World Bank Group
Program Officer
Washington, DC, US
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
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About the role
- The role requires someone who can connect people, ideas, evidence, and opportunities; translate them into practical products and follow-up actions; and help reduce internal silos through strong information flow and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct support to the Front Office in coordinating and knowledge-enabling the Department's external engagement agenda, including the Director's external engagements, missions, meetings, and strategic outreach activities.
- Support the planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up of external engagements involving the Director and senior Department leadership.
- Conduct active research and knowledge scanning to identify strategic engagement opportunities with external partners, institutions, universities, thought leaders, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Capture insights, lessons, commitments, risks, and next steps from meetings, missions, and partner interactions, and codify them in accessible tracking systems and repositories for reuse.
- Design, draft, edit, and improve communication products for the Front Office, including briefs, stories, talking points, PowerPoint presentations, event materials, digital content, photography, videos, podcasts, and other multimedia products.
- Ensure that program knowledge, decisions, lessons, and partner interactions are documented, searchable, and available for future use. 4.
- Support the Department's engagement with universities, academic institutions, and knowledge partners from across the world, helping build constructive relationships and mobilize expertise for the outcomes agenda.
- Map, organize, and maintain information on relevant universities, academic networks, research centers, and knowledge partners, including areas of expertise and potential collaboration.
- Coordinate meetings, seminars, strategic conversations, missions, and follow-up with universities and external knowledge partners.
- Develop and maintain stakeholder engagement plans, track feedback and partner interests, and ensure communication is timely, professional, and useful.
Skills
- For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
- The Department for Outcomes is seeking a proactive, creative, and highly organized Program Officer (PO) to join its Front Office.
- Duties and Accountabilities 1.
- Test new engagement, storytelling, and learning formats, seek feedback, and iterate based on lessons learned.
- Demonstrate sense of urgency in responding to Front Office and client needs, while maintaining quality, discretion, and sound judgment.
Compensation
- Support high-visibility engagement moments, including Spring Meetings, Annual Meetings, launches, campaigns, and leadership events, through innovative formats that encourage interaction and learning.
Benefits
- Mobilize knowledge from external engagements to inform Department priorities, internal learning, partnership opportunities, and follow-up decisions. 2.
- Track engagements, deliverables, commitments, results, and outcomes using disciplined systems that support management oversight and learning.
- Prepare inputs for updates, reports, dashboards, presentations, and learning notes that visually represent goals, outcomes, outputs, activities, and related indicators.
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