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E T Consultant at World Bank Group in Recife, Brazil
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Job Description
E T Consultant
| Job #: | req39408 |
| Organization: | World Bank |
| Sector: | Economics |
| Grade: | EC2 |
| Term Duration: | 0 years 6 months |
| Recruitment Type: | Local Recruitment |
| Location: | Recife,Brazil |
| Required Language(s): | English |
| Preferred Language(s): | |
| Closing Date: | 11/17/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC |
Description
At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd.
The Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) is the World Bank’s central reservoir of fresh insights into the most pressing challenges of development. It is led by the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, who advises the President and senior managers, serves as the community leader for the WBG’s economists, and helps to keep the institution in the forefront of thinking about development policy. DEC constitutes one of the world’s largest teams of economists focused on policy solutions for developing economies.
A department of the World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency, DECDI’s purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy.
DECDI’s work focuses on:
• Evaluating programs at scale to answer policy-relevant questions;
• Developing innovative data systems and data analytics tools for real-time decisions;
• Using causal inference analysis to identify mechanisms to improve results;
• Building capacity to strengthen country institutions for evidence-based policymaking.
DECDI aims to overcome the challenge to identify true cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DECDI fosters systematic use of evidence, which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. Through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs, DECDI builds capacity while forming a wider community of practice.
DECDI accompanies impact evaluations during their entire life-cycle. It starts with assessing demand, identifying research questions, as well as supporting project implementation, high quality data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results.
With a portfolio of more than 220 impact evaluations, DECDI operates across all sectors in about 60 countries spanning the globe. The IEs test a variety of interventions and mechanisms to understand why policy succeeds or fails and how to improve policy design and implementation to obtain better results. By working proactively in collaboration with clients, DECDI employs experimental methods to infer causality whenever possible (79% of the portfolio). 17% of DECDI IEs utilize non-experimental methods, while 4% use a combination of the two.
DECDI is structured into 5 World Bank units:
• DECPL “Planet Impact Lab”
• DECPE “People Impact Lab”
• DECPR “Prosperity Impact Lab”
• DECID “Infrastructure and Digital Impact Lab”
• DECME “Behavior Science Lab”.
More information can be found at https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/unit-dec/impactevaluation.
Duties and accountabilities:
Sammara Cavalcanti Soares will support the design, implementation, and analysis of impact evaluations and related analytical activities in Angola and Mozambique, as well as other countries as needed. Her responsibilities will include contributing to research design and methodological development; supporting the preparation and implementation of data collection activities; conducting data quality assurance, management, and analysis; preparing technical notes, reports, presentations, and other analytical outputs; coordinating with government counterparts, implementing partners, research teams, and other stakeholders; and translating findings into actionable recommendations to inform program design, implementation, and policy dialogue. She will also contribute to the broader operational and analytical work of the Development Impact team, including project coordination, dissemination, and knowledge-sharing activities.
Selection Criteria
• PhD in Economics, Applied Economics, Public Policy, or a closely related field.
• Strong expertise in impact evaluation, applied microeconomics, and quantitative research methods.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing large-scale field research and impact evaluations in developing-country contexts.
• Experience working on social protection, employment, education, or related development policy areas.
• Strong skills in data management, econometric analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data.
• Experience working with government counterparts, implementation teams, and research partners, including in Angola and/or Mozambique.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English, with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, writing, communication, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to work independently and effectively as part of multidisciplinary and multi-country teams.
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
As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.
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