Overview
Recruit a Private Sector Economist to support operational and analytical work in Europe and Central Asia, contributing to private sector development, market dynamics, and finance through applied economic and policy analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to the development and dissemination of new analytical frameworks and approaches in core areas of FCI expertise.
- Conduct market assessments, value chain analyses, and sector competitiveness diagnostics.
- Produce high-quality economic policy papers, policy notes, working papers, and analytical reports.
- Play a key role in markets monitoring, including preparation of economic projections and sector outlooks.
- Develop state-of-the-art approaches in applied economic and policy analysis.
- Identify, document, and disseminate lessons learned and good practices.
- Serve as a team member or co-TTL on FCI lending operations and Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA) / Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) activities.
- Lead or contribute to the preparation of key project documents.
- Work with WBG project teams to provide technical guidance and advocate for strengthening project monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
- Contribute to the development of new lending and ASA engagements.
- Work closely with country teams to integrate private sector development, productivity and market assessments into core diagnostics and policy dialogue.
- Support the preparation of policy notes, reform roadmaps, and technical briefs.
- Facilitate public-private dialogue (PPD) processes.
- Work closely with other Verticals on strategic pieces and engagements.
- Coordinate with IFC and MIGA counterparts on joint diagnostics, advisory work, and operational activities.
Required Experience
- Demonstrated track record of intellectual, policy dialogue, and operational contributions on issues of competitive markets, private sector development, industrial policy, innovation, and/or competition.
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality, technically sound, and operationally relevant analytical work.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including demonstrated knowledge of econometrics, applied statistics, and management of large databases.
- Excellent analytical skills and experience conducting sectoral and market assessments.
- Demonstrated ability to develop knowledge tools and analytical pieces to understand market distortions and policy constraints affecting value chains.
- Exposure to private sector development and structural microeconomic reform agendas is valued.
- Experience working with or advising government counterparts on private sector development and economic policy reform in emerging markets and developing economies.
- Connections with climate finance and private capital facilitation are a plus.
- Experience in the World Bank Group or a comparable multilateral development institution is an advantage but not required.
- Candidates with a Master's degree should have a minimum of five years of relevant professional experience; candidates with a PhD should have a minimum of three years.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Economics, Applied Economics, Public Policy, or a closely related field.
- Specialization in development economics, industrial organization, microeconomics, is particularly valued.
- Graduate studies in applied microeconomics, economic regulation are a strong plus.
