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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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd VPU Context: The Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) is the World Bank’s central reservoir of fresh insights into the most pressing challenges of development. It is led by the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, who advises the President and senior managers, serves as the community leader for the WBG’s economists, and helps to keep the institution in the forefront of thinking about development policy. DEC constitutes one of the world’s largest teams of economists focused on policy solutions for developing economies. Unit Context: The mission of the World Bank’s Development Data Group (DECDG) is to put data to work for development. DECDG aims to achieve this by improving the quality, accessibility and use of development data, for client countries, for staff, for academics, and more broadly for the general public, through technical expertise, partnership, and innovation. The selected candidate will primarily work with the Global Poverty and Inequality Data team within DECDG. The work will focus on improving data, methods, documentation, and tools at the heart of the global poverty monitoring exercise, in particular, by supporting the development of a harmonized global database with comprehensive subnational data on poverty and inequality. Duties and accountabilities:

• Lead the development of a global, highly-disaggregated, and up-to-date map of comparable poverty around the world. This tool will unify existing poverty maps and close existing data gaps by using innovative analytical methodologies that combine traditional household surveys and remote sensing data.
• Contribute to analytical work using the newly constructed database, especially on whether existing World Bank projects have been effectively allocated to reduce spatial inequalities.
• Work closely with other teams within the Data Group, particularly in the areas of geospatial data and geotagging of the World Bank’s current portfolio (i.e., assigning geographic coordinates to projects or data points). In the context of the World Bank, this means that projects in the current portfolio will be tagged with their precise location to better analyze their impact.
• Design, create and promote software/statistical packages that provide easy access to the harmonized global poverty data for users within and outside the World Bank Group.
• Contribute to publications (e.g. Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report), working papers, and corporate requests for on-demand analysis.
• Support the ongoing development of the Poverty and Inequality Platform and contribute to disseminating the global poverty numbers through blogs, infographics, briefs and dissemination events.
• Present and disseminate findings within the World Bank and to partner countries and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• As needed, contribute to the wider work of the team and the Development Data Group.