E T Consultant – Digital Technologies and AI in Education

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 central to improving learning, productivity, and pathways to better jobs. Digital technologies and artificial intelligence can help education systems expand access to quality teaching and learning, strengthen system management, and better connect learners with further education, skills development, and employment. Realizing these benefits requires more than stand-alone pilots: countries need evidence, implementation capacity, enabling policies, sustainable financing, responsible governance, and practical support to move from experimentation to system-level adoption. The World Bank Group EdTech Team supports client countries and operational teams to use technology and AI effectively, equitably, and responsibly. Two priorities require sustained implementation capacity over the coming year. First, following the 2026 Global EdTech Policy Academy on AI in Seoul, the team must provide structured follow-up to participating countries as they refine policies, strategies, implementation roadmaps, investment plans, and scale-up approaches. Second, the team is advancing the From Learning to Earning initiative, which pilots AI-enabled tutoring and career guidance and is now moving toward country adaptation, evidence generation, operational integration, and scale. The one-year Extended Term Consultant (ETC) position will provide continuity across these interconnected workstreams, helping the EdTech Team translate policy dialogue and pilot evidence into practical country support, operational products, partnerships, and scalable implementation models. Objective of the Assignment The ETC will provide full-time technical, operational, analytical, and coordination support to the EdTech Team, with a primary focus on:

• Following up with country teams that participated in the Global EdTech Policy Academy on AI and supporting implementation of their agreed next steps.
• Supporting the transition from pilot to scale for the From Learning to Earning initiative, including country adaptation of AI tutoring and AI career-coaching solutions, operationalization, evidence use, and links to World Bank-financed operations.
• Strengthening the team’s broader AI-in-education and EdTech work program through knowledge products, capacity building, partnerships, and operational support. Scope of Work 1. Policy Academy Follow-Up and Country Support
• Coordinate structured follow-up with participating country delegations, World Bank task teams, and technical partners, including periodic check-ins and progress tracking.
• Support countries to refine policy and strategy documents, implementation roadmaps, scale-up blueprints, investment plans, and other outputs initiated through the Academy.
• Help tailor technical assistance to country needs across policy and governance, teacher professional development, AI literacy, digital infrastructure, data governance, procurement, public-private partnerships, financing, monitoring and evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Organize and support the delivery of targeted virtual follow-ups (3 months and 6 months check ins), and at least 1 regional adaptation of the Policy Academy model which will focus on Teachers AI competency framework.
• Initiate preparation of the 2nd Global AI in Education Policy Academy (for FY28)
• Document implementation lessons and identify opportunities to connect Academy follow-up with lending operations, analytical work, trust-funded activities, and partnerships 2. From Learning to Earning Scale-Up Support
• Support country adaptation and contribute to scale-up planning for the AI Tutor, AI Career Coach, and AI Teacher Coach including alignment with curricula, languages, labor-market contexts, delivery modalities, and user needs, including organizing at least 1 hybrid clinic for early adopter countries.
• Support the Global unit in setting up the “AI Scale Up“ team, which will be a combination of regional and global colleagues from Education Skills, Digital AI VPU, ITS and Legal to support TTLs with the adaptation process
• Contribute to scale-readiness assessments, implementation models, costed plans, operational guidance, sustainability strategies, and pathways for integration into World Bank operations.
• Support further monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including synthesis of pilot evidence, documentation of implementation lessons, and translation of findings into decision-ready guidance for teams and clients.
• Assist with preparation of terms of reference, briefing materials, presentations, progress updates, and management reporting related to scale-up. 3. Knowledge, Partnerships, and other related Tasks
• Support knowledge exchange across participating countries and help ensure that evidence from the AI scale up implementation informs subsequent iterations of the solution package.
• Coordinate engagement with government counterparts, World Bank operational teams, Korean institutions, development partners, research organizations, and technology providers, as appropriate.
• Contribute to resource mobilization and partnership materials, including proposals, work plans, budgets, and results frameworks.
• Maintain organized records, work plans, trackers, and repositories to support timely delivery and institutional learning.
• Perform other related tasks required to deliver the Digital Technologies and AI team’s work program, including work on the Solutions Hub. Indicative Deliverables
• At least 1 clinic for TTLs on the Learning to Earning AI pilot adaptation packages
• At least 1 regional AI in education policy academy
• 2 AI Community of Interest webinars (on Small AI; and AI Skills)
• Teacher AI competency framework and assessment adaptation guide
• Tracker for status of action plans of countries following the Korea workshop
• Synthesis of lessons and results from AI pilots and design of scale up Reporting and Working Arrangements The ETC will be mapped to the Education and Skills Global Unit (WKHE1) and will work as a core member of the Digital Technologies and AI Team. The consultant will report to Elizabeth Ninan Dulvy, Manager, WKHE1. The candidate will work closely under the supervision of Ekua Bentil, Senior Education Specialist, WKHE1, who coordinates the Global Digital Technologies and AI in Education workstream. The assignment will require flexibility across workstreams and coordination across time zones. Travel may be required, subject to business needs and applicable World Bank Group procedures.