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Senior Digital Specialist – Trustworthy AI (with Cybersecurity)

Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 May 2026

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Senior Digital Specialist – Trustworthy AI (with Cybersecurity)

Job #: req36803 Organization: World Bank Sector: Digital Development Grade: GG Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Recruitment Type: International Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 6/23/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

This position is a part of the Japanese recruitment mission.

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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.

VPU Context:

The World Bank Group's Digital & AI Vice Presidency (D&AI VPU) leads the institution's work on digital transformation and artificial intelligence — both as a driver of development outcomes in client countries and as a foundation for institutional effectiveness. As AI systems become increasingly embedded in public services, financial systems, infrastructure planning, and humanitarian response, the imperative to ensure those systems are safe, fair, accountable, and aligned with human rights has never been greater.

For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital \development.

Unit Context:

Trustworthy AI — encompassing principles of transparency, explainability, fairness, robustness, privacy, and accountability — is now a strategic priority for the World Bank Group in its advisory and operational engagements with client countries. At the same time, the security of AI-enabled systems is inseparable from their trustworthiness. Cybersecurity risks, including adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data breaches, and system vulnerabilities, pose direct threats to the integrity and reliability of AI deployments in development contexts.

To advance this agenda, the D&AI VPU is seeking a Senior Digital Specialist with deep expertise in trustworthy AI and a solid foundation in cybersecurity. The specialist will lead and contribute to analytical work, operational support, policy dialogue, and knowledge generation across the Bank's global portfolio.

Duties and accountabilities:

The overarching objective of this position is to strengthen the World Bank Group's capacity to design, deploy, govern, and evaluate AI systems in a manner that is trustworthy, secure, and aligned with the development goals of client countries. The specialist will play a leading role in mainstreaming trustworthy AI principles into the Bank's operations and supporting clients in building the regulatory, institutional, and technical capacity required to govern AI responsibly.

Technical and Analytical Leadership

• Lead the development of frameworks, toolkits, methodologies, and standards for the assessment and implementation of trustworthy AI systems in development contexts, covering fairness, accountability, transparency, explainability, and robustness.

• Conduct and oversee technical assessments of AI systems deployed or under consideration in client country operations, identifying risks related to bias, opacity, data integrity, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

• Provide authoritative technical guidance on AI risk management, including threat modeling for AI systems, adversarial robustness testing, and the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity.

• Contribute to cutting-edge research and knowledge products on topics such as algorithmic auditing, AI governance frameworks, secure AI deployment in low-resource environments, and emerging regulatory approaches.

Operational Support and Project Implementation

• Provide