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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 Background on World Bank’s Umbrella Trust Fund (TF) Reform Through several rounds of trust fund reform dating from 2001, significant progress was made on increasing the efficiency, alignment, and oversight of trust funds. However, the current portfolio of trust funds remains large and fragmented, with many of the roughly 540 trust fund accounts small in value and highly customized in purpose. About 70% of the current portfolio of accounts for only 7% of the overall trust fund value. The price of fragmentation is higher transaction costs and administrative burden for the World Bank Group (WBG) and its partners. This is most concerning for clients. Portfolio fragmentation can also lead to inadvertent duplication or overlap of effort. The current phase of trust fund reforms aims to deliver transformative solutions for our clients and provide the best value for our partners through decreased fragmentation, improved strategic alignment, increased efficiency, and enhanced oversight of the trust fund portfolio. The central innovation of the current phase of trust fund reform is the introduction of the Umbrella 2.0 Program as a flexible way to align and manage development resources for results at scale -- an approach that will result in fewer, larger more strategically aligned trust fund programs. Overview of EDU SKILLS TF Portfolio For the Education Skills Global Practice, the reform exercise created two umbrella trust funds which serve as the basis for most future fundraising efforts: the Foundational Learning Compact (FLC) and the Tertiary Education and Skills Training (TES) umbrellas. The FLC covers the Bank’s work in early childhood, primary, and secondary education and TES covers post-secondary, tertiary, and lifelong learning. The FLC is the WBG’s multi-donor umbrella TF supporting efforts to improve learning outcomes in early childhood, primary, and secondary education. The FLC focuses on foundational learning, including literacy, numeracy, and transferable skills, which serve as the building blocks for lifelong learning, productivity, and human capital development. This umbrella has two associated TFs. First is the Early Learning Partnership, which focuses on early childhood development, early childhood education, and childcare. The other is the European Union (EU) Trust Fund, which is the financing vehicle for EU funding. The second multi-donor umbrella TF is TES. This TF aims to prepare youth and adults for the future of work and society by improving access to inclusive, quality, equitable, and resilient education and training. In addition, the WBG has two standalone TFs. The first is the Education Above All (EAA)-WB Partnership Facility. This TF provides co-financing for projects from basic education to scholarships for skills training and tertiary education. The other is the International Financing Facility for Education (IFFEd)-WB Education Co-financing TF, which provides co-financing for education projects in lower middle-income countries. This co-financing is part of a larger education project enabled by an IFFED guarantee to IBRD. In addition to managing these Trust Funds, the Education and Skills Unit undertakes portfolio monitoring and analysis of its broader lending and advisory activities to inform strategic planning, management reporting, and corporate engagement. SCOPE OF WORK The ETC will work under the supervision of the FLC Program Manager, the Senior Partnership Specialist, and the Task Team Leader of Education and Skills TFs in close coordination with the FLC team, global education leads, country teams, and external partners. The consultant will provide program management, partnership engagement, reporting, evaluation, communications, and strategic coordination support for Education and Skills Trust Funds, as well as portfolio analysis and reporting support for the broader Education and Skills Unit. For the FLC, the consultant will play a key role in supporting implementation of the FLC work program, donor engagement activities, results monitoring and reporting, communications and visibility efforts, and the independent external evaluation. Key responsibilities will include: 1. TF Program Management, Portfolio Analysis, and Administration (Approx. 80%)

• Annual Progress Reporting and Partnership reporting: Lead the end-to-end development in particular of Annual Progress Reports for the TFs in the unit, and other donor-facing reporting products, including bi-annual updates to the Partnership Councils. Responsibilities include coordinating inputs across technical teams, synthesizing results and lessons learned, drafting content, managing review processes, and coordinating editorial and design support through finalization.
• Results Monitoring and Reporting: Support monitoring and reporting, in particular against the FLC Results Framework, including tracking progress against indicators and targets, coordinating data collection and validation across activity teams, updating reporting tools, and contributing to donor reporting and program preference reviews, as well as support to other TFs.
• Financial and Portfolio Coordination: Support financial tracking and portfolio management activities to ensure alignment across workplans, budgets, and implementation progress, and donor reporting requirements for all TFs.
• Education and Skills Portfolio Analysis and Reporting: Support Education and Skills practice portfolio analysis and reporting, including compiling and analyzing data on lending, financing, advisory services (ASA), regional and country portfolios, and FCV engagement. Prepare portfolio summaries, factsheets, presentations, and analytical inputs to support management briefings, strategic planning, and corporate reporting.
• Partnership Council Meeting (PCM): Support planning and implementation of Partnership Council Meeting and other governance engagements including preparation of agenda, presentations, talking points, meetings notes, and follow up actions for the FLC, as well as for other TFs.
• Strategic and Operational Support: Provide analytical, coordination, and operations support on emerging priorities across the FLC and other TF portfolios, including donor requests for their internal annual reporting and evaluation and management briefings, special initiatives, and ad hoc reporting needs. 2. Cross-Team Strategic Engagement and Knowledge Sharing (Approx. 20%)
• Cross-Knowledge Bank Team Coordination and Synergies: Support coordination across TF-supported programs, leads, country teams, and partner organizations to promote synergies and alignment, knowledge sharing, and effective implementation. Help identify opportunities to strengthen linkages among and between FLC-supported activities and broader Education and Skills Unit initiatives, trust funds, and partnerships.
• Knowledge Exchange and Learning: Contribute to team learning and knowledge exchange activities, including learning events, partner consultations, dissemination activities, and knowledge initiatives.