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Research Assistant and Field Coordinator Recruitment Drives

Each year, the Development Impact Group organizes two large-scale batch recruitment drives, in Fall and Spring. The positions advertised in these drives allow project teams to hire for the following roles:

• Research Assistants ¡ª Work with the research team to support data acquisition, processing, cleaning, and analysis,
• Field Coordinators ¡ª Supervise implementation of the impact evaluations in the field and liaise with the research team, World Bank operational staff, and Government Officials.
• Junior Field Coordinators ¡ª Local staff who support Field Coordinators with field supervision and data collection

NOTE: The application for the September 2025 STC Recruitment Drive is now open. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

The Development Impact Group is looking to recruit 16 consultants across 13 projects to support our global portfolio of impact evaluations. The consultants will work with the Development Impact team and external researchers on all phases of the impact evaluations (IEs), from study design to analysis. The details of hiring projects, including start date and position requirements, can be found on the . Applicants may also indicate interest in being considered for positions that will open in the future. 

Qualified candidates should apply using by Thursday, October 2, 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time.

Please see the , and the for more information about the following open positions:

• Research Assistants (RA)- Work with the research team to support data acquisition, processing, cleaning, and analysis.
  • Sierra Leone Agriculture Projects.
  • Community Forest Conservation in Burkina Faso.
  • Artificial Intelligence in Payment for Ecosystem Services (French speaking preferred).
  • Impact Evaluation Window for Online Media Interventions (proficiency in Hindi, Swahili, Hausa, or Yoruba is an asset).
  • Rwanda Agriculture Program (Pre-doc).
  • Rwanda Tax Program (Kinyarwanda speaking).
  • ieConnect Senegal: Impact Evaluation of the BRT and TER in Dakar.
  • Impact Evaluation of Market-Aligned Digital Skills Training and Job Placement Services (French speaking preferred).
  • Evaluating the Impacts of Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Procurement Practices on Economic and Socioenvironmental Value Generation of Infrastructure Projects.

• Field Coordinators (FC) - Supervise implementation of the impact evaluations in the field and liaise with the research team, World Bank operational staff, and government officials.
  • South Sudan Productive Safety Net for Socioeconomic Opportunities Project (SNSOP) (Juba Arabic speaking).
  • Sierra Leone Agriculture Projects (local dialects of Sierra Leone preferred).
  • Artificial Intelligence in Payment for Ecosystem Services (Luganda speaking).
  • Rwanda Agriculture Program (Kinyarwanda speaking).
  • WFP Ghana Agroforestry & Carbon Sequestration.
  • Fueling clean cooking transitions in Senegal: demand, adoption, and emission reduction potential of improved cookstoves (Wolof speaking).
  • AgriScale Senegal- From Learning to Scaling Food System Resilience tools in Senegal (Wolof speaking).

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DECDI¡¯s People Impact Lab is seeking to hire field coordinators (FCs) in: Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Greece. The FCs will support the World Bank¡¯s partnership with the European Commission (DG-REGIO and DG EMPL) to identify opportunities to bolster the effectiveness of EU cohesion policy investments through improving the use of data, trialing alternative design options and implementation modalities to test innovations and learn what works best in practice, and rigorously documenting impacts. DECDI will hire two types of Field Coordinators to support the DECDI-EU program: FCs to support trial-and-adopt impact evaluation design and FCs to support data systems assessment. Both roles are part-time. Based on the candidate¡¯s qualifications and experience, they may apply for both roles or only one, as appropriate and relevant.

Apply  by September 19th. If you encounter issues, you many reach out to eu_cohesion_data_ecosystems@worldbank.org. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Click  for the full terms of reference.