WBG Global Director, Transport and Logistics DC

Job #: req
38877

Organization:
World Bank Group

Sector:
Transportation

Grade: GI

Term Duration:
Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP)

Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 11/1/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

At 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 WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams.

For more information: https:///infrastructure

Within the Infrastructure VPU, the WBG Transport and Logistics (T&L) Department seeks to connect people to jobs, social services and income-generating opportunities, as well as to move goods between local, regional, and international markets, using affordable, safer, cleaner and more resilient transport solutions, with a particular focus on private capital mobilization.

The Department is composed of 65 staff and 3 units: (1) Policy and Regulations; (2) Solutions and Impact; and (3) Transport Trust Funds.

• Provide vision and direction for the T&L department to deliver “thought leadership” (policy and regulations) and “scale and replication” (solutions and impact) for both public and private sector clients.
• Lead new WBG approach to thought leadership and scaling for the Transport and Logistics department, including driving organizational change and the design & roll-out of Solutions.
• Ensure a focus on Corporate Priorities, in particular Private Sector mobilization, Jobs and Sustainable Impact, as well as the delivery of the Economic Corridors strategy under preparation.
• Collaborate with WBG Directors of other sectors, verticals, and, Regions, to deliver multi-sectoral solutions in Transport and Logistics.
• Represent the VPU on WBG corporate strategic issues.

• Coordinate pipeline development across Regions, ensuring that the most promising WBG development solutions get scaled and replicated.
• Oversee the delivery of timely, high quality investment and advisory services to public and private sector clients.
• Exercise or contribute to decision making process on Advisory and Investment project as per the ADM

• Foster a culture of partnership and trust, whereby all internal and external parties appreciate the mutual benefits of working together.
• Lead coordination and collaboration with public and private sector partners across the WBG institutions and globally to strengthen delivery of solutions for impact.
• Strategically engage with and manage senior-level relationships with governments, the private sector and other key stakeholders. This includes managing…