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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 Eastern and Southern Africa Home to about half a billion of Africa’s people, Eastern and Southern Africa is a geographically, culturally and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. Children under 18 make up almost half of the total population. The subregion boasts of some of the world’s richest human and natural resources and, apart from South Africa, the countries are predominantly raw material exporters. The subregion harbors some of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering many of its countries fragile, while significant gaps in education, health, and skills development continues to keep people from reaching their full potential. This creates a huge development challenge, impacts heavily on the lives and livelihoods of people, and hinders regional integration and trade. But it also creates an opportunity to work closely with country leaders, civil society, development partners, and young people to chart a brighter course for the future. The World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region, comprised of approximately 1,207 staff, mostly based in 26 country offices, has been helping countries realize their considerable development potential by focusing on the following priorities: Creating Jobs and Transforming Economies: We are working with countries across Africa to stimulate job creation and economic transformation by leveraging all sources of finance, expertise, and solutions to promote investment.

• Building up the Digital Economy: We are supporting Africa’s vision to ensure that every African individual, business, and government is connected by 2030.
• Institutions more Efficient and Accountable: Our support is helping governments strengthen public policy processes, manage resources effectively, and reinforce fair and reliable delivery of public services.
• Investing in People: We are at the forefront of helping African countries accelerate human capital gains and empower women by improving their access to education and skills acquisition, sexual and reproductive health services, and employment opportunities.
• Supporting Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: In the face of increasing climate-related risks, we are working with African countries to advance efforts to adopt renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, and green infrastructure.
• Addressing the Drivers of Fragility, Conflict and Violence: Given the cross-border nature of conflicts in Africa, we are employing an approach that simultaneously focuses on the drivers of fragility while also supporting well-targeted regional initiatives to create opportunities for peace and shared prosperity.
• Building Partnerships and Working across the African Continent: We are scaling up our work on regional integration, taking a holistic view of the continent that covers both North and Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank is a dedicated partner for Western and Central African countries, helping them deliver strong development outcomes for their people. A brighter future for the region is a better future for the world. Eastern and Southern Africa is a diverse and dynamic region comprising countries with significant development potential, abundant natural resources, and growing opportunities for regional integration and economic transformation. At the same time, many countries face challenges related to energy access, infrastructure development, climate vulnerability, fragility, and institutional capacity. The World Bank supports countries across the region to create jobs, strengthen institutions, invest in people, expand digital connectivity, address climate risks, and deepen regional cooperation. This position will support energy sector programs and initiatives across Eastern and Southern Africa, working closely with country teams and stakeholders to advance sustainable, reliable, and inclusive energy development. The Energy Extractives Global Practice of the World Bank Group is made up of more than 300 professionals, a lending program in the order of US$5-7 billion a year, an active portfolio of some $40 billion, and a rich program of Advisory and Analytical Work. The EEX GP focuses on: providing affordable, reliable and sustainable energy to meet the needs of fast growing economies and to ensure universal access to modern energy services for people in client countries; and, strengthening policy and institutional frameworks to promote transparent and equitable growth of the extractive sectors for public benefit. There is a strong emphasis on private sector resource mobilization and catalyzing financing from commercial and other sources of development and climate finance. The World Bank Group (WBG) supports the Sustainable Energy for All initiative and is committed to working towards accomplishing the initiative's three goals by 2030: i) universal access to electricity and clean cooking fuels; ii) doubling the share of the world's energy supplied by renewable sources from 18 percent to 36 percent, and iii) doubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency. The Energy Extractives (EEX) Global Practice (GP) focuses on: providing affordable, reliable and sustainable energy to meet the needs of fast-growing economies and to ensure universal access to modern energy services for people in client countries; and, strengthening policy and institutional frameworks to promote transparent and equitable growth of the extractives sectors for public benefit. There is a strong emphasis on private sector resource mobilization and catalyzing financing from commercial and other sources of development and climate finance. The Africa Energy Program is growing rapidly, covering reforms (sector and corporate governance, energy security and the environment, regional energy trade, public-private partnerships, energy efficiency, etc.) and investment support in power generation, power and gas transmission and distribution, rural energy services, renewable energy development, low-carbon and climate friendly initiatives. The Program uses a variety of instruments, including investment lending, guarantees for public private partnerships, and development policy lending. In addition, the team manages a strong knowledge agenda to inform the policy dialogue in the sector. The Africa energy sector grouping consists of four Units: (i) East and Southern Africa (ii) Francophone Africa (iii) Central Africa and anglophone West Africa, and (iv) Central and Southern Africa. Each of the four Units is managed by a Practice Manager. The World Bank has committed to providing electricity access to 250 million people in Africa by 2030. Of these, 150 million people are expected to be in AFE Region. The World Bank is correspondingly scaling up its energy access engagements in the Region, including (i) expanding grid electrification and associated upstream infrastructure, while supporting measures to build financially and operationally strong utilities, (ii) scaling up exponentially distributed renewable energy and clean cooking solutions, leveraging private sector. Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT), Multi-phase Programmatic Approach is the AFE flagship program for scaling up grid and DRE connections, while leveraging synergies to expand access to clean cooking. To support the ongoing efforts to accelerate electricity access in SSA, including ASCENT, the World Bank has established the Electrifying Africa program, a comprehensive technical assistance facility. The objective of Electrifying Africa is to enable the acceleration of electrification efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in line with the SDG 7 target to achieve universal electricity access by 2030. It is conceived as a comprehensive technical assistance facility to assist the World Bank and its client countries to achieve universal electricity access in SSA by 2030, as per the Sustainable Development Goal # 7 (SDG7). Electrifying Africa provides technical assistance to drive acceleration of implementation of energy access projects in the existing World Bank portfolio and the design of the new and more ambitious operations, including those under ASCENT. Electrifying Africa (EA) is established as a Programmatic Advisory Services and Analytics (PASA) activity funded by the Government of Netherlands through ESMAP and is designed to be rolled out in two phases: the first phase for FY23-27 (US$52 million) and the second phase expected to start in FY27 (US$36 million). The EA Program’s development objective is to enable the acceleration of electrification efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in line with the SDG 7 target to achieve universal electricity access by 2030. The program aims to support energy access financing in SSA through scaling up IDA lending, supporting analytical work, as well as leveraging partnerships and mobilizing private sector financing. As per the EA concept note, the program is conceived as a two-phase effort running up to 2030, in line with the World Bank’s new commitment to assist SSA countries to electrify 250 million people by 2030. The EA program aims to address the key challenges that are slowing progress on clean energy access, including the lack of comprehensive electrification strategies and plans, policy and regulatory gaps to attract private investments, financial viability and operational challenges of power utilities, institutional and capacity constraints of implementing agencies, affordability and access to finance challenges, lack of cross-sectoral collaboration, and lack of coordination among donors. By collecting and disseminating data, sharing knowledge, providing targeted technical assistance and capacity building, and through convening and collaboration. The EA program’s support to country teams is focused along five results areas and two cross-cutting areas. The result areas are: 1. Energy Access Acceleration Planning and Implementation; 2. Energy Access Data and Analytics; 3. Gender and Energy Access; 4. Grid-based Energy Transition Planning and Utility Performance; and 5. Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE)-based Access Innovation and Private Sector Engagement The Infra Africa East Energy 1 (IAEE1) seeks an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) based in Washington, D.C. to provide operational support for the EA Program. Duties and accountabilities: The responsibilities of the selected candidate will include: A. Portfolio Monitoring and Financial Management
• Support portfolio monitoring across all Electrifying Africa-funded activities.
• Monitor budget allocations, commitments, disbursements, and implementation progress.
• Track procurement activities, spending performance, and delivery milestones.
• Identify implementation bottlenecks, idle funds, and opportunities for reallocations.
• Prepare monthly portfolio and financial reports for management.
• Maintain portfolio monitoring dashboards, trackers, and analytical tools.
• Follow up with TTLs regarding implementation progress, procurement delays, financial performance, and corrective actions.
• Support annual program budgeting and Work Program Agreement planning processes.
• Prepare financial summaries and portfolio updates for management review meetings.
• Support annual contribution transfers and resource allocation processes. B. Monitoring, Evaluation and Results Reporting
• Lead implementation of the Electrifying Africa Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan.
• Maintain the Electrifying Africa results framework and activity tracking systems.
• Track contributions to Mission 300 targets and ESMAP business plan indicators.
• Collect, validate, analyze, and report program performance data.
• Develop quarterly and annual performance reports.
• Support preparation of independent evaluations, mid-term reviews, and learning assessments.
• Develop lessons learned, strategic insights, and recommendations from portfolio results.
• Ensure consistency and quality of activity completion reporting. C. Program Reporting and Analytics
• Coordinate preparation of annual reports, quarterly updates, and progress reviews.
• Produce portfolio analytics and performance assessments.
• Generate management dashboards and presentations.
• Strengthen data quality assurance systems across the program.
• Support preparation of donor reports and program reporting requirements. D. Operational Support
• Advise TTLs on Electrifying Africa operational procedures and reporting requirements.
• Support grant modifications, funding reallocations, and implementation-related actions.
• Contribute to updates of program guidance documents and operational manuals.