Associate Senior AI Solutions Officer

World Bank Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid leave including parental leave

Reasonable accommodations

Job summary

The World Bank Group is recruiting an Associate Senior AI Solutions Officer in Washington, DC, to lead and coordinate AI initiatives across the organization. You will mentor teams, shape architectures, and drive high-impact AI-enabled solutions for enterprise needs.

This role emphasizes governance, stakeholder engagement, and delivery excellence, with a focus on responsible AI and enterprise-scale outcomes in a global context.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 8+ years progressively responsible experience, or Bachelor’s with 10+ years.
• Recommended certifications in AI ethics or cloud/ML platforms.
• Experience leading complex AI or automation initiatives.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple projects or teams.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Strong mentoring, stakeholder management and solution-architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction across multiple AI initiatives.
• Review architectures, designs, and implementation approaches.
• Mentor AI Solutions Officers and promote best practices.
• Lead AI agent design, orchestration solutions, MCP servers and APIs.
• Coordinate delivery of complex AI-enabled business solutions.
• Oversee implementation, operational readiness and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Solution architecture

Problem solving

Communication

Change management

Business acumen

Sense of urgency

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Associate Senior AI Solutions Officer

Job #: req38700

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: GG

Term Duration: Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP)

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date: 10/30/2026 (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

VPU Context

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w

Unit Context

The WBG Corporate Solutions Department (ITSCO) is focused on the digital transformation of essential corporate services to ensure WBG operations are seamless, resilient, and future ready. Uniting digitalization roadmaps, experience design, process optimization, application delivery, systems management, and technology modernization across some various products and services within the corporate domain. The department links business ambition with operational excellence—from intuitive employee experiences and precision payroll to data-driven decision making, intelligent automation, and AI enablement.

The Corporate Digital Backbone unit creates an autonomous digital backbone for the orchestration of data, transactions, processes, and insights across the diverse corporate portfolio, e.g. application modernization, technology debt reduction, efficient data exchange, advanced analytics, enterprise integration, automated business processes, and agentic-AI.

• Routinely leads complex projects and integrates work of other (often multidisciplinary) professional staff, contributes to strategy, analysis and policy formulation, and provides advice to functional management in area of specialization to contribute to functional area’s long-term objectives.
• Identifies and evaluates overall systemic issues and analyzes complex issues.
• Collaborates and partners with internal stakeholders on matters of strategic importance for the area of focus and department, may interact with external stakeholders to support department objectives.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and training to more junior staff within the role area, serving as an authoritative expert and key resource for other professionals and leadership.
• Requires comprehensive and in-depth expertise either in a broad area of specialization or in a narrowly specialized field.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical direction and guidance across multiple AI initiatives.
• Review architectures, designs, and implementation approaches.
• Mentor AI Solutions Officers and promote best practices.

Agentic AI Architecture & Delivery

• Lead the design of AI agents, orchestration solutions, MCP servers, APIs, and knowledge platforms.
• Establish reusable architectures, design patterns, and implementation standards.
• Coordinate delivery of complex AI-enabled business solutions.

Portfolio Delivery & Operations

• Oversee implementation, operational readiness, and solution performance.
• Drive continuous improvement across AI initiatives.

Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

• Ensure compliance with enterprise AI governance, security, and responsible AI requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between business stakeholders and Enterprise AI teams.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree and 8+ years progressively responsible experience; or Bachelor’s with 10+ years; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Recommended Certifications - Certification in AI Ethics, Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate, Google Machine Learning Engineer, Google Generative AI Leader, SAFe DevOps or SAFe for Architects
• Experience leading complex AI or automation initiatives.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple projects or teams.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Strong mentoring, stakeholder management, and solution architecture skills.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Sense of Urgency Proven ability to prioritize effectively, act decisively, and maintain momentum under pressure. Proactively resolves bottlenecks and consistently delivers without sacrificing quality.
• Change Agent Demonstrated ability to champion new ways of working and constructively challenge the status quo. Builds support for change and helps teams navigate transitions with clarity and confidence.
• Business Savvy Proven ability to connect day-to-day decisions to strategic goals and engage stakeholders with credibility. Applies sound judgment in light of organizational priorities and the broader operating environment.

Core Competencies

• Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Technical Leadership & Team Coordination
• AI Architecture & Solution Design
• MCP Servers, APIs & Enterprise Integration
• Knowledge Management & RAG
• Human-in-the-Loop Controls
• AI Quality, Operations & Reliability
• Governance, Risk & Compliance Alignment
• Stakeholder Leadership & Influence
• Coaching & Capability Development

As the World Bank Group continues to evolve, we value candidates who:

• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
• Responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.
• Bring experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent (FCV) contexts and are encouraged to highlight relevant experience in their application materials, where applicable.

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

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC including our values and inspiring stories.