ETC Integrity Compliance Analyst

Job #: req24091

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Other

Grade: EC1

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): Chinese, English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 9/19/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a truly worthwhile career? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries—a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

As part of the World Bank, the Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) shares in the World Bank’s overall mission in alleviating poverty and achieving a shared and sustainable prosperity in client countries. INT’s fundamental role is to help detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in the use of the World Bank’s financial resources, so that those resources are used effectively to benefit the poor people that they are intended to reach. In contributing to the World Bank’s overall mission, INT works closely with other stakeholders across the World Bank to: 1. Help detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in World Bank-supported projects and activities by:

•  professionally investigating allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, or obstruction (the five World Bank-sanctionable practices) in World Bank activities;
•  Seeking World Bank sanctions against firms and individuals that have engaged in any sanctionable practice;
•  using information available to INT (including from the Voluntary Disclosure Program) to help operational staff design and implement projects in ways that minimize fraud and corruption risks;
•  working with the World Bank’s operational departments and other oversight and control units to help prevent fraud and corruption in operations by distilling lessons learned from investigative findings; developing effective risk identification and management tools; preparing remedial recommendations at the project and broader level, as appropriate, to address risks and issues identified through investigations; and ensuring timely disclosure to the Board of risks identified through ongoing or recently completed investigations that are of relevance to new operations presented to the Board for approval;
•  conducting detailed fiduciary reviews of World Bank-supported projects with operations, using forensic methodology to detect indicators of fraud or corruption and help address them as early as possible for better project outcomes; and
•  working with sanctioned entities, through its Integrity Compliance Office, in supporting and monitoring their efforts to implement appropriate integrity compliance measures in order to raise their integrity standards and reduce risks associated with their operations following their release from sanction.

2. Help client countries to fight fraud and corruption by:

•  referring investigative findings to investigative and enforcement authorities in those countries, and working with authorities to follow-up and take action;
•  supporting client country counterparts with their preventive and integrity risk mitigation efforts at the project and policy levels;
•  helping build client country capacity in preventive and forensic techniques; and
•  collaborating in multilateral efforts to mitigate the risks of fraud or corruption in development activities.

3. Enforce the highest standards of professional integrity, and ethical behavior among World Bank staff and corporate vendors by:

•  investigating allegations of staff misconduct involving significant fraud and corruption;
•  investigating corporate vendors alleged to have engaged in sanctionable practices; and
•  mining the lessons learned from those investigations to undertake training and outreach programs, and also strengthen the World Bank’s internal controls environment.

INT’s work contributes directly to achieving the shared prosperity/poverty reduction mission of the World Bank. Reducing fraud and corruption in World Bank projects helps to ensure that World Bank funds are used for their intended purposes: to alleviate poverty and to increase prosperity and stability in our borrowing countries. Working with others in international development institutions, INT’s principal goal is to measurably minimize development assistance funds lost to fraud, corruption, and abuse, and increase the quality and results of development efforts. Results are reported in an annual integrity report that contains aggregated data, outcomes, and generic descriptions of significant cases. To ensure its independence, INT’s Vice President reports directly to the President of the World Bank.

Roles and Responsibilities: INT is seeking to recruit an Extended Term Consultant (Integrity Compliance) (ETC) who will support the World Bank’s Integrity Compliance Office (INTIC) in the performance of INT’s core functions related to the investigation, review, and disposition of sanctions cases. This position requires experience in the area of integrity compliance, ethics, governance, and/or white-collar investigations/litigation, as well as rigorous analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to work harmoniously in a team and exercise good judgment. The level and quality of these skills will be a determining factor in selection for the position.

All work to be undertaken by the ETC shall be done under the direction and guidance of, and reporting to, designated senior team members (e.g., the Head, Integrity Compliance). The ETC’s responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

•  Providing high quality analysis to other INTIC personnel in connection with the review and disposition of pre-sanction and post-sanction cases in the INTIC portfolio, including in the settlement context, in consideration of the principles set out in the World Bank’s Integrity Compliance Guidelines and in accordance with the applicable World Bank Sanctions Procedures.
•  Assisting other INTIC personnel in drafting high-quality documents in connection with the review of integrity compliance policies and procedures, and related matters.
•  Monitoring compliance with the applicable policies and procedures (including the applicable World Bank Sanctions Procedures and the other constituent documents relating to the sanctions process), including all applicable time limitations and requirements of confidentiality.
•  Working with others, monitoring developments, researching, and analyzing materials in the relevant fields.
•  Performing other tasks necessary for the successful operation of INT, as per the direction of senior staff.

Selection Criteria

•  At least a Master’s-level degree in law, integrity compliance, ethics, governance, criminology/criminal justice, business, or another relevant field. Professional training and/or certification by examination is desirable.
•  At least three (3) years of relevant, primarily post-graduate, experience in integrity compliance, ethics, governance, and/or white-collar investigations/litigation; multi-jurisdictional experience within multiple business sectors and business types, as well as in developing countries, is desirable. A legal background is strongly desired.
•  Knowledge of sanctions procedures and processes, including those of the World Bank and/or other international financing institutions would be a plus.
•  Field experience in developing countries would be a plus.
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to anticipate, identify and analyze legal and policy issues and propose sound, reliable and creative solutions.
•  Proven ability to clearly and concisely prepare, present, discuss and defend findings and recommendations at senior levels, as well as to produce complex and compelling written work products, including during times of heavy workload, and on very short notice or tight deadlines.
•  Proven ability to work in interdisciplinary task teams/working groups across organizational boundaries, including with senior officials, both internally and externally.
•  Excellent interpersonal skills, including a proven ability to deal sensitively in multicultural environments and build effective working relationships with colleagues.
•  Established reputation for integrity, sound judgment, fairness and discretion in dealings internally and externally.
•  Fluency in both oral and written English and Chinese. Proficiency in at least one of the other working languages of the World Bank – Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish – is desirable.
•  Highly organized, highly dependable and responsible, and highly attentive to detail; and
•  Willingness and flexibility to undertake mission travel, as required.

Core Competencies:

Lead and Innovate: Contributes new insights to understand situations and develops solutions to resolve complex problems. Adapts as circumstances require and manages impact of own behavior on others in context of World Bank’s values and mission. Identifies and pursues innovative approaches to resolve issues.

Deliver Results for Clients: Adds value by constantly looking for a better way to get more impactful results; sets challenging stretch goals for oneself. Immerses oneself in client experiences and perspective by asking probing questions to understand unmet needs. Demonstrates accountability for achieving results that have a development impact and financial, environmental and social sustainability. Identifies and proposes solutions to mitigate and manage risks.

Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries: Appropriately involves others in decision making and communicates with key stakeholders. Approaches conflicts as common problems to be solved. Actively seeks and considers diverse ideas and approaches displaying a sense of mutuality and respect. Integrates World Bank perspective into work.

Create, Apply and Share Knowledge: Leverages department’s expertise and body of knowledge across World Bank to strengthen internal and/or external client solutions. Seeks to learn from more experienced staff to deepen or strengthen their professional knowledge and helps others to learn. Builds personal and professional networks inside and outside the department unit.

Make Smart Decisions: Seeks diversity of information and inputs, researches possible solutions, and generates recommended options. Identifies and understands risks and proposes recommendations. Based on risk analysis makes decisions in a timely manner within own area of responsibility, considering the interests and concerns of stakeholders.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.