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- By hiring 13 specialists in girls' and women's empowerment, the Bank hopes to scale up and improve the impact of the help it provides to customers and country units in Africa. These specialists will be able to offer technical support there. These specialists, who will be based in various duty stations and hired at both young specialist and mid-career levels, will be a member of a community of practice that promotes technical learning and exchanges, knowledge creation, and networking. The WB's Africa Human Development Women and Girls Empowerment Task Team, its Africa Gender Innovation Lab, the Global Financing Facility, and WB project teams—particularly those from the organization's flagship Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) project—will all provide support to this community.
- This job posting is for a Dar es Salaam-based E T Consultant who will cover the girls' and women's empowerment initiatives listed below in Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. She or he will answer to HAEH1, the AFR East Health, Nutrition, and Population Program Manager.
obligations and responsibilities
The E T Consultant for Girls and Women Empowerment (GWE) will:
• Assist WB country task teams in maintaining productive working relationships with counterparts in client countries (such as the Ministries of Finance, Health, Education, Social Protection, and other Ministries), as well as with other stakeholders and development partners.
• Encourage cross-sectoral collaboration amongst WB divisions, particularly on SRHR, family planning, and adolescent health, while supporting the design, supervision, monitoring, and evaluation of World Bank projects with a multisectoral focus on WGE.
• Contribute to advisory services and analytics with an emphasis on GWE to broaden the body of research both internationally and domestically and to offer clients technical support.
• Encourage collaboration and coordination with development partners working in many areas to address GWE.
• Contribute to GWE knowledge building within the World Bank through creating presentations, briefs, and reports, as well as internal and external advocacy.
Health/Nutrition/Population Vacancy E T Consultant at World Bank.
Selection Standards
• A master's degree or higher in a topic or discipline that is relevant to the work of the World Bank, such as public health, sociology, demography, population studies, gender, or development studies, together with at least 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Excellent knowledge of WB strategic priorities and international development concerns, particularly in connection to SRHR, teen health, family planning, and gender equality in health in Africa.
• Prior experience working on SRHR-related issues in the Africa region is required. An advantage would be having knowledge of WB operations and/or the GFF application process.
• Demonstrated competence in research and/or programming related to SRHR, family planning, adolescent health, comprehensive sexuality education, and promoting women's and girls' empowerment by promoting gender equality in the health care sector.
• Ability to lead or conduct research on SRHR-related issues, adolescent health, comprehensive sexuality education, family planning and commodities, gender equality in health, using quantitative and qualitative methods; willingness to travel frequently to other countries to engage with clients and partners in the field.
• The capacity to promote cooperation both within and among multicultural teams.
• Effective communication abilities and a working knowledge of English are essential.
• The ability to handle cultural sensitivities and prior experience as an SRHR tastefully dealing with sensitive themes.
• Outstanding practical computer abilities in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
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