E T Consultant

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 . 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. 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 Seychelles. 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. The World Bank Group maintains a substantial and long-standing engagement in Kenya's water sector, with a diverse active portfolio spanning urban and rural water supply and sanitation, bulk water infrastructure, climate-resilient water resources management, irrigation, and more recently, climate resilient rural WASH. The water portfolio, representing well over US$1 billion in IDA financing across multiple concurrent operations, positions the World Bank as one of Kenya's most significant development partners in the sector. The portfolio supports implementation across a wide range of government counterparts -- including national agencies, Water Works Development Agencies, county governments, and water utilities -- and operates under a complex, multi-stakeholder institutional architecture requiring sustained, skilled, and coordinated implementation support across all projects. The Horn of Africa Groundwater for Resilience Project supports sustainable groundwater access and management and resilience to climate shocks. The parallel CIWA learning agenda links knowledge with implementation. The ongoing and proposed operations in Somalia require a solid technical background to ensure proper investment preparation, implementation, contract management and sustainable service delivery. Duties and Responsibilities: The ETC is expected to provide technical and operational expertise to support the implementation of the HoAGWRP and its parallel CIWA learning Agenda. The candidate is expected to carry out specific duties which will include, but are not limited to:

• Support the task team in coordination of project supervision activities, tracking tools, procurement processes, monitoring and evaluation, in close coordination with country and regional TTLs.
• Provide technical expertise in the review of project documentation (ToRs, technical specifications) linked to project activities and participate in supervision of works.
• Provide hands on support to the different PIUs and sub PIUs, including trainings on technical matters related to management of rural water supply schemes.
• Support the CIWA learning agenda and contribute to applied research in the context of sustainable and resilient service provision of groundwater in rural FCV environments such as the borderlands of the HoA. Contribute to the different CIWA reports related to this agenda. Special focus should be placed on both adaptation and mitigation - by adopting global best practices.
• Support the Task Team in the application of lessons learned in the preparation of subsequent phases of the MPA in other Horn of Africa countries that may join the program in the future.
• Coordinate the project monitoring platform or MIS, in close collaboration with GIS experts, that is used to assess progress of project activities in component 1 on infrastructure delivery, by participating in trainings of M E staff, and providing quality control of the information uploaded, ensuring the tool is also up to date with latest project information.
• Contribute to facilitation of regional events in hydro-diplomacy dialogue with clients on transboundary project activities.
• Help supervise quality of deliverables from other CIWA consultants supporting the learning agenda, at both national and regional levels.
• Participate in field missions in the areas of specialization, provide technical inputs and guidance to client counterparts as required by operational and analytical task team leaders. Preparing project briefs, Aide Memoires, but also funding proposals for additional TFs to enhance the learning agenda and capacity building linked on groundwater management matters.
• Support the reporting of Trust Funded activities and manage the activities.
• Participate and support knowledge sharing activities across countries in the region and contribute specific knowledge both within the assigned countries and in the World Bank. Support to Somalia Water Operations (Barwaaqo)
• Support implementation and supervision of the Barwaaqo Project (P177627) for Component 1 (Water Points), including coordination with federal and state implementing agencies.
• Provide technical review and quality assurance of Terms of Reference, technical studies, engineering designs, technical specifications, procurement documents, and other implementation-related documentation.
• Support implementation support missions, preparation of Aide Memoires, technical briefs and management updates, and follow-up of agreed actions with implementing agencies.
• Support capacity building of government institutions and project implementing entities on water resources management, groundwater development, rural water supply, and sustainable service delivery approaches.
• Contribute to capturing and disseminating lessons learned from Barwaaqo implementation to strengthen resilience, water security, and sustainable service delivery outcomes. Strategic Analytics and Future Operations Preparation
• Support technical and institutional assessments required for preparation and design of the Somalia Planet Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach (MPA) and related future operations.
• Provide analytical input and guidance on the political-economy context, including federal and state relations, institutional mandates, governance arrangements, and institutional and service delivery challenges.
• Support assessment of institutional capacity and implementation arrangements at federal, state, and local levels.
• Support analysis of private sector and government agency service delivery and operation and maintenance (O M) models to define practical, scalable, and sustainable approaches.
• Contribute to analytical reports, concept notes, presentations, background papers, and project preparation documents required for future investment operations.