ET Consultant - Governance & Public Administration, Washington

ET Consultant - Governance & Public Administration

Job #: req
38386

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Public Sector Development

Grade: EC4

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC, United States

Required Language(s):
English

Closing Date: 9/28/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

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.

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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.

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;
Anti-corruption;
Public Sector Innovation and Gov Tech;
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.

• 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…