E T Consultant
NewEastern and Southern Africa Education unit (HAEE2)
Closes 30 Oct 2026 · 4 days EDT (UTC-4)
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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 (AFE) Region We need the best and brightest talent focused on our region in order to harness the potential and innovation happening across the continent. Home to about 700 million 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. The subregion harbors some of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering many of its countries fragile, while significant gaps in education, health, and skills development continue 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. Are you ready to make an impact? We are looking for dedicated professionals to join our innovative and diverse team to improve people’s lives and help countries build back better after COVID. Eastern and Southern Africa Region: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa Education Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa (HAEE2) The World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa Education unit (HAEE2) serves 13 countries, across three Country Management Units (CMUs), impacting over 107 million school-aged children, with more than 40 percent of the children residing in fragile and conflict-affected situations. The region has made significant progress over the last 20 years, with primary enrollment nearly doubled over the last two decades and 11 countries achieving a gross enrollment rate of over 100. However, despite progress, 9 million children are out of school and even for those in school, learning level remains low, with children in the region attaining only 5.3 years of learning- adjusted schooling. Amongst many, learning poverty, gender inequality, and completion rates remain a significant challenge. Through its analytical and operational projects, HAEE2 unit continues to work with governments and development partners in addressing these challenges. The unit currently has 22 active projects amounting to $4.24 billion in IDA lending, supplemented by six advisory services and analytics (ASAs) and 58 grants totaling $470 million. The countries the unit covers include Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia, DRC, Burundi, Angola and Sao Tome and Principe, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia. The diversity of our sectors, from basic education to skills and higher education, reflect HAEE2’s commitment to enhancing educational outcomes and addressing the unique challenges faced by these countries. The transformation of Africa’s educational outcomes holds global significance, as investments today will prepare Africa's youth to lead in the future. Our AFE business plan emphasizes the necessity of building a coalition for progress, accelerating adaptation, and embracing successful practices to create an educational ecosystem that can help meet the needs of over 300 million children and youth across Africa East and South (AFE). This ambitious vision is underscored by specific, measurable targets such as reducing learning poverty by 25 percent, increasing secondary access for adolescent girls by 50 percent, and reducing the number of youths not in education, employment, or training (NEET) by 22 percent. AFE is committed to delivering impact at scale by supporting large-scale educational reforms beyond individual projects. This involves leveraging catalytic financing, bringing together countries facing similar challenges, and promoting new regional initiatives like the Africa Center of Excellence. By expanding results-based financing (RBF) and using vertical and horizontal multi-project agreements (MPAs), our unit aims to shape and sustain efforts to improve education outcomes across the continent. The focus on transformational spaces, policy reforms, and a collaborative approach with development partners is expected to create a resilient and equitable educational framework for our countries’ futures. The objective of this assignment is to provide sustained, high quality technical, operational, and coordination support to the World Bank Education team in STP, while providing structured cross support to the Angola education portfolio, including support to ongoing investment operations, multi phase programs, and GPE financed activities, in close coordination with Angola based TTLs and task teams. Overview Education and Skills: https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/topic/education The ETC will work under the strategic guidance of the Education Task Team Leaders (TTLs) and in close collaboration with the World Bank country office in STP and the Country Management Unit (CMU). While the ETC’s primary responsibilities will focus on STP, the ETC will also provide structured, demand driven operational and analytical support to the Angola education portfolio, under the guidance of relevant Angola based TTLs. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:
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