E T Consutant

World Bank Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The World Bank invites applications for an Extended-Term Consultant (ETC) specializing in Digital PFM, IFMIS, data and the application of AI to public financial management. Based in Washington, DC, you will support the Digital PFM workstream and help translate policy goals into practical IT solutions.

The role requires strong technical expertise in PFM processes and experience with Ministries of Finance; you will collaborate with regional and country teams to deliver modernization, governance,

Job description

E T Consutant

• Job #: req38684
• Organization: World Bank
• Sector: Engineering
• Grade: EC4
• Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
• Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
• Location: Washington, DC,United States
• Required Language(s): English
• Preferred Language(s): Spanish, French
• Closing Date: 11/3/2026 (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 Governance Global Practice (GGP) brings together professionals in procurement, financial management, taxation, regulatory policy, transparency, digital governance, law and development, anticorruption, and social accountability to develop innovative, integrated solutions to pernicious institutional problems. The GGP utilizes a problem-driven diagnostic approach, combining global comparative knowledge of reform successes and failures with keen understanding of the institutional challenges and opportunities of developing countries. The GGP engages on core and cross cutting themes including Public Financial Management; Subnational/decentralization; State Owned Enterprises/Corporate Governance; Fiduciary Assurance; Public Institutions; GOVTECH, Anticorruption, Open Government and Political Economy.

Fiduciary Systems, Solutions and Impact Global Unit (WKPGF)

The WKPGF Global Unit within the World Bank's Governance Global Practice supports client countries in strengthening public financial management (PFM) institutions, systems, and capabilities to improve efficiency, transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of public spending. The team leads global work on public financial management (PFM), including sectoral and Climate PFM, public procurement, standards and codes for transparent financial management in the public sector, corporate governance and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the PEFA Secretariat, and multilevel and subnational governance.

Digital technologies are increasingly central to modern PFM systems. Ministries of Finance are seeking to modernize Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS), improve interoperability across core government systems, strengthen the quality and use of fiscal data, automate financial processes, and leverage emerging technologies to improve fiscal management and decision-making.

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and advanced data analytics also creates new opportunities for Ministries of Finance, including forecasting, expenditure analysis, anomaly detection, automation, fiscal risk monitoring, and improved decision support, while requiring appropriate governance, data quality, security, and institutional safeguards.

To strengthen its capacity in this area, the World Bank seeks to recruit an Extended-Term Consultant (ETC) specializing in Digital PFM, IFMIS, information technology, data, and the application of AI to public financial management. The ETC will support the Digital PFM workstream of the Global PFM Program, which is structured around nine interconnected workstreams: Budgeting; Treasury and Cash Management; Fiscal Risks; Fiscal Transparency; Audit and Oversight; Accounting and Reporting; Public Investments and Assets; Digital PFM; and Procurement.

The ETC will contribute to the development of global knowledge, tools, and scalable solutions on IFMIS modernization, digital transformation, data, and emerging technologies, while working with regional and country teams to translate these approaches into practical support for Ministries of Finance and other central finance institutions. The position requires strong technical expertise combined with a sound understanding of government PFM processes; prior experience within a Ministry of Finance, Treasury, Budget Directorate, or other central finance agency would be a significant advantage.

Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Program

The PEFA program aims to strengthen public financial management and accountability systems and improve knowledge of the quality and scope for improving public financial management performance. The program seeks to achieve this objective through the application of PEFA assessment methodology, performance reports, research, analysis, and application of PEFA results, and complementarity with other public sector analyses. The PEFA methodology has been used about 800 times in 155 countries and around 67 % of all PEFA Assessments are regularly published on PEFA Website. The PEFA program operates through a World Bank administered multi-donor trust fund. It is directed by a Steering Committee comprising eight partner organizations: the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Agency (AFD), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, The Ministry of Finance of The Slovak Republic and The Ministry of Finance of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. The PEFA Secretariat supports the Steering Committee in the monitoring, maintenance, and development of the program. It also supports users of the PEFA methodology through advice, guidance, training, research, and information.

The PEFA program has been in operation since 2001. The fifth phase of the program commenced in April 2017 and finished at the end of 2023. It has been extended into subsequent phases to the sixth phase.

The ETC will work under the leadership of Head of PEFA Secretariat and report to the WKPGF Practice manager.

Objective of the Assignment

The ETC will support the design and implementation of World Bank analytical, advisory, and operational activities related to Digital PFM, IFMIS modernization, data, and emerging technologies.

The specialist will:

• Help bridge PFM functional requirements and digital/IT solutions, ensuring that technology investments respond to institutional and business-process needs rather than being approached primarily as IT projects.
• Work with World Bank teams and government counterparts to assess existing systems, identify digital transformation priorities, design modernization approaches, and support implementation of digital PFM reforms.
• Support teams and government counterparts in identifying practical and responsible applications of AI and advanced analytics to PFM, assessing their feasibility, data requirements, institutional readiness, risks, and potential value added.

Duties and Responsibilities

Digital PFM and IFMIS

• Provide technical and functional advice on the design, modernization, implementation, and evaluation of IFMIS/FMIS and related PFM information systems.
• Assess existing digital PFM architectures, including system functionality, coverage, interoperability, data flows, institutional arrangements, and implementation constraints.
• Support the development of IFMIS modernization strategies and roadmaps, including migration from legacy systems and options for modular, interoperable, and potentially cloud-based architectures.
• Advice on functional requirements covering key PFM processes, including budget preparation, budget execution, commitment controls, treasury and cash management, accounting, financial reporting, payments, procurement, public investment, asset management, and fiscal reporting.
• Support integration and interoperability between IFMIS and related systems, including e-procurement, tax and customs systems, debt management systems, payroll/HRMIS, public investment management systems, central bank/payment systems, and data platforms.
• Assess how IFMIS and other government financial systems can provide the data architecture and interoperability required to support AI-enabled applications, while ensuring data quality, security, auditability, and appropriate controls.

PFM and Business Process Reform

• Analyze PFM institutional arrangements