Project
Support to Good Financial Governance in Tanzania - Consulting services for supporting Public Financial Management Reform in Tanzania
Key Expert 1: Team leader
Position
Key Expert 1: Team leader
Project description
The Good Financial Governance (GFG) project in Tanzania is a technical assistance programme. It is funded by the Federal Government of Germany, as well as Switzerland and the EU. The project has a term of three years and three months (May 2024 to July 2027). The programme will operate in three key locations: in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and on Zanzibar with varying degree of presence.
Significant challenges in the mobilisation of domestic revenue remain, comprising both tax policy and tax administration. Moreover, the public finance system shows weaknesses in the fields of budgeting, access to information, public procurement, and audit. These challenges can be summarised in the core problem: domestic revenue mobilisation and public expenditure are not sufficiently effective, accountable and transparent to finance Tanzania’s development objectives given the framework conditions for tax policy making, administration, and public financial management.
The module objective of the GFG Project is: Revenues are raised and spent in a more effective, accountable and transparent manner. Effective revenue mobilisation is key to ensuring sufficient available public funding for development objectives in the long-term. At the same time, effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of public expenditure are crucial for reducing financial leakages, developmentoriented and inclusive planning and spending of funds.
The GFG Project aims to achieve the following outputs:
1) Strengthened capacities for mobilising domestic revenues at national and local level,
2) Strengthened capacities for public expenditure control,
3) Improved strategic framework conditions for evidence-based, fiscal policy making,
4) Strengthened competences for implementing the Public Finance Management Reform Program (PFMRP) in Zanzibar.
Job description
Tasks of Key Expert 1:
- Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor, which includes strategy development, partner engagement, operational planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for partners
- Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the following areas: internal audit, public procurement, general Public Financial Management
- Provision of targeted organisational development measures for partner organisations in line with operational planning Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level
- Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality, digital by default)
- Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
- Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out
- Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
- Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
- Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase
- Maintaining contact and coordinating with other donors active in the area of internal
audit and public procurement
Requirements
Education/training
- University degree (‘Master’s or German Diplom’) in Economics, Finance, Political Science, Law, or similar relevant fields.
- Knowledge of English, C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
General professional experience9 years of professional experience, of which 24 months acquired in the last 5 years, in the sector Public Financial Management, with considerable exposure and experience in implementing reforms in complex actor landscapes
Specific professional experience5 years of professional experience in Public Sector Auditing and/or Public Procurement
Leadership/management experience5 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organisations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for at least 3 people
International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment4 years of professional experience outside Sub Saharan Africa
Professional experience in the country/ region of assignment5 years of professional experience in Sub-Saharan Africa (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division)
Experience in the field of development cooperation8 years of experience in development cooperation projects
Additional information
Africa (Eastern)
Tanzania
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