Manager, Climate Strategy, Learn. & Ops, Solutions & Impact

The World Bank Group is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, we help solve the world’s greatest development challenges. When you join the World Bank Group, you become part of a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide. We work with public and private sector partners, invest in groundbreaking projects, and use data, research, and technology to bring tangible and transformative change around the globe. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org. VPU Context: The WBG Planet Vice Presidency is leading the WBG’s efforts to make the planet livable, as a necessary condition for job creation and poverty elimination. It is responsible for getting the right public and private sector solutions to our operational teams and to our clients, and to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact and business to enable and support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission, providing guidance on creating more and better jobs, focusing on agribusiness, tourism (nature-based tourism), infrastructure (water) and health (sanitation, nutrition); supporting foundational infrastructure and human capital, policy environment, and private sector mobilization; and supporting and accelerating specific targets and commitments such as Mission AgriConnect, Mission Water, and the WBG Climate Change Action Plan. The VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. Unit Context: The Planet Vice Presidency’s Climate Department’s role is to accelerate, enable, equip and coordinate WBG teams across all sectors, regions, and functions to integrate climate smart finance for maximum development impact. The Department supports the delivery of the Climate Change Action Plan which, inter alia, commits the WBG to align all of its investments with the Paris Agreement and to have 45% of WBG investments deliver climate co-benefits to complement their targeted development impacts. The department is made up of 6 units, two focused on Policy and Regulation and four focused on Solutions and Impact. Policy and Regulations units: -Partnerships for Smart Development Cross-Sector Expertise -Analytics Policy for Adaptation Mitigation Finance Solutions and Impacts units: -Sustainable Finance Transaction Solutions -Strategy, Learning Operations -Carbon Finance Solutions -Market Building with Tools Certifications Role Summary The Manager for KTCSL holds a highly strategic role within the One Climate Leadership Team, working in close partnership with the Director on cross-departmental priorities, organizational integration, and operational execution across the World Bank Group. The role requires a senior professional with strong judgment, institutional credibility, and the ability to shape solutions and advance complex strategic agendas. Key responsibilities include leading and managing a multidisciplinary team, driving cross-cutting departmental integration efforts, overseeing strategic climate trust funds and donor engagement, and operationalizing the climate Knowledge Bank through learning, practitioner connectivity, and knowledge dissemination. In this capacity, the Manager serves as a close strategic partner to the Director, helping manage sensitive cross-departmental issues and translating leadership priorities into coherent operational, staffing, and funding approaches in close coordination with the Director’s Advisor and Front Office. Leadership and People Management Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team across functions and locations, with responsibility for setting strategic direction, aligning staffing and work planning with departmental priorities, and sustaining a high-performing and collaborative team culture. The role requires strong people-management and organizational leadership to guide performance, support change, and ensure a newly formed team is equipped to deliver effectively in a complex and evolving institutional environment. Departmental Integration and Knowledge Bank Operationalization Lead the department’s integration and Knowledge Bank agenda as a core strategic priority, helping translate the One Climate model into practical operating mechanisms within the department and across the World Bank Group. The Manager plays a critical role in shaping the Department’s coordinated approach to linking global expertise, learning, technical support, and grant resources to regional and country operations. Trust Funds, Partnerships and Fundraising Lead and coordinate the department’s strategic trust fund, partnership, and fundraising agenda, strengthening coherence across the climate trust fund architecture within the department and across the WBG, and ensuring alignment between donor resources, operational demand, and departmental priorities. The role also provides strategic oversight of key climate trust funds and partnership platforms, including the Climate Support Facility (CSF) and Canada-supported climate funds, with responsibility for donor engagement, governance, fundraising, and strengthening coherence across the broader climate trust fund architecture. Knowledge, Learning and Climate Network Systems Lead the department’s knowledge, learning, and climate network agenda as a strategic pillar of the Knowledge Bank, ensuring that expertise, operational lessons, and technical tools are more systematically shared and applied across the World Bank Group. The role oversees learning programs, practitioner exchanges, and network systems that strengthen connectivity across global teams, regional operations, and communities of practice, while improving consistency, reach, and operational relevance of climate knowledge and capability-building efforts. Finance, Portfolio and Operational Management Provide the Director and leadership team with visibility across budgets, trust-funded activities, delivery pipelines, and operational risks. The role oversees the development of management products, analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools that support decision-making, strengthen transparency and consistency across a complex portfolio, and improve the department’s ability to manage resources and delivery across climate programs and partnerships.