Senior Transport Specialist – Logistics

Senior Transport Specialist – Logistics

Job #: req38044 Organization: World Bank Sector: Transportation 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: 9/2/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges.  The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).  It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries.  As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges.  For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.

Infrastructure Vertical

The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission and specifically: providing guidance on creating more and better jobs by: (i) supporting foundational infrastructure and human capital, (ii) policy environment, and (iii) enabling and mobilizing private sector capital. With 60 years of experience, the WBG is poised to support the sector becoming an engine of growth and jobs through improving policies and governance, foundational infrastructure and private sector investments. WBG lending in the sector is expected to grow substantially. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams.   For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure

 

Transport and Logistics Department

Within the Infrastructure VPU, the WBG Transport and Logistics Department seeks to connect people to jobs, social services and income-generating opportunities, as well as to move goods between local, regional, and international markets, using cleaner, safer, more equitable and more resilient transport solutions, with a particular focus on private capital mobilization.  

The Department is composed of 3 units: (1) Policy and Regulations; (2) Solutions and Impact; and (3) Transport Trust Funds.

The Senior Transport-Logistics Specialist will serve as the senior logistics lead and report to the Manager, Transport and Logistics, Policy and Regulations.  The role will provide thought leadership on logistics; lead the development of high-quality knowledge products and advisory services; support regional teams across the World Bank Group in designing and implementing logistics policies, regulations, and solutions; and contribute actively to the Knowledge and Solutions Groups for Logistics, Maritime Transport and Ports.

The Specialist will also advance private sector participation and private capital mobilization in logistics and supply chain management in the related transport sub-sectors (Ports, Railways, Trucking and Intermodal freight) by assessing and advising business cases and feasibility studies. The Specialist will be recognized as a go-to expert on cutting-edge developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, both on the public policy and private sector sides.

 

Key responsibilities: 

Strategic Leadership and Flagship Research:  
• Serve as the World Bank Group’s senior technical lead on logistics and supply chain development, providing strategic guidance across freight transport, logistics infrastructure and services, trade facilitation, multimodal transport, and supply chain resilience.
• Identify emerging and key challenges and opportunities and shape the WBG’s logistics agenda through high-quality analytics, policy advice, operational solutions, and innovative financing approaches.
• Lead the development of policy, regulatory, institutional, and inv