Description
Do you need to construct a profession this is without a doubt worthwhile? Working on the World Bank Group (WBG) gives a completely unique possibility a good way to assist our customers clear up their finest improvement challenges. The World Bank Group is one in all the biggest reassets of investment and know-how for growing nations; a completely unique international partnership of 5 establishments committed to finishing excessive poverty, growing shared prosperity and selling sustainable improvement. With 189 member nations and extra than one hundred twenty places of work worldwide, we paintings with public and personal quarter partners, making an investment in groundbreaking initiatives and the use of facts, research, and era to expand answers to the maximum pressing international challenges. For extra information, go to www.worldbank.org
Digital Transformation Vice Presidency
Digital technology provide a completely unique possibility to convert improvement via virtual answers. The Digital Transformation Vice Presidency and its international and local groups will guide consumer nations in constructing the foundational and cross-reducing factors of virtual transformation
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- Building virtual infrastructure and facts platforms (which includes AI, cloud computing and virtual public infrastructure)
- Protecting establishments, businesses, and residents via cybersecurity and facts protection & privacy
- Developing ICT sectors and assisting virtual entrepreneurship, skills, and jobs
- Implementing and digitalizing virtual authorities offerings that enhance duty and transparency
- Supporting the Vice presidencies of People, Prosperity, Planet, and Infrastructure withinside the digitalization efforts in their customers, and in leveraging virtual answers, which includes constructing consumer sectoral virtual capacity, defining sectoral precise AI strategies, and designing sectoral AI answers
- Coordinating the operationalization of the virtual Global Challenge Program in addition to cross-GP efforts of reaching the brand new Corporate Scorecard virtual indicators.
For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital
Duties and Responsibilities
The DT specialist will be responsible for:
- Contributing to the layout, practise and supervision of WBG financed virtual improvement associated funding and coverage reform applications in consumer nations with a specific emphasis on stimulating improvement of broadband infrastructure and virtual public systems and offerings, such as via PPPs and regulatory/coverage reforms, facilitating improvement of virtual authorities IT infrastructure, interoperability virtual ID, virtual fee and selling improvement of virtual competencies and innovation, cyber resilience, information governance, in addition to on addressing WBG company requirements (e.g. weather change, gender).
- Contributing to advising customers on strategies, first-rate practices and layout of applications to expand the rules in their virtual economies.
- Providing technical knowledge and recommendation on various coverage and regulatory problems to sell competition, non-public region funding and innovation withinside the virtual economic system region with the intention of reaching via way of means of 2030 people, organizations and governments to be digitally enabled.
- Providing technical knowledge and recommendation on coverage, institutional reform, challenge improvement and execution to aid the digitization of public management and public offerings transport in consumer nations.
- Liaising and presenting steering to colleagues running in different sectors (such as agriculture, health, education, energy, economic offerings, transport, weather change, catastrophe management, etc.) on a way to leverage virtual technology to enhance public carrier transport and performance withinside the respective sectors.
- Developing progressive and sensible tactics to fixing tough coverage and operational problems for decided on excessive precedence virtual transformation associated activities
- Contributing to coverage communicate with senior officers of consumer nations, local institutions, non-public region/industry, and improvement accomplice agencies.
- Preparing and supervising ebook of first-rate exercise notes and reviews on coverage and law withinside the virtual region.
- Performing financial and economic analysis (marketplace models, enterprise models, etc.) to tell selections on challenge designs, PPP schemes, financing plans, etc.
- Representing the DT Unit and the Bank at virtual transformation associated fora and events, in addition to liaison withinside the above regions with key outside partners.
Selection Criteria
- Master`s diploma in telecommunications, engineering, laptop science, law, economics, public coverage or associated discipline with at least five years of enjoy in ICT / Digital Economy coverage and law and/or ICT / Digital Transformation challenge layout and implementation.
- Excellent conceptual and analytical abilties, inclusive of capacity to suppose strategically and innovatively approximately the position of virtual technology for socio-monetary improvement and for transformation in different sectors of the economy.
- Strong technical and operational abilties as evidenced in a established song report in helping the transport of challenge operations and challenge implementation and supervision in the Bank or comparable form of projects/merchandise for different entities; expertise and enjoy in
- World Bank Group Policy and Procedure Framework (PPF) isn’t always obligatory however could be a plus.
- Firm know-how of virtual technology (PKI, Cloud, DFS, AI, Cyber), virtual transformation of society, and digitally enabled enterprise version tendencies applicable to socio-monetary improvement withinside the African context (specially West and Central Africa) and exuberance to live abreast of latest innovations.
- Strong patron engagement abilties, taking obligation and duty for well timed reaction to patron queries, requests or needs, running to take away limitations that can hinder execution or challenge success.
- Excellent written and verbal communique abilties in English and in French as established in a established song report of efficaciously handing over technical statistics in a clear, without difficulty comprehensible and powerful manner.
- Excellent presentation abilties, the use of charts, graphs and different facts presentation strategies correctly to talk facts, technical statistics, or complicated ideas to non-specialists.
- Strong pressure for results, taking private possession and duty to satisfy time limits and obtain agreed-upon results.
- Strong enterprise judgment and analytical selection making, studying statistics and facts to help sound and logical enterprise decisions.
- Proven capacity to characteristic efficaciously as a crew member of multi-disciplinary groups and solve conflicts constructively.
- Prior paintings enjoy in Africa (specially West and Central Africa), and true expertise of zone troubles withinside the vicinity is a plus.
Willingness and capacity to travel.
WBG Core competencies
- Lead and Innovate – Develops innovative solutions.
- Deliver Results for Clients – Proactively addresses clients’ stated and unstated needs.
- Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries – Collaborates across boundaries, gives own perspective and willingly receives diverse perspectives.
- Create, Apply and Share Knowledge – Applies knowledge across WBG to strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients.
- Make Smart Decisions – Interprets a wide range of information and pushes to move forward.
