Strategic Operations Lead — Transport & Logistics

Global Roles

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

World Bank Group is seeking an Associate Operations Officer to support the Transport and Logistics Department with research, analysis, and stakeholder engagement across strategic and operational priorities.

The role involves developing high-quality products and communications for senior leadership, translating complex topics into actionable insights, and coordinating across teams to advance departmental objectives.

Qualifications

Master's degree in economics, public policy, international affairs, or related field.
4+ years of relevant professional experience in consulting, international development, strategy, operations, or communications.
Excellent research, analytical, writing, and communication skills.
Ability to develop high-quality presentations, reports, and knowledge products with data and storytelling.
Experience collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and presenting quantitative and qualitative information.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required.

Responsibilities

Support strategic discussions, departmental priorities, and management initiatives through research, analysis, and preparation of high-quality decision-support materials.
Conduct research and analysis on transport, logistics, infrastructure, private capital mobilization, and related topics, translating complex information into actionable insights and strategic narratives.
Prepare briefing notes, presentations, talking points, pitchbooks, portfolio reviews, management materials, and client-facing products for senior leadership, operational teams, and external stakeholders.
Analyze operational, portfolio, market, and sector information to identify trends, opportunities, lessons learned, and areas for strategic engagement.
Support business development, knowledge, and operational initiatives requiring coordination across teams and institutions, ensuring alignment with broader departmental and World Bank Group priorities.
Help translate complex technical and operational content into clear, accessible messages supporting internal learning, external engagement, and institutional visibility.
Support the department's knowledge, learning, and thought leadership agenda by capturing, synthesizing, and disseminating knowledge from operations and strategic initiatives.
Work with technical specialists to turn complex content into clear, accessible publications, notes, learning materials, presentations, newsletters, web stories, and communications for different audiences ensuring usability and visual/style coherence.
Support maintenance of intranet pages, knowledge hubs, repositories, calendars, and related digital platforms, applying appropriate tagging, metadata, quality assurance, clearance, branding, and accessibility requirements.
Support internal and external conferences, roundtables, client meetings, partner events, and flagship initiatives including agendas, invitations, logistics, participant coordination, and post-event outputs.
Coordinate internal and external stakeholders across the World Bank Group, clients, partners, industry associations, governments, academia, and technical teams, maintaining clear workplans, deadlines, and follow-up actions.
Learn and navigate relevant WBG processes, systems, templates, and clearance requirements, and maintain practical trackers and project-management tools to keep multiple workstreams on track.