E T Consultant – LAKP-JLN
Listed on 2026-02-07
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Healthcare
Public Health
Overview
- Job title:
E T Consultant – LAKP-JLN - Job # req
35526 - Organization:
World Bank - Sector:
Health/Nutrition/Population - Grade: EC2
- Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
- Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment - Location:
Washington, DC, United States - Required Language(s):
English - Preferred Language(s):
French - Closing Date: 2/13/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description — Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? 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 and promoting shared prosperity. 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.
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The People Vertical
The People Vertical (former Human Development) is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries to develop country-tailored solutions for human development (HD) under the themes of education, health, social protection, jobs and gender. The People Vertical coordinates with other verticals to ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to development challenges, and through the World Bank Regional Units is expected to deliver the strongest and most pertinent support to our client countries.
Health Global Practice
The World Bank Group (WBG) supports countries’ efforts towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and to provide quality, affordable health services to everyone — regardless of their ability to pay — by strengthening primary health care systems and reducing the financial risks associated with ill health and increasing equity.
The Health Global Practice (former Health Nutrition and Population, HNP GP) delivers financing, analytics, and policy advice to help countries advance universal health coverage by strengthening primary care, public health, and financial protection – anchored in corporate priorities such as reaching 1.5 billion people with essential health services by 2030 and strengthening social protection systems to reach at least 500 million people, half of them women and girls.
Its teams provide upstream guidance on legal, regulatory, and institutional reforms—such as benefit package design, purchasing and provider payment, quality standards, workforce policies, and digital health governance—to enable effective, equitable service delivery and mobilize private sector solutions aligned with WBG goals.
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Unit Context and the JLN
The Health Global Practice is seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) based in Washington, D.C., reporting to the Unit Manager under the supervision of the Global Program Lead for Knowledge and Learning, to support its engagement with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) within the Learning and Knowledge Program (LAKP).
The JLN is an innovative learning platform where practitioners and policymakers co-develop global knowledge that focuses on the practical “how to’s” of achieving universal health coverage. Over the past 15 years, the JLN has evolved into a unique, innovative, country-led and country-driven platform that assists countries to accelerate their improvement efforts and co-develop practical knowledge and global public goods that many can benefit from.
As of 2025, the network includes policymakers and practitioners from 41 diverse countries from around the globe. The JLN’s activities are facilitated through member-defined technical initiatives, currently focusing on Primary Health Care, Population Coverage, Information Technology (IT), Provider Payment (PPM), Quality and Health Financing. Through these initiatives, JLN countries have demonstrated the power of the JLN’s collaborative learning approach – by going from ideas to action to implementation of system improvements.
The World Bank is a founding partner of the JLN and…
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