Chief Counsel, Corporate Finance

Chief Counsel, Corporate Finance

Job #: req
38454

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Legal

Grade: GH

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: 10/9/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

At the World Bank, a member of 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.

For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help our client countries to reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life. To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the WBG is constantly seeking to improve the way it works.

Key priorities include delivering measurable results, promoting openness and transparency in development, and improving access to development information and data. In the context of the WBG's broad development agenda, the Legal Vice Presidency (LEG), under the Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel (SVP/GGC), is responsible for providing legal advice and support to internal and external both World Bank and, where pertinent, more broadly WBG clients on operational, advisory, financial, administration, and institutional matters.

In addition, LEG helps to ensure that all World Bank activities comply with the Articles of Agreement of all WBG institutions, policies and procedures. Organizationally, LEG includes geographically based regional Operational Practice Groups devoted to the legal and policy aspects of the World Bank's lending and technical assistance operations, and Corporate Practice Groups, which provide advice on corporate finance, capital mobilization, policy and partnerships, and administrative and institutional matters.

The LEG Corporate Finance Practice Group (LEGFI) is, together with the LEG Capital Mobilization Practice Group (LEGCM), part of the LEG Finance team under the oversight of the Deputy General Counsel (DGC), Finance. The LEG Finance team jointly manages the legal aspects of the World Bank’s market-facing financial transactions, including bond issuance, risk management transactions, liquid asset investments, pension and benefit plan investments, IBRD capital increases, and new financial products and services.

The LEG Finance team also advises on structuring of innovative finance mechanisms and private capital mobilization, and also handles the legal, governance, and policy aspects of the International Development Association (IDA), trust funds, and financial intermediary funds (FIFs), including resource mobilization activities such as IDA replenishments and donor-facing financial and policy matters.

The Chief Counsel reports directly to the DGC Finance and provides intellectual and strategic leadership and advice to the DGC Finance on all matters relevant to LEGFI’s portfolio.

The Chief Counsel will be accountable for performing the responsibilities, modeling…