E T Consultant - Water Economist

Job #: req
38598
Organization:
World Bank Group
Sector:
Water/Sanitation
Grade: EC2
Term Duration: 1 year0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
French and Spanish
Closing Date: 10/21/2026 (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 ETC2 Economist will strengthen the Water Knowledge Bank’s empirical and policy-analytical capacity. The economist will produce credible, policy-relevant evidence on water-sector regulation, tariff and subsidy reform, utility performance, affordability and financial sustainability, as well as the broader economics of water allocation, investment, and institutional reforms. The economist will also help convert analytical findings into flagship reports, actionable guidance, and operational tools for client countries and World Bank Group regional teams.

• Reproducible empirical analyses and analytical products, supported by well-documented data, code, methods, and robustness checks.
• High-quality inputs to reports, policy notes, and operational products, including country and cross-country assessments of key water-sector economic and regulatory issues.
• Input to analytical tools, datasets, visualizations, guidance, and templates that support operational and policy decision-making.
• Timely responses to agreed requests for operational and analytical support.
• Specific deliverables, milestones, and timelines will be agreed through an annual work program and reviewed periodically with the practice manager and supervisor.

• Excellent command of econometrics and applied microeconomic methods
• Proficiency in at least one statistical programming package such as Stata, R, or Python.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, merge, validate, and analyze large and complex datasets.
• Experience with GIS, spatial econometrics, remote-sensing data, or spatial models is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of tariff modeling, cost-of-service analysis, regulatory benchmarking, affordability analysis, microsimulation, or utility financial modeling is highly desirable.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative findings through clear graphics, maps, and presentations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; proficiency in another language relevant to World Bank Group operations is an asset.

• Design and implement rigorous empirical analyses using household, utility, firm, administrative, fiscal, and geospatial data.
• Apply advanced econometric methods, including panel-data analysis and causal inference approaches using quasi-experimental and other credible identification strategies.
• Apply spatial econometric and geospatial methods where relevant to analyze geographic variation and spatial dimensions of water-sector outcomes.
• Develop clear visualizations, maps, tables, and analytical code that meet high standards of transparency and replicability.