Senior Energy Specialist

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. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Our mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. We work to drive impactful development that is: i) inclusive of everyone, including women and young people; ii) resilient to shocks, including against climate and biodiversity crises, pandemics and fragility; and iii) sustainable, through growth and job creation, human development, fiscal and debt management, food security and access to clean air, water and affordable energy. The EAP Infrastructure Department is responsible for project lending and policy advisory work in the energy; transport; urban, land, and resilience, and related climate action and private capital mobilization space for the EAP Region. The department presently comprises an energy and extractives unit, a transport unit, and two urban units. The energy unit [IEAE1] manages a diverse program of projects, analytic and advisory work. The principal themes underlying the lending and advisory engagements include access to modern energy services; transitioning to a clean energy mix away from coal; climate resilient energy infrastructure; regional energy connectivity, integration and trade; governance reforms and financial strengthening of state-owned enterprises/utilities; and reforming sector regulations to improve the environment for efficient private finance solutions Duties and accountabilities: The Senior Energy Specialist will bring a strong track record of leading high-level policy dialogue and mobilizing private capital for power-sector projects. The successful candidate will combine deep knowledge of policy, regulation, and institutional reform with hands-on experience in project finance, transaction structuring, risk allocation, and private-sector participation. The candidate will also have strong operational experience in project design, implementation, and supervision. Key responsibilities include: • Conceptualize and lead investment operations that aim to leverage private capital for energy projects. The scope would include early-stage concept development, including structuring project design, financial and economic analysis, institutional arrangements, and risk assessment. • Lead high-level policy dialogue with governments, regulators, utilities, and private-sector stakeholders on power-sector reform, market development, investment frameworks, and measures to create an enabling environment for private capital mobilization in Southeast Asia. • Supervise an active portfolio of lending operations, including Investment Project Financing (IPF), Program-for-Results (PforR). The successful candidate is also expected to have good knowledge and understanding of Guarantees. • Participate in strategic discussions on program direction, ensuring new business proposals are coherent with ongoing operations and do not duplicate or conflict with existing workstreams. • Support the engagement with bilateral and multilateral partners on key topics in the energy sector and mobilize resources for new activities. • Lead impactful sector analysis and advisory activities, including financial and technical modeling of power sector entities and regulatory or institutional assessments. • Prepare and contribute to regional, country and sector briefings, background reports, case studies, and portfolio reviews, ensuring outputs are timely, technically sound, and aligned with program messaging. • Identify knowledge gaps and lead to the development of innovative approaches on the financial structuring of energy projects or tools that support the development of operations. • Contribute to country-level coordination, ensuring that individual workstreams — across supervision, new business, and analytics — are mutually reinforcing and consistently communicated to internal and external audiences. • Support preparation of briefings, portfolio summaries, and knowledge exchange events; contribute to team publications and communications. • Participate actively in EAP Energy Practice-wide knowledge sharing and contribute to regional or global communities of practice.