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Job #: req38137

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Climate Change

Grade: EC2

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 9/2/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe.

For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group (WBG) is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a living planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative changes around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is the world's largest multilateral climate fund, with $13.5 billion channeled through six Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to 78 countries. CIF financing catalyzes climate action in developing and middle-income countries by funding transformational projects that reduce emissions, build resilience, and accelerate the transition to clean energy and sustainable development.

CIF operates through a unique partnership model that brings together governments, MDBs, the private sector, and civil society. This collaborative approach ensures that climate finance reaches those who need it most while testing innovative solutions that can be scaled globally. As climate challenges intensify and the demand for climate finance grows, CIF continues to expand its instruments and impact. In 2025, CIF became the first multilateral climate fund to access capital markets, unlocking $500 million in private sector capital with the CIF Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM).

CIF funding, featuring high quality financing and high co-financing ratios, empowers developing countries, lowers risk, enables first-of-their-kind investments, and contributes to transformational change. www.cif.org

The CIF Secretariat hosted by The World Bank supports the work of the CIF governing bodies, including strategy and policy development as well as reporting; manages internal and external institutional relations as well as strategic partnerships; supports program development; delivers a large program of thought leadership, knowledge and learning work; is responsible for portfolio risk management and new private sector capital mobilization modalities and initiatives. The CIF Evaluation and Learning (E&L) Initiative supports this work through a range of strategic and demand-driven evaluations covering some of the most important and pressing challenges facing climate finance funders and practitioners. The E&L Initiative uses evaluation to enable learning that is relevant, timely and used to inform decisions and strategies, for both the CIF and the wider climate finance sector.

The CIF is seeking a professional extended term consultant who is able to support a wide range of activities within the Evaluation and Learning team of the CIF. While the primary focus of this position will be energy related knowledge and advisory services the successful candidate will contribute to evaluations, research, and reports that support CIF programs and thematic areas including transformational change, climate finance, private sector engagement, knowledge management, learning, social inclusion, and development impacts.

• Providing research support which will entail background analysis on emerging topics of relevance, sourcing data for knowledge products, and co-developing knowledge and communications pieces;
• Supporting the development and delivery of learning events (both on-line and in-person) in support of CIF programs and on key thematic topics relevant to CIF’s strategy;
• Supporting new knowledge generation including evaluations, case studies, thematic reviews, and innovation focused consultations;
• Preparing briefs, background notes, talking points, and presentations for different team leads to share CIF’s work related to evaluation and learning;
• Cataloguing, organizing, and presenting existing CIF knowledge products to make them accessible and useful to a range of CIF partners;
• Proactively seeking opportunities for collaboration with key CIF stakeholders and external agencies working on similar themes and objectives.
• Developing and implementing dissemination strategies for E&L’s knowledge products through a variety of formats and channels, and tailoring these to different audiences;
• Support the ongoing work of the Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) including new knowledge generation in the field of transformational change, operationalizing transformational change in CIF related activities, promoting and managing the work of the TCLP, working with the other Multilateral Climate Funds and MDB partners to embed TC within their work and evaluations of this work;
• Other ad-hoc support as required.

The successful candidate will have technical expertise in clean energy transitions, sustainable development, transformational change, climate finance, and knowledge management. They should also have experience in research, knowledge generation activities including evaluations, and organizing learning processes. She/he is also expected to have excellent project management, communication, and interpersonal skills. The position will be based in Washington, DC and will functionally report to the Head of Evaluation and Learning.

• Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Economics, Energy policy, International development, Public Policy or other related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in economics, environmental studies, social sciences, or related fields.
• Excellent written communication and editing skills, particularly conveying technical information for diverse audiences.
• Works well under pressure and competently manages multiple tasks within tight deadlines without compromising quality.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong team player with a proactive attitude, a high degree of initiative, independence, reliability, adaptability, and ability to anticipate and resolve problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills including ability to promote strong collaboration and facilitate and achieve consensus with partners, clients, and colleagues in a multicultural environment.
• Experience working in, and knowledge of the policies and procedures of, the World Bank Group or other multilateral development bank policies and procedures would be helpful.

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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