*** If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 4 year renewable term appointment. ***
World Bank Institute
The World Bank Institute (WBI) recently underwent a far-reaching renewal, transforming itself from a retail training institute to a modern institution providing innovative services. WBI’s new mission is to catalyze change for development results, leveraging WBG finance. It does this by strengthening the capacity of government and non-government stakeholders to collectively solve development challenges through three interlinked clusters of support: Open Knowledge, connecting them to global knowledge & learning on the “how” of reform; Innovative Solutions, scanning & incubating innovations to help them tackle key development challenges; and Collaborative Governance, enabling them to mobilize and coalesce for collective action. Programs mobilize different combinations of the three clusters to galvanize & inspire stakeholders to achieve results.
WBI Innovation Labs
This job announcement concerns the position of Director for WBI’s cluster of services related to Innovative Solutions. One of the top-performing teams within the World Bank Group, this department has successfully incubated in just a few years and in partnership with others such transformative innovations as the Bank’s Open Data Initiative—increasing public access to World Bank data, Mapping for Results—geocoding all IDA and IBRD projects, the Open Development Technology Alliance—a knowledge & engagement platform to mobilize innovative technologies to collect citizen feedback, Development Marketplace 2.0—the next generation instrument to support the scale up of social enterprises, and Apps for Development—and other competitions crowd-sourcing innovation. With its exponential growth in the past few years, this department is now providing an integrated set of services designed to solve some of the most difficult challenges in development. Areas targeted for innovation reflect corporate priorities and country demand; for the medium term, a key focus is incubating approaches for collecting beneficiary feedback using mobile, geo-spatial and social media. The Director will be part of WBI’s Senior Management Team, working very closely with other WBI departments, and report directly to its Vice President.
Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 4 year renewable term appointment.
Director, Innovation Labs
Director, Innovation Labs
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