Macro-Fiscal and Public Financial Management Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Rwanda.

📋 Description

• Perform macro-fiscal and public financing analysis across seven African nations.

• Lead the country assessment initiative in Rwanda and collaborate with the Rwanda Country Team and UPGI Executive Leadership Team to enhance the approach.

• Implement the refined methodology in six additional priority countries.

• Create succinct, actionable country briefs for Country Leads and UPGI.

• Evaluate fiscal, financing, and public financial management challenges impacting government-led Graduation programs.

• Discover available public resources and prospects to enhance, redirect, or mobilize financing for Graduation.

• Provide guidance to country teams on government budgeting and financing processes, including interactions with Ministries of Finance and other key stakeholders.

• Identify chances to influence upstream external financing, particularly through the World Bank and African Development Bank.

• Develop long-term UPGI capabilities for influencing country-level and external financing.

• Counsel UPGI on evaluating public investment in Graduation initiatives.

• Travel to Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Tanzania for research, stakeholder engagement, and country-team debriefings.

• Deliver seven country briefs along with multilateral financing recommendations and long-term functional design suggestions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive understanding of macro-fiscal dynamics and public finance in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Experience with senior management and planning cycles at AfDB and the World Bank, as well as co-financing mechanisms and country engagement processes.

• Proven track record of working alongside country-level program teams.

• Comfortable functioning in a supportive and advisory capacity rather than leading engagements.

• Knowledge of social protection and economic inclusion programming within the African context.

• Experience as a Graduation specialist is not mandatory.

• Capable of producing clear, actionable written assessments for Country Leads and the Executive Leadership Team.

• Ideally possess 15 years or more of experience, particularly in macroeconomics and public financial management.

• Availability for a total of 70 days: 20 days in 2026 and 50 days in 2027.

• Willingness to undertake one trip each to Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Tanzania.

• Submission of a mandatory technical proposal, CV and reference letters, and financial proposal is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Part-time consultancy opportunity.

• Chance to collaborate with BRAC International, an acclaimed international non-governmental development organization.

• International exposure through interactions with governments, the World Bank, African Development Bank, and other external funders.