E T Consutant

• Job #: req
  38684
• Organization: World Bank
• Sector: Engineering
• Grade: EC4
• Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
• Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
• Location: Washington, DC,United States
• Required Language(s): English
• Preferred Language(s): Spanish, French
• Closing Date: 11/3/2026 (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 Governance Global Practice (GGP) brings together professionals in procurement, financial management, taxation, regulatory policy, transparency, digital governance, law and development, anti-corruption, and social accountability to develop innovative, integrated solutions to pernicious institutional problems. The GGP utilizes a problem-driven diagnostic approach, combining global comparative knowledge of reform successes and failures with keen understanding of the institutional challenges and opportunities of developing countries.

The GGP engages on core and cross cutting themes including Public Financial Management;
Subnational/decentralization;
State Owned Enterprises/Corporate Governance;
Fiduciary Assurance;
Public Institutions; GOVTECH, Anti-corruption, Open Government and Political Economy.

The WKPGF Global Unit within the World Bank's Governance Global Practice supports client countries in strengthening public financial management (PFM) institutions, systems, and capabilities to improve efficiency, transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of public spending. The team leads global work on public financial management (PFM), including sectoral and Climate PFM, public procurement, standards and codes for transparent financial management in the public sector, corporate governance and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the PEFA Secretariat, and multilevel and subnational governance.

Digital technologies are increasingly central to modern PFM systems. Ministries of Finance are seeking to modernize Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS), improve interoperability across core government systems, strengthen the quality and use of fiscal data, automate financial processes, and leverage emerging technologies to improve fiscal management and decision-making.

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and advanced data analytics also creates new opportunities for Ministries of Finance, including forecasting, expenditure analysis, anomaly detection, automation, fiscal risk monitoring, and improved decision support, while requiring appropriate governance, data quality, security, and institutional safeguards.

To strengthen its capacity in this area, the World Bank seeks to recruit an Extended-Term Consultant (ETC) specializing in Digital PFM, IFMIS, information technology, data, and the application of AI to public financial management. The ETC will support the Digital PFM workstream of the Global PFM Program, which is structured around nine interconnected work streams:
Budgeting;
Treasury and Cash Management;
Fiscal Risks;
Fiscal Transparency;
Audit and Oversight;
Accounting and…