E T Consultant

Background General Description: At the World Bank, 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. For more information, visit International Bank for Recons truction and Development . This position is a one-year Extended Term Consultant (ETC) contract based in Washington, DC, with a start date of December 16, 2026 and an end date of December 15, 2027, with the possibility of extension for an additional year subject to project funding, business need, and satisfactory performance, up to the lifetime maximum of three years for all Extended Term appointments. 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 changes around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org. VPU Context: The World Bank Group serves 30 client countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LCR). Clients range from large rapidly growing sophisticated middle-income clients to IDA countries to small Caribbean states to one fragile state. Despite immense resources, dynamic societies, and an average annual per capita income of nearly $9,000, deep inequalities persist in most LCR countries, with nearly a quarter of the Region's people living in poverty. The Bank's strategy in LCR is focused on five pillars: (a) stimulating growth and improving competitiveness; (b) reducing poverty and inequality; (c) making governments and institutions work for people; (d) providing a platform for tackling global issues (climate change, trade, disease, migration), and (e) reducing risk, whether from extreme weather events, climate change, crime and violence or other. Unit Context: The Office of the Chief Economist provides guidance on strategic priorities and technical quality of economic analysis in the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). The Office generates timely and relevant knowledge on policy and institutional reforms in the region. It produces research articles and reports on the most pressing development issues facing the continent and fosters a community of economists interested in Latin America and the Caribbean, within the World Bank and with external audiences. This mission is accomplished through:

• Advising on country and sectoral strategies.
• Quality enhancement of economic justification and analysis in adjustment and investment lending.
• Ensuring relevance, coherence and quality of non-lending services.
• Developing and disseminating regional economic studies.
• Serving as principal regional spokesperson inside and outside the Bank on strategic and economic issues facing the region. More information at: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac/brief/lac-chief-economist. Duties and accountabilities: The selected candidate will provide support to the Chief Economist Office with its program in labor economics, artificial intelligence, gender gaps, inequality, development, and climate change adaptation in preparation of their respective regional studies and policy-oriented research. Responsibilities include:
• Assist the staff of the Chief Economist Office with analytical work such as collection of data, revision of literature, development of econometric estimates, and preparation of background notes for Regional Studies as well as other tasks undertaken by the Office.
• Identification, compilation, cleaning, and organization of large-scale databases suitable for the study of relevant topics, including panel datasets, household and labor surveys, administrative records, and geospatial, climate, and environmental datasets (including satellite imagery).
• Conduct econometric analysis to the extent that it helps clarify and reinforce a point in a presentation, working paper, or report, especially applied microeconometrics, panel data methods, spatial data analysis, and impact evaluation models to assess causal effects.
• Review of academic literature on particular topics and on their respective empirical and theoretical developments as applied to developing countries, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on labor economics, artificial intelligence, gender gaps and inequality, education and social mobility, and environmental and health economics.
• Write efficient, reproducible code across all stages of the research process for microdata cleaning, descriptive and spatial analysis, and microeconometric modeling.
• Help with analytical work and other tasks conducted by the Office, such as quality enhancement comments, data analysis for monitoring social programs and quality-of-life indicators, dissemination strategies, as well as more research-oriented studies.