Senior Partnership Specialist - req

Job #: req
38578

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Other

Grade: GG

Term Duration:
Term Staff (TERM-TR)

Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):
Spanish or Arabic

Closing Date: 10/23/2026 (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 GIF Management Unit resides within the WBG Infrastructure VPU. The World Bank Group Infrastructure VPU helps developing countries build smart infrastructure that supports inclusive and sustainable growth, expands markets, creates job opportunities, promotes competition, and contributes to a cleaner future. Infrastructure improves lives by connecting people to opportunity.

To learn more, visit the World Bank Group Infrastructure VPU website

Despite infrastructure’s vital role in driving economic growth, job creation, and sustainable development, emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) face a persistent and widening infrastructure investment gap. Public balance sheets are stretched; while private investment into infrastructure in EMDEs has stagnated, constrained by the limited supply of well-structured, bankable projects. Fewer than 10% of government‑initiated infrastructure projects in EMDEs reach commercial or financial close.

GIF was established in 2014 as a G20 initiative to address this critical challenge to private investment in infrastructure, namely, the shortage of bankable pipelines of investment opportunities that are attractive to private capital. GIF does this by providing funding and technical support to its MDB partners to help client governments prepare infrastructure programs that crowd‑in private investment. Over the longer term, GIF aims to help expand the market for private infrastructure finance in EMDEs;

that is, to help increase the number of structurally sound, sustainable, quality, and bankable projects seeking finance, and broaden the range of private investors that are willing to risk capital in those projects. Since inception, GIF has approved over US $ 160 million in support for project preparation and transaction advisory services, for 219 project activities across 83 countries. As of June 30, 2026, a total of 51 projects have reached commercial close, 31 of which have subsequently reached financial close.

The expected private sector mobilization of these projects is estimated to be US $ 28.1 billion.

Delivering bankable investment pipelines at scale requires the systematic collaboration of EMDE governments, development partners and private investors at global and country level. As the only global MDB‑led project preparation platform, a key part of GIF’s mission is to foster continuous public‑private dialogue around enhancing commercial infrastructure investment and other relevant topics through its private sector Advisory Council and its extensive network spanning governments, MDBs/DFIs, other development partners and the private sector (developers, banks, investors).

Leveraging its platform approach enables GIF to act as a convener…