Practice Manager

Practice Manager

Job #:

req34970

Organization:

World Bank

Sector:

Social Protection

Grade:

GH

Term Duration: 5 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:

International Recruitment

Location:

New Delhi, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh

Required Language(s):

English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:

12/10/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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 
VPU Context:
The South Asia Region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) is at a crucial stage of development. Rapid economic growth, driven by urbanization and demographic dividend, has brought down poverty rates, but severe forms of exclusion and disparities based on ethnicity, caste, and gender remain. Rapid growth has also come with congestion and pollution in cities. South Asia is also significantly affected by changes in temperature and extreme weather events. Additional challenges are that South Asia as a whole is underperforming in exports, has large informal sectors and low female labor force participation rates. All these challenges must be addressed to secure rapid economic growth in coming decades. Private sector led growth, focused on investments in infrastructure, energy, logistics, skills and cities are essential to generate the jobs needed to employ South Asia's sizeable youth population. At the same time, the region needs to continue building human capital so that South Asia's population is well equipped for the jobs of the future. 
The World Bank Group in South Asia: 
Unit Context:
Social Policy Department (SPOL)
SPOL brings together the former Social Protection and Labor (SPL) and Social Development (SD) Global Practices to form a unified platform for inclusive and resilient social and labor systems. Fragmented social, labor, and inclusion programs limit the impact of policies designed to reduce poverty and inequality. The merger addresses this by linking protection, productivity, and participation in a single framework. This integration reflects a fundamental shift toward a more comprehensive approach that combines managing risk with expanding opportunity to access gainful employment; moving from fragmented sectoral programs to integrated, coherent social and labor policies that accompany people across their life cycle, from childhood to old age.
Duties and accountabilities:

• Lead her/his team to deliver the GP's key strategic priorities and, in collaboration with Country Directors, to ensure alignment with the WBG Strategy and Country Partnership Frameworks.   
• Provide strategic leadership of cross-cutting People issues such as jobs, migration and aging.
• Draw on thought leadership and implementation know-how to ensure high impact multi-sectoral solutions.  
• Build and maintain a balanced portfolio of innovative, cost-effective, and demand-driven products and services.  
• Work in partnership with other PMs in the People vertical and with other GPs, as well as public and private stakeholders, to find tailored and holistic solutions to complex development challenges – including social inclusion, community resilience and the jobs agenda, which encompasses work on productivity of the formal and informal sectors, labor-mobility/migration, SOE privatization, entrepreneurship and SME support, unemployment (and other) insurance schemes, skills investments, TA on high level strategy and employment legislation etc.
• Support GP management in developing and implementing appropriate strategies for global staffing, deployment, talent, and performance management.
• Effectively engage in communication with various audiences, including key stakeholders, clients, beneficiaries, public, internal, and external partners.
• Be accountable for delivering high-quality and timely results. 

Note: This internal requisition is open to WB 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.

Selection Criteria

• A Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in a People related discipline with at least twelve (12) years of relevant professional experience.
• Excellent leadership and supervisory skills with established track record managing multi-location and virtual teams.
• Strong operational and development experience and track record, including experience in more than one Global Practice/VPU (including IBRD, MIGA, and IFC), and in more than one world region of those relevant to these positions.
• Technical knowledge and experience in one or more of the relevant areas.
• Demonstrated in-depth experience and track record of results and successfully working across practices, disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
• Strong sense of strategy, including ability to prioritize and exit some activities, track record in streamlining and rationalizing product offerings.
• Good partnership experience, including involving multiple stakeholders – both public and private – in building collaborative alliances for results.
• Experience in applying practice know-how and effective policy dialogue to achieve development results.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. 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

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.

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