Overview
The World Bank Group Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals the opportunity to apply specialized technical expertise and contribute to solutions for pressing development challenges. Young Professionals work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to structuring sustainable finance transactions, expanding the offering, and scaling successful solutions.
- Translate climate priorities into practical operational and investment solutions.
- Advance climate outcome measurement through technical and operational pilots.
- Contribute to the integrated adaptation and resilience agenda.
- Support material, complex, innovative, or precedent-setting operations and transactions.
- Partner with teams to develop and test new financial products and digital or AI-enabled tools.
- Support WBG-wide and global leadership through research, MDB harmonization, stakeholder engagement, and coordinated briefs.
- Manage workstreams and contribute to cross-institutional and country assignments under the YPP rotation model.
Required Experience
2-6 years of relevant professional experience in sustainable or climate finance, investment or development finance, financial product development, transaction structuring, or related operational work. Experience supporting sustainable finance transactions or financial product development, including origination, analysis, structuring, execution, or implementation; MDB/DFI, financial institution, investor, issuer, corporate, government, or advisory experience is an advantage. Experience with financial or transaction analysis, market or portfolio analytics, climate or impact metrics, data analytics, digital tools, or applied AI is desirable.
Qualifications
Minimum of a Master’s degree in finance, economics, business, sustainable or development finance, climate change, environmental science/engineering, public policy, data science, or a related field.