Overview
The World Bank Group Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals the opportunity to apply their specialized technical expertise and contribute to solutions for pressing development challenges. Young Professionals work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID in support of the mission to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
Key Responsibilities
- Support independent E&S reviews of selected operations, including review of project documentation, risk classification, E&S instruments, supervision records, implementation status reports, incident records, management responses, and other relevant materials.
- Prepare structured desk-review summaries that identify key E&S risks, implementation gaps, recurring issues, areas requiring clarification, and matters that may warrant management attention or additional follow-up.
- Support planning and preparation for site visits, including development of review questions, document request lists, stakeholder meeting plans, site visit agendas, and issue-tracking templates.
- Participate in site visits with senior E&S specialists, as needed, to observe project implementation, review mitigation measures, meet relevant stakeholders, document field observations, and support triangulation of risks identified through desk review.
- Analyze information from documents, interviews, supervision records, site observations, and portfolio data to identify material E&S risks, implementation constraints, systemic weaknesses, and lessons relevant to risk oversight.
- Prepare clear and evidence-based documentation of findings, including mission notes, issue logs, risk summaries, briefing notes, tables of observations, and draft inputs to management reports.
- Contribute to periodic reporting on E&S risk trends, portfolio issues, implementation bottlenecks, incident patterns, and follow-up actions, ensuring that outputs are concise, accurate, and decision useful.
- Maintain organized records of review materials, evidence, correspondence, findings, and agreed follow-up actions, while ensuring appropriate confidentiality and quality control.
- Engage constructively with regional, sector, legal, operations, accountability, and risk teams to validate findings, clarify issues, and support timely escalation or resolution of higher-risk E&S matters.
Required Experience
2-6 years of relevant professional experience in environmental and social risk management, development operations, infrastructure, social development, sustainability, safeguards, or implementation support. Experience in emerging markets or fragile and conflict-affected settings would be an advantage.
Qualifications
Minimum of a Master’s degree in environmental management, social development, sustainability, finance, economics, development studies, engineering, law, public policy, or a related field.