Senior Digital Innovation Expert

3 weeks ago

Washington, Sunderland, United Kingdom World Bank Group Full time
Job Title: Senior Digital Innovation Expert

The World Bank Group is seeking a Senior Digital Innovation Expert to join our team in Washington, DC. This role focuses on understanding emerging good practices, trends, and innovations in digital infrastructure and translating these insights into actionable information for task teams and client countries.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Leading Technical Inputs to Client Engagements
    • Lead the development and operationalization of the Digital Transformation Global Department's data center and cloud computing workstream.
    • Provide expertise and guidance on regulatory and policy frameworks to support cloud adoption and cloud and data center market development in low- and middle-income countries.
    • Shape the design, preparation, and supervision of World Bank projects aligned with principles and good practices by providing technical and strategic guidance to country teams.
    • Contribute to policy dialogue, convening, and consensus-building across stakeholders, including ministries, agencies, private sector, and civil society.
  2. Shaping and Disseminating Global Knowledge and Thought Leadership
    • Generate policy-relevant insights and tools for constraints, challenges, and opportunities faced by low- and middle-income countries related to hosting data.
    • Develop and manage a comprehensive analytical and knowledge program related to data centers and cloud in synergy with the Knowledge Bank approach.
    • Lead or contribute to policy-relevant knowledge products and resources such as policy notes, toolkits, guides, and presentations.
    • Provide thought leadership, staying abreast of the latest trends and developments in cloud computing and data centers.
    • Lead the dissemination of knowledge and best practices related to cloud computing and data centers to internal and external audiences.
    • Analyze and offer solutions to mitigate risks associated with cloud technologies, including data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
  3. Building and Fostering Partnerships
    • Build strategic partnerships with industry, academia, development partners, and civil society to exchange knowledge and best practices and foster collaboration and innovation.
    • Foster internal collaboration to leverage World Bank Group products, including those from IFC and MIGA, to help mobilize private capital to close the data center digital divide.

Selection Criteria:

  1. Master's degree in Telecommunications, Private Sector Development, Digital Development, Technology, International Development, Gender and Development, or other related field, with a minimum of 5 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  2. Strong technical and analytical skills at the intersection of gender equality, digital inclusion, and digital development issues.
  3. Prior experience with World Bank corporate support and strategy, including the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, while delivering high-quality outputs.
  4. Prior experience with World Bank operations, especially leading analytical work, supporting client dialogue, designing inclusive interventions, developing sex-disaggregated indicators, and supporting project implementation.
  5. Strong attention-to-detail, creative problem-solving, and coordination/logistics skills.

Required Competencies:

  1. Integrative Skills: Integrating divergent viewpoints of multiple external and internal stakeholders into a coherent project/program/strategy.
  2. Bank Instruments, Policies, and Procedures:
  3. Portfolio Management and Results Monitoring and Evaluation: An ability to independently monitor portfolio and pipeline and provide signals to management when the program goes off track.

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

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, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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