Overview
Provide technical leadership and conceptual guidance to develop a framework linking IFMIS and SRHR expenditure-tracking systems in selected countries in the WHO African Region.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct analytical review and conceptualization of IFMIS and public financial management systems.
- Develop a conceptual framework for linking IFMIS data to SHA 2011 classifications.
- Lead development of an expenditure tagging framework.
- Design a practical multi-level tagging system to identify health- and SRHR-related expenditures.
- Define major SRHR expenditure categories and mapping logic to SHA classifications.
- Support tool design and piloting, including defining functional specifications for the extraction tool.
- Participate in pilot testing in selected countries.
- Document institutional arrangements and data governance considerations.
- Lead the drafting of technical guidance paper on estimating health and SRHR expenditures.
- Prepare technical notes, presentations, and recommendations.
- Support dissemination and technical discussions.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in public financial management, budgeting systems, government accounting, IFMIS, or expenditure tracking.
- Demonstrated experience working with ministries of finance and/or ministries of health on budget analysis, expenditure tracking, or financial reporting systems.
- Experience conducting analytical reviews of charts of accounts, programme classifications, or public expenditure systems.
- Proven experience working in low- and middle-income countries, preferably in Africa.
- Experience with National Health Accounts (NHA) and/or System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) is desirable.
- Experience linking public financial management systems to sectoral expenditure analysis is desirable.
- Previous experience working with WHO, UN agencies, development banks, or international development partners is desirable.
- Experience supporting multi-country technical initiatives and piloting innovative tools or methodologies is desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s level or above) in public finance, health economics, economics, accounting, public administration, development studies, information systems, or another relevant field.
- Specialized training or certification in public financial management, IFMIS administration, government accounting, or health financing is desirable.
- Additional training in National Health Accounts or SHA 2011 methodologies is an asset.
