ET Consultant – Data Analyst

ET Consultant – Data Analyst

Job #

req37491

Organization

World Bank

Sector

Health/Nutrition/Population

Grade

EC1

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type

Local Recruitment

Location

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s)

English

Preferred Language(s)

Closing Date

7/24/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. 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, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. 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.

Context and Organizational Unit

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG helps solve the world’s greatest development challenges. In 2026, the WBG launched the Knowledge Bank — a WBG-wide institutional transformation that fundamentally reshapes how the institution generates, shares, and applies knowledge across its public and private sector work. The Knowledge Bank is organized around five cross-institutional Verticals — People, Planet, Prosperity, Infrastructure, and Digital and AI — each bringing together IBRD/IDA and IFC teams under a unified structure to develop enabling policies and scale proven solutions. The People Vice Presidency promotes investment in people, delivering knowledge for impact and public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across health, education and skills, social policy, and gender to build human capital and drive economic growth and job creation, using the Jobs Framework approaches that improve infrastructure, policies, regulations, and private capital.

Global Health Directorate

The Global Health Directorate leads the WBG's health agenda, partnering with governments and the private sector to strengthen health systems, improve health outcomes, and accelerate progress to expand access to quality, affordable health care. It provides intellectual leadership, technical expertise, and operational support to country teams working across the full spectrum of health system challenges, supporting regional teams to deliver on the Bank's corporate health commitments — reaching 1.5 billion people with quality, affordable health services and building resilience in 66 countries — while supporting the creation of more and better jobs. The Directorate is led by a Global Director supported by two Practice Managers who oversee the Policy & Regulations (P&R) and Solutions and Impact (S&I) Units, as well as a Front Office responsible for strategy, partnerships, risk management, external and internal engagement, and talent and budget management.

The Health Policy and Regulation team within the Global Health Directorate is responsible for the normative, policy, and regulatory frameworks that underpin the WBG's global health agenda. It houses four dedicated programs: Mission 1.5 Billion Health Beneficiaries (health service delivery, health financing, and healthy longevity); Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems (PPPs, health sector value chains, and the Health for Jobs agenda); Mission 66 Resilient Health Systems (health emergency preparedness, response and resilience, climate change, and public health and disease prevention); and Nutrition. Together, these programs generate the evidence, norms, and policy tools that guide both WBG country operations and broader global health policy dialogue.

A Central Program Implementation Unit (PIU) reports jointly to both Managers and serves as the operational bridge between the two global units, managing portfolio and pipeline, Health Compacts, CPF upstream engagement, and regional outreach. Two cross-cutting layers — Methods, Impact Measurement and Innovation and Digital and AI — provide foundational technical support to all programs within the Directorate.

Opportunity The Health Directorate central contribution to the World Bank Group’s (WBG) to end extreme poverty by 2030 and raise shared prosperity on a livable planet is to enable progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC), that is, all people are effectively covered by essential health services, and nobody suffers from financial hardship as they seek care. To support this agenda the World Bank is committed to providing access to quality care to 1.5 billion people. One of the solutions of this target implementation plan focuses on removing financial barriers to healthcare access. Furthermore, the World Bank, jointly with WHO, is mandated to monitor progress towards the SGD 3.8.2 which measures financial hardship globally. The next UHC monitoring report will be released in September 2027.

These commitments translate into increased demand for metrics that will allow countries and the international community (a) to monitor gaps and progress in financial hardship at the country and global levels, (b) to investigate the drivers of financial hardship, and (c) to improve capacity to monitor financial hardship.

The consultant will join the Mission 1.5 Billion Health Beneficiaries team that is leading a work program on health equity and financial protection. The main activities in this program include: •Obtention, organization and harmonization of the household level microdata used for global tracking of health equity and financial protection in health. •Production of the global financial protection tracking data and the Universal Health Coverage Tracking Global Monitoring Report, in collaboration with a team from the World Health Organization. •On-demand technical assistance to task teams and country counterparts on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data on financial protection and health equity to inform policy dialogue and project design. •Development of tools and methods for better measurement of health equity and financial protection and analysis of drivers of gaps in financial protection. •Capacity strengthening for measurement of health equity and financial protection, data interpretation, and policy design. The consultant will work on all aspects of this work program and will provide broader analytical support to the Health Financing team.

DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Duties of the consultancy will include, but not be limited to the following:

Data acquisition and management: •Procuring survey data •Merging and harmonizing diverse datasets to facilitate seamless analysis. •Cleaning and augmenting datasets, including variable creation. •Preparing comprehensive documentation for transparent and replicable data handling. •Conduct quality control over datasets handled by other team members or external consultants. •Develop / upgrade the data management system to better match the current analytical production needs of the unit.

Data analysis •Co-lead the formulation of analysis plans, ensuring that the methodologies are sound and aligned with specified objectives. •Conducting data analysis, including descriptive statistics, regression analysis and other advanced statistical analysis following agreed analysis plans.

Co-production of knowledge and dissemination products •Creating tables, figures, and other data visualizations to communicate analyses results. •Collaboration on writing reports, papers, blogs and briefs. •Collaboration in developing and delivering training and dissemination materials.

Support in the coordination of the overall work program •Assist in the organization of workshops, webinars, and other events. •Support the coordination and engagement with internal and external collaborators. •Support in overseeing work done by other consultants and contractors.

Support other empirical or analytical work undertaken by the health financing team as needed.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in economics, statistics, or related fields and minimum of 2 years of related work experience. •Demonstrable experience in complex data management, analysis and visualization, and reporting. Experience with Household Survey data (Especially LSMS type) is preferred, as well as knowledge on the field of poverty measurement, financial protection and health equity analysis. •Excellent proficiency in the use of Stata, R, Tableau or similar packages. •Excellent written and oral communication in English is required. Knowledge of Spanish or French is preferred. •Capacity to work simultaneously on a variety of issues and tasks, independently adjusting to priorities and achieving results with agreed objectives and delivering against ambitious deadlines. •Strong client focus including good interpersonal, diplomatic and team building skills required for building and maintaining collaborative relationships.

WBG Culture Attributes

• 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

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered.

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