Driving Insights: Operations Officer – Data Analytics Lead at the World Bank 2025
Introduction
As the Operations Officer – Data Analytics Lead at the World Bank, you will play a pivotal role in shaping data-driven strategies that enhance global development initiatives. This position invites innovative thinkers who are passionate about harnessing the power of data analytics to address pressing socioeconomic challenges. You will lead a dynamic team, leveraging advanced analytical techniques to extract actionable insights from complex datasets. Your expertise will inform decision-making processes, optimize operational efficiency, and ultimately contribute to the World Bank’s mission of reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development worldwide. Join us in making a meaningful impact on the future of global economic stability and growth.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The CSIAR unit is seeking a Data Analytics Lead with a pivotal technology focused role in leading IFC’s analytics & reporting solutions and enabling further advanced analytics. This role will serve as a product owner for IFC’s data analytics solutions such as IFC Dashboard and Business Intelligence products, establishing the product vision and roadmap. This role will also lead IFC’s operational corporate analytics and reporting responsibilities in areas such as Investment Pipeline, Program, and Portfolio among others. This role entails collaborating with business stakeholders to understand their needs, defining IFC’s data analytics product vision, liaising with CIT Data Engineering & Platforms and ITS teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality analytics and reporting solutions that drive business insights and decision-making.
Key tasks and responsibilities include:
• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap for IFC Dashboard and IFC’s Business Intelligence products (i.e., Power BI), aligning product goals with business objectives and stakeholder needs, continuously refining and prioritizing product backlog based on feedback and business requirements.
• Develop and implement advanced product offerings to include enabling Data Analytics with Microsoft Co-Pilot and Power BI integration, including optimizing data modeling to facilitate capabilities.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of dashboards and reports covering IFC’s operations in areas such as IFC’s Investment Pipeline, Program, and Portfolio.
• Lead IFC’s data analytics integration with WBG platforms (e.g., ED Dashboard, WBG Management Dashboard, WBG Scorecard).
• Serve as a liaison to IFC’s IT Data Engineering & Platform team on IFC’s transition to Microsoft Azure, Databricks based architecture, to facilitate reporting and analytics requirements to include data access management, and self-service analytics.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in data analytics to include Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Power BI.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement for IFC Dashboard, monitor report usage, and optimize communications so staff are informed and know the product capabilities.
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• Establish and enforce quality principles for IFC’s reports and analytics, ensuring UX and functionality standards, and datasets and reports are properly maintained, updated, or retired as applicable.
• Establish and implement standards for documentation, data access and security for data models and reports, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory.
• Lead, mentor, and guide junior staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Provide technical leadership in adopting best practices for data modeling and analytics.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and desire to work in teams in fast-paced work environments.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects that require inputs from stakeholders while balancing impact on business needs.
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