Location:

Washington DC, United States
Salary:

negotiable / YEAR
Job type:

FULL_TIME
Posted:

3 months ago
Category:

Budget and Accounting, Finance
Deadline:

09/08/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB SUMMARY:

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org

Junior Professional Associates – Program Description

The Junior Professionals Associate Program (JPA) offers an exceptional opportunity for recent graduates to embark on a professional journey, providing a three-year contract with valuable work experience within a diverse and dynamic environment and the potential of field work experience. The program is an excellent platform to sharpen your existing skills and to develop new ones, all while gaining a profound understanding of the challenges associated with reducing poverty and fostering shared prosperity on a livable planet.

We will provide you with the opportunity to gain entry-level professional experience in a premier development institution, on an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) contract with benefits. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org/careers/jpa

The following are minimum requirements to be eligible for the JPA program:

• Be 32 years of age or younger

• Hold a bachelor’s degree

• Be fluent in English

The JPA program at the World Bank is a highly competitive initiative. Candidates who are being actively considered for positions may be required to present academic transcripts and professional references. The World Bank’s Human Resources team and hiring team will reach out exclusively to individuals selected for assessment and interviews.

Positions may be in any of the World Bank’s offices worldwide.

Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation – Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure and Access – Analyst

The development and implementation of inclusive, accessible, safe, and efficient financial systems is a crucial component of the World Bank Group’s work to reduce poverty and boost prosperity on a livable planet. The global community has also recognized financial inclusion as an enabler for seven of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Against this backdrop, the Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure and Access (EFNFI) group works to improve key enablers in financial systems – ranging from financial inclusion, payment systems (domestic and cross-border), credit infrastructure, to domestic insolvency and creditor/debtor frameworks – to enhance access to and usage of responsible and digital financial services for individuals, MSMEs, and other businesses. This includes prioritizing reaching underserved populations such as women and youth and supporting an inclusive financial system to enable climate adaption and resilience.

Duties and Responsibilities

You will work as a research assistant, helping the unit in their data management and analysis work. Depending on your performance and our program of work, you should expect to gradually assume more responsibilities and take ownership of projects or their parts.

Your specific tasks will include:

• Collecting data, which may involve designing, revising or translating questionnaires, or doing the same with respect to qualitative research (for example, focus group discussion guidelines), as well as retrieving relevant data points from online databases or screen scraping.

• Preparing or cleaning the data (understanding data structure and describing datasets and variables to others; identifying outliers and erroneous observations; merging datasets and converting them to different formats).

• Data analysis using both descriptive and inferential methods.

• Developing Stata or R files to automate various data management processes.

• Participating in testing and fine-tuning of Large Language Models and helping us with integrating AI into our data pipelines and workflows.

• Developing interactive data dashboards using R/Python and Shiny, PowerBI or Tableau.

• Drafting sections of reports, policy notes and other documents, and putting together presentation slides.

You will work on projects that belong to each of our thematic subgroups (financial inclusion, payments and market infrastructures, credit infrastructure). However, based on our portfolio and your interests, you may get the opportunity to specialize in one or more areas.

Selection Criteria

• You should have graduated with a bachelor’s degree that included courses in statistics, econometrics, operation research or others of similarly quantitative nature. Degrees in economics, statistics, finance, mathematics, computer science, physics or engineering are good examples. This position may also be a good fit for graduates in related disciplines, such as law, public policy or economic history, but you need to prove that your knowledge of mathematics and statistics is close to that an economics graduate.
• You do not need to have professional experience in our field of work (financial inclusion and infrastructure), but you should demonstrate interest in and enthusiasm for it, coupled with the capacity to learn fast.
• You should be proficient in at least one programming language (preferably including Python, R or Stata applied to statistics and data science) and be comfortable with data wrangling. While not strictly required, we encourage you to include in your application links to any school or side programming or data science projects you have worked on (or the link to your GitHub profile).
• You need to be a good and fast writer (in English, but additional languages are always welcome). You can include links to your writing (thesis, published articles, blogs, working papers) on your resume.
• You should feel comfortable working in an environment with a diversity of backgrounds, life experiences, and points of view. Familiarity with the context of policymaking in low- and middle-income countries—through personal background, education or work experience—will be considered a strength.

Diversity and Inclusion

The World Bank continually searches for qualified individuals with a diverse set of backgrounds from around the globe. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Individuals with different abilities may be provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential functions and support in receiving other workplace accommodations.

Poverty has no borders, neither does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the globe.

ABSTRACT:

World Bank Junior Professional Associate United States World Bank Jobs 2024

World Bank looking for “Junior Professional Associate”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 09-Aug-24.

The World Bank has published a job vacancy announcement on 18/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Junior Professional Associate to be based in Washington DC , United States. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: World Bank

Job Title: Junior Professional Associate

Duty Station: Washington DC , United States

Country: United States

Application Deadline: 09-Aug-24

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