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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org. Context and Organizational Unit The World Bank Group (WBG) is a unique global partnership of five institutions driven by a bold vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG helps solve the world’s greatest development challenges. In 2026, the WBG launched the Knowledge Bank — a WBG-wide institutional transformation that fundamentally reshapes how the institution generates, shares, and applies knowledge across its public and private sector work. The Knowledge Bank is organized around five cross-institutional Verticals — People, Planet, Prosperity, Infrastructure, and Digital and AI — each bringing together IBRD/IDA and IFC teams under a unified structure to develop enabling policies and scale proven solutions. The People Vice Presidency promotes investment in people, delivering knowledge for impact and public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across health, education and skills, and gender to build human capital and drive economic growth and job creation, using the Jobs Framework approaches that improve infrastructure, policies, regulations, and private capital. Global Health Directorate The Global Health Directorate leads the WBG's health agenda, partnering with governments and the private sector to strengthen health systems, improve health outcomes, and accelerate progress to expand access to quality, affordable health care. It provides intellectual leadership, technical expertise, and operational support to country teams working across the full spectrum of health system challenges, supporting regional teams to deliver on the Bank's corporate health commitments — reaching 1.5 billion people with quality, affordable health services and building resilience in 66 countries — while supporting the creation of more and better jobs. The Directorate is led by a Global Director supported by two Practice Managers that oversee the Policy Regulations (P R) and Solutions and Impact (S I) Units, as well as a Front Office responsible for strategy, partnerships, risk management, external and internal engagement, and talent and budget management. The Health Policy and Regulation team within the Global Health Directorate is responsible for the normative, policy, and regulatory frameworks that underpin the WBG's global health agenda. It houses four dedicated programs: Mission 1.5 Billion Health Beneficiaries (health service delivery, health financing, and healthy longevity); Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems (PPPs, health sector value chains, and the Health for Jobs agenda); Mission 66 Resilient Health Systems (health emergency preparedness, response and resilience, climate change, and public health and disease prevention); and Nutrition. Together, these programs generate the evidence, norms, and policy tools that guide both WBG country operations and broader global health policy dialogue. A Central Program Implementation Unit (PIU) reports jointly to both Managers and serves as the operational bridge between the two global units, managing portfolio and pipeline, Health Compacts, CPF upstream engagement, and regional outreach. Two cross-cutting layers — Methods, Impact Measurement and Innovation and Digital and AI — provide foundational technical support to all programs within the Directorate. Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems Program This program sits at the heart of how the WBG addresses the realities of health delivery in most low- and middle-income countries: systems in which public and private actors jointly shape access, quality, and affordability. Policy and regulation of mixed health systems are therefore central to the implementation of the WBG’s Health Target Implementation Plan, which calls for public and private providers to function as one coordinated system oriented around integrated, people-centered primary health care. Governments in mixed systems must act as active stewards — setting rules, purchasing services strategically, regulating markets, and governing value chains — yet few have the tools or institutional capacity to do so effectively. The program addresses this gap directly. It provides the technical leadership, practical and operationally oriented frameworks and tools, and country support to help governments govern mixed health systems in ways that advance the 1.5 billion target, build resilience, and generate jobs. Its scope spans four interconnected work areas: mixed health systems stewardship; contracting, strategic purchasing, and health-system-aligned PPPs; policy and regulation for health value chains (pharmaceuticals, supply chains, and local manufacturing); and the links between health reforms and the jobs agenda. Role Overview The Program Manager for Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems serves as the strategic lead and technical steward of the program. The role provides strategic direction and oversees the delivery of the program, ensuring that policy and regulatory priorities are translated into operationally relevant tools, country support, and institutional collaboration with practical impact on the ground. The Program Manager will work in close collaboration with the PIU, which provides shared operational services to all programs across the Directorate, including portfolio management, pipeline review, Health Compacts, and regional outreach. The Program Manager will also interface regularly with other programs in the Directorate including those in the Solutions and Impact unit — particularly the IFC Private Sector Investments Center of Excellence — as well as with regional health teams, IFC and MIGA, FCI and other Global Practices — particularly on industrial policy, trade, competitiveness, procurement, governance, digital, and jobs — and external partners, to support the integration of policy and regulatory reforms in country dialogue, Health Compacts, Country Partnership Frameworks and WBG operations. The Program Manager will play an active role in ensuring that the program both contributes to and benefits from the Knowledge Bank's cross-institutional knowledge architecture, with a strong focus on upstream and downstream engagement and co-creation with regional health teams to support country dialogue, and the design and implementation of WBG operations and health policies and reform pathways in support of the WBG’s corporate commitments, targets, and the jobs agenda. Reporting Accountability The Program Manager holds day-to-day management responsibility for the Policy and Regulation of Mixed Health Systems Program. The position reports to the Manager for Policy and Regulations within the Global Health Directorate. The role is based in Washington, DC. Duties and Accountabilities Strategic and Technical Leadership •Set the multi-year technical direction of the Directorate's knowledge and analytical program across the technical pillars of the Program, ensuring the agenda is anchored in the best available evidence and responsive to country demand and emerging global health priorities. •Provide substantive technical leadership and quality assurance across the program’s four work areas: oMixed Health Systems Stewardship: Overseeing work on public stewardship of mixed systems including the development of frameworks, practical tools for country diagnostics, and guidance and hands-on technical support to countries in integrating private sector actors into reform strategies. oContracting, Strategic Purchasing, and PPPs: Leading the program’s engagement on supporting governments to purchase services from public and private providers including the design of health-system-aligned PPPs beyond hospitals, including primary health care, digital health, and diagnostics, in collaboration with the S I IFC Investments Center of Excellence team. oPolicy and Regulation for Health Value Chains: Guiding the program’s agenda to strengthen access to medicines and health products through pharmaceutical policy, market shaping, regulatory reform, and local manufacturing initiatives. oJobs and Better Jobs in Health: Developing and leading the program’s jobs agenda, including the analytical framing for the links between health sector reforms — including regulatory, training, and labor market measures — and employment, labor force participation, and productivity outcomes. •Engage proactively with regional health teams and governments to shape national policy dialogue related to policy and regulations of mixed health systems. •Lead engagement with WBG research departments, including the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) and the Chief Economist's Office, to align analytical priorities, commission joint research, and ensure the program benefits from the WBG's full analytical capacity. •Advise senior management on strategic direction and positioning related to policy and regulation of mixed health systems. •Work closely with the Methods, Impact Measurement and Innovation Team to develop and maintain the program's theory of change, results framework, and monitoring architecture, ensuring accountability against the WBG health targets and related success metrics. •Facilitate strong collaboration with the PIU and the Solutions Impact (S ) team, to incorporate feedback and learnings from IBRD/IDA and IFC operations and from WBG’s clients, as well as the private sector expertise within the S I team. •Represent the program in senior-level internal and external forums as required, coordinating with the Directorate's Front Office on partnership development, external engagement, and institutional risk management. •Position the mixed health systems agenda as a core element of the WBG's health offer, and ensure its visibility within country strategies, corporate reporting, and global health policy dialogue. Program and Operations Management •Lead the day-to-day management and coordination of the program, including staff co-supervision and managing the program workplan, budget, and deliverables across its thematic areas. •Build and maintain strong working relationships across the Health Directorate and with relevant WBG units — including Health Financing, IFC, MIGA, FCI, Governance, Digital, and Legal — to ensure coherent, complementary engagement on mixed health systems priorities at the country level. •Provide upstream and downstream technical support to regional and country teams, ensuring the program delivers hands-on, operationally grounded guidance and advisory services related to the contribution of the private sector to health policy objectives, mixed systems governance, provider integration, private sector engagement, purchasing, PPPs, health value chains, and jobs. •Support more integrated One WBG approaches where public policy, regulation, private investment, and risk mitigation need to be aligned, leveraging the comparative advantages of different WBG institutions to deliver for clients. •Manage the program's knowledge generation and dissemination function, including oversight of flagship reports, policy briefs, tools, and learning platforms relevant to the program’s technical thematic areas. •Contribute to, and draw from other WBG teams, knowledge and lessons to strengthen the program. This includes establishing and sustaining the capture and use of knowledge generated from the program’s work and managing and continuously improving the program’s information management infrastructure, ensuring that lessons from country engagements and global knowledge are systematically captured, synthesized, and used for data-driven decision-making. People Management •Lead, supervise and motivate a multi-disciplinary program team, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance working environment. The Program Manager will have co-supervisory responsibility over the program team and will closely collaborate with other global and regional teams to leverage skills and knowledge across the Health Directorate. The Program Manager will agree on respective responsibilities and work programs of the team’s staff in coordination with the Global Practice Manager for Policy and Regulation. •Create a positive, inclusive and collaborative work environment in which staff can succeed and maximize their impact, with a strong emphasis on professional development, accountability, and continuous learning. •Model exemplary WBG leadership values and supervisory behaviors and reinforce these qualities in staff. Resource and Budget Management •Manage the program budget ensuring strategic allocation of resources and compliance with WBG financial management rules and administrative procedures. •Monitor budget execution and report on resource utilization to the Global Health Practice Manager for Policy and Regulation and the Front Office of the Global Health Director. •Identify resource gaps and work with senior management to mobilize additional funding through trust funds, partnerships, or corporate allocations as needed. •Manage donor stewardship responsibilities for the program as required and in close coordination with the Front Office, including regular reporting to trust fund contributors, representation at donor consultative forums, and maintaining strong communication with donor constituencies on program progress and results.