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 solutions for pressing development challenges. Young Professionals work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor on physical security, security systems, and fire life safety, ensuring projects meet relevant standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Provide guidance from planning through commissioning; review designs and submittmits; conduct site assessments; monitor implementation quality; advise stakeholders; support guidelines, training, and technical queries; manage budgets prudently; and develop project requirements for perimeter security, access control, CCTV, alarms, safe havens, lighting, barriers, and building/fire code compliance.
• Advise WBG on physical security, security systems, and fire life safety requirements.
• Develop technical requirements for real estate projects from planning through commissioning.
• Review designs, submittals, and shop drawings to ensure compliance with WBG and international standards.
• Conduct site assessments and monitor implementation of security and fire life safety measures.
• Collaborate with Corporate Real Estate, Country Security Specialists, and project teams.
• Support WBG guidelines, training, technical queries, and prudent budget management.

Required Experience

• 2–6 years of relevant professional experience in designing, project management and maintenance of physical security, security systems, and/or Fire Life Safety systems.
• Demonstrated interest in development work and the World Bank Group’s mission.
• Proven experience in physical security resource management, including but not limited to procurement and budgeting.
• Familiar with security risk assessment, risk mitigation programs and procedures for operations in varied operating risk environments.

Qualifications

Minimum of a master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Structural Engineering or Engineering Technology, or a related field.

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