Senior Energy Specialist

Senior Energy Specialist

• Job #: req38586
• Organization: World Bank Group
• Sector: Energy
• Grade: GG
• Term Duration: Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP)
• Recruitment Type: International Recruitment
• Location: Washington, DC, United States
• Required Language(s): English
• Preferred Language(s): Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish
• Closing Date: 10/23/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information,

The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information:

Energy Global Department and Unit Context:

Within the Infrastructure VPU, the WBG Energy Department leads WBG’s global engagement on energy policy, investment, and institutions – spanning power systems, various energy technologies, energy efficiency, and energy access. The Department is composed of five units: one Policy and Regulations unit and four Solutions and Impact units.

Global Flaring and Methane Reduction (GFMR) Trust Fund ( ) is a unit within the Global Energy Department. Its mission is to boost global efforts to end routine gas flaring and reduce methane emissions along the entire oil and gas value chain. GFMR executes on its mission by providing grant funding and technical assistance, enabling policy reform and institutional strengthening, and mobilizing financing to support governments and state-owned operators to detect and abate routine gas flaring and methane emissions. GFMR is recruiting a Senior Gas Specialist to help implement technical aspects of its work program, especially methane and flaring project identification, assessments, and other initiatives.

Duties and accountabilities:

The Specialist will work in close collaboration with the GFMR Program Manager, staff and consultants globally, with the following activities:

• Provide technical-economic advice and help screen, assess and select potential methane and flaring reduction projects to be supported by GFMR grant funding and technical assistance.
• Support project development and provide guidance on all aspects of the technical assessment of gas flaring or methane emission reduction projects, including the:
• Rationale for the proposed mitigation options and practices and use of recovered flared or fugitive gas;
• Appropriateness of the major technology and equipment types;
• Definition of the scope of pre-feasibility studies,