Senior Digital Specialist - SME and Digital Transformation
Listed on 2026-10-22
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IT/Tech
Digital Marketing
Job #: req
38653
Organization:
World Bank Group
Sector:
Digital Development
Grade: GG
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: 11/2/2026 (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.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
The World Bank Group's Digital & AI Vice Presidency (D&AI VPU) leads the institution's work on digital transformation and artificial intelligence, both as a driver of development outcomes in client countries and as a foundation for institutional effectiveness. As AI systems become increasingly embedded in public services, financial systems, infrastructure planning, and humanitarian response, the imperative to ensure those systems are safe, fair, accountable, and aligned with human rights has never been greater.
For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital development.
Unit Context:The Digital Applications Department advances the Digital and AI Strategy across WBG operations. It supports regional, country, and sector teams across IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA. The unit develops diagnostics, toolkits, operational models, and scalable digital solutions. Its FY27 priorities emphasize inclusive digital ecosystems, skills-to-jobs pathways, firm productivity, and cross-sector applications. This specialist will connect these priorities to operational pipelines and client delivery.
This position will accelerate SME digitalization, job creation, and real-sector transformation. It will help clients convert digital foundations into measurable firm-level and employment outcomes. The specialist will support agriculture, health, manufacturing, tourism, water, financial services, and other priority sectors. The role will combine enabling reforms, enterprise capabilities, digital platforms, data, AI, cybersecurity, and financing pathways.
Duties and accountabilities:- Strategy and diagnostics:
Lead country and sector diagnostics on SME digital readiness, adoption barriers, market opportunities, and jobs. Convert findings into prioritized roadmaps, investment plans, delivery models, budgets, and measurable results. - SME digitalization:
Design programs that help firms adopt e-commerce, cloud tools, payments, cybersecurity, data analytics, and AI. Develop shared services, accelerators, voucher models, supplier-development programs, and digital finance pathways. - Jobs and skills:
Build skills-to-jobs approaches linking employers, SMEs, platforms, training providers, and labor-market systems. Address entrepreneurship, platform work, workforce transitions, and AI-complementary jobs, with attention to women and youth. - Real-sector transformation:
Help sector teams identify high-value use cases and redesign firm processes, services, and value chains. Develop reusable approaches spanning agriculture, health, manufacturing, tourism, water, finance, and other sectors. - Enabling environment and partnerships:
Advise on competition, data governance, interoperability, digital trade, consumer…
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