WBG Young Professional

Overview

The World Bank Group's Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals the opportunity to apply their specialized technical expertise and contribute to development challenges. Young Professionals work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize project legal agreements
• Cover a broad operational portfolio of countries, providing risk-based advice to clients on legal and policy issues in operations.
• Provide legal advice to ongoing projects and programs, including reviewing project and program documents, for adherence to World Bank policies, procedures and business objectives.
• Conduct comparative legal analyses on a range of issues, identify legal and policy issues, research relevant precedents, and propose appropriate solutions to colleagues and clients.
• Engage in policy discussions and negotiations with government officials internally and externally.
• Protect the World Bank's interests and promote its goals and values.
• Write and review policy papers, undertake legal research on topics in an area of concentration and contribute to dissemination of policy and best practices in a given field.
• Prepare legal briefs on diverse topics, as required.
• Perform ad hoc assignments as requested by the Chief Counsel or designated Lead/Senior Counsel.

Required Experience

• 2-6 years of relevant experience and be admitted in at least one jurisdiction.
• Experience in international, commercial or contract law, in transactional legal work and/or preparation and negotiation of legal agreements;
• Familiarity in the use of varied legal research sources (including electronic sources on the internet) and other databases;
• Solid experience in a reputable, preferably international, law firm, will be a strong advantage.

Qualifications

A minimum of an LLM degree, J.D. or equivalent

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