Public Sector Specialist

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Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) Region

Home to about 700 million of Africa’s people, the World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region is a geographically, culturally and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South.

The region also harbors some of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering many of its countries fragile, while significant gaps in education, health, and skills development continue to keep people from reaching their full potential. This creates huge development challenges, and impacts heavily on the lives and livelihoods of people, while hindering regional integration and trade. 

The World Bank Group (WBG) has been helping countries realize their considerable development potential by focusing on priorities detailed in the World Bank Africa strategy, including building up the digital economy, creating jobs and transforming economies.

For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa

Department and Unit Context:

Prosperity Department:

The Prosperity Department supports economic policies and legal, regulatory and institutional reforms to enable equitable and sustainable growth and to reduce poverty.

Institutions Unit:

The Institutions (formerly Governance) Unit in Eastern Africa (EAEG1) helps countries build capable, efficient, open, inclusive and accountable institutions that can support economic growth, reduce poverty, deliver needed services and earn the confidence of citizens. Our work program comprises six core Business Lines: 1. Public Financial Management (PFM), 2. Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM)/Tax Administration, 3. State-owned Enterprises and Corporate Governance, 4. Public Service and Institutions Reform, 5. Decentralization and Sub-national Governance, and 6. Financial Management Fiduciary Assurance for Bank-financed Operations; as well as three Cross-Cutting Themes: GovTech, Anti-Corruption and Political Economy. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/governance

Tanzania Country Context:

The position is focused on supporting and advancing the Bank’s governance and public sector development program in Tanzania, which is focused on building and strengthening the institutions and systems for public sector management, PFM, service delivery, rule of law and justice sector, and accountability to citizens at the national and local levels. These institutional modernization goals are supported through a combination of lending, analytical and advisory engagements.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Please note that this is a local position based in the World Bank’s Tanzania office. Therefore, it is intended primarily for Tanzanian nationals and residents.

You will work under the supervision of the EAEG1 Unit Manager and the coordination of the Lead Specialist / Institutions Coordinator for Tanzania. You will collaborate with other EAEG1 team members working in the country, as well as colleagues from the CMU and sector units.

As part of the Eastern Africa Institutions Unit and the Tanzania Country Team, the Public Sector Specialist plays the following important roles:

• Conduct policy and operational dialogue in Public Administration and Institutional Reform engagements
• Support and lead operational, advisory and analytical tasks
• Work jointly with other units to enhance public sector systems for service delivery in critical sectors
• Understand political economy aspects of World Bank engagement in the country, and advise the Institutions and broader Country Team accordingly

Support, as needed, Public Administration and Institutional Reform engagements in other countries covered by the Unit.