E T Consultant - req

E T Consultant

Job #: req
35612

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Economics

Grade: EC1

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type: International Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC, United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): (None listed)

Closing Date: 2/25/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. 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, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development.

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. Please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Within this architecture, the Prosperity Vertical focuses on the policies and institutions that underpin inclusive and sustainable growth, bringing together fiscal policy, public finance management, macroeconomic and poverty analysis, and private sector–enabling reforms. Prosperity’s Fiscal Policy and Growth department includes the Distributional Impact of Policies Global unit (also known as Poverty). The Poverty team focuses on integrating distributional analysis of reforms and investments into operational knowledge and lending.

The Poverty team comprises applied microeconomists, statisticians, data scientists, and social and behavioral scientists who support WBG teams and governments with tools like fiscal incidence analysis and fiscal microsimulation—ensuring policies and programs reduce poverty and inequality and informing lending and prior actions where relevant.

Well-designed policy reforms can lead to improvements in economic growth, sustainability and lead to reductions in poverty. However, part of ensuring that policies are well designed requires considering the potential winners and losers and ensuring that the most vulnerable are protected from potential short-term losses. With a tighter fiscal envelope and poverty rates that have failed to decline, policies in developing countries will have to be carefully calibrated to sustain social progress.

Is there room to tighten policies without having a detrimental impact on the poor? Is there scope to better articulate social protection and to introduce more efficient, effective and counter-cyclical risk-sharing plans? How much scope is there to use tax policy to pursue redistribution and risk-sharing objectives? What is the evidence on the likely distributional impact of each of the main fiscal policies such as direct and indirect taxes, transfers and subsidies?

Answers to these questions could help countries to weather the economic slowdown and to provide a sound basis for redistributive and risk-sharing policies that are more responsive to risk and that support inclusive growth.

The Micro Modeling Lab is looking for an economist or data scientist with strong quantitative methods and advanced programming skills, including working experience in micro econometric analysis and statistical techniques. The consultant will be expected to estimate the distributional impacts of policies and alternative reforms for different country case studies. The consultant will work closely with the Poverty team to scale and adapt existing approaches, following best practice in programming and tool development as needed.

The consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Undertake fiscal incidence analysis for different country teams, ensuring the applications follow standards and protocols as defined by the Micro Modeling Lab team in the World Bank. All coding protocols and data archiving should be shared through Github and SharePoint.
• Complete the integration of different fiscal incidence analyses into a global microsimulation model for cross-country fiscal incidence analysis.
• Undertake microsimulations of…