Fiscal Policy and Revenue Mobilisation Manager (Global) at Genesis Analytics

The Manager will be responsible for:

• Leading strategy development and making links with other service lines and practices at Genesis
• Developing revenue mobilisation strategies, including innovating financing for national and subnational governments
• Developing implementation plans for these strategies
• Proposing mechanisms for greater fiscal and customs controls and formulating recommendations at policy, institutional and behavioral levels
• Conducting fiscal potential, tax gap and fiscal space analyses at national and subnational levels
• Undertaking assessments of tax policies and diagnostics of tax administration and draft revised strategies
• Providing technical assistance to governments or development partners
• Developing capacity-building modules that are practical and interactive for multi-stakeholders training, workshops, and dialogues
• Preparing and publishing publications 

Mandatory skills and competencies

• Postgraduate degree in Economics, Public Finance, Public Policy or other related fields in the realms of social sciences
• Minimum of 10 years of experience within government or at an international organization based in Africa or MENA
• Understanding Public Finance Management systems as a whole
• In-depth understanding of fiscal matters, including fiscal decentralization, arrangements for revenue collection and fiscal management
• Excellent grasp of quantitative methodologies and modelling
• Experience developing tax policies, domestic revenue mobilisation strategies and undertaking fiscal potential, tax gap and fiscal space analyses
• Previous technical assistance to the government for tax collection and transparent management
• Experience working with Revenue Authorities, Ministries of finance and planning and Development partners
• An excellent communicator in English both in oral and written.
• Demonstrated management and leadership skills

Desired skills and competencies

• Experience in developing frameworks and methodologies and the ability to build the capacity of national partners on these tools
• Experience working in fragile and/or post-conflict countries
• Knowledge of database development
• Bilingual ability in English/French or English/Arabic 
• Social skills and networking