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As part of the World Bank Group (WB), the Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) shares in the WB’s overall mission in alleviating poverty and achieving a shared and sustainable prosperity in client countries. INT’s fundamental role within the WB is to help detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in the use of the WB’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 WB’s overall mission, INT works closely with other stakeholders across the WB to:

Help detect, prevent, and deter fraud and corruption in WB-supported projects and activities by:

• professionally investigating allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, or obstruction (the WB-sanctionable practices) in WB activities.
• seeking WB sanctions against firms and individuals that have engaged in any sanctionable practice.
• using information available to INT to help operational staff design and implement projects in ways that minimize fraud and corruption risks.
• working with the operational complex 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 WB-supported projects with operations using forensic methodology in order 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 the 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.

Help client countries to fight fraud and corruption by:

• referring investigative findings to the investigative and enforcement authorities in those 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 the 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 and corruption in development activities.
• promoting integrity principles and the implementation of integrity compliance programs among entities sanctioned by the WB, and more broadly.

Enforce the highest standards of professional integrity and ethical behavior among WB 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 the lessons learned from those investigations to undertake training and outreach programs and strengthen the WB’s internal controls environment.

INT’s work contributes directly to achieving the shared prosperity/poverty reduction and sustainable planet-related mission and work of the WB. Reducing fraud and corruption in WB projects helps to ensure that WB funds are used for their intended purposes: to alleviate poverty and to increase prosperity and stability in our borrowing countries. Working with others in international development institutions, INT’s principal goal is to measurably minimize development assistance funds lost to fraud, corruption and abuse and increase the quality and results of development efforts. Results are reported in an annual report that contains aggregated data, outcomes, and generic descriptions of significant cases. To ensure its independence, INT’s Vice President (VP) reports directly to the World Bank President.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Forensic Services Unit (FSU) in INT provides special assistance to external investigation teams in planning, executing, and reporting on the exercise of the WB’s audit and inspection rights and to internal investigation teams related to financial matters. The unit also executes forensic audits of World Bank-funded projects to identify suspected fraudulent expenditures and other fiduciary issues, collaborates across INT and Operations teams as required, and helps identify potentially ineligible expenditures, ineffective controls in Project Implementing Agencies (PIUs), and recommends improvements.

The Fraud Analytics Specialist (FAS) will play a critical role in advancing the WB’s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) mission by enhancing data-driven applications for integrity risk management. This role will focus on spearheading fraud and forensic analytics initiatives that significantly boost INT’s operational effectiveness and collaborate with INT Data Lab team lead to build and monitor data pipelines using Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) techniques. The FAS will be responsible for developing statistical models and tools that can help identify patterns of misconduct, assess risk factors, and provide actionable insights to prevent fraud and corruption in World Bank-financed operations. This work will require the FAS to collaborate closely with the Prevention, Risk and Knowledge Management unit (PRKM) and other relevant INT and Bank units to ensure that the analytics tools are effectively integrated into INT’s broader risk management framework. The FAS will report to the FSU Team Lead.

The FAS will support data mining and intelligence curation efforts across INT. This responsibility includes extracting and analyzing business intelligence that can be used by various INT units, such as Complaint Development, External and Internal Investigations, Prevention, Knowle