Senior Program Officer, Washington

Senior Program Officer

• Job #: req
  38400
• Organization:
  World Bank Group
• Sector:
  Mining/Geology
• 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):
  French or Spanish
• Closing Date: 10/7/2026 (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

The Metals and Minerals Policy and Regulation unit is embedded within the INF VPU’s Metals and Minerals Department of the World Bank Group. This global unit of technical experts is responsible for the design and implementation of World Bank operations and knowledge activities in mining at both global and country levels.

The Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS) Multi Donor Trust Fund helps low-and middle-income countries fully benefit from their mineral resources and leverage mining to support new industries, create jobs, and build infrastructure. Currently in its third phase (EGPS
3), the program focuses on four priority components:
Climate Smart Mining (CSM), the Resilient and Inclusive Supply chain Enhancement (RISE) Partnership, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) and Transparency in Extractive Industries. The program is inherently donor facing and partnership driven, with strong and expanding engagement with development partners, including a growing number of European bilateral donors and the European Union. EGPS creates an ecosystem of partnerships, including through collaboration with the G7, G20, Multilateral Development Banks, industry, academia, civil society and other international organizations.

The Senior Program Officer is a core member of the EGPS Program Management Team and works with a high degree of autonomy under the guidance of the EGPS Program Manager and the strategic oversight of the KIMIS Manager. The position serves as a coordinating focal point across all EGPS-3 windows and directly supports the EGPS Program Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership, decision-making, and strategic direction across the program.

• Serve as the coordinating focal point across all EGPS-3 windows working in close collaboration with the EGPS Program Manager and ensuring coherent, cross-window program direction and delivery.
• Coordinate regularly with individual window managers to align priorities, track cross-cutting risks and dependencies, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure consistent reporting and messaging across windows.
• Deputize for the EGPS Program Manager as needed on…