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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Education and skills are critical to the jobs agenda of the World Bank. Over the next 10 years, 1.2 billion young people in developing countries are expected to reach working age, while only about 400 million jobs are projected to be created, leaving a gap of roughly 800 million. Expanding access to relevant, market-aligned skills will be critical to help people move into productive work, adapt to digital and AI-driven change, and create jobs through entrepreneurship, while enabling economies to build the talent base needed for growth. The World Bank Group’s Education and Skills practice is a new unit combining the IFC and World Bank global education teams. The unit provides support to IFC and World Bank teams through expertise and knowledge solutions for higher education institutions (HEIs), technical and vocational colleges, early childcare providers, and edtech providers. In tertiary education, the Education and Skills practice supports universities and colleges to digitally transform and introduce AI into their operations, to enhance the skills and employability prospects of their graduates, and to expand into new areas of operations including continuing education/lifelong learning, international education, and technical and vocation education. The Digital for Tertiary Education Program (D4TEP) is an initiative that aims to support tertiary education institutions, including Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and post-secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs), in their digital transformation journeys. D4TEP is comprised of two key components: client work and outreach activities. The Acceleration Program is D4TEP’s flagship client work. It focuses on providing tailored support to individual HEIs and TVETs to enhance their digital capabilities. This includes conducting assessments, designing strategic visions, and developing implementation roadmaps. The Digital Maturity Benchmarking (DMB) is a core outreach activity. The DMB is a national-level engagement, typically conducted in partnership with World Bank regional teams and local regulators. It provides diagnostics of digital maturity for individual institutions, benchmarks them against peers, and offers tailored recommendations to advance their digital maturity. Additionally, it provides regulators with aggregate analyses and bottom-up recommendations to inform policymaking. The ETC education specialist will support the delivery of these components, ensuring alignment with the overarching goals of D4TEP and contributing to the program's success in catalyzing investments in digital transformation for tertiary education institutions globally. Objective The objective of this assignment is to support the delivery and continued development of the D4TEP Acceleration Program and Digital Maturity Benchmarking. The ETC Education Specialist will work with the D4TEP team, IFC clients, World Bank regional teams, regulators, and tertiary education institutions to assess digital maturity, define transformation priorities, develop implementation roadmaps, conduct benchmarking analysis, and strengthen D4TEP tools and approaches. ACCOUNTABILITIES The education specialist will be responsible for the following tasks: D4TEP Acceleration Program

• Support the management and delivery of D4TEP Acceleration Program engagements, coordinating activities, inputs, and deliverables across the different phases of each assignment.
• Lead and support discovery activities, including stakeholder interviews, surveys, and analysis, to assess institutional priorities, challenges, and digital maturity.
• Facilitate workshops with institutional leadership and key stakeholders to define digital transformation ambitions, objectives, and expected results.
• Assess and prioritize digital capabilities and initiatives, translating institutional priorities into a practical digital transformation portfolio and scorecard.
• Develop implementation roadmaps, typically covering approximately 10 priority initiatives per client, including sequencing, ownership, resource needs, dependencies, and high-level business cases.
• Support institutions in mobilizing implementation, including change management, capacity building, and preparation of relevant training materials and facilitation guides. Key deliverables may include: discovery findings and analysis; digital transformation ambition and objectives decks; prioritized digital capabilities and scorecards; implementation roadmaps and high-level business cases; and workshop and training materials. Digital Maturity Benchmarking (DMB)
• Work with World Bank regional teams, regulators, and participating tertiary education institutions to design and deliver national-level digital maturity benchmarking activities.
• Analyze and validate institutional data, identify digital maturity patterns and gaps, and develop institution-level diagnostics, peer comparisons, and recommendations.
• Develop benchmarking reports and materials for participating institutions, translating findings into practical recommendations for improving digital maturity.
• Analyze aggregate benchmarking results to identify system-level trends, gaps, and opportunities, and develop bottom-up recommendations for regulators and policymakers.
• Support workshops and presentations with institutions, regulators, and other stakeholders to communicate findings and discuss priorities for action. Key deliverables may include: institutional benchmarking outputs and recommendations; aggregate benchmarking analysis and reports; presentations for institutions and regulators; and supporting analytical materials. D4TEP Tools and Knowledge Products
• Contribute to the development and refinement of standardized D4TEP tools, templates, frameworks, and implementation materials based on lessons from client and benchmarking engagements.
• Support the preparation of pitchbooks, case studies, and other materials that help replicate and scale D4TEP engagements across countries and institutions. Key deliverables may include: standardized tools, templates, implementation resources, pitchbooks, and other D4TEP knowledge products.