public- and private-sector teams, and manage competing deadlines.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in additional languages is an advantage.
• Experience in developing-country contexts is an advantage.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of Urgency – Anticipating and quickly reacting to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful Risk Taking – Taking informed and thoughtful risks and making courageous decisions to push boundaries for greater impact.
3. Empowerment and Accountability – Engaging with others in an empowered and accountable manner for impactful results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.