MNA Fellow

INT is one of the corporate functions of WBG and it contributes to the WBG’s overall mission in alleviating poverty and achieving shared and sustainable prosperity in client countries. INT is central to the WBG’s anticorruption efforts to ensure accountability involving its financial resources. INT’s mission is to detect, deter, and prevent fraud and corruption in WBG’s operations to ensure that those resources are deployed effectively to benefit the intended recipient. In contributing to the WBG’s overall mission, INT works closely with other stakeholders across the WBG to: 1. Detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in WBG-supported projects and activities by:

• Professionally investigating allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, or obstruction (the five WBG-sanctionable practices) in WBG-funded activities.
• Seeking WBG sanctions against firms and individuals that have engaged in sanctionable practice(s);
• Using information available to INT to contribute to the operational design and implementation of projects that reduce fraud and corruption risks.
• Working with operational colleagues and other oversight and control units to help prevent fraud and corruption in operations by distilling lessons learned from investigative findings, developing effective risk identification and management tools, preparing remedial recommendations at the project and institutional level to address integrity risks and issues identified through investigations, and by ensuring timely disclosure to the Board of risks identified through ongoing or recently completed investigations that are of relevance to new operations presented to the Board for approval;
• Conducting detailed fiduciary reviews of Bank-financed projects in collaboration with WBG operations using forensic methodology to detect indicators of fraud or corruption and address fraud and corruption risks as early as possible for effective project outcomes.
• Working with sanctioned entities through INT’s integrity compliance office in supporting and monitoring their efforts to put in place appropriate integrity compliance programs to raise their integrity standards and reduce risks associated with their operations following their release from sanction. 2. Assist Client Countries in their fight against fraud and corruption by:
• Referring investigative findings to the investigative and enforcement authorities in Client Countries and working with authorities, as requested, to follow-up and act.
• Supporting Client Country counterparts with their preventive and integrity risk mitigation efforts at project and policy levels.
• Contributing to client country capacity development in preventive and forensic techniques.
• Participating in multilateral efforts to mitigate the risks of fraud or corruption in development activities.
• Mining the lessons learned from investigations to deliver training and outreach programs; and
• Strengthening the WBG’s internal controls environment. 3. Enforce the highest standards of professional integrity, and ethical behavior among WBG staff and corporate vendors by:
• Investigating allegations of fraud and corruption; and
• Mining lessons learned from those investigations to undertake training and outreach programs and strengthen the WBG’s internal controls environment. Reducing fraud and corruption in WBG projects helps to ensure that WBG funds are used for their intended purposes: to alleviate poverty and to increase prosperity and stability in our client countries. Working with partners in international development institutions, INT’s principal goal is to measurably minimize the loss of development assistance funds to fraud and corruption and increase the effectiveness of the WBG’s development work. To ensure its independence, INT’s Vice President (VP) reports directly to the President of the WBG. Duties and Responsibilities The MNA Fellow will contribute to the investigation of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion and obstruction involving WBG operations. The MNA Fellow will be under the supervision of INT’s Manager, External Investigations - Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific, and Africa East/South (INTEE) and will:
• Develop and manage investigative strategies, plans and processes.
• Support or lead investigations (which at times may be both major and/or complex) – collect testimonial, documentary, photographic, visual and physical evidence through witness and subject interviews, company audits, site visits, database and open-source research, document analyses and integrity risk reviews.
• Develop stand-alone work plans and work as a sole contributor as well as part of a larger team working on several different cases within assigned portfolio in a prioritized manner.
• Be part of a team leading investigative processes – sometimes as a case leader; and lead/participate in INT investigative missions and collaborate with mission teams.
• Collaborate with WBG operational colleagues including Task Teams, perform site visits, identify and debrief sources, and explore various INT databases to help identify real or perceived operational risks that can lead to pro-active case (a case not entirely based on a complaint) development.
• Prepare, manage and deliver high quality case (Fact Memos, Investigative Plans, Interview Records, Notes to File and related case memos) and related investigative (Show Cause Letters, Final Investigative Reports, and all related briefing notes and memos) work products, in a thorough and timely manner.
• Produce clear, concise and compelling reports and briefs.
• Prepare, present and convincingly discuss investigative findings, conclusions and recommendations at senior levels.
• Collaborate very closely with: o INT’s Litigation Unit (SLU) to contribute to the preparation of Statements of Accusations and Evidence (SAEs), Settlement Agreements, Referral Reports, and Evidence Binders; and in preparing work products for the WBG’s sanction system. o INT’s Preventive Services Unit (PSU) in performing outreach initiatives, including by scheduling, planning and delivering preventative and lessons learned training with regional operational staff and partners and contributing actively to the identification and mitigation of regional integrity risks on a proactive basis. o Integrity Compliance Office (ICO) for successful completion of Settlement Agreements. o INT’s Internal Investigation Unit (IIU) to assess, strategize and, if necessary, jointly investigate hybrid cases (cases that have components that are both internal to WBG and external entities). o Relevant national authorities when necessary for successful conclusion of a case(s);
• Develop an INT outreach plan for the various regions, as well as training materials for internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform any other tasks as may be assigned for the successful operation of INT.