Investigative Analyst

**Investigative Analyst**

Job #:
req30573
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Other
Grade:
GE
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

**Location**:
Brussels,Belgium
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Russian or Albanian
Closing Date:
12/16/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

**Integrity Vice Presidency (INT)**

INT is one of the corporate functions of WBG and it contributes to the WBG's overall mission in alleviating poverty and achieving shared and sustainable prosperity in client countries. INT is central to the WBG's anticorruption efforts to ensure accountability involving its financial resources. INT's mission is to detect, deter, and prevent fraud and corruption in WBG's operations to ensure that those resources are deployed effectively to benefit the intended recipient. In contributing to the WBG's overall mission, INT works closely with other stakeholders across the WBG to:
1. Detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in WBG-supported projects and activities by:

- Professionally investigating allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, or obstruction (the five WBG-sanctionable practices) in WBG-funded activities;
- Seeking WBG sanctions against firms and individuals that have engaged in sanctionable practice(s);
- Using information available to INT to contribute to the operational design and implementation of projects that reduce fraud and corruption risks;
- Working with operational colleagues and other oversight and control units to help prevent fraud and corruption in operations by distilling lessons learned from investigative findings, developing effective risk identification and management tools, preparing remedial recommendations at the project and institutional level to address integrity risks and issues identified through investigations, and by ensuring timely disclosure to the Board of risks identified through ongoing or recently completed investigations that are of relevance to new operations presented to the Board for approval;
- Conducting detailed fiduciary reviews of Bank-financed projects in collaboration with WBG operations using forensic methodology in order to detect indicators of fraud or corruption and address fraud and corruption risks as early as possible for effective project outcomes;
- Working with sanctioned entities through INT's integrity compliance office in supporting and monitoring their efforts to put in place appropriate integrity compliance programs in order to raise their integrity standards and reduce risks associated with their operations following their release from sanction.

2. Assist Client Countries in their fight against fraud and corruption by:

- Referring investigative findings to the investigative and enforcement authorities in Client Countries and working with authorities, as requested, to follow-up and take action;
- Supporting Client Country counterparts with their preventive and integrity risk mitigation efforts at project and policy levels;
- Contributing to client country capacity development in preventive and forensic techniques;
- participating in multilateral efforts to mitigate the risks of fraud or corruption in development activities;
- Mining the lessons learned from investigations to deliver training and outreach programs; and
- Strengthening the WBG's internal controls environment.

3. Enforce the highest standards of professional integrity, and ethical behavior among WBG staff and corporate vendors by:

- Investigating allegations of staff misconduct involving significant fraud and corruption;
- Investigating corporate vendors alleged to have engaged in sanctionable practices; and
- Mining lessons learned from those investigations to undertake training and outreach programs and strengthen the WBG's internal controls environment.

Reducing fraud and corruption in WBG projects helps to ensure that WBG funds are used for their intended purposes: to alleviate poverty and to increase prosperity and stability in our client countries. Working with partners in international development institutions, INT's principal goal is to measurably minimize the loss of development assistance funds to fraud and corruption and increase the effectiveness of the WBG's development work. To ensure its independence, INT's Vice President (VP) reports directly to the President of the WBG.

To increase its presence and impact in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region, INT is seeking an Investigative Analyst (GE-level, local recruitment) for a position based in Brussels, Belgium.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The Investigative Analyst will:
Contribute to the investigation of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion and obstruction involving WBG operations in ECA. The Investigative Analyst will be under the supervision of INT's Regional Team Leader for ECA and the Manager, External Investigations Team 1 (INTEE) and will:
a) Develop and manage investigative strategies, plans and processes;
c) Deve