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Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org. Background: The WBG People Vice Presidency is responsible for getting the right public and private sector solutions to our operational teams and to our clients, and to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to enable and support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission and specifically: providing guidance on creating more and better jobs; supporting foundational infrastructure and human capital, policy environment, and private sector mobilization; focusing on agribusiness, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing, and tourism; and support and accelerate specific targets such as M300, Health 1.5bn, and SP 500. The VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. Unit Context: Social Policy (SP) brings together the former Social Protection and Labor (SPL) and Social Development (SD) Global Practices into a unified platform for building inclusive and resilient social and labor systems. By addressing fragmentation across social, labor, and inclusion programs, SP strengthens policy coherence and places human capital accumulation at the center of social policy—recognizing that capabilities are built over time across the home, neighborhoods, and the workplace. Social protection is a core pillar of this framework. Through social assistance, social insurance, and labor-linked programs, it reduces poverty, manages risk, and guarantees a basic standard of living while enabling households to invest in nutrition, health, and education. By stabilizing incomes and protecting against shocks, social protection supports human capital formation in the home, promotes inclusion and equity through contributory and non-contributory systems, and strengthens resilience during crises. Labor markets are equally central, shaping income distribution, social inclusion, and economic stability. Active labor market programs, labor regulations, skills development, and links to social protection systems support human capital accumulation in the workplace by helping workers build skills through either wage or self-employment, access quality jobs, ensure safe and balanced working conditions, and manage transitions as economies evolve—combining opportunity with security. Community and local development anchor social policy in neighborhoods, where local institutions, service delivery, and social cohesion shape opportunity. By strengthening local capacity and resilience, improving access to services, supporting local economic opportunities, and linking community priorities with national policy, these approaches create environments that reinforce human capital development beyond the household and workplace. Together, social protection, labor markets, and community development form an integrated social policy framework that links protection, productivity, and participation. The merger reflects a shift from fragmented sectoral programs toward coherent social policies that support people across the life cycle—from childhood to old age—and across the spaces where human capital is built, deployed, and enhanced. The Social Policy Global Unit performs the following functions: Defining strategic directions and business plan for the Social Policy Global Department. Capturing and leveraging knowledge effectively across regions, and in collaboration with DEC. Developing and coordinating the policy and regulations that support the WBG’s strategic directions and deploying of impactful solutions globally. Coordinating global engagements, partnerships and convening efforts. International Labor Mobility and Global Skills Partnerships in Social Policy: International labor mobility holds significant potential for workers and their families, countries of origin, and destination countries alike, yet numerous and persistent challenges continue to prevent these benefits from being fully realized. Addressing this gap is at the heart of the World Bank's work in this space, as the institution consolidates its agenda to support better-managed cross-border migration that maximizes gains for all parties. Expanding access to global labor markets and building transferable skills are central to fostering inclusive economic growth and shared prosperity, aligned with the institution's goals to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity on a livable planet. The agenda integrates cross-border labor market development into the broader development agenda through knowledge sharing, analytical work, data, and good-practice guidance in alignment with corporate targets and across the Social Policy scalable solutions, including Global Skills Partnertships. Over FY27, the program stream will work on providing technical and advisory support to regional steam on bilateral labor agreements, and workforce development initiatives, while offering just-in-time support for project design and implementation plans across regions. The International Labor Mobility team also plays a strong role in networking and engaging with development partners, governments, and the private sector in strengthening knowledge and collaborative solutions on skills partnerships and the governance of labor migration. The ETC will play a core role in supporting the implementation and delivery of the Global Skills Partnership agenda with specific attention to (i) implementation of advisory and knowledge activities on international labor mobility; (ii) providing evidence, knowledge, and on-demand technical assistance on Global Skills Partnership under the SP scalable solutions; and (iii) internal and external dissemination and knowledge sharing on international labor mobility across verticals. The ETC will report to senior staff leading the International Labor Mobility thematic team, while collaborating across teams. Duties and Responsibilities: Specific responsibilities will include: Technical and knowledge support on delivery of scabable solutions and corporate targets Develop knowledge briefs, toolkits, and guidance materials on international labor mobility in the design and delivery of lending operations. Support task teams to improve the quality of labor mobility ASAs with relevant analysis, technical advice and policy guidance. Support the preparation of trust fund applications and seeking other funding to support non-lending activities on labor mobility. Knowledge sharing and partnerhips: Draft, edit, and refine a wide range of communications products, donor-facing materials, social media copy, results stories, blogs, briefing notes, speeches, event summaries, and other materials as needed. Represent the World Bank Group and Social Policy GP in external forums, when required, civil society engagement, and stakeholder consultations. Collaborate with regional teams to disseminate materials and surface ideas, challenges, and opportunities related to international labor mobility and Global Skills Partnerships with regional counterparts. Actively participate in the Global Social Policy (GSP) Community of Practice, contributing to peer learning, knowledge exchange, and the development of shared approaches across regions.