Overview
The World Bank Group's 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
- Assess the financial viability and creditworthiness of urban infrastructure projects.
- Design and evaluate structured finance solutions.
- Advise on risk allocation frameworks, credit enhancement tools, and de-risking strategies.
- Provide technical inputs on the deployment of WBG financing instruments.
- Support teams in structuring operations that leverage WBG products.
- Assist in preparing financial models and investment memoranda.
- Analyze tipping fee structures, off-take agreements, and revenue adequacy for waste management concessions and PPPs.
- Assess financial models for waste-to-energy, recycling, and composting operations.
- Support financial analysis of water utility reform.
- Advise on financing mechanisms for last-mile water connections.
- Evaluate non-revenue water (NRW) reduction programs.
- Analyze land value capture instruments.
- Assess feasibility and financial structuring of large-scale urban development schemes.
- Advise on government land monetization strategies.
- Support financial analysis of affordable housing programs.
- Evaluate PPP models for social and affordable housing delivery.
- Advise on financial intermediation structures for housing microfinance.
- Build and review project financial models.
- Conduct financial due diligence on project sponsors, utilities, and municipal counterparts.
- Prepare sensitivity and scenario analyses.
- Review and comment on financial models prepared by clients, consultants, and co-financing partners.
- Advise client governments, municipalities, utilities, and private sector sponsors on financing strategies.
- Prepare and deliver capacity-building sessions, workshops, and training.
- Prepare technical notes, policy briefs, and financial advisory reports.
- Support the structuring of capital market transactions.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge products, good practice notes, and sector strategies.
Required Experience
2-6 years of relevant professional experience in infrastructure finance, project finance, or structured finance, with a focus on urban sectors. Experience working with or alongside multilateral development banks (MDBs) or DFIs is highly desirable. Experience in emerging markets and developing economies is a plus.
Qualifications
Minimum of a master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. CFA, CPA, or equivalent professional certification is an advantage. Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel; knowledge of dedicated project finance software is an advantage). Strong command of project finance, blended finance, and municipal finance concepts. Knowledge of land value capture, green/blue bonds, and sustainability-linked finance instruments. Familiarity with urban sector policy and regulatory frameworks in developing economies.