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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 VPU Context: Eastern and Southern Africa (E AFR) Region 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. 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 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. 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: (i) creating Jobs and Transforming Economies, (ii) building up the Digital Economy, (iii) making institutions more Efficient and Accountable, (iv) investing in People, (v) supporting Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: (vi) addressing the Drivers of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence; (vii) Building Partnerships and Working across the African Continent. Eastern and Southern Africa (E AFR) Region: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa Unit Context: The Bank Social Protection sector portfolio in Mozambique aims at supporting the implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy and contributing to its two main goals: increasing coverage of social protection programs in the country and increasing their efficiency. The Bank is the main development partner and financier in the sector in Mozambique and is an active member of the working groups with Government institutions, UN agencies, donors, NGO’s and civil society. Bank support is framed by the Social Protection and Economic Resilience Project (P173640, SPER) and the recently approved First Additional Financing (closing in December 2028), which brings together key social protection programs in Mozambique to maximize their synergies and enhance their impact on human capital and economic inclusion. SPER also supports the strengthening of core operational and administrative capacity of INAS and MTGAS to analyze, design, and implement social protection programs. WB engagement in the sector is at a critical moment and opportunity to ensure timely and quality implementation of the recently approved Additional Financing, which is setting the grounds for a massive expansion of social protection in the country, supported by strong government leadership. The Bank portfolio also has an active Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) which the Bank administers on behalf of development partners FCDO and the Netherlands, to co – finance the SPER operation and analytical and advisory work in the sector implemented by the Bank. The ET consultant will provide senior-level in-country coordination and implementation support across the social protection portfolio, with a focus on ensuring quality and acceleration of SPER implementation, MDTF management and partnerships, community monitoring, and systems strengthening. Duties and accountabilities: The primary objective of this consultancy is to provide high-level technical assistance to the Government of Mozambique and the World Bank in the implementation of the SPER project and more broadly the SP portfolio. The ET Consultant will provide senior-level in-country support to the World Bank Mozambique Social Policy team to strengthen implementation, supervision and monitoring of the social protection portfolio. Specific objectives are to:

• Support implementation and supervision of SPER and its First Additional Financing, including follow-up on priority milestones, identifying and addressing implementation bottlenecks.
• Supervise and ensure quality of implementation of the independent community monitoring initiative and assess results, to strengthen project accountability and transparency
• Advise on Institutional strengthening, coordinated SP programs and systems strengthening, including systems assessments and development of the national case management system.
• Support high-level policy dialogue with government counterparts and contribute to business development
• Strengthen MDTF coordination, donor engagement, and reporting to support alignment with sector priorities. Scope of Work The consultant will undertake the following tasks: Social Protection Portfolio support
• Support supervision and monitor implementation of SPER workplans and activities
• Coordinate with PIU in INAS and MTGAS to identify implementation bottlenecks, facilitate resolution, and escalate issues requiring team decisions
• Provide regular updates on progress of high-level priority measures on project milestones, prepared for the Minister of MTGAS and CMU
• Review the methodology, draft outputs, and recommendations of the INAS functional diagnosis and financial review and support follow-up on agreed actions
• Review and provide inputs to government prepared project plans, reports, budgets, and terms of reference, and where requested technical aspects of procurement documents and bid
• Coordinate SPER project missions, Aide Memoires, and other relevant deliverables
• Contribute to business development and preparation of new lending operations (new pipeline SP project)
• Support technical dialogue and follow-up on social protection strategy and policy with MTGAS, including programme-related priorities for case management. Community Monitoring Initiative
• Strengthen SPER project accountability and transparency with community monitoring mechanisms through the National Civil Society Platform for Social Protection (PSCM-PS)
• Support MTGAS to monitor the SPER project agreement with PSCM-PS for Independent Community Monitoring
• Provide quality assurance/control over the SPER/MDTF funded activities in this area
• Consolidate community monitoring findings, facilitate discussion with government and implementing partners, and track agreed responses to strengthen project implementation and accountability.
• Raise visibility of the results of community monitoring and support development of communication materials Institutional and systems strengthening
• Coordinate insitutional and systems strengthening support across MTGAS, INAS, World Bank technical teams, and development partners to align priorities, sequence activities, clarify responsibilities, and avoid duplication.
• Facilitate engagement with Global Solutions Group (GSG) on systems assessments and track follow-up on agreed recommendations to inform operational improvements and investment priorities.
• Coordinate technical support from Case Compass and engagement with government counterparts on strengthening and digitalizing the national case management system, including support to case management (PROSAS).
• Convene technical meetings and workshops, consolidate stakeholder inputs, and maintain a tracker of agreed actions, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Review systems-related terms of reference, workplans, and technical outputs, and flag implementation bottlenecks and decisions requiring follow-up by the SPER TTL.
• Facilitate alignment across eINAS, the social registry, case management, and monitoring and evaluation systems, including agreement on operational requirements and interoperability priorities. Multi Donor Trust Fund and Partnerships
• Monitor recipient-executed and Bank-executed MDTF activities and consolidate progress updates from technical teams
• Consolidate financial updates on the MDTF and support the processing of grant agreements, extensions, and additional financing in coordination with responsible Bank teams.
• Lead coordination of the MDTF Partnership Council (PC) and donor engagement in the MDTF funded activities in the Social Protection sector in Mozambique
• Engage and communicate with MDTF donors on key strategic and technical issues and facilitate participation of MDTF donors during SPER missions
• Lead preparation of MDTF semi-annual and annual performance reports and Partnership Council presentations, consolidate technical inputs, and incorporate comments in line with agreed reporting arrangements.
• Monitor the implementation of INPACT (Intersectoral Platform supporting Analytical work, Capacity strengthening, and technical assistance for Transformative SPL in Mozambique) Grant (GFR5006363) including regular updates on key activities
• Disseminate materials (reports, infographics, videos, photos, blogs, briefs, social media, etc), to MDTF donors and partners to promote and increase visibility of SPER project and MDTF-funded activities
• Identify collaboration opportunities for the MDTF across SP core business areas
• Participate in sector working groups, including engagement with UNICEF, ILO, and WFP, to align activities, avoid duplication, and support the SPER team’s contributions to sector dialogue
• Coordinate World Bank follow-up on agreed actions arising from development-partner dialogue on social protection coordination structures and financing mechanisms
• Support identification of one-platform for cofinancing in the sector Deliverables The consultant will be responsible for delivering the following outputs:
• MDTF and Partnerships: TF Semi-annual and annual performance reports; financial updates; donor briefs; Partnership Council materials and action records.
• Portfolio implementation: Updated milestone and action tracker; implementation briefs; mission inputs and draft aide-memoirs comments on workplans, budgets, and technical documents.
• Institutional strengthening: Technical review notes on the INAS functional diagnosis and the financial review.
• Community Monitoring: Synthesis of findings, recommendations, and status of agreed follow-up actions.
• Systems Coordination: Consolidated systems workplan or action tracker; assessment follow-up notes; documented technical inputs on case management and related systems activities.
• Project Pipeline Preparation: Agreed technical inputs to preparation of the new social protection operation.
• Additional agreed outputs: Briefs, presentations, analyses and other products directly related to the scope of work, as agreed with the TTL and within the available level of effort.