E T Consultant

Job #: req38962
Organization: World Bank Group
Sector:
Grade: EC3
Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Chennai,India
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 10/30/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

At 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 www.worldbank.org.
The Infrastructure, PPPs, and Advisory Department
Effective January 1, 2026, the World Bank Group (WBG) consolidated the capabilities of International Development Association (IDA), International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) to strengthen its ability to deliver targeted policy expertise and scalable solutions to both public and private sector clients. As part of this transformation, a new Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships, and Advisory (IPA) Department has been established, bringing together teams from IFC and the World Bank's Infrastructure Finance Department, including the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (QII), the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), and PPP Transaction Advisory. This integrated platform positions the WBG as a global leader in enabling private sector participation in infrastructure and public service delivery. By combining upstream policy support, knowledge, and transaction structuring under a single umbrella, the department provides a clear entry point for government clients seeking to mobilize private capital and expertise to deliver high-quality, sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
PPIAF is the only global facility dedicated to strengthening the foundation of governments in emerging markets and developing countries to promote sustainable infrastructure with private participation. Since 1999, PPIAF has been helping governments develop the policies, laws, regulations, institutions, and capacity needed to encourage private investment in infrastructure. PPIAF is a global, multi-donor trust fund dedicated to strengthening institutions to promote sustainable infrastructure with private participation and enable market finance for sub-national entities. PPIAF provides grant funding for support to EMDE governments in the areas of market creation and institution building, policy and regulatory reforms, early development of a range of public-private partnership (PPP) options and improving the creditworthiness of state-owned enterprises and municipal entities, as well as funding a wide range of related knowledge products.
PPIAF is also transitioning the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) into its operational structure. The GI Hub has played a critical role in informing global infrastructure decision makers and bringing together a wide range of stakeholders including G20 governments; government policymakers; multilateral development banks; senior leaders in private investment, consultancy, and engineering; regulators; international organizations; and infrastructure practitioners from the public and private sectors. By joining PPIAF and the WBG, the GI Hub will ensure the sustainability of the data, resources and tools it established and develop a new generation of resources by leveraging WBG knowledge and resources, enabling it to continue its mandate to improve access to knowledge and data to inform the delivery of sustainable, inclusive, and resilient infrastructure and to work closely to support the G20 infrastructure agenda.
Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership
The QII Partnership is a programmatic single-donor trust fund supported by the Government of Japan and housed within the PPP Group. The QII Partnership was established to promote sustainable, resilient infrastructure investments in WB operations. The Partnership supports a wide array of activities in line with the G20 QII Principles,



with a strong focus on helping client countries build resilience against natural disasters and climate change. The team works across a wide range of sectors (with designated focal points in the Urban, Water, Transport, Energy, Digital and Governance Practice Groups) to generate grant opportunities and disseminate knowledge and best practice on QII.
Transaction Advisory
IFC's Transaction Advisory department (CTA) helps national and municipal governments partner with the private sector to improve access to quality public services across sectors such as education, health, electricity, transport, and water and sanitation. CTA conducts detailed due diligence and supports government clients to design PPP transactions, take them to bid, and finalize agreements between public and private partners. The role of CTA Global is to support implementation of regional strategies by providing global expertise, quality assurance and business development support. CTA Global serves as the focal point for CTA input on policy matters that affect CTA business across the regions, coordinates knowledge management, disseminates standards to strengthen bankability, and coordinates across key WBG stakeholders such as MIGA, the Knowledge Bank, and World Bank Operations. It also coordinates with the Partnerships team on overall donor relationship management, reporting and fundraising.
Duties and Accountabilities
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and dynamic team and apply artificial intelligence, automation and modern collaboration technology to the way the Infrastructure, PPPs and Advisory Department manages its knowledge, reports on its results and finances, and serves its staff. The AI & Data Automation ET Consultant will work across PPIAF, QII and CTA to design and deliver secure, scalable digital solutions that convert 15 years of institutional knowledge into readily accessible insight and replace manual, time-intensive reporting processes with accurate, automated workflows. The consultant will work with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including business teams, the Information Technology Solutions (ITS) vice presidency, the IFC Dashboard team, Communications and Knowledge Management colleagues, and Finance and Operations staff, and is expected to operate with a high degree of independence on technical matters.
The AI & Data Automation ET Consultant will:
A. AI Knowledge Management, Automation and Enterprise Search• Serve as technical lead for the design, build and rollout of an AI-powered Knowledge Assistant for the PPIAF team, enabling conversational, source-cited retrieval of 15 years of institutional knowledge, operational guidance, project documentation and lessons learned.• Define the AI solution architecture, automation strategy and enterprise deployment approach, including data ingestion, indexing, retrieval and response-generation components, and the model and platform choices that fit WBG-approved environments.• Coordinate with ITS, Power Platform teams and business stakeholders to ensure secure data integration, access controls, governance and compliance with WBG information security, privacy and AI risk management requirements.• Design AI-driven knowledge retrieval and document intelligence solutions (for example, document classification, metadata enrichment, summarization and extraction) that improve the findability and reuse of project documents and knowledge products.• Keep abreast of developments in WBG-approved AI tools and services and advise management on opportunities, limitations and risks.
B. Automated Reporting for IPA PPP Businesses: Financial and Operational Workflows• Using data from the IFC Dashboard, design and implement a secure, web-based data collection system (Power Apps / SharePoint) to enable reporting on key performance indicators, results (including private capital mobilization), and financials (budget, fees, expenses and related items). Coordinate this work closely with the IFC Dashboard team to ensure consistency of definitions, data lineage and reporting standards.• Gather and document business requirements from program managers, M&E;, finance and management; translate them into data models, forms, workflows and reporting views.• Explore and, where feasible,



implement the automated integration of financial data from SAP to provide a near real-time financial overview of the business, working with Finance and ITS colleagues on data access and controls.• Maintain and enhance CTA-specific platforms, including the CTA Dashboard and the CTA Front Office Calendar.• Develop automated data pipelines and Power Automate flows to replace manual data consolidation, improve data accuracy, strengthen data quality controls and reduce reporting turnaround time.• Support the preparation of dashboards and data visualizations for management, donor and results reporting.• Ensure performance tuning, technical documentation and end-user training for all deployed systems, and provide ongoing user support and troubleshooting.
C. SharePoint and Intranet Support• Lead user interface and user experience (UI/UX) enhancements for internal SharePoint-based knowledge platforms, drawing on user feedback and usage analytics.• Partner with Communications and Knowledge Management teams on intranet content structure, navigation, functionality and version control.• Help design and implement features and processes that prevent broken links to documents (for example, durable linking, redirects and link-monitoring routines).• Support content governance, including site ownership, permissions, metadata standards and lifecycle management, and ensure responsiveness to team feedback.
D. Additional Technical Support• Provide support for other technology tools and solutions in response to ad hoc requests from the department.• Contribute to knowledge sharing and capacity building by training colleagues on the tools deployed and by documenting approaches that can be adopted by other teams.

Selection Criteria

Education/Experience:• Master's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in a field such as computer science, data science, information systems, engineering or a related discipline.
AI and knowledge solutions:• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing AI-enabled solutions, such as retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise search, conversational assistants or document intelligence, ideally in a secure enterprise or institutional setting.• Understanding of responsible AI practices, data governance, information security and privacy considerations.
Automation and reporting:• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) and SharePoint, including building forms, workflows, data pipelines and dashboards.• Experience with data modeling and integration across systems, with exposure to ERP or financial systems (such as SAP) an advantage.• Proficiency in scripting or programming (for example, Python or SQL) for data processing and automation.
Solution delivery:• Proven ability to lead technical solutions from requirements through design, testing and deployment, following a structured Dev, QA and Production process, with strong technical documentation and user training skills.• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.Collaboration and client orientation:• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and collaborate effectively with ITS, business, finance, communications and knowledge management colleagues across different time zones and cultures.
Institutional experience:• Familiarity with World Bank Group operations, systems and information technology environment, or similar international organizations, is an advantage. Knowledge of infrastructure, PPPs or development finance is a plus.
Fluency in English is required.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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