Consultant/Contractual Jobs at Plan and World Bank

JOB DETAILS:
Consultant - Shule Bora – Gender and Girls Education Advisor
Overview
Plan International UK is seeking a Gender and Girls Education Advisor in a consultancy role, to support on the Shule Bora programme in Tanzania. The UK Aid funded programme is delivered in a consortium led by Cambridge Education with Plan as one of the core delivery partners, and aims to improve the quality, inclusiveness and safety of learning for girls and boys in pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania.
The objective of this consultancy assignment is to support the technical team and government counterparts to apply the gender transformative approaches to designing, developing, and monitoring interventions including implementing some complementary gender and Girls education awareness creation for Shule Bora team as necessary. The expected results from this consultancy are:
1. All intervention, materials, and tools across output are reviewed with a gender lens as per output demand/request;
2. Inclusion strategy prepared and implemented across the program;
3. Shule Borateam and key stakeholders have enhanced knowledge, information and awareness on the importance of gender and girls’ education initiatives;
4. Shule Bora team and key stakeholders trained in gender transformative strategies and supported to embed strategies and approaches in their activities;
5. Provided on-demand technical advice to LGAs on Gender and Girls’ education interventions design, implementation and adaptation, and learning plans.
More details can be found in the accompanying Terms of Reference, which covers until the end of the first implementation year (March 31, 2023).
The position is home based, with travel to the programme locations in Tanzania expected.


JOB DETAILS:
This vacancy announcement is for a E T Consultant based in Dar es Salaam who will cover Girls and Women Empowerment activities as described below in the following countries: Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. She/he will report the Health, Nutrition and Population Program Manager for AFR East, HAEH1.

Duties And Accountabilities
• The Girls and Women Empowerment (GWE) E T Consultant will:
• Support WB country task teams on policy dialogue on GWE and maintaining effective relationships with client country counterparts (including Ministry of Finance, Health, Education, Social Protection and other ministries) as well as other stakeholders and development partners.
• Support the design, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of World Bank projects with a multisectoral focus on WGE while nurturing cross-sectoral collaboration between WB units, in particular on SRHR, family planning and adolescent health.
• Contribute to advisory services and analytics with a focus on GWE to increase the evidence base both globally and nationally and provide technical assistance to clients.
• Facilitate coordination between and collaboration with development partners who intervene in the field of GWE in different sectors.
• Contribute to internal and external advocacy as well as knowledge building on GWE within the World Bank, including through the preparation of presentations, briefs and reports.

Selection Criteria
• Masters, equivalent or higher degree in a relevant field/discipline related to the work of the World Bank, such as public health, sociology, demography, population studies, gender, development studies, with a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent understanding of international development issues, and WB strategic priorities, in particular in relation to SRHR, adolescent health, family planning and gender equality in health in Africa.
• Experience working in the Africa region on SRHR-related issues is necessary. Experience working with WB operations and/or with the Global Financing Facility process is considered a plus.
• Proven expertise in programming and/or research on addressing SRHR, family planning, adolescent health, comprehensive sexuality education, and enhancing women and girl’s empowerment through gender equality in health.
• Willingness to travel frequently to other countries to engage with clients and partners in the field.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Ability to foster collaboration within and between multi-cultural teams.
• Good communication skills and professional working proficiency in English required.
• Aptitude to navigate cultural sensitivities and demonstrated experience in engaging tactfully on sensitive topics as SRHR.
• Excellent practical computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.