(Associate) HR Officer

At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), 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. In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. IFC’s Human Resources (CHR) Department provides strategic partnership to the business to ensure IFC has the relevant skills, organizational model, leadership pipeline, and insights needed to deliver growth, scale impact, and realize productivity gains in an increasingly AI-enabled environment. To achieve this, CHR is structured into key functional areas that deliver specialized HR expertise and solutions: Skills Organizational Effectiveness (CHRSO) – and two Client Services teams providing support to HQ and regions.

• Skills and Organizational Effectiveness partners strategically with IFC units to advance business priorities. The team promotes a skills-based approach to workforce reshaping; supports workforce planning, organizational design, and effectiveness; delivers corporate and Board reporting and analytics to inform management decisions; and develops IFC business understanding and career paths/support through flagship initiatives and programs.
• Client Services provides strategic HR partnership, program implementation, and tailored support to staff and management globally through its HR Business Partnership network. The Skills and Organizational Effectiveness unit (CHRSO) is looking to recruit a/an (Associate) Human Resource Officer in Washington, D.C., to directly support and lead Workforce Planning. The position will report to the Team Lead for the above-mentioned work program.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Facilitate IFC's end-to-end strategic workforce planning process and manage the annual and periodic planning cycles — including methodology, assumptions, tools, guidance, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, and consolidated outputs — translating business priorities into future workforce requirements related to capacity, positions, skills, workforce composition, location, and affordability.
• Develop workforce forecasts, scenarios, analytical models, and tools to help HR and management assess workforce demand and supply and to test planning assumptions on hiring, attrition, mobility, and reskilling.
• Partner with business leaders, HR, Finance, and other stakeholders to identify workforce-related gaps and needs, organizational risks, and recommended actions.
• Drive integration of workforce planning with budgeting, recruitment, talent management, succession planning, skills initiatives, and organizational design.
• Monitor workforce plans and provide senior management with clear insights on progress, deviations, risks, and required adjustments.
• Develop advanced analyses, dashboards, visualizations, presentations, and executive-ready decision-support products that translate complex analytical findings into concise recommendations for workforce-related and broader HR priorities.
• Improve data quality, analytical methods, documentation, presentation, and validation to ensure outputs are accurate, explainable, and reproducible.
• Identify and implement opportunities for continuous process improvement and specifically to simplify and automate recurring workforce planning, reporting, and HR analytical processes, including designing and prototyping AI-enabled solutions with effective testing, human oversight, and responsible data governance.
• Build workforce planning and analytical capability across HR through practical tools, guidance, workshops, and knowledge sharing.