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 Eastern and Southern Africa Region The WB Eastern and Southern Africa Region is committed to helping the countries in AFE to realize their considerable development potential and become more competitive in the global economy by focusing on (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 (vi) Adaption and Building Partnerships and Working across the African Continent. More information: https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa The People Vertical The People Vertical brings together the World Bank's work on education, health, social protection and jobs. Its goal is to help countries build, protect and use human capital: the health, knowledge and skills people build over their lives. It supports integrated, cross-sectoral solutions that invest in people across the lifecycle, strengthen service delivery and prepare people for more and better jobs. Quality infrastructure, such as safe, accessible and climate-resilient schools and training facilities, is a key foundation for delivering these services and outcomes.

Education

Global Practice Within the People Vertical, the Education Global Practice helps countries strengthen education systems, improve learning outcomes, and expand equitable access to quality education and skills. In Eastern and Southern Africa, the Practice manages a large and diverse portfolio. A growing share of it goes into building, rehabilitating, upgrading and equipping schools, classrooms, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, and related facilities.

Duties and Accountabilities

The selected ETC will be based in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and reports to the Education Practice Manager for HAEE1 and works under the technical guidance of the relevant Task Team Leaders (TTLs). S/he will provide technical and operational support to education operations with significant infrastructure investments. The initial focus is on Ethiopia, Botswana and Malawi. The ETC may also support other AFE countries. The main responsibilities include:

• Infrastructure Planning and programming: Advise task teams and government counterparts on the planning, prioritization, costing and implementation readiness of education infrastructure investments. This includes site assessments and realistic implementation schedules.
• Technical Design and Quality Assurance: Review designs, drawings, technical specifications, bills of quantities and cost estimates. Ensure solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, safe, inclusive, accessible, climate-resilient and maintainable, and recommend corrections before procurement.
• Procurement and Contract Management Support: Work with procurement specialists to provide technical inputs to bidding documents, terms of reference and evaluation criteria for civil works, design and supervision contracts. Advise on contract management issues, including variations, delays, claims, quality issues and closeout.
• Construction Supervision and Implementation Support: Participate in implementation support missions and field visits to assess construction progress, quality and risks against designs, schedules, budgets and contracts. Review reports from contractors, supervising engineers and implementing agencies, and provide early warning of significant technical, contractual, cost or schedule risks. In addition, provide inputs to, or prepare, operational outputs such as aide-memoires, ISRs, project documents, technical notes, briefings and presentations.
• Completion, Handover, and Asset Sustainability: Support the technical review of completed works, commissioning, handover, defect-liability monitoring and contract closeout. Review operation and maintenance arrangements.
• Portfolio and Knowledge Support: Develop practical tools, checklists and guidance, and share lessons and good practice in education infrastructure across country teams.