The World Bank Group is hiring a Senior Digital Water Specialist to accelerate digital transformation in the water sector, strengthening water security, improving service delivery, and increasing climate resilience. We are a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.

What You'll Do

Provide technical assistance to client countries and utilities to design and implement digital water strategies, blueprints, and roadmaps.
Advise teams on policy, institutional, and governance reforms needed to enable digital water transformation.
Develop and disseminate practical guidance—frameworks, standards, templates, and toolkits—for planning and implementing digital water solutions at scale.
Identify emerging trends and support pilots that can be replicated and scaled across countries and utilities.
Foster partnerships with governments, regulators, utilities, academia, and the private sector.
Advise client counterparts on defining, designing, and implementing digital water enterprise architectures.
Support design and implementation of water sector data platforms including governance, metadata, and data quality processes.
Promote secure interoperability across systems using API-based integration and agreed standards.
Provide guidance on adopting standards and good practice for water-related data exchange and geospatial interoperability.
Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into 'digital-ready' system requirements.
Support utilities to design and implement digital solutions that improve performance, such as Non-Revenue Water analytics, smart metering, customer service modernization, billing/CRM improvements, and asset management digitization.