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 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development . VPU Context: The Agriculture and Food Global Practice works to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity by making agriculture and food systems more productive, sustainable, and resilient. The Practice supports governments in developing countries to improve food and nutrition security, promote inclusive rural growth, and build resilience to climate change, shocks, and fragility. Unit Context: The World Bank Agriculture and Food Unit in Eastern and Southern Africa (SAEA3) is supporting a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of regional and country programs aimed at strengthening food systems resilience, improving nutrition outcomes, expanding women’s access to productive resources and technologies, and promoting climate-smart and inclusive agricultural transformation across the region. The portfolio includes regional analytical and technical assistance activities under the Food Systems Resilience Program (FSRP), a China–World Bank Partnership Facility (CWPF) grant in Tanzania, and operational support to country projects including the Sudan Transition to Agriculture Recovery and Resilience Project (Khairat). An experienced Extended Term Consultant is sought for one year to provide sustained analytical, technical, operational, and coordination support across these activities. Duties and accountabilities: The ETC will work in coordination with the SAEA3 Practice Manager and relevant Task Team Leaders, providing technical and analytical leadership across four core workstreams. In the event of competing priorities, the FSRP Nutrition workstream takes precedence, followed by FSRP Gender; any reallocation of effort requires Practice Manager agreement.

• FSRP Nutrition Program: Lead country engagement and delivery of nutrition deep dives for Madagascar and Comoros; serve as lead author of the FSRP regional report on nutrition and healthy diets; lead design and launch of behavior-change campaigns; and facilitate high-level technical workshops and regional dialogues to translate findings into policy and investment recommendations.
• FSRP Gender Program: Provide technical leadership for Gender Innovation Marketplaces, including innovation scouting, due diligence, and selection; lead marketplace events and private sector matchmaking; and develop replicable partnership and delivery models for scaling gender-responsive agricultural innovations across FSRP countries.
• CWPF Tanzania Project: Lead strategic coordination and technical oversight of the CWPF grant activity, managing joint work planning with China Agricultural University and Tanzanian research partners, overseeing implementation milestones and risks, and leading grant reporting and results synthesis.
• Sudan Transition to Agriculture Recovery and Resilience Project (P514272): Serve as technical lead for the project’s corporate commitments — including climate co-benefits, gender marker compliance, and other applicable tags — ensuring they are embedded in implementation planning, results frameworks, and ISR/ICR reporting; lead technical preparation of implementation support missions and quality review of consultant deliverables.
• Flexible and Pipeline Support (capped at 5 staff weeks): Provide targeted analytical and technical inputs for Tanzania AgriConnect preparation and other prioritized emerging needs, subject to Practice Manager agreement.