Specific Responsibilities

Regional Operations Studio

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Regional Operations Studio and act as an ambassador for ITSOE products, advisory services, and innovation initiatives.
• Coordinate Studio activities, ensuring country teams are welcomed, oriented, and connected to appropriate ITSOE products, advisory services, and subject matter experts.
• Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, co-design sessions, and engagement activities involving country teams, OPCS, and ITSOE specialists.
• Capture and qualify operational needs, technology challenges, and business opportunities and connect stakeholders to the appropriate product, service, or advisory pathway.
• Lead outreach, communications, and stakeholder engagement activities to expand awareness, participation, and adoption of the Regional Operations Studio.
• Build and maintain relationships with country teams, Regional teams, Global Practices, OPCS, and other stakeholders to strengthen regional engagement and utilization of ITSOE services.
• Monitor engagement outcomes and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve the Studio experience and operational impact.

Geospatial Solutions Engagement and Adoption

• Act as a regional engagement and promotion focal point for the ITSCE Geospatial Solutions portfolio, working closely with product owners and geospatial specialists to identify and advance opportunities with country teams, Regional teams, and Global Practices.
• Promote awareness and adoption of geospatial products, services, and advisory capabilities through demonstrations, clinics, roadshows, and targeted outreach activities.
• Maintain working knowledge of the ITSCE geospatial portfolio, including project geo-tagging, mapping solutions, imagery-enabled applications, and digital twin use cases, and communicate their operational value in accessible language.
• Identify operational challenges that may benefit from geospatial approaches and connect stakeholders with the appropriate product owners, advisors, and technical specialists.
• Support the development of presentations, communication materials, demonstrations, and map-based narratives that showcase how geospatial insights can strengthen project design, implementation, monitoring, and decision-making.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship-building, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate technology and geospatial concepts into practical operational value propositions and support adoption of products, services, and advisory offerings.
• Strong understanding of how technology, AI, data, and geospatial solutions can support operational teams and improve business outcomes. The role is not a deep technical-specialist position but requires sufficient technology awareness to understand stakeholder needs, discuss solution options credibly, identify opportunities, and connect teams with appropriate products and specialists.
• Basic familiarity with geospatial technologies and concepts, including maps, location-based data, geospatial analysis, and the operational application of spatial information.
• Familiarity with digital twins and their potential role in planning, infrastructure management, urban development, asset management, project monitoring, and operational decision-making is highly desirable.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, and visual communication skills, including the ability to use maps, dashboards, and visual materials to communicate insights and support engagement activities.
• Familiarity with satellite imagery, remote sensing, drone imagery, or imagery-enabled operational workflows would be an advantage.
• Strong coordination, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements, stakeholder relationships, and follow-up activities.
• Practical, curious, proactive, and client-focused, with the ability to identify opportunities, increase awareness, and strengthen stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with WBG operational workflows, including country engagement, mission support, project preparation, supervision, procurement, and portfolio management, is highly desirable.
• Experience organizing or supporting outreach activities, roadshows, clinics, demonstrations, workshops, conferences, communities of practice, or similar engagement initiatives is highly desirable.
• Experience within the World Bank Group, multilateral development banks, international development organizations, or similarly complex global institutions would be an advantage.
• Proficiency in English.