Tenders are invited for Senior Public Finance Advisor

Senior Public Finance Advisor Outcome 1 of the Gov4Res project focuses on supporting systems reform within central government agencies including ministries of finance and planning. The Gov4Res project has commenced initiatives to mainstream climate change, disaster risk and gender and social inclusion issues into PFM processes by engaging Ministries of Finance and other relevant ministries in Fiji, Tonga (MEIDECC, NPD), and Solomon Islands (MECDM). Undertaking a ‘from-within’ approach, the project intends to build on current systems and processes, to create ownership for the reform agenda under the rubric of risk informing development. Preliminary support for climate change integration, through climate budget tagging processes has commenced through advocacy and consultations, including the development of policy briefs and options paper and consultative dialogues with the governments. With the governments in these 3 countries set to adopt system-based changes to integrate CC into PFM systems, the responsibilities of the Senior Public Finance Advisor are anticipated at two levels – 1. With Senior Ministry staff and 2. With programmatic staff. The capacity support to the programmatic staff at MoF will include designing expenditure tracking solutions, preparation of periodic reports and inclusion of this data into government budgets. At a more senior level, the Advisor will support the higher authorities in the government to analyse the data for informed policy making. Finally, the Advisor is expected to provide capacity support to the Parliamentarians in the use of this data for enhancing budget oversight. More specific actions under each responsibility area would include: