WBG Young Professional

The World Bank Group’s Young Professionals Program (YPP) offers exceptional professionals the opportunity to apply their specialized technical expertise and contribute to solutions for pressing development challenges. This role focuses on structuring sustainable finance transactions and scaling solutions across sectors and markets within the Climate Change Department.

Responsibilities

• Translate climate priorities into practical operational and investment solutions across IBRD/IDA and IFC, including sustainable finance approaches and proportionate application of PA, CCB, and climate risk
• Advance climate outcome measurement through technical and operational pilots for net GHG and resilience beneficiaries, and coherent approaches to gross, net, and financed emissions, coordinating with other stakeholders
• Contribute to One Climate’s integrated A&R agenda by linking physical climate-risk intelligence, adaptation finance, outcome metrics, and origination to ready-to-use solutions, including adaptation-focused sustainability-linked finance
• Support material, complex, innovative, or precedent-setting operations and transactions; identify climate risks and opportunities; and contribute to structuring credible sustainable finance instruments and frameworks, including KPIs, targets, and other transaction features
• Partner with operational, sector, financial, legal, treasury, data, and technology teams to develop and test new financial products and digital or AI-enabled tools; codify lessons into guidance and training that support consistent delivery and replication at scale
• Support One Climate’s WBG-wide and global leadership through research, MDB harmonization, stakeholder engagement, and coordinated briefs for management and the Board
• Manage workstreams and contribute to cross-institutional and country assignments under the YPP rotation model

Requirements

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in finance, economics, business, sustainable or development finance, climate change, environmental science/engineering, public policy, data science, or a related field
• 2-6 years of relevant professional experience in sustainable or climate finance, investment or development finance, financial product development, transaction structuring, or related operational work
• Strong grounding in sustainable and climate finance, including relevant instruments, market standards, and transaction structures, plus knowledge of at least one of PA/climate risk, CCB, A&R, or GHG accounting and outcome metrics
• Demonstrated experience supporting sustainable finance transactions or financial product development, including origination, analysis, structuring, execution, or implementation; MDB/DFI, financial institution, investor, issuer, corporate, government, or advisory experience is an advantage
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical and problem-solving skills; experience with financial or transaction analysis, market or portfolio analytics, climate or impact metrics, data analytics, digital tools, or applied AI is desirable
• Sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, client orientation, and ability to apply a materiality- and risk-based approach, navigate ambiguity, and develop credible, practical solutions that can be replicated and scaled
• Commitment to international development and the WBG’s mission; ability to connect climate, technical, operational, market, and financial perspectives, synthesize complex issues for decision-makers and clients, and collaborate across public- and private-sector teams
• Strong organization and ability to manage competing deadlines
• Fluency in English; proficiency in other languages is an advantage

Skills

• Sustainable Finance
• Climate Finance
• Investment Finance
• Development Finance
• Financial Products Development
• Transaction Structuring
• Sustainable Finance Instruments
• Market Standards
• Climate Risk Analysis
• Carbon Credit Banking
• Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Outcome Metrics
• Financial Transaction Assessment
• Portfolio Analytics
• Data Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Risk-Based Approach
• Client Orientation

Languages

English