Senior Communications and External Affairs Officer

Senior Communications and External Affairs Officer

Job #: req37589 Organization: World Bank Sector: External Affairs & Corporate Relations Grade: GG Term Duration: 4 years 0 months Recruitment Type: International Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 7/29/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It is 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 for the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Communications and External Relations (CER)
The mission of Communications and External Relations (CER) is to help deliver financial and political support for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group’s role as a global thought leader in development by enhancing and safeguarding its reputation, and supporting operational teams to achieve country outcomes. CER manages corporate communications and global engagement with key stakeholders, including media, civil society, foundations, private sector, donor countries, and international organizations, as well as employee engagement. CER also manages strategic communications for the World Bank Group’s Regions and technical units and leads the management of reputation risk. 

Regional Stakeholder Engagement in CER (CERRS)
The Regional Stakeholder Engagement team manages strategic communications across the seven regions of the World Bank Group driving engagement across regions and country offices to align local efforts with our global strategy.

The work aims to build support and understanding for World Bank Group (WBG) priorities across a range of stakeholders; enhance and protect the reputation of the WBG as a leading development organization; support operational effectiveness and social accountability by sharing development progress, knowledge, and results.

Recognizing that economic and social contexts evolve rapidly, and that communications technologies have revolutionized the ways that information travels, we are building a team of dynamic and innovative professionals prepared to use innovative engagement strategies, traditional and digital tools, including social media and artificial intelligence to shape the debate on development priorities and tradeoffs.

Europe and Central Asia Regional Stakeholder Engagement Team (CEREXSA)
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Regional Stakeholder Engagement team (CEREX) manages strategic communications and external relations in support of the WBG strategic priorities in ECA. It includes communications and external relations professionals both in Washington, D.C. and WBG ECA Country Offices. 

CEREX goal is to connect and engage with diverse stakeholders across ECA to communicate about the WBG mission to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet, promote an informed, evidence-based debate about development in the region, and enhance the WBG’s reputation as an effective development partner for the countries of Europe and Central Asia. CEREX’s key audiences include government officials, think tanks and researchers, business leaders and associations, investors, development partners, civil society organizations, and journalists. 

Senior Communications & External Relations Officer 
The Senior Communications & External Relations Officer is a senior member of the Regional Stakeholder Engagement team and serves as a strategic advisor to regional management on stakeholder engagement, communications, advocacy, and reputational risk management.

The position plays a key role in advancing the World Bank Group's regional stakeholder engagement agenda and driving delivery across CER's four business lines: Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Business Marketing, Advocacy & Campaigns, and Risk & Issue Management. The role requires strong strategic judgment, political awareness, and the ability to anticipate risks, influence stakeholders, shape narratives, and mobilize support for development priorities.

Working closely with regional and country management, operational teams, and colleagues across IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA, the Senior Communications & External