E T Consultant, Health at World Bank Group (WBG)

E T Consultant, Health
Job #: req26992
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Health/Nutrition/Population
Grade: EC2
Term Duration: 1 year 0 months
Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment
Location: Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania
Required Language(s): English, Swahili
Preferred Language(s):

Description
Do
you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the
World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our
clients solve their greatest development challenges. 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, increasing shared prosperity and
promoting sustainable development. 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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

HEALTH, NUTRITION AND POPULATION GLOBAL PRACTICE CONTEXT:
The
central contribution of the HNP Global Practice to the World Bank’s
twin goals is to enable the achievement of Universal Health Coverage
(UHC), in which all people are effectively covered by essential health
services, and nobody suffers undue financial hardship because of
illnesses.The HNP Global Practice includes
staff members in Washington, DC and many country offices. The HNP
Global Practice works with and across multiple sectors, in recognition
of the fact that HNP outcomes often depend on actions that lie outside
the HNP sector.

The HNP Global Practice supports country and
regional efforts to: (i) improve health outcomes, especially for the
poor and most vulnerable; (ii) expand access to high-quality HNP
services, interventions and technologies that give the most value for
money; (iii) strengthen health systems for results; (iv) establish and
improve health financing mechanisms that promote efficiency, equity and
sustainability of investments; (v) strengthen heath-relevant
institutions within and outside the health sector; (vi) harness
multisectoral policies and investments for better health outcomes; and
(vii) develop and learn from rigorous impact evaluations.

AFRICA REGION CONTEXT:
REGIONAL CONTEXT
In
the Africa Region of the World Bank, there are four units that comprise
the Africa HNP practice. The Africa HNP Practice Managers have joint
responsibilities for region wide HNP strategies, and staff work across
unit boundaries. HAEH1, which covers Eastern and Southern Africa, is
responsible for policy analysis and dialogue, strategic engagement,
relationship management and lending operations in that part of the
region. The Unit has 41 staff members, located in Washington DC and in
country offices. HAEH1 has a strong portfolio of analytical work (ASA)
in 20 countries, and an active and diverse portfolio of 18 projects
under supervision, with a net commitment of about $1.5 billion.

COUNTRY CONTEXT
Currently,
our work program in Tanzania covers: reproductive, maternal, neonatal,
child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) related service
delivery, early years, health system strengthening, including public
financial management and fiduciary functions, human resources for
health, health care financing.

Moving forward we are looking to
support the countries in 3 ‘new’ priority areas: i) digital health, ii)
climate change and health, iii) Women’s and Girls empowerment within
which we will the development of a strong Adolescent Health program,
that includes expanded access to HPV vaccination. This will require a
team aware of and able to scale up new innovations and willing to
challenge the orthodoxy of approaches that have not delivered sustained
or significant results.

We are working to strengthen the
alignment with traditional development partners, but also to leverage
the support of African foundations active in health and development. The
team works with the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a broad coalition
of bilateral and multilateral agencies that seek to transform the status
of the health of women and children worldwide, through smart, scaled
and sustainable financing that is linked to RMNCAH-N results. The
Government and HP are seeking ways to further improve the aid
effectiveness in the health sector and better the spending program by
improving prioritization, monitoring and evaluation, allocation of
resources and fiduciary functions to maximize the benefits from the
available resources domestic and external.

The Bank’s current
portfolio in Tanzania has an active HNP operation, and many analytical
products. In addition, there are opportunities for cross sectoral work
as we address issues of water, energy, climate and digitalization.

The
HNP team in Tanzania also works with other Global Practices (GP) and
Cross Cutting Solutions Areas (CCSAs), namely: the Governance GP on
Public Financial Management issues in the health sector; the Education
GP, and Social Protection GP on the Human Capital Project for the
Northern Tanzania; the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment GP on
COVID-19 related Development Policy Operations; the Urban, Disaster Risk
Management, Resilience and Land GP on immediate health response to
natural disasters and epidemics, including COVID-19; and (iii) the Water
GP during the response to COVID-19 and Sanitation. As for the CCSAs,
the HNP team collaborates with Climate Change Cross Cutting Solution
Area on the building climate resilience in key sectors of the economy
including health and Gender.

Duties and Accountabilities:
The E T Consultant, Health will have the following key responsibilities, inter alia:
•
Support implementation of the Bank’s HNP operational portfolio in
Tanzania including the preparation of selected national and/or regional
operations. This will be including contributing to technical discussions
and monitoring of the Bank portfolio on a day-to-day basis in close
collaboration with the relevant government agencies and development
partners;
• Co-lead and contribute to high-quality analytical and advisory services tasks in HAEH1
•
Participate in and contribute to technical assistance work to support
relevant capacity-building activities including workshops, seminars,
etc.
• Participate in and contribute to policy dialogue with
government counterparts — including at the national and sub-national
levels — and with other relevant stakeholders.
• Help teams with
building and maintaining partnerships and networks within the Bank (in
HNP as well as other sectors) and with external partners.
•
Contribute to sector-specific or cross-sectoral inputs for various
operational products/outputs (e.g. sector/country briefings, background
reports, portfolio performance reviews, etc.);
• Review and contribute to sector-specific or cross-sectoral policy and other documents;
• Organize and participate in missions of the health team;
• Respond to ad hoc information requests from internal and external parties;
• Carry out any other activity required as part of the health and human capital portfolio.

The
E T Consultant, Health will report to the Practice Manager (Health
Nutrition and Population) for Eastern and Southern Africa (HAEH1). For
day-to-day operational work, the E T Consultant, Health will support the
Tanzania HNP Task Team Leaders and work closely with other Task Team
Leaders and the Human Development Program Leader. The E T Consultant,
Health will be subject to all World Bank regulations and guidelines
applicable to staff.
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Selection Criteria

• Integrative Skills — Understands core issues and knows where to get additional expertise when needed.
• Knowledge
  and Experience in Development Arena — Understands policy making
  process and role of the health sector in that process. Is able to find
  relevant information and examine similar policy questions in multiple
  regions and to distill operationally relevant recommendations and
  lessons from this analysis for clients.
• Policy Dialogue Skills
  — Identifies and assesses policy issues and communicates
  findings/points of view verbally and through economic reports and
  papers. Plays an active role in the dialogue with the government and/or
  other stakeholders as part of Bank teams.
• Client Orientation —
  Maintains client relationships in the face of conflicting demands or
  directions and provides evidence-based advice and solutions based on
  sound diagnosis and knowledge.
• Drive for Results — Identifies
  the needed resources to accomplish results involving multiple
  stakeholders and finds solutions to obstacles affecting key
  deliverables.
• Teamwork (Collaboration) and Inclusion — Shows
  leadership in ensuring the team stays organized and focused, and
  actively seeks and considers diverse ideas and approaches.