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At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit International Bank for Reconstruction and Development . VPU Context: The World Bank Group’s Eastern and Southern Africa region spans 26 geographically, culturally, and economically diverse countries stretching from the Red Sea in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, home to approximately 700 million people. The region faces significant development challenges, including high public debt, inflation, food insecurity, water insecurity and an extreme poverty rate of around 43.6%, alongside vulnerability to climate change and health crises. Key priorities for the region include building human capital, strengthening regional connectivity, and enhancing resilience to these compounding pressures. Water is one of the regional priorities as well. At the global level, Water Forward is a global coalition that brings together governments, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and philanthropies around a shared goal: to deliver water security for up to 1 billion people by 2030, working across three pillars—Water for People, Water for Food, and Water for Planet. The Planet Vice Presidency (Planet VP), which leads the World Bank Group’s work on Farming and Agribusiness, Climate, Environment, and Water, houses the Water Department, who is responsible for the World Bank Group’s Water Strategy Implementation Plan as part of its contribution to Water Forward. Unit Context: The SAEW3 is the Water Global Practice unit under the AFE Planet Department covers 13 country programs in 3 CMUs across Kenya. Somalia, Rwanda. Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seycheles. The Water (SAEW3)unit supports clients on water supply and sanitation services, water resources management, irrigation, and climate resilience. The Unit (SAEW3) manages lending, advisory services, analytics, and trust-funded activities across these countries. In Somalia, the unit supports the Water for Rural Resilience (Barwaaqo) Project, the Somalia Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Support ASA, and related trust-funded activities. The portfolio requires close coordination with government counterparts, Federal Member States, the Somalia Country Management Unit, consultants, and World Bank Group’s technical and fiduciary teams in a fragile and conflict-affected context.