Specialists - Leadership, Learning, and Innovation at World Bank

The Vice Presidency for Leadership, Learning, and Innovation (LLI) is responsible for translating development knowledge into client and staff learning and innovation to help address development challenges. LLI has developed a systematic approach to developing institutional capacity for capturing, packaging, and sharing knowledge. The goal of this program is to strengthen country institutions to more systematically capture and share critical lessons learned from operations for domestic and international adaptation and scale-up.

The Organizational Knowledge Sharing (OKS) Team, housed in the Client Services (LLICS) of LLI, is seeking a highly motivated Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer to support its mission to increase the use of smart peer-to-peer client knowledge sharing as an accelerator of development solutions. The Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer will lead client engagements to support comprehensive behavior change programs towards more systematic use of experiences as evidence-based solutions that merit scale-up within the organization, domestically and internationally. This position will require travel to client countries.

In addition, the Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer will guide target institutions in assessing their institutional capacity for knowledge exchange/sharing and co-create knowledge sharing capacity building plans with institutional leadership; advise clients on change management and human resource development; and provide technical skills building in the areas of identifying, capturing, packaging, and sharing operational experiences and lessons learned.

The successful candidate would have a Master's degree or above in business administration, HR management, knowledge management, learning, or a related field with a focus on multidisciplinary themes of organizational learning, change management, organizational development, capacity building, and institutional knowledge sharing with a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience, preferably in developing countries, and demonstrated experience facilitating change management efforts in complex organizational settings in a developing country setting, including in fragile and conflict-affected situations. Furthermore, the position requires a thorough understanding of and familiarity with technologies, tools and approaches for organizational and human resource development, knowledge management, and peer-to-peer learning, as well as excellent, demonstrated project management and facilitation skills.

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