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Education is central to achieving the World Bank Group’s twin goals: it is a reliable route out of poverty because it has large and consistent returns to income for individuals and because it can drive economic growth. It is also a prime vehicle for promoting shared prosperity. The main challenge in the education sector is to achieve “learning for all, learning for life”—that is, to ensure that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills they need for their lives and livelihoods. The developing world has achieved great advances in education in the past two decades, most notably in enrolling and keeping children in school and in approaching gender equality. Yet these successes in expanding access to education have highlighted the major remaining challenges: how to remove the educational barriers faced by the poorest people and those living in fragile states, and how to improve the quality of education so that schooling leads to real learning.
The WBG and the broader education development community are increasingly shifting focus to learning outcomes. Because traditional input-driven programs often fail to promote learning, the WBG’s education strategy highlights the need for a more comprehensive systems approach to education reform, investments, and service delivery.
This approach is about increasing accountability and targeting results, as a complement to providing inputs. And it also requires strengthening the knowledge base on education, to highlight where systems are achieving results, where they are falling short, and what the most effective solutions are. These efforts are increasingly guided by the need to invest early; invest smartly; and invest for all. Through high-quality analytical work, collection and curation of evidence, and practical know-how in these three areas, the WBG is helping its partner countries accelerate their educational progress.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The incumbent will lead (and support) policy dialogue with the client on key issues in the areas of early childhood development, basic and secondary education, and post-secondary education and training, with a focus on strengthening foundational learning and job-relevant skills development and closing inequalities across gender, geographic areas, and socio-economic groups. The incumbent will be expected to lead or/co-lead analytical work to inform policy discussions as well as the exploration of new engagement areas. He/she will also provide implementation support to select lending operations, as well as lead the preparation of new lending programs.
| Employer | World Bank |
| Host Nation | South Africa |
| Official Website | https://www.worldbank.org/en/home |
| Closing Date | 27 April 2023 |
| Eligible Candidate | Degree |
Selection Criteria
The education GP is seeking an experienced, versatile, and highly motivated candidate to oversee and develop a growing portfolio. The ideal candidate will combine excellent technical capabilities, experience in analyzing policy options and recommending practical policy reforms, and a capacity to translate analytical findings into policy and into innovative Bank operations to help clients shift policies in new directions or to pilot new approaches.
• Demonstrated expert-level knowledge of and experience in addressing education issues. Deep technical knowledge and experience in one or more areas of education of relevance to the country is required plus demonstrated ability to identify, mobilize and supervise high quality international expertise to develop local solutions. Demonstrated combination of analytical rigor and practical/ solutions-oriented approaches.
