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 Reconst ruction 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. 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. Duties and accountabilities:

• The ETC will be an integral member of the Kenya Water Team based in Nairobi, providing technical and operational expertise to support effective program implementation of the water portfolio. The candidate’s primary role will be to support K-WASH implementation. Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Support day-to-day implementation support for K-WASH, ensuring alignment with NAWASIP, the results framework, work plans, budgets, verification requirements, and disbursement milestones.
• Coordinate and monitor implementation across national agencies, counties, WSPs, partners, and consultants; track actions, deliverables, and progress through practical planning tools and dashboards.
• Review and quality-assure TORs, procurement packages, technical designs, reports, expenditure frameworks, and consultant outputs for compliance with program and World Bank requirements.
• Identify implementation bottlenecks and recommend practical, evidence-based solutions based on monitoring, field observations, and stakeholder feedback.
• Support Trust Fund management, including grant proposals, consultant recruitment and supervision, progress reporting, disbursement tracking, and quality control.
• Coordinate the PROSPECTS grant, including WASH assessments and investment planning, policy and regulatory reforms, stakeholder engagement, consultant oversight, and integration of refugee and host-community WASH services.
• Support monitoring of PROSTECTS grant execution including reporting on key deliverables and supporting knowledge and learning objectives of the grant.
• Contribute WASH expertise to preparation of the pipeline WASH activities including the proposed Northern Corridor Urban MPA and related Water Forward Compact priorities, including technical studies, investment planning, utility reforms, and coordination with K-WASH and county plans.
• Participate in missions and field visits; prepare aide-memoires, implementation reports, management letters, briefings, and follow-up actions.
• Document lessons, facilitate knowledge exchange, prepare knowledge products, and support team and counterpart capacity building across the water sector portfolio.
• Undertake other agreed tasks in response to emerging program and government priorities.