E T Consultant

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E T Consultant

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

The MENA Region – Human Development and Education

The Middle East and North Africa Region serves twenty countries, of which twelve are active/potentially active IBRD/IDA borrowers (Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, Tunisia, and Yemen) and eight are users of the Region's non-lending services, mostly on a reimbursable basis (Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Malta, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). The mission of MNA is to foster sustainable growth with a focus on job creation and poverty reduction, economic and social inclusion, and good governance. MNA attaches importance to creating a supportive work environment based on the values of teamwork, transparency, trust, and client service, underlined by professional excellence. MNA places high value on diversity. With an expanded regional strategy, the World Bank Group aims to help the MENA region weather the current crises, move from stabilization to transformation, unlock its vast economic potential of youth and women, and ease the constraints that hamper their creative energies. https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/mena

Human development is at the core of the World Bank’s strategy to improve people’s lives and support sustainable development. The Human Development research program spans education, health, social protection, and labor.

Countries in the MENA region have taken great strides in education in the past few decades, but challenges remain, particularly in the areas of education quality, inequality, governance and accountability, and the relevance of skills for the labor market. Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income and is the most important factor to ensure equality of opportunities. The World Bank MENA Education Unit focuses on helping countries build the human capital by providing analytical products, technical and financial support, as well as advisory services. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education

Tunisia Education Program. The World Bank Group has a large education portfolio in Tunisia with three operations and several on-going analytical and advisory tasks. The operations focus on : (a) increasing access to and improving the quality of preschool and primary education; (b) a Governance and Technology approach to develop learning platforms and digital education services, and (iii) the improvement of employability of tertiary education students and management of tertiary education. In addition, the Bank supports the Nexus for Skills Program. This joint Agriculture-Education initiative seeks to address skills mismatch in the agriculture sector by developing methodologies and tools that bridges the gap between the competencies needed by employers and competences of graduates of Agri-food TVET institutions. The program will increase economic opportunities for youth and women by informing and training students as well as match them with job-opportunities.

The MENA Education Unit is seeking an Extended Term Consultant to provide implementation and technical support to both the Nexus for Skills program and the wider Tunisia Education program. The ETC will work under the guidance of the task team leaders to plan the work program and report on progress achieved. The position will be based in the Bank’s country office in Tunis with travel nationally.

Duties and Accountabilities

- Contribute to operational tasks, including participation in the design and development of specific project components, coordinating across disciplines and project components with other team members and drafting project documents - Plan and participate as a member of Bank missions - Carry out analytical tasks on operational, country and sector issues in Tunisia - Coordinate and support the launch of the Nexus project in partnership with the relevant public institutions and the Dutch Embassy (funding partner) - Monitoring and collection of education data, including updating of the results framework and relevant data for the Nexus and TRACE program and collaborate with the funding partner and associated contractors on monitoring - Guide consultants to deliver on their results aligned with project needs - Follow up with contractors to review the status of activities - Follow up on the implementation of a communication plan to highlight project achievements and sensitize stakeholders - Support the fiduciary and safeguard oversight of the project, including Financial Management, Procurement - Undertake strategic support to training institutions to ensure effective capacity building - Support the TTL as needed on linkages with other development partner programs - Contribute to other tasks as needed including potential work on other countries in the region

Selection Criteria

- At least a Master’s degree in Economics, Education, Public Policy or other related field, and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience - Experience working with Governments, Development programs and other relevant stakeholders (including development partners, educators, businesses/farmers, and civil society organizations) - Solid knowledge and exposure to human development issues with knowledge of Tunisia’s education, training, and agricultural sector issues - Passion for development - Good interpersonal, team, problem-solving and organization skills, including ability to multi-task, work with limited supervision, and meet deadlines with quality outputs despite work pressures - Ability to take direction, active listening skills, project management, and tactfulness - Excellent analytical skills. The ability to work with statistical tools (SPSS/STATA) is a plus - Excellent command of written and spoken French and English. Arabic is a plus

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Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.