Senior Health Specialist/Senior Economist - Health Value Chains

Senior Health Specialist/Senior Economist - Health Value Chains

Job #: req38108 Organization: World Bank Group Sector: Health/Nutrition/Population Grade: GG Term Duration: 3 years 0 months Recruitment Type: International Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Spanish, French Closing Date: 8/31/2026 (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. The WBG is a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. It works with public and private sector partners, invests in groundbreaking projects, and uses data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbankgroup.org

The WBG Knowledge Bank 
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. It is overseen by a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) at Managing Director level. The Knowledge Bank represents a decisive shift away from siloed, institution-specific knowledge production toward an integrated "One WBG" approach in which global expertise is consistently applied to country-level challenges and private sector opportunities, supported by AI-enabled platforms including Knowledge 360 and Data 360, and by the WBG Academy, which builds capacity among policymakers and practitioners to apply WBG knowledge in their country contexts.

People Vice Presidency (People Vertical)
The People Vice Presidency promotes investment in our most precious resource — people. It delivers knowledge for impact and provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact in support of the WBG’s mission. Better lives and better futures are only possible when all people have equal access to quality health care, education, and social protection, and when all people have the opportunity to build and draw on their human capital throughout life to learn, work, create businesses, and have dignity. 
The People Vice Presidency works with countries and global partners to:
• provide quality, affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030 through a combination of financing, knowledge and partnerships.
• cut learning poverty in half by 2030 and empower futures through education and job-relevant skills.
• close gender gaps, end gender-based violence, and support women’s health and economic inclusion and empowerment.
• connect policymakers, facilitate cross-learning, and foster investments and policy action on human capital through the Human Capital Project—our global network of nearly 100 countries.
• reach half a billion people with social assistance programs by 2030.
The People Vertical’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. It draws on the immense knowledge base of staff, clients, development partners, and civil society to tailor development solutions that meet the unique circumstances and goals of a country. For more information: https://www.worldba