ET Consultant - Agriculture Insurance

Job #: req
38483

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Financial Sector

Grade: EC3

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC, United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Spanish or French

Closing Date: 10/16/2026 (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.

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The WBG Prosperity Vice Presidency is responsible for getting the right public and private sector solutions to our operational teams and to our clients, and to produce scalable impact. It leads the WBG’s key global engagements in support of:
Growth and jobs (including supporting teams across the WBG on the jobs agenda); debt sustainability and debt management; improved domestic resource mobilization and expenditure efficiency; a resilient and inclusive financial sector; business-enabling policies and regulations; trade policy and facilitation; and transparent, effective, and accountable government institutions worldwide.

Their mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to enable and support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission.

The FSS Global Department is comprised of two directorates: FSS I covers financial resilience and integrity, financial inclusion, capital market development and disaster risk finance, while FSS II covers SME finance, Banking, Housing, Leasing and Insurance, as well as Sustainable Finance.

The Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) team in FSS1 helps client governments strengthen financial resilience to disaster shocks. Through the Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program (DRFIP), the team delivers technical assistance, analytical work, and advisory support, drawing on the World Bank’s crisis preparedness and response toolkit and other financial instruments. It works closely with regional and country teams, government counterparts, private sector, development partners to design and implement solutions tailored to each country’s risk profile and institutional context.

The DRF team also brings agriculture insurance solutions to unlock productivity in agriculture. Agriculture underpins food security, rural livelihoods, and economic stability — yet it is the world’s most systematically uninsured sector. Agricultural insurance is a core financial mechanism integrated into Agri Connect, a World Bank Group initiative designed to help 300 million smallholder and family farmers transition from subsistence farming to surplus production by 2030.

Against this background, the DRF team seeks an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to provide senior-level technical advice and engagement support for the Unit’s work program on agriculture insurance. The position is based in Washington DC (and /or London, United Kingdom), and requires frequent travel.

• Lead the delivery of agriculture insurance solutions in countries, such as parametric and crop yield insurance.
• Provide ad hoc actuarial and quantitative analysis to support client…