The consultant will provide technical and operational support to the World Bank’s Tanzania Education team, helping implement skills development programs, strengthen partnerships between training institutions and employers, support policy dialogue, and advance youth employment and workforce development initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support implementation and supervision of the Second Education and Skills for Productive Jobs Program and other skills development operations.
- Coordinate with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, implementing agencies, and government counterparts.
- Monitor work plans, Disbursement-Linked Indicators, results indicators, and institutional reforms; identify bottlenecks and support resolution.
- Provide technical inputs to implementation support missions, operational reviews, aide-memoires, progress reports, management briefs, and program documentation.
- Support institutional coordination, implementation planning, monitoring, and results reporting related to employer partnerships, training quality, relevance, and graduate employment outcomes.
- Work with fiduciary, environmental and social, and other technical specialists to support implementation and compliance.
- Engage government, industry, and private-sector stakeholders to identify workforce needs and skills development opportunities in priority economic sectors.
- Coordinate with World Bank Group teams working in energy, agriculture, mining, transport, social protection, jobs, and private-sector development.
- Support partnerships between training institutions, employers, industry associations, and investors involving apprenticeships, internships, certification, and employment pathways.
- Translate employer demand and sectoral investment opportunities into workforce development initiatives and institutional capacity-building priorities.
- Support policy and technical dialogue with government agencies responsible for skills development, employment, and workforce planning.
- Contribute to implementation of Tanzania’s National Skills Development Strategy and related reforms.
- Strengthen coordination among government agencies, training providers, employers, and development partners.
- Support analytical and operational work on skills development, youth employment, labor market transitions, and workforce development.
- Prepare technical notes, presentations, briefing materials, and other knowledge products.
- Contribute to future operational and analytical engagements in skills development and jobs.
Requirements
- Ability to provide technical and operational support for skills development and jobs programs.
- Knowledge of skills development, technical and vocational education and training, workforce development, or youth employment.
- Ability to coordinate with government institutions, training providers, employers, private-sector stakeholders, and development partners.
- Ability to analyze labor market needs, skills mismatches, and graduate employment outcomes.
- Strong policy dialogue, coordination, analytical, communication, and report-writing capabilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary World Bank Group teams.
