World Bank Group

All organisations · Related organisation · Related and affiliated organisations

Where it posts vacancies

www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers

What it hires

• Economists (country, sector and research)
• Sector specialists (energy, transport, health, education, governance, climate)
• Finance, investment and risk professionals (IFC especially)
• Operations officers managing lending portfolios

Contract types

Open-ended and term staff appointments under the WBG's own system; Short-Term Consultant (STC) contracts as the high-volume flexible modality; structured early-career programmes.

Headquarters and footprint

Washington DC HQ; country offices in most client countries, with growing decentralisation of staff to the field.

Before you apply

Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers. This entry was last verified 2026-06.

What the full directory adds

Enrolled students get the rest of this entry: how the portal actually behaves and where applications die in it, what the organisation is like to work in, the mistakes that recur in applications to it, and the realistic route in at each level. See what is included.

Also in related and affiliated organisations

• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)