Short-Term Public Financial Management Specialist - Capacity Needs Assessment

AMIDEAST/Lebanon is looking for a short-term Public Financial Management Specialist - Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) to work on an education-related project from August through December 2018.

The main responsibilities of the Public Financial Management Specialist include:

1. To work collaboratively with the CNA team to integrate public financial management technical inputs into the capacity needs assessment tools.
2. To conduct research and analysis on legal frameworks shaping public financial management procedures.
3. To conduct capacity needs assessment interviews with relevant individuals.
4. To design relevant and accessible checklists on public financial management systems and resources in the education sector.
5. To ensure coherence and complementarity between the public financial management and other elements of the CNA.
6. To work collaboratively with other stakeholders to encourage engagement with the interviews, and to provide specific information regarding areas for further support and training.
7. To collect, analyze and report on data collected through questionnaires and interviews.
8. To deliver results in a roadmap format, ensuring that gaps are adequately prioritized and that the roadmap includes key activities to strengthen capacity development of public financial management.

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise in public financial management processes at the national government and particularly specific sectors
• Experience in delivering capacity needs assessments
• Experience in capacity development design and delivery

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in public financial management reform processes in the education sectors
• Experience in Lebanon, particularly working on government reform
• Fluent in written and spoken Arabic and French

Interested candidates should send a resume to rmelki@amideast.org with the following in the subject line: “Short-term Public Financial Management Specialist - Capacity Needs Assessment”. The deadline to apply is Thursday, August 23, 2018.

Additional details about this vacancy will be provided at a later stage.