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 Department for Outcomes is a corporate delivery and change team at the center of the World Bank Group's shift from measuring activity to managing for impact. Its mandate is to make outcomes visible, comparable, and actionable, so that leaders and teams can understand where the institution is changing lives, where progress is off track, and what needs to change next. The Department leads the implementation of the World Bank Group Scorecard as an accountability, management, and communications tool. It develops and improves outcome indicators, methodologies, and targets in areas such as jobs, climate, private capital, women, and youth; provides quality assurance; and connects outcome ambitions to knowledge, operations, and financing. Through its Outcome Measurement and Outcome Delivery units, the Department combines corporate reporting with portfolio analytics, forecasting, regular stocktakes, and action planning across the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA. The Department also has a growing global role. It convenes multilateral development banks, development agencies, researchers, and external experts to improve and align outcome approaches, build institutional capacity, and modernize the profession of results measurement. Its work reaches from project-level data to senior management decisions, and from new methodologies inside the World Bank Group to shared approaches across the international development system. Technology and innovation are core to how the team works. The Department develops AI-enabled analytics, data pipelines, forecasting models, interactive visualizations, and decision-support products that turn large and complex datasets into clear choices for operational teams, senior management, and external stakeholders. A piece of analysis is not considered finished when it is technically correct; it is finished when it helps improve a decision, a process, or a development outcome. The culture is entrepreneurial, collaborative, and demanding. We move quickly because the needs are urgent. We test ideas early, learn from users, improve continuously, and expect high standards from concept through delivery. The team values intellectual curiosity, rigorous analysis, direct communication, ownership, thoughtful risk-taking, and the readiness to challenge established practices. Young talent has been a major source of the Department's innovation and rapid delivery; the selected candidate will be expected not only to contribute to the agenda, but to help shape it. What You’ll Deliver The Department for Outcomes is seeking a candidate who can move fluently between code, evidence, strategy, and delivery. The successful candidate will combine strong data science and quantitative research skills with knowledge of development operations and a passion for evidence-informed decision-making and institutional change. You will begin in the Department for Outcomes and contribute across both the Outcome Measurement and Outcome Delivery units. Assignments will evolve with the Department's priorities and the candidate's comparative strengths, but the role will require both depth and range: the ability to build a reproducible analytical workflow, interrogate the logic and quality of an indicator, extract a strategic signal from portfolio data, communicate it clearly to senior leaders, and work with teams to translate the finding into action. The position offers unusual exposure to corporate strategy, operational delivery, senior management decision-making, and a global network of institutions working to strengthen development outcomes. Support the development, testing, and refinement of outcome indicators and methodologies at project and portfolio level, including data collection, cleaning, exploratory analysis, and quality assurance of WBG Scorecard indicators, and manual reviews of results frameworks in project documents (PADs, ISRs, ICRs) when required. Support the development and monitoring of outcome targets to inform evidence-based decisions on strategies and portfolios, including reviews of strategy and project documents, curation of outcome data, application of forecasting techniques to estimate future portfolio-level results, and synthesis of key findings. Contribute to the AI for Outcomes program by designing, building, and maintaining analytical tools and data products—including applications that use large language models (LLMs), natural language processing, and other machine learning techniques—to strengthen outcomes measurement, generate operational insight, and support evidence-based decision making. Contribute to methodological notes, indicator guidance, and quality assurance of results data, drawing on research and evaluation methods used across MDBs to strengthen the credibility and comparability of reported outcomes. Analyze outcome metrics from WBG operations, aggregate results, and monitor where and how the institution is delivering development outcomes, extracting insights that inform strategic decision platforms supporting WBG senior leadership. Translate complex analytical findings into clear, visually compelling, and well-designed presentations, briefs, dashboards, talking points, and briefing notes for senior management and other technical and non-technical audiences. Contribute to the rollout of outcome-related action plans and to cross-cutting thematic work (such as jobs, climate, private capital mobilization, women, and youth) in coordination with Regional teams, the vertical Vice Presidencies, IFC, and MIGA. Support project management across analytical workstreams, including scoping assignments, coordinating inputs from multiple teams, tracking timelines, and helping ensure the timely delivery of high-quality outputs. Support the Department’s convening, learning, and capacity-building role with internal and external stakeholders, including other multilateral development banks and external advisory bodies such as the Jobs Council. Contribute to additional work program priorities of the Department for Outcomes as needed.