Senior Digital Development Specialist

Do you need to construct a profession that’s actually worthwhile? Working on the World Financial institution Group supplies a singular alternative so that you can assist our purchasers remedy their biggest improvement challenges. The World Financial institution Group is among the largest sources of funding and information for growing nations; a singular international partnership of 5 establishments devoted to ending excessive poverty, rising shared prosperity and selling sustainable improvement. With 189 member nations and greater than 120 places of work worldwide, we work with private and non-private sector companions, investing in groundbreaking tasks and utilizing information, analysis, and expertise to develop options to probably the most pressing international challenges. 

Globally, 840 million individuals stay greater than 2 kilometers from all-weather roads, 1 billion individuals lack electrical energy, and 4 billion individuals lack Web entry. Entry to primary infrastructure companies is crucial for creating financial alternatives for the poor. The Infrastructure Follow Group is charged with growing sustainable options to assist shut infrastructure gaps in growing and rising economies. The World Financial institution Group helps growing nations construct sensible infrastructure that helps inclusive and sustainable progress, expands markets, creates job alternatives, promotes competitors, and contributes to a cleaner future. We assist nations handle their distinctive infrastructure wants by working with the private and non-private sectors. 

The Digital Growth (DD) World Follow performs a crucial position in enabling the achievement of World Financial institution’s mission of making a world freed from poverty on a livable planet and the Sustainable Growth Objectives. Digital applied sciences are reworking companies, governments, and folks’s lives; and with the digital financial system rising at a fee considerably greater than that of the worldwide financial system, it gives rising economies a singular alternative to leapfrog conventional paths for improvement by means of digital options.

Collaborating throughout technical, geographic, and institutional boundaries, the DD group helps design and ship digitally enhanced options geared toward harnessing the total potential of digital transformation. This requires decisive coverage motion to mobilize non-public funding, promote competitors in digital markets and assist the rollout of infrastructure in commercially unviable areas. It additionally entails working with shopper nations to develop digital platforms, strengthen digital safeguards to handle information safety and privateness in addition to cyber safety dangers, and leverage the potential of digital applied sciences to boost environmental sustainability.

The DD World Follow has been led by a Director, supported by a number of Follow Managers and Program Managers (PMs) with particular regional duties and international duties. The DD World Follow has lately launched Enterprise Strains (BLs) to construction nation and regional engagements, analysis, and international engagement.

The cybersecurity BL group helps growing nations and World Financial institution process groups on finest follow insurance policies, methods and approaches to construct capability to guard/improve resilience of crucial infrastructure and techniques, enhance cyber consciousness and foster safety and belief so that individuals, governments, and companies entry protected infrastructure, information platforms, digital applied sciences and thrive in immediately’s digital panorama.  This consists of key workstreams on cybersecurity governance and establishments, danger administration and important infrastructure safety, incident response and preparedness, abilities improvement and consciousness elevating, cyber business improvement, and cross-border cyber collaboration. 

Duties and Accountabilities:

• The DD World Follow is in search of a Sr. Digital Growth Specialist to be the World Lead of the Cybersecurity Enterprise Line (BL), together with working with the Program Supervisor and Cyber BL group to form the technique and work program, scaling up thought management and international engagement on this agenda, supporting information era, sharing and adoption of finest practices in our shopper engagements, and constructing a cohesive and excessive performing enterprise line group.  Key parts will embrace, however are usually not restricted to the next areas:
• Defining and executing a strategic imaginative and prescient: Assist develop the cybersecurity BL’s strategic imaginative and prescient and translate it right into a forward-looking, evidence-based, sensible, and related product providing and program of nation engagement, international engagement, and information.
• Creating and curating international information and thought management: Lead and/or contribute to cutting-edge analytical and information merchandise, analysis tasks, and information assortment efforts designed to extend international proof and information, making certain the cybersecurity BL and DD World Follow are on the forefront of this improvement agenda.
• Supporting shopper engagement: Present and/or coordinate deployment of cybersecurity coverage, technical and operational experience in assist of a variety of shopper engagements together with technical help and coverage dialogue in addition to design and implementation of cybersecurity funding packages.
• Speaking and sharing information: Successfully talk the BL’s information, thought management and the World Financial institution’s engagement program on cybersecurity to numerous audiences, together with key inner and exterior stakeholders, purchasers, beneficiaries, normal public, inner and exterior companions; Successfully characterize the BL in nationwide, regional, and international fora.
• Constructing partnerships: Foster and construct partnerships with related stakeholders, together with with growing nation governments, improvement companions (e.g., bilateral donors, foundations, UN companies), non-public sector firms and foundations, tutorial establishments and suppose tanks.
• Constructing and main a group: Assist construct an efficient BL group together with assist for figuring out and attracting expertise, serving to construction a piece program and group assignments, mentoring and training BL affiliated employees and consultants.

Choice Standards:

• Masters or PhD in Cybersecurity or different related subject (Expertise, Public Coverage, Regulation, Economics, or different).
• Acknowledged experience within the subject of Cybersecurity. Strong expertise advising Governments on Cybersecurity (particularly in growing nations). Related information of analytical instruments and understanding of establishments, insurance policies and rules within the subject of cybersecurity.
• No less than 8-10 years of related expertise in positions of accelerating complexity and accountability in each operational and advisory capability.
• Wonderful analytical, writing and enhancing abilities with sturdy monitor report of publications or information merchandise, and main analytical work, studies and groups.
• Demonstrated in-depth expertise and monitor report of outcomes and efficiently working throughout departments, practices, disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
• Wonderful shopper engagement abilities and expertise, capable of perceive and adapt to shopper wants; being balanced and politically astute.
• Efficient communication abilities together with the power to talk articulately and persuasively.
• Sturdy sense of technique, together with means to prioritize and exit actions and engagements; monitor report in streamlining and rationalizing product choices.
• Good partnership expertise, together with involving a number of stakeholders – each private and non-private – in constructing collaborative alliances for outcomes.
• Main supplier of improvement options for purchasers; present management in Each information era and information sharing.
• Function-modeling the change and values for WBG; demonstrating braveness of convictions, possession, and self-mastery throughout the group in accordance with our values.
• Sturdy outcomes orientation, persistence, endurance, and optimistic perspective.

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