Manager - External Investigations

Manager - External Investigations

Job #:
req19486

Organization:
World Bank

Sector:
Other

Grade:
GH

Term Duration:
4 years 0 months

Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment

Location:
Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:
11/14/2022 (11:59pm UTC)

Description

Do you want to build a truly worthwhile career? 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 140 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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

As part of the World Bank Group (WBG), the Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) shares in the WBG's overall mission in alleviating poverty and achieving a shared and sustainable prosperity in client countries. INT's fundamental role within the WBG is to help detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in the use of the WBG's financial resources, so that those resources are used effectively to benefit the poor people that they are intended to reach. In contributing to the WBG's overall mission, INT works closely with other stakeholders across the WBG to:
1. Help 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 sanctionable practices) in WBG activities; • Seeking Bank sanctions against firms and individuals that have engaged in sanctionable practices; • Working with the WBG's operational departments 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 broader level, as appropriate, to address risks and issues identified through investigations, and 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-supported projects with operations using forensic methodology to detect indicators of fraud or corruption and help address them as early as possible for better project outcomes; and• Working with sanctioned entities through its integrity compliance office in supporting and monitoring their efforts to put in place appropriate integrity compliance programs to raise their integrity standards and reduce risks associated with their operations following their release from sanction.

2. Help client countries to fight fraud and corruption by:• Referring investigative findings to the investigative and enforcement authorities in those countries and engaging in information-sharing with authorities, as requested and appropriate; • Supporting client country counterparts with their preventive and integrity risk mitigation efforts at a project and policy levels, • Helping build client country capacity in preventive and forensic techniques, and• Collaborating in multilateral efforts to mitigate the risks of fraud or corruption in development activities.

3. Enforce the highest standards of professional integrity, and ethical behavior among WBG staff and corporate vendors by:• Investigating allegations of staff misconduct involving fraud and corruption; • Investigating corporate vendors alleged to have engaged in sanctionable practices; and • Mining the lessons learned from those investigations to undertake training and outreach programs and also to strengthen the WBG's internal controls environment.

Duties and Accountabilities
Reporting to the Director of Investigations, Strategy and Operations, this position is one of two Managers of External Investigations, who together oversee INT's external investigations teams. The Manager of External Investigations shall:
• Provide strategic guidance and oversight to staff in the investigation of allegations of sanctionable practices involving WBG operations and supported projects and Bank-administered funds.• Effectively prioritize the deployment of investigative resources to enable INT's proportionate response to all allegations of sanctionable practices whilst ensuring that INT's investigations effectively consider risk and impact, deliver meaningful impact for the WBG and/or contribute to mitigating significant risks in its programs.• Provide robust quality assurance over all aspects of the investigations, including both the underlying work and the reporting of the related results, to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality.• Oversee the effective and efficient delivery of investigative activities, including timeliness and thoroughness of all investigative steps.• Collaborate with all other peers and units within INT to ensure smooth delivery of overall VPU objectives, including close collaboration with:• The other Manager of External Investigations to ensure maximum synergies in the allocation of investigative resources based on prioritized needs and impact, intelligence and knowledge sharing, consistent implementation of methodologies and tools, etc.• The Internal Investigations unit to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness in the pursuit of "hybrid" cases; i.e., cases implicating both staff and external entities that fall within the internal investigations mandate;• The Prevention, Risk and Knowledge Management unit to evaluate recommendations for investigation; to leverage analytic tools, data, and other inputs to identify significant integrity risk areas and develop relevant proactive investigations when appropriate to address those risks, in addition to the complaint-driven reactive investigations; to leverage on an ongoing basis lessons learned from investigations cases, support strategies for the prevention of fraud and corruption in WBG projects and operations, and enhance the WBG's internal controls and ongoing risk management efforts;• The Litigation unit to ensure that legal and evidentiary requirements are met during the investigative process, cases are properly prepared to pursue sanctions proceedings or other appropriate resolutions, and investigative findings are appropriately referred to relevant national authorities;• The Integrity Compliance Office to ensure due consideration of applicable integrity standards in both settlement proceedings and post-sanctions compliance.
• Ensure that investigative staff appropriately liaise, and maintain positive and productive relations, with other relevant WBG staff and departments, including staff of regional operations and country offices to ensure maximum institutional effectiveness and impact from the VPU's efforts and deliverables.• Prepare and deliver high quality and timely briefing material for the WBG President, the WBG's Audit Committee and INT senior management as required, including, but not limited to, Final Investigative Reports, as well as monthly and semi-annual status reports.• Identify and develop investigative partnerships with key external stakeholders, including representatives of national enforcement authorities.• Demonstrate excellent people management skills by coaching, guiding, and managing a diverse team of investigators, analysts and assistants. Build a positive, respectful and trusting work environment, with a high level of team motivation.• Promote and demonstrate a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by building diverse teams, respecting and valuing differences, listening with an open mind, enabling all staff to actively contribute, and holding all team members to the same values and expected• Demonstrate strong performance management capabilities by providing staff with candid and ongoing performance feedback, identifying developmental opportunities, mentoring and supporting team members in their professional growth.• Lead special initiatives/projects and undertake other ad hoc assignments.

Selection Criteria
• Demonstrated leadership values and exemplification of managerial and core competencies, as referenced below.• Proven track record in investigations, including a minimum of 12 years of experience in national or international investigations, prosecutions or combination thereof.• Advanced university degree in a relevant field, such as law or criminal justice, is preferable. • Excellent people management skills, ability to build, develop and effectively manage multiple teams of culturally and professionally diverse individuals, and ability to create a positive work environment with a high degree of trust and staff motivation. • Extensive hands-on experience in the investigation of complex fraud and transnational corruption, and management and direction of investigative teams.• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task, including demonstrated ability to manage and direct a large number of investigative activities ongoing simultaneously.• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound leadership by prioritizing resources and team efforts towards work products and initiatives that provide the greatest value and sustainable impact, balancing long-term and short-term trade-offs particularly in a development context.• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.• Proven ability to clearly and concisely prepare, present, discuss and defend findings and recommendations at senior levels and to produce complex and compelling briefs, memoranda, reports, and papers, often at very short notice.• Established reputation for integrity, sound judgment, impeccable fairness and discretion in dealing internally and externally.• Fluency in both oral and written English. Proficiency in at least one of the other working languages of the World Bank Group - Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish is desirable but not essential.

Competencies

WBG Leadership Values & Managerial Behavior• Leadership of Self: Role model the change and values for WBG; Demonstrate courage of convictions, ownership and self-mastery within the organization in accordance to our values.• People Leadership: Lead and inspire staff to perform and deliver for better results; Help others achieve their fullest potential through coaching and mentorship.• Collaborative Leadership: Be mutually accountable for entire WBG's corporate targets and success; Work across WBG and with clients and partners to achieve better results.• Client Solutions Leadership: Be the leading provider of development solutions for country clients; Provide leadership in both knowledge generation and knowledge sharing.• Decisive Leadership: Take informed risks and make decisions in a transparent manner resulting in transformative impact for clients; Commit to decisions once they have been made.• WBG 5 Managerial Competencies: Courage of your convictions; Leading Teams for impact; Influencing across boundaries; Fostering openness to new ideas; and Building talent for the future.• WBG Core Competencies for all staff: Client orientation; Drive for results; Teamwork of collaboration and inclusion; Knowledge, learning and communication; and Business judgment and analytical decision-making.• Contribute to improving the culture/behavior in INT and work together to build one INT.

The World Bank Group values diversity and encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of World Bank Group member countries to apply, regardless of gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Sub-Saharan African nationals, Caribbean nationals, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.