E T Consultant

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you will 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, the 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 www.worldbank.org The Sustainable Crop Production (SCP) Platform provides technical and operational support across agronomy and soil health, irrigation and water management, regenerative agriculture and decarbonization, farmer nutrition, and large-scale farm efficiency. Its services span rapid assessments, site suitability and crop selection analysis, project design and supervision, technical training, operating-model support, knowledge management, and troubleshooting across the project cycle. The assignment will support the broader SCP Platform work program and related initiatives managed by the task team, including the GARDEN Project, the Farmer Digital Twin Project, AgriConnect-related engagements, and other agribusiness, nutrition, climate-resilience, and digital-agriculture activities. The assignment will also provide flexible technical and operational support to the WBG country office in Berlin in response to agreed priorities. SCOPE OF WORK WBG is seeking an agribusiness and crop-production expert to provide technical, analytical, project-management, and business-development support across the SCP Platform and related projects. The consultant will work across smallholder, medium-scale, and large-scale production systems and a range of value chains, with particular attention to climate, soil, water, agronomic, operational, nutrition, and market risks and opportunities.

• SCP Platform technical delivery: contribute agronomic and crop-production expertise across the Platform's thematic areas, including agronomy and soil health, irrigation and water management, regenerative agriculture and decarbonization, farmer nutrition, and large-scale farm efficiency.
• Assessments and analytics: support rapid assessments, site suitability analyses, crop selection, deep-dive diagnostics, data collection and validation, GIS and spatial analysis, and the translation of findings into actionable recommendations for WBG teams and clients.
• Business development and project design: support pipeline development, client and country engagement, scoping missions, appraisals, concept development, proposals, presentations, and the integration of climate adaptation, mitigation, productivity, nutrition, inclusion, and commercial considerations into project design.
• Project implementation and supervision: provide day-to-day operational support, work planning, partner coordination, progress tracking, risk and issue follow-up, quality review, documentation, and preparation of management and donor updates for ongoing projects.
• GARDEN Project: support implementation planning, coordination with delivery partners, review and adaptation of farmer-facing training materials, monitoring of participation and results, field-implementation troubleshooting, documentation of lessons, and preparation of progress and knowledge outputs.
• Farmer Digital Twin Project: contribute to country and value-chain scoping, definition of priority use cases, data requirements and validation approaches, stakeholder and partner coordination, technical content, concept and funding documents, and the linkage of digital-twin analytics to farmer advisory, finance, insurance, traceability, climate resilience, and sustainable production.
• Knowledge management and communications: develop and maintain technical resources, case studies, briefs, pitch materials, presentations, training content, knowledge notes, and lessons learned; support internal and external knowledge events and cross-platform collaboration under AgriConnect.
• Berlin country office support: provide agreed technical and operational assistance to the country office in Berlin, including leadership briefs, business development pitches, research and analysis, country and sector briefs, country strategy design, stakeholder mapping, meeting and mission preparation, follow-up materials, coordination across WBG teams, and other inputs to broad range of engagements primarily but exclusively focused on agribusiness, AgriConnect, climate, nutrition, and digital agriculture engagements.
• Other related assignments: provide flexible support to additional projects and initiatives managed by the task team lead, consistent with the consultant's expertise and the evolving needs of the Farming and Agribusiness work program. DELIVERABLES Expected deliverables may include the following for Global FAB team, WBG regional teams, and Country Office in Berlin:
• Technical inputs to SCP Platform assessments, models, diagnostics, project designs, and supervision activities, including validation of findings and recommendations.
• Business-development materials, client and country briefs, appraisal inputs, concept notes, proposals, presentations, scopes of work, and mission documentation.
• Advisory and upstream project implementation, monitoring, training, partner-coordination, troubleshooting, and knowledge-management outputs.
• Training curricula, facilitator and farmer materials, technical guidance, quality-review comments, and documentation of lessons learned.
• Knowledge products and communications materials, including case studies, brochures, presentations, webinars, workshops, and curated technical resources.
• Leadership briefs meeting support analytics, and context narratives f
• Contribution to the design of strategy documents
• Operational travel in support of above mention activities
• Other agreed deliverables relevant to the consultant's expertise and the evolving portfolio managed by the task team lead.