E T Consultant

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater.

Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.

worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd VPU Context: The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Ethics and Internal Justice Services Vice Presidency (EIJ) brings together, under a single umbrella, the WBG’s approach to values, ethics and the resolution of workplace conflict. EIJ’s vision is to foster a values-based workplace culture and help staff uphold the WBG’s ethical standards.

EIJ provides an integrated, empathetic and efficient approach to resolving workplace conflict, allowing staff to focus with urgency on the WBG’s mission. EIJ’s work covers each of the five WBG institutions. https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/ethics-and-internal-justice-services Unit Context: EIJ is seeking to recruit 4 Extended Term (ET) Consultants to work in its Advisory Training Values Unit (ATV), and who will report to the ATV Manager, under the limited supervision and guidance of an ATV Senior Counsel.

ATV provides ethics and compliance advice and guidance to staff, on Staff Rules’ applicability and management of personal conflicts of interest risks. It also administers the Staff Declaration of Interests (DOI) program (which require about 6000 staff to annually disclose their financial interests and outside positions/activities, to address conflict indicators).

Duties and accountabilities: The Extended Term Consultant is expected to play a significant role in supporting the WBG’s Staff DOI programs. The primary duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Performing independently, fully professional-level analysis of DOIs, to identify personal conflicts of interest risks, and recommending informed technical strategies to mitigate the risks,
• Directly meeting staff to discuss and resolve identified conflicts of interest risks,
• Assisting with the administration of the DOI Programs and platform, including assisting staff to complete their declarations,
• Contributing to the completion of all pre-launch tasks, including updating and verifying the DOI forms and communication templates, and confirming the list of the filing population,
• Supporting the integration of AI into the new DOI system, including contributing to the testing, refinement, and responsible use of AI-assisted solutions to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of conflicts of interest risks’ identification and management,
• Updating the Department on novel and trending conflicts of interest risks, and identified systemic issues,
• Providing general support to the ATV Team on other tasks as required.