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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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Energy in Eastern and Southern Africa The Energy and Extractives Global Practice supports affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy services, while strengthening sector institutions, policies, investment programs, and regional integration. Within Africa Energy, IAEE3 supports the East Africa portfolio and contributes to regional priorities, including the implementation of Mission 300 and the advancement of inclusive energy-sector development. Women in Energy Network - Africa (WEN-Africa) Aligned with the World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030, the Women in Energy Network - Africa (WEN-Africa) was launched in February 2024 to promote women’s participation and advancement in Africa’s energy sector. WEN-Africa brings together utilities, energy companies, regulators, regional power pools, energy ministries, women’s professional associations, regional organizations, development partners, and the private sector to increase women’s employment, with strong focus on technical and leadership roles, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion across the energy value chain. The network supports institutional partners in translating commitments into measurable results through technical assistance, capacity building, knowledge exchange, policy dialogue, advocacy, and results monitoring. Its interventions are delivered through five pillars: (i) Hiring More Women, (ii) Retention and Career Advancement and Skills Development, (iii) Promoting STEM Education, (iv) Policy and Institutional Change, and (v) Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion, which collectively address barriers to women’s employment, leadership, and economic inclusion in Africa’s energy transition. Duties and accountabilities

• Provide strategic leadership for WEN-Africa and act as a focal point for the network within IAEE3, across WBG teams, and with external partners.
• Lead high-level dialogue with governments, utilities, regulators, power pools, private-sector organizations, professional associations, academia, development partners, and women’s networks to advance institutional commitments and scalable solutions.
• Translate WEN-Africa’s strategy and partnership commitments into a prioritized, costed, and results-oriented annual work program with clear responsibilities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and maintain a credible partner-engagement model that combines technical support, knowledge exchange, accountability, visibility, and recognition of results.
• Guide the design and delivery of regional initiatives that expand women’s access to technical careers, leadership pathways, entrepreneurship opportunities, access to finance, and enabling workplaces across energy sector institutes.
• Strengthening WEN-Africa’s institutional sustainability through governance arrangements, resource mobilization, strategic partnerships, robust monitoring and reporting, and consistent communications.
• Provide technical leadership and support to project task teams throughout project preparation and implementation to ensure alignment with WEN-Africa pillars, compliance with World Bank gender tag requirements, integration of gender-responsive actions and indicators, and effective supervision of gender-related results.