E T Consultant

Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org . The analyst will perform data extraction, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, quantitative analysis, structured qualitative data analysis, writing, and data visualization tasks related to IEG products. They will also work with the IEG Methods Advisory Function team on application of text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and geospatial analysis. Work is expected to include:

• Contribute intellectual content to design and implementation of evaluation, based on sound evaluation principles and methodologies. Contribute to the design of conceptual framework. Help develop and test hypotheses.
• Extract World Bank and/or IFC operations and corporate data from internal information systems such as IEG DataHub, Standard Reports, Imagebank, and similar IFC systems.
• Extract data on various macroeconomic and/or sectoral indicators from internal or external databases and repositories.
• Design analytical protocols and develop codebook(s). Analytical protocols and codebooks may be for portfolio identification, portfolio analysis, or other evaluation purposes.
• Portfolio identification: conduct text searches and develop data extraction queries to identify operations relevant to an evaluation, taking the evaluation questions and conceptual framework for the evaluation as guidance in consultation with evaluation team.
• Portfolio review: collect, manage and process data and documents related to evaluation questions. This may include coding of narrative data such as interviews or project documents. Arrive at final datasets suitable for analysis.
• Portfolio analysis: create tables and charts to produce descriptive statistics as needed as well as to explore analytical questions and to show findings. Create diagrams and data visualizations in summarizing quantitative evidence in clear convincing graphs and concise text, as needed. Propose and conduct more systematic analyses based on coded portfolio and external data that help answer evaluation questions including econometric analyses and/or other methods in the machine learning menu.
• Geotagging: collect and prepare data on projects’ implementation locations from internal operations data systems for geospatial analysis of portfolio. For operations with missing geolocation data, extract relevant information from project documents.
• Work with the IEG Methods Advisory Function team to develop and apply data science techniques for portfolio identification, review, and analysis, including geospatial analysis, text mining, supervised text classification, text clustering/ topic modeling, and generative AI models.
• Prepare and share data visualizations and dashboards to communicate findings of Portfolio Review and Analysis (PRA) work or other findings as required for IEG products.
• Prepare evaluation portfolio data packages based on the IEG data package requirements.
• Participate in brainstorming meetings with TTLs and other team members.
• Contribute to case study analysis.
• Contribute to the drafting and editing of reports and communication materials.
• Write appendix (es) or background papers to report on analysis.
• Write summaries, sections, or paragraphs for main report.
• Proofread and enter text edits in report documents as needed.
• Draft text for blog posts and similar online outreach.
• Respond to requests for data and related information from other IEG teams and from World Bank Group units.
• Orient new team members to tasks, datasets, documents, and other information as needed.
• Contribute to the dissemination of findings, e.g., prepare message driven PowerPoint presentations, blogs, etc. supported by quantitative and qualitative data and evidence.
• Other tasks as agreed with Task Team Leader or Manager.