IT Officer Contract and Vendor Management

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. 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, 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 to the most urgent global challenges.
Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.
Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.
ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.
Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.
The ITS Information Security and Risk Management (ITSSR) unit, headed by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is responsible for providing leadership in managing the information security and risk functions and activities across the World Bank Group, enabling the achievement of WBG’s business objectives. ITSSR supports and facilitates a risk aware culture, ensuring that WBG information assets are protected in an effective, efficient, and balanced manner and IT security and risk management efforts throughout the World Bank Group are coordinated and aligned to the Bank’s business and IT strategy. The unit is also responsible for delivering IT labor, sourcing and vendor relationship management services and software asset management that help drive business transformation. ITSSR comprises of the following functions: Security Operations, Risk Management and Advisory, IT Policy, IT Compliance, PMO, Business Continuity, and Sourcing and Vendor Management.
The ITS Risk and Compliance (ITSRC) unit within ITSSR is responsible for offering technical solutions and managing processes to support technology risk assessments including third-party risk, application security, software asset management, sourcing and vendor management.
The IT Officer will be part of the Contract and Vendor Management Team in ITRSC, which serves as ITS Contract and Vendor Management Center of Excellence, providing guidance, and support to ITS contract and project managers to help ITS drive the best business value from contracts and optimize partnerships with vendors to allow ITS to deliver innovative, cost-effective, and efficient solutions for clients.  The team also provides advisory services to ITS PMs and management on Contracts between the WBG and IT Service Providers are also included. Additionally, the team provides information and guidance to ITS Vendors, PMs, hiring units, and stakeholders throughout the sourcing lifecycle.  This includes contractor logistics, onboarding, offboarding, general support. The team also collaborate with WB stakeholders and vendors to ensure the successful operation of ODCs/VDCs
The selected candidate will report to the Supervisor of the Contract and Vendor Management Team.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Information Analyst should possess strong organizational skills, versatility across multiple disciplines, and the capacity to execute critical tasks promptly within a dynamic and high-pressure setting with competing priorities.  The selected candidate should demonstrate a keen understanding of IT project and service delivery team needs and have the competence to influence vendor conduct while striving for continuous enhancements in vendor performance.
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