Digital Development Specialist - Washington, United States - IFC Systems Corporation

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Description

Digital Development Specialist

Job #:

- req27129
Organization:


  • World Bank
    Sector:
  • Digital Development
    Grade:
  • GF
    Term Duration:
  • 3 years 0 months
    Recruitment Type:
  • International Recruitment
    Location:
  • Washington, DC,United States
    Required Language(s):
  • English
    Preferred Language(s):
  • French, Portuguese, Spanish and/or Arabic
    Closing Date:
  • 4/29/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
    Description

Digital Development Global Practice


Digital technologies are transforming firms, governments and people's lives; and with the digital economy growing at a rate significantly higher than that of the global economy, it offers emerging economies a unique opportunity to leapfrog traditional paths for development through digital solutions.

Collaborating across technical, geographic, and institutional boundaries, the Digital Development Global Practice (DD) team helps design and deliver digitally enhanced solutions aimed at harnessing the full potential of digital transformation.

This requires decisive policy action to mobilize private investment, promote competition in digital markets and support the rollout of infrastructure in commercially unviable areas.

It also entails working with client countries to develop digital platforms, strengthen digital safeguards to manage data protection and privacy as well as cyber security risks, and leverage the potential of digital technologies to enhance environmental sustainability.


DD works across a range of topics, including broadband connectivity, access, and use; digital public infrastructure (DPI); data governance and protection; cybersecurity; AI and big data; data hosting and cloud computing; and digital and climate.

In addition to these business lines, the GP also supports accelerating digital use across sectors, such as digital government services, social protection, energy, healthcare, and agriculture.

The roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

The Opportunity


The ID4D initiative, and digital public infrastructure more generally, are facing growing demand and are undergoing rapid transformation, which is creating new needs to understand emerging good practices, trends, and innovations and to translate this into actionable information for task teams and client countries.


As a result, the team is looking for a Digital Development Specialist to be based in Washington, DC to help countries effectively build and operate identification and DPI systems, contribute to or lead new research, analytics, and thought leadership strategies.

The position will report to the Program Manager for IDD03.


Duties and Accountabilities
The Digital Development Specialist will contribute to ID4D and DPI's three pillars of work, including (1)

K
nowledge:

developing analytical products, tools, and research; (2)
Action: supporting countries and regions to implement good practices; and (3)
Convening: building partnerships, norms, and public goods.

Key elements will include, but are not limited to the following areas:

The DD Global Practice is led by a Director supported by several Practice and Program Managers with specific regional and thematic responsibilities.

The IDD03 unit is responsible for two cross-GP Initiatives—ID4D and G2Px—and business lines related to broader DPI, data protection and governance, AI and big data, and ICT industry and jobs.


Identification for Development Initiative


The World Bank Group's Identification for Development (ID4D) Cross-GP Initiative was launched in 2015 to leverage global knowledge and expertise across sectors to help countries realize the transformational potential of identification (ID) and civil registration (CR) systems to achieve the SDGs.

ID4D is solving the challenge that an estimated 850 million people globally are still unable to prove who they are, and many more have forms of ID that cannot be reliably verified or authenticated, or fail to adequately protect people's right and data.

Without a secure and trusted way to prove ones' identity, people struggle to open a bank account, enroll in school, access health and social services, or obtain a mobile phone.

The poorest and most vulnerable often face the highest risk of being excluded.

In the digital age, the lack of inclusive and trusted ID systems creates challenges for fully leveraging the opportunities being created through digital government and the digital economy, such as e-commerce, digital financial services and cross-border transactions.


ID4D sits within DD but operates across the World Bank Group with global practices and units working on digital development, social protection, health, financial inclusion, governance, gender, agriculture, data protection, social inclusion, research, and others.

The initiative currently works with more than 50 countries supporting over $2.4 billion in active and pipeline financing. In collaboration with other teams, the ID4D Initiative i
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