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Analyst

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Background and Context:

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)'s mission is to improve World Bank Group (WBG) development results through excellence in evaluation. IEG is responsible for the assessment of the relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of WBG operational policies, programs and activities, and their contribution to development effectiveness. IEG's evaluations aim to enhance accountability and learning to inform the formulation of new (and course corrections of ongoing) core work of the WBG.

IEG is directly responsible for:

- Proposing strategic choices about the IEG work program after consultations with external stakeholders, the Boards, and WBG management, ensuring it is relevant and aligned with the Institutions' key strategic priorities, overall resources, and with the main development challenges affecting its member countries.

- Evaluating whether the WBG Institutions' core work is producing the expected results, including global, regional, and other programs in which the institution(s) is a participant.

- Incorporating evaluation assessments and findings into recommendations designed to help improve the development effectiveness of the WBG's core work, and their responsiveness to member countries' needs and concerns.

- Reviewing the Institutions' operational self-evaluations.

- Reporting regularly to the Boards on actions taken by the institution(s) in response to evaluation findings, and on the measures, being taken to improve the overall operations evaluation system and enhance learning, including dissemination and outreach activities.

- Identifying, disseminating, and promoting the uptake of evaluation findings and lessons to maximize contributions to the WBG's learning and knowledge framework and reinforce learning and accountability within the WBG in reference to achieving the corporate goals.

- Contributing to the international evaluation community, including knowledge-sharing with other multilateral and bilateral institution

- Encouraging and assisting member countries to build effective monitoring and evaluation partnerships, capacities, and systems.

IEG's organizational structure comprises: The Office of the Director General, Evaluation (IEGDG) which includes the Methods Advisory Function (IEGMA); the Human Development and Economic Management Department (IEGHE); the Finance, Private Sector and Sustainable Development Department (IEGSP); and the Knowledge and Communications Department (IEGKC). Through the VP and Director General of Evaluation (DGE), IEG reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors.

Duties and responsibilities

IEG is looking for three Analysts to fulfill the responsibilities laid out below:

The analyst will perform data extraction, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, quantitative analysis, structured qualitative data analysis, writing, and data visualization tasks related to IEG products. They will also work with the IEG Methods Advisory Function team on application of text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and geospatial analysis.

Work is expected to include:

- Contribute intellectual content to design and implementation of evaluation, based on sound evaluation principles and methodologies. Contribute to the design of conceptual framework. Help develop and test hypotheses. - Extract World Bank and/or IFC operations and corporate data from internal information systems such as IEG DataHub, Standard Reports, Imagebank, and similar IFC systems. - Extract data on various macroeconomic and/or sectoral indicators from internal or external database and repositories. - Design analytical protocols and develop codebook(s). Analytical protocols and codebooks may be for portfolio identification, portfolio analysis, or other evaluative purposes. - Portfolio identification: conduct text searches and develop data extraction queries to identify operations relevant to an evaluation, taking the evaluation questions and conceptual framework for the evaluation as guidance in consultation with evaluation team. - Portfolio review: collect, manage and process data and documents related to evaluation questions. This may include coding of narrative data such as interviews or project documents. Arrive at final datasets suitable for analysis. - Portfolio analysis: create tables and charts to produce descriptive statistics as needed as well as to explore analytical questions and to show findings. Create diagrams and data visualizations in summarizing quantitative evidence in clear convincing graphs and concise text, as needed. Propose and conduct more systematic analyses based on coded portfolio and external data that help answer evaluation questions including econometric analyses and/or other methods in the machine learning menu. - Geotagging: collect and prepare data on projects’ implementation locations from internal operations data systems for geospatial analysis of portfolio. For operations with missing geolocation data, extract relevant information from project documents. - Work with the IEG Methods Advisory Function team to develop and apply data science techniques for portfolio identification, review, and analysis, including geospatial analysis, text mining, supervised text classification, text clustering/ topic modeling, and generative AI models. - Prepare and share data visualizations and dashboards to communicate findings of Portfolio Review and Analysis (PRA) work or other findings as required for IEG products. - Prepare evaluation portfolio data packages based on the IEG data package requirements. - Participate in brainstorming meetings with TTLs and other team members. - Contribute to case study analysis. - Contribute to the drafting and editing of reports and communication materials. - Write appendix(es) or background papers to report on analysis. - Write summaries, sections, or paragraphs for main report. - Proofread and enter text edits in report documents as needed. - Draft text for blog posts and similar online outreach. - Respond to requests for data and related information from other IEG teams and from World Bank Group units. - Orient new team members to tasks, datasets, documents, and other information as needed. - Contribute to the dissemination of findings, e.g., prepare message driven PowerPoint presentations, blogs, etc. supported by quantitative and qualitative data and evidence. - Other tasks as agreed with Task Team Leader or Manager.

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Background and Context:

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)'s mission is to improve World Bank Group (WBG) development results through excellence in evaluation. IEG is responsible for the assessment of the relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of WBG operational policies, programs and activities, and their contribution to development effectiveness. IEG's evaluations aim to enhance accountability and learning to inform the formulation of new (and course corrections of ongoing) core work of the WBG.

IEG is directly responsible for:

IEG's organizational structure comprises: The Office of the Director General, Evaluation (IEGDG) which includes the Methods Advisory Function (IEGMA); the Human Development and Economic Management Department (IEGHE); the Finance, Private Sector and Sustainable Development Department (IEGSP); and the Knowledge and Communications Department (IEGKC). Through the VP and Director General of Evaluation (DGE), IEG reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors.

Duties and responsibilities

IEG is looking for three Analysts to fulfill the responsibilities laid out below:

The analyst will perform data extraction, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, quantitative analysis, structured qualitative data analysis, writing, and data visualization tasks related to IEG products. They will also work with the IEG Methods Advisory Function team on application of text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and geospatial analysis.

Work is expected to include:

Selection Criteria

Essential skills and technical knowledge:

- Experience in working with World Bank, IFC, MIGA and/or other MDB’s operations data. Working knowledge of World Bank, IFC, MIGA instruments and project life cycles and milestones, and operations policies and procedures. - Experience in working with cross-country macroeconomic and/or sectoral data, and knowledge of relevant databases for such data (e.g., WDI, WEO, WGI, HMIE, EIU, Datastream, and Bloomberg). - Excellent command of Excel - Proficiency in the use of statistical language (e.g., R), statistical software packages (e.g., Stata) or programming language (e.g., Python) - Proficiency in data visualization is essential. Knowledge of PowerBI and / or Tableau for data visualization and dashboard development is desirable.

Desirable skills and technical knowledge:

- Knowledge of relevant R and/or Python libraries/packages for machine learning, geospatial analysis, and text mining/ natural language processing. Knowledge of SQL is desirable. Knowledge of other programming languages such as C/C++ is desirable. - Knowledge of machine learning theory and implementation in relevant R and/or Python libraries, specifically natural language processing, generative AI, image processing. - Experience in working with different types of APIs is a plus, as is experience in web scraping. - Knowledge of statistical and econometric modeling techniques. Knowledge of causal inference techniques and counterfactual analysis. - Use of appropriate methods to analyze data. This may include case-based analysis, cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis, computer assisted qualitative data analysis and financial analysis. - Understanding of the main concepts in development evaluation (e.g. theory of change, results frameworks, process evaluations, summative evaluations, etc.).

- Experience in working with World Bank internal data systems (e.g., Standard Reports, Operations Workspace).

General Competencies

- Strong analytical and conceptual skills demonstrated by relevant experience and results. - Ability to work flexibly and quickly, sometimes under tight deadlines, on a range of tasks, being able to adjust to evolving priorities. - Excellent written and oral English communications skills and ability to quickly draft and prepare technical reports for the review of more senior colleagues. - Strong interpersonal communication and listening skills, and awareness of one’s own assumptions and biases. - Ability to work respectfully and constructively in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment that values diversity. - Resourcefulness, creativity, and ability to request information clearly and diplomatically. - Ability to work efficiently and independently with little supervision, as well as ability to work constructively under supervision.

Minimum Education / Experience

- Master’s degree in social sciences with a quantitative focus such as economics, sociology, political science, public policy, or related field. Bachelors’ degree in quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, or engineering is a plus. - Three (3) years of work experience in international development operations, research, evaluation, data management, or data analysis.

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Desirable skills and technical knowledge:

General Competencies

Minimum Education / Experience

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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