Job Description
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
1. Public finance reforms
2. Public finance analysis
3. Public finance planning, budgeting, and monitoring
4. Decentralization and local governance technical assistance
5. Cross-cutting social policy areas
6. UNICEF Programme Management
Public finance reforms
- Analyzes macroeconomic context and its impact on children and provides support to budget transparency reforms.
- Participates in the revision of Chart of Accounts, updating/expanding financial management information systems, support to program-based budgeting, revision of inter-governmental fiscal transfer formulas, development of medium-term expenditure frameworks.
- Collaborates with, provides hands-on support to and builds the capacity of decisionmakers to improve policies, planning, budgeting and accountability processes.
- Participates in thematic working groups and actively contributes technical inputs to collaborative research.
Public finance analysis
- Collects, analyses and presents financial data and information for influencing public finance management reforms and as input into the broader country programme, via preparing budget briefs, thematic spending analyses, public expenditure reviews, value for money analyses, benefit and expense incidence analysis, costing exercises, fiscal space analyses, financing studies, investment cases and others.
- Engages and establish constructive dialogue and partnerships with international agencies and national bodies to ensure that the national public finance agenda remains child-sensitive and equity-oriented
Public finance planning, budgeting and monitoring
- Builds capacity of partners for improved social sector financing, budgeting and oversight processes at national and subnational levels, including via revising budget circulars, developing expenditure tracking and monitoring tools/templates, and providing training that supports the integration of social sector financing issues into plans and budgets.
- Supports the identification of policy options for expanded financing and improved transparency of child-sensitive social interventions, which includes as appropriate domestic resource mobilization and innovative financing options.
Decentralization and local governance technical assistance
- Where national decentralization processes are taking place, convenes and collaborates with central and local authorities to address challenges, identify opportunities and transform knowledge and evidence into policy recommendations and actionable plans for strengthening specific local social service delivery systems: planning, budgeting, service coordination and monitoring.
- Supports strengthening the demand side of service delivery via introducing functioning accountability mechanisms that institutionalize participation of communities and children in local governance processes.
- Provides technical leadership, management and coordination into local governance programmes and initiatives where UNICEF has a direct input, including coordination with partners, coordination with other UNICEF sectors and sectoral interventions at the local level to ensure coherence and convergence of UNICEF programming.
- Supports dialogue, convenes and coordinate with different parts of the government at national and subnational level, with other sectors, with other actors e.g. civil society organizations and with the international organizations (UN and beyond) on local governance issues.
Cross-cutting social policy areas
- Establishes effective partnerships with the government, bilateral and multilateral donors, civil society and local leaders, the private sector, and other UN agencies to support sustained and proactive commitment to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, achieve global UN agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals and strengthen UNICEF’s leading positioning for their implementation as they relate to social policy.
- Analyzes national context, including key socio-economic trends, and their impact on social development, emerging issues and concerns. Uses evidence and data to help the country office predict, prepare for and mitigate risks and adjust programming course.
- Supports the correct and compelling use of data and evidence including on the situation of children, and coverage and impact of child-focused services, in support of the social policy programme and the country programme overall.
- Assesses how specific vulnerabilities are tied to multifaceted aspects of poverty and the contribution social protection has on reducing exclusion, to mainstream inclusion, particularly as it relates to gender, disability and migration. Works towards genderresponsive-transformative, disability-inclusive and migrant-inclusive systems by integrating the inclusion lens into public finance reforms, policies and programmes.
- Develops approaches to identify social and behavioral change needs and undertakes interventions for the meaningful accountability to affected populations and community engagement.
- Monitors current technological trends, new modalities of working applicable to social policy and public finance versus current and emerging needs to assess their role and match their potential applicability to social policy for enhanced outcomes for children
UNICEF Programme Management
- Manages and coordinates technical support around child poverty, social protection, public finance and governance ensuring it is well planned, monitored, and implemented in a timely fashion so as to adequately support scale-up and delivery. Ensures risk analysis and risk mitigation are embedded into overall management of the support, in close consultation with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Partners, and governments.
- Supports and contributes to effective and efficient planning, management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme. Ensures that the social planning project enhances policy dialogue, planning, supervision, technical advice, management, training, research and support; and that the monitoring and evaluation component strengthens monitoring and evaluation of the social sectors and provides support to sectoral and decentralized information systems.
- Implement section’s annual work plan particularly related to Public Finance Management and Local Governance related work, set priorities and targets and monitor work progress to ensure results are achieved according to schedule and performance standards. Establish clear individual performance objectives, (for three months stretch assignment) goals and timelines.
- Coordinate with partners (mention them here) and field staff, providing them with clear objectives and goals, direction and guidance to enable them to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently
Job Specification
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirement:
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Political Economy, Public Policy, and Political Science.
Work experience:
A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in the areas of public finance reforms, public finance and social spending processes.
Experience in decentralization, local governance, social services and public sector public management is a strong asset.
Experience in programme design, management and social policy advocacy is essential along with work experience in a developing country.
Background and/or familiarity with the emergency and humanitarian context is considered a strong asset.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English and Nepali.
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