Senior Outcomes Specialist

Senior Outcomes Specialist

Job #: req
38237

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Economics

Grade: GG

Term Duration: 2 years

Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 9/16/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.

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The Delivery Unit translates corporate priorities and outcome commitments into management routines that support implementation, problem-solving, accountability, and course correction. Its work connects targets, portfolio intelligence, operational evidence, delivery constraints, and leadership decisions. Core instruments include sector and regional stocktakes, target monitoring, delivery analytics, and AI-enabled tools that help teams move from storing data to steering performance. The Senior Economist / Senior Outcomes Specialist will lead major elements of this agenda.

The position will devote approximately 50 percent of time to sector-focused stocktakes, 30 percent to managing the substantive work of the High-Level Council on Jobs, and 20 percent to the development, testing, evaluation, and research of AI-enabled outcomes tools. The role requires a combination of development economics, delivery-unit practice, advanced quantitative analysis, technology and product fluency, behavioral science, and senior stakeholder management.

• Design and manage a systematic program of sector-focused stocktakes that enables senior management to assess whether strategies, portfolios, and implementation pathways are on track to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Establish the analytical architecture for each stocktake, including outcome questions, indicators, targets, baselines, benchmarks, portfolio cuts, trajectories, scenarios, and evidence standards.
• Integrate operational, financial, portfolio, country, sector, evaluative, and external data to identify performance trends, delivery gaps, implementation bottlenecks, concentration risks, and opportunities to improve impact, scale, additionality, and value for money.
• Apply delivery-unit methods to convert evidence into a small number of management choices, agreed actions, accountable owners, milestones, escalation points, and follow-up routines; track whether actions are implemented and whether they change performance.
• Diagnose the institutional and behavioral drivers of delivery, including incentives, decision rights, coordination failures, attention constraints, risk perceptions, cognitive biases, and the routines that shape day-to-day implementation choices.
• Facilitate structured problem-solving sessions with sector, regional, country, IFC, MIGA, and corporate counterparts; challenge assumptions constructively and build ownership of corrective action.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented briefs, dashboards, presentations, speaking points, decision records, and action trackers for senior management reviews.
• Strengthen the stocktake methodology and its links to sector strategies, country programs, the WBG Scorecard, corporate outcome targets, Target Map, results narratives, and other institutional performance systems.
• Synthesize cross-sector and cross-regional findings into operational guidance, management recommendations, and reusable institutional knowledge.

• Apply economic, econometric, statistical, and mixed-methods analysis to understand the drivers of outcomes and distinguish implementation constraints from design, measurement, or reporting…