Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2025, IFC committed a record $71.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging private sector solutions, and mobilizing private capital to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
IFC promotes sustainable development through the provision of investment and advisory services, including the promotion of sound corporate governance policies and practices. IFC's Institutional Risk and Governance Department (CRG) within the IFC Legal, Institutional Risk and Governance Vice-Presidency (CLSVPU) focuses, among several matters, on enhancing corporate governance practices across various sectors. The CRG CG Unit provides investment support, technical assistance, and capacity-building initiatives to improve corporate governance standards.
The CRG Corporate Governance Operations Officer (hereinafter “CG Knowledge Management Officer”) is a specialist function whose primary role is to support the CRG Manager, Principal Corporate Governance Officer and regional ESG and CG Advisory Services (AS) Teams in delivering portfolio support work and supporting regional work programs as requested. The CG Knowledge Management Officer role entails complementary but distinct duties and accountabilities, which are discussed below.
Duties and accountabilities
Strategy, development, and relationship management
• Develop and implement the CG global advisory services knowledge management strategy, which aims to complement corporate governance due diligence in investment transactions with initiatives to mitigate CG risks at the client, market, and regulatory levels.
• Design global projects and initiatives in coordination with CG leads, regional ESG and CG AS leads, industry departments and, where relevant, with the World Bank team intervening on private sector development to underpin IFC’s thought leadership on corporate governance.
• Lead the mainstreaming of novel CG products (such as Sustainability and Climate Disclosure, Climate Governance, Small and Medium Enterprise Governance, Women on Boards and in Business Leadership, Human Capital and State-Owned Enterprises Governance) into ESG and CG AS with the goal of anchoring the CG Methodology as a common approach.
• Support updates to the Corporate Governance Methodology and associated tools by contributing subject-matter expertise
• Support corporate governance investment support, as required, by acting as corporate governance officer on investment transactions and conducting CG diligence.
Knowledge, Quality Assurance and Coordination
• Drive the development of CG-related knowledge products, in coordination with CG Leads and ESG and CG Advisory Regional Leads by ensuring that they support the consistent delivery of CG advisory services by regional ESG and CG AS teams.
• Lead and maintain an ESG and CG AS community of practice targeted at creating an alignment between CG investment support and advisory activities, training CG specialists operating as part of ESG and CG AS on new products, maintaining consistent delivery across regional teams, and sharing lessons learned across regions.
• Oversee the development and application of robust theories of change and related results measurement frameworks for ESG and CG AS with a strong CG component– in close coordination with regional ESG and CG AS leads and the results measurement team.
• Review concept notes, implementation plans, and project supervision reports of Regional ESG AS projects with a majority CG component to provide guidance on project design and activities.
• Develop and maintain methods for tracking and communicating the footprint of CG advisory services on several key dimensions (delivery, results, and resources), and regularly report on these to the legal department, the Upstream Advisory Secretariat and Regional ESG and CG AS team.
• As relevant, coordinate with specialists in charge of environmental and social risks management on governance of sustainability matters.
Resource Planning
• Act as fundraising and resource allocation focal point to support the delivery of CG global advisory projects, the development of knowledge projects, and the incubation of novel offerings.
• Manage relationships with development partners and IFC’s partnerships department, ensuring the quality of funding proposals and reporting to development partners.
• Where relevant, act as global focal point vis-à-vis development partners, in the context of joint fundraising efforts between the global CG team and regional ESG and CG AS on initiatives supporting improvement of CG standards and practices.
