WBG Young Professional

Are you ready for a career with a lasting impact? The World Bank Group’s Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals from around the world the opportunity to apply their specialized technical expertise, broaden their experience, and contribute to solutions to some of the most pressing development challenges. Young Professionals (YPs) work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID in support of our mission to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more than 60 years, this highly competitive program has selected outstanding professionals to contribute to the institution’s work and develop as future leaders in global development. We seek candidates who demonstrate strong leadership potential, exceptional technical skills, and a clear commitment to our mission and values. As a YP, you will collaborate with colleagues across disciplines and institutions, applying your expertise to help address pressing development challenges and improve lives around the world. YPs join the World Bank Group on an initial two-year term contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance. During this period, YPs complete three eight-month rotations: one with their primary function and area of expertise, one cross-institutional rotation, and at least one rotation based in a country office. These assignments enable YPs deepen their technical and operational knowledge while gaining experience across different areas of the institution. Through the YP Academy, YPs undertake a structured learning and development journey that includes technical and operational training, language programs, negotiation and business skills, and leadership development. They also receive individual coaching, connect with mentors, and participate in strategic dialogues with senior leaders. The Transport practice supports safe, clean, efficient, inclusive, and climate-resilient connectivity. The work program spans transport operations, policy advice, analytics, and knowledge products in rapidly urbanizing, trade-connected, climate-vulnerable, and conflict-affected contexts. Priority areas include urban mobility, roads, railways, ports and maritime transport, aviation, logistics corridors, road safety, climate resilience and decarbonization, jobs, and private capital mobilization. What You’ll Deliver • Contribute to transport sector assessments, demand studies and modeling, infrastructure plans, financial and economic analysis, emissions estimates, institutional modernization, fare and ticketing analysis, and logistics corridor studies. • Support project preparation and supervision, including project documentation, investment identification and appraisal, risk and mitigation analysis, critical-path planning, fiduciary inputs, quality control, procurement and contracting support, mission logistics, and reporting. • Provide analytical inputs to multidisciplinary knowledge products, including country strategies, growth and jobs reports, damage and needs assessments, and climate and development diagnostics. • Support policy dialogue and communicate technical findings through concise briefs, presentations, workshops, and other engagements with government counterparts, WBG management, private sector partners, international organizations, and civil society. • Build effective collaboration across the World Bank Group and with external partners to advance business development, knowledge exchange, and private sector participation. • Manage multiple assignments with limited supervision, exercising sound judgment, initiative, and attention to deadlines.