Overview
Education will play a central role in helping client countries achieve these goals. The AFW Education Team is preparing a new Regional Education Strategy to be launched in late FY21 which will provide strategic directions for our portfolio to improve learning outcomes, raise opportunities for girls and increase the effectiveness of education systems. The portfolio is large and growing, with 43 projects (US$ 3.8 billion). The Strategy will emphasize innovative, transformational and operational approaches to improving education quality, reducing learning poverty and building human capital, especially for women and girls. Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.
Human Development Practice Group (HD PG)
The World Bank Group (WBG) is the largest provider of development finance and solutions for human development working with high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries to develop country-tailored solutions for human development (HD) under the themes of education, health, social protection, jobs and gender. The HD PG coordinates with other Practice Groups to ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to development challenges, and through the World Bank Regional Units is expected to deliver the strongest and most pertinent support to our client countries.
Education Global Practice
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. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education
Regional/Unit Context
The AFW Region is seeking a Practice Manager for the HAWE3 unit. Reporting to the Regional Director, the Education Practice Manager will be based in Accra, Ghana. The PM will cover the CMUs based in Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.
West and Central Africa (AFW) Region
Western and Central Africa is a region with diverse cultures, beliefs, languages, and lifestyles – marked by contrasts of stability and conflict; affluence and poverty. Home to about half a billion people, it encompasses 22 countries stretching from the westernmost point of Africa across the equator and partly along the Atlantic Ocean to the Republic of Congo in the South. The sub-region is rich in resources and brimming of opportunities. It made impressive progress in regional cooperation and includes two monetary unions – the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) that cover 13 countries between them.
Yet these vast opportunities are tempered by persistent gaps in education, health, and skills, which have Africa only reaching forty percent of its estimated potential. Moreover, conflict, food insecurity, population growth, and the disruptive forces of climate change threaten to curtail or even reverse the progress that has been made over the past decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought back to the forefront the risks posed by weak health systems and poor surveillance. Many countries in the region that learned difficult lessons from the West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014 are applying some of the lessons and using all existing instruments and expertise to curb the pandemic while prioritizing the poorest and most vulnerable people.
AFW has a new Regional Strategy which aims to sustainably reduce poverty and increase shared prosperity in AFW countries through growth and economic transformation to create better jobs for more people, including women and youth. AFW is focusing on contributing to the realization of four high-level goals to achieve this transformation:
• Rebuild trust between citizens and the state
• Remove the bottlenecks that prevent firms from creating more and better jobs
• Strengthen human capital and empower women
• Ramp up climate resilience.
Duties and Accountabilities
The Practice Manager reports to the Regional Director for HD AFW and is also accountable to the Global Director for Education and is responsible for the following areas:
Managerial Responsibilities include
The PM will collaborate across technical, geographic and institutional boundaries to help design and deliver development solutions to a diverse range of clients, while supporting global knowledge flows that share knowledge and practical development experience with other countries, assuring that global lessons are reflected in the Bank-supported programs.
The PM is a member of the Education Practice Management Team, the AFW Regional Management Team and the Africa HD Leadership team and coordinates closely with the other HD Practice Managers, HD Program Leaders and the CMU and Regional Management Teams. The PM is also a member of the Education Talent Board to oversee the strategic staffing, career development and deployment of GP staff across the Bank.
People/Talent Management
Solutions and Results to Clients
Knowledge Management
Selection Criteria
WBG Managerial Competencies
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