What are the responsibilities and job description for the E T Consultant - Global Digital Partnership & Alliance Specialist position at worldbankgroup?
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.
The
Digital Transformation Vertical Vice Presidency was established on July 1,
2024, and guides the World Bank Group efforts to establish the foundations of
a digital economy, build and enhance digital and data infrastructure, ensure
cybersecurity and data privacy for institutions, businesses, and citizens,
and advance digital government services. Digital technologies, including AI
and data, present a unique opportunity to accelerate development. The Digital
Transformation Vertical has the critical mission of delivering on this
development promise. The Digital Vice Presidency and its global and regional
teams support client countries in building the foundational and cross-cutting
elements of digital transformation.
The Development Effectiveness
unit plays an important role in advising the VP and DSO on all matters
pertaining to strategic planning and management, market intelligence,
partnerships, including trust fund oversight, monitoring and evaluation,
stakeholder engagement, knowledge management, collaboration with Regions and
Verticals, and outreach to external partners. The Unit supports the VPU’s
engagement on corporate priorities including Knowledge Bank, Operations
Efficiency and Effectiveness, Corporate Scorecard and other initiatives aimed
at achieving speed, scale and impact.
The role drives and supports
engagement with digital private-sector actors (cloud/AI providers, technology
firms, innovators, and other types of private actors) and helps align them
with governments, regulators, and multilateral stakeholders to evolve early
partnerships into scalable alliance opportunities that support national
digital priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Partnership & Alliance Development (Strategy): Drive the Partnership & Alliance Framework and develop/execute the strategy, aligned with the World Bank’s digital objectives.
• Drive and coordinate engagement with private-sector partners, particularly those with global-scale, platform-centric models, and collaborate with government, regulatory, and multilateral counterparts to ensure alignment with national digital priorities.
• Facilitate collaboration structures and design win-win mechanisms that proactively align commercial viability with public inclusion objectives, by clarifying partner roles, aligning objectives and incentives, and supporting shared direction.
• Support policy and governance alignment to ensure partnership opportunities reflect national priorities and promote vendor neutrality and national data sovereignty during program execution.
Program Execution Enablement (Execution): Strengthen Global Digital Partnerships and optimize them through regular evaluation.
• Incubate and activate partnerships, securing required inputs and commitments with a demonstrated ability to translate strategic visions into concrete, scalable execution plans.
• Coordinate partner onboarding and early pilot activities that validate use cases, de-risk scale-up, and drive partnership activation events to convert intent into program opportunities. Establish regular check-ins to evaluate partnership effectiveness.
• Drive and support partnership activation events (summits, roundtables, engagement forums) to convert partnership intent into program opportunities.
Program Oversight & Knowledge Management (Coordination): Serve as horizontal-level primary resources in the Strategy and Operations department for Global Digital Partnerships.
• Ensure partnership activities align with Digital Development Pillars: Access, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), platforms and service delivery (Applications), and AI.
• Ensure the strategic evolution from episodic engagements to a global strategic alliance portfolio, leading internal alignment across regional teams and subject-matter groups for co-design and execution.
• Ensure partnership activities align with the four Digital Development Pillars, enforcing Sovereign AI principles and governance to ensure responsible scaling and data protection.