Senior Investment Officer - Chemicals and Fertilizer Lead, Washington

Senior Investment Officer - Chemicals and Fertilizer Sector Lead

Job # : req
38332

Organization :
World Bank Group

Sector :
Investment

Grade : GG

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 : 10/6/2026 (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 Knowledge Bank is the WBG’s platform for generating, curating, and applying global knowledge to support development impact  connects operational experience, analytical work, data, and global expertise to inform policy dialogue, country programs, and investments across the World Bank Group.

The WBG’s Prosperity Vice Presidency, which includes the Bank’s Manufacturing and Manufacturing Services expertise, works to connect our operational teams with clients by providing public and private sector solutions to expand Manufacturing opportunities in emerging markets.

Within this structure, the Manufacturing and Services Solutions and Impact Department (WKPTM) focuses on supporting investments in Manufacturing value chains including but not limited to those in Construction Materials (steel, cement, glass, etc.), Chemicals, Fertilizers, Automotive, Electronics, Batteries, Machinery, Textiles and Apparel, Packaging and other sectors involved in industrial production, value enhancement, and processing.

The WKPTM department is seeking an experienced and respected Senior Investment Officer to fill the role of a Global Sector Lead (GSL) based in Washington, D.C. This GSL will work alongside other WBG staff, Global Sector Leads, Industry Specialists, Investment, Advisory and Upstream staff to help deliver on WBG ambitious program and development objectives in emerging markets in the manufacturing sector.

This GSL position will share responsibility for the Chemicals and Fertilizer (C&F) sectors to promote the WBG’s (i) business development efforts, (ii) new project and investment generation, (iii) market creation and (iv) thematic approaches therein.

The role and responsibilities of the position will include but not be limited to the following:

• Responsible for building and representing the WBG approach, role and support of the C&F sectors in emerging markets with public and private companies, stakeholders, industry conferences, regional presentations, etc.;
• Contribute to the formulation, development, dissemination, and promotion of the WBG’s broader Manufacturing Strategy in coordination with the Global Sector Manager, to identify, assess, and prioritize new opportunities in the C&F sectors;
• Identify and proactively support business and project origination in close coordination with regional industry teams based on country and sector strategies and market creation potential (client coverage, presentation, site visits, as appropriate, etc.);
• Develop client management plans, lead identification of strategic clients globally, take on relationship management for a few strategic clients, proactively support regional industry teams on strategic client work;
• Ensure proper input…