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 integral 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

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 global 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 jobs, and high vulnerability to shocks. Growth has returned to its pre-pandemic low trajectory, inequality remains among the highest in the world, and limited human capital continues to constrain opportunity and productivity. Although unemployment appears moderate, the deeper challenge is job quality, with weak labor earnings, high informality, infrastructure gaps, skills shortages, restrictive regulatory environments, limited access to finance, shallow capital markets, and low private investment holding back the creation of better jobs. At the same time, the region remains highly exposed to climate-related disasters and natural hazards, particularly in Central America and the Caribbean, where hurricanes, droughts, storms, and floods have significant economic and social impacts. In response, LCR is advancing a selective and coordinated One World Bank Group approach, leveraging the complementary strengths of IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA, and working with regional partners to support infrastructure, human capital, business‑enabling reforms, private capital mobilization, productive sectors, and resilience to shocks.





Senior Communications & External Affairs Officer

The Senior Communications & External Affairs Officer is a key member of the Latin America Communications and External Affairs team, and will be based in Bogotá, Colombia. The position supports the Colombia and Venezuela country programs and serves as a strategic advisor to country and regional management on stakeholder engagement, communications, advocacy, and reputational risk management.

The role is central to advancing the World Bank Group’s external affairs agenda in Colombia and Venezuela, driving delivery across CER’s four business lines: Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Business Marketing, Advocacy & Campaigns, and Risk & Issue Management. It requires strong strategic judgment, political awareness, and the ability to anticipate risks, influence stakeholders, shape narratives, and mobilize support for development priorities.

Working closely with country and regional management, operational teams, and colleagues across IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA, the Senior Communications & External Affairs Officer helps advance a coordinated One World Bank Group approach across the Colombia and Venezuela portfolio. The position combines strategic advisory responsibilities with hands‑on delivery and is expected to lead complex assignments, support priority country initiatives, and contribute directly to execution across the country programs and CMU portfolio.

The successful candidate will serve as a core member of the Andean Countries, Venezuela and Colombia Country Management Unit (CMU) communications team and work in close partnership with the Senior Communications and External Affairs based in Lima, Peru, who also supports

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