WBG Young Professional

Job #: req38227
Organization: World Bank Group
Sector: Climate Change
Grade: GF
Term Duration:  2 years 0 months
Recruitment Type: International Recruitment
Location: Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 9/30/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Are you ready for a career with a lasting impact? 
The World Bank Group’s Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals from around the world the opportunity to apply their specialized technical expertise, broaden their experience, and contribute to solutions to some of the most pressing development challenges. Young Professionals (YPs) work across the World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID in support of our mission to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more than 60 years, this highly competitive program has selected outstanding professionals to contribute to the institution’s work and develop as future leaders in global development. 
We seek candidates who demonstrate strong leadership potential, exceptional technical skills, and a clear commitment to our mission and values. As a YP, you will collaborate with colleagues across disciplines and institutions, applying your expertise to help address pressing development challenges and improve lives around the world. 
YPs join the World Bank Group on an initial two-year term contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance. During this period, YPs complete three eight-month rotations: one with their primary function and area of expertise, one cross-institutional rotation, and at least one rotation based in a country office.  These assignments enable YPs deepen their technical and operational knowledge while gaining experience across different areas of the institution.
Through the YP Academy, YPs undertake a structured learning and development journey that includes technical and operational training, language programs, negotiation and business skills, and leadership development. They also receive individual coaching, connect with mentors, and participate in strategic dialogues with senior leaders.
The World Bank Group Climate Change Department, known as One Climate, works across IBRD/IDA, IFC, and MIGA to help countries and private-sector clients integrate climate into development and investment decisions and scale solutions that deliver measurable impact. It combines expertise across policy, analytics, finance, and operations, bringing together public- and private-sector perspectives.
Within One Climate, the Sustainable Finance and Transaction Solutions team sits at the intersection of climate priorities and investment decisions, bridging methodologies and operational delivery across public and private sectors. Drawing on climate, financial, operational, and market expertise, it translates WBG climate objectives into practical decisions, supports the structuring of sustainable finance transactions, and expands the WBG’s sustainable finance offering for clients.
Its ambition is to build an integrated, scalable One WBG climate delivery model: implementing Paris Alignment (PA) and climate co-benefits (CCB); advancing climate outcome metrics; developing adaptation and resilience (A&R) and sustainable finance solutions that mobilize capital; supporting material and innovative transactions; and turning operational experience into replicable tools and approaches.
What You’ll Deliver
You will contribute across this agenda, with a particular focus on structuring sustainable finance transactions, expanding the offering, and scaling successful solutions across sectors and markets.
  • Translate climate priorities into practical operational and investment solutions across IBRD/IDA and IFC, including sustainable finance approaches and proportionate application of PA, CCB, and climate risk.
  • Advance climate outcome measurement through technical and operational pilots for net GHG and resilience beneficiaries, and coherent approaches to gross, net, and financed emissions, coordinating with other stakeholders.
  • Contribute to One Climate’s integrated A&R agenda by linking physical climate-risk intelligence, adaptation finance, outcome metrics, and origination to ready-to-use solutions, including adaptation-focused sustainability-linked finance.
  • Support material, complex, innovative, or precedent-setting operations and transactions; identify climate risks and opportunities; and contribute to structuring credible sustainable finance instruments and frameworks, including KPIs, targets, and other transaction features.
  • Partner with operational, sector, financial, legal, treasury, data, and technology teams to develop and test new financial products and digital or AI-enabled tools; codify lessons into guidance and training that support consistent delivery and replication at scale.
  • Support One Climate’s WBG-wide and global leadership through research, MDB harmonization, stakeholder engagement, and coordinated briefs for management and the Board.
  • Manage workstreams and contribute to cross-institutional and country assignments under the YPP rotation model.

What You’ll Bring
  • Minimum of a Master’s degree in climate science, economics, engineering, hydrology, geography, environmental or data science, statistics, public policy, finance, development studies, or a closely related field, completed by the start date; interdisciplinary training spanning climate risk, development, and decision-making is highly desirable.
  • 2-6 years of relevant professional or applied research experience in climate adaptation and resilience, climate or disaster-risk analytics, development policy, public investment, infrastructure or sector planning, adaptation finance, or related operational work.
  • Strong grounding in the climate-risk framework—hazard, exposure, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and residual risk—and in contemporary approaches to adaptation planning, risk management, and robust decision-making under uncertainty.
  • Demonstrated quantitative capability in one or more of the following: climate-impact or catastrophe-risk modeling; probabilistic, scenario, spatial, or geospatial analysis; econometrics and causal inference; socioeconomic or fiscal-risk analysis; optimization; or cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and distributional analysis.
  • Proficiency in assembling, validating, integrating, and interpreting climate, hazard, exposure, asset, household, firm, and macroeconomic data; practical experience with reproducible analytical workflows and relevant programming, statistical, GIS, remote-sensing, cloud, or applied-AI tools is desirable.
  • Experience translating technical evidence into country, sector, or system diagnostics and actionable policy, regulatory, institutional, planning, or public-investment recommendations; familiarity with development operations, sovereign financing instruments, private-sector solutions, or adaptation-finance structures is an advantage.
  • Ability to assess adaptation options and portfolios across multiple objectives and uncertainties, including effectiveness, economic and financial viability, equity, feasibility, maladaptation risk, scalability, and measurable resilience outcomes.
  • Strong analytical judgment, intellectual curiosity, client orientation, and ability to frame complex problems, communicate uncertainty clearly, synthesize quantitative and qualitative evidence, and develop practical solutions for decision-makers.
  • Demonstrated commitment to international development and the WBG’s mission; ability to collaborate across disciplines, institutions, and public- and private-sector teams, and manage competing deadlines.
  • Fluency in English; proficiency in additional languages is an advantage.
  • Experience in developing-country contexts is an advantage.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense
of Urgency – Anticipating and quickly reacting to the needs of internal
and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful
Risk Taking – Taking informed and thoughtful risks and making courageous
decisions to push boundaries for greater impact.
3. Empowerment
and Accountability – Engaging with others in an empowered and accountable
manner for impactful results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

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