Senior Communications & External Affairs Officer
Job #: req38033
Organization: World Bank
Sector: External Affairs & Corporate Relations
Grade: GG
Term Duration: 4 years 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Bogota,Colombia
Required Language(s): English, Spanish
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date: 8/21/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It is 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 for the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

Communications and External Relations (CER)
The mission of Communications and External Relations (CER)



is to help deliver financial and political support for the World Bank Group, strengthen the Bank Group’s role as a integral thought leader in development by enhancing and safeguarding its reputation, and supporting operational teams to achieve country outcomes. CER manages corporate communications and global engagement with key stakeholders, including media, civil society, foundations, private sector, donor countries, and international organizations, as well as employee engagement. CER also manages strategic communications for the World Bank Group’s Regions and technical units and leads the management of reputation risk.

Regional Context
The World Bank Group serves 33 client countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, a highly diverse region ranging from sophisticated middle-income economies to IDA countries, small Caribbean states, and one fragile state, all facing three interrelated challenges: low growth and productivity, insufficient quality

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