JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Senior Analyst, International Budget Project’s Partnership Initiative

In over 100 countries around the world, think-tanks, NGOs, community-based organizations and citizens have launched a movement to demand greater transparency and accountability in government revenues and expenditures. The International Budget Project (www.internationalbudget.org) was established in 1997, within the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington DC, to support this growing movement in order to improve governance and reduce poverty in developing countries.

Over the past ten years, the IBP has pioneered global efforts to support independent budget monitoring by providing a combination of training and technical assistance, financial grants, comparative research, peer networking, and a global repository of information on this growing field. The IBP works closely with a growing network of partner civil society organizations in over 80 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and operates from offices in Washington DC, Mexico City and Cape Town.

The IBP is launching a major new initiative – the Partnership Initiative - to intensively support civil society budget monitoring and advocacy in approximately 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, south and south-east Asia and Latin America. The Partnership Initiative will make a special effort to support civil society work in monitoring health budgets. This new initiative will have three components:

• Providing a combination of financial and technical assistance to organizations and campaigns in the targeted regions.

• Consolidate the growing network of civil society budget monitors.

• Undertake a learning and knowledge program that will track the impact of partner’s work and analyze the cross-country implications for budget processes and policies.

IBP is seeking a senior analyst to work with an international project team of six people that will implement the new initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Project Manager and Senior Staff to design and implement a comprehensive learning and knowledge development initiative for the project.

• Conduct country assessments to determine the strategic opportunities for civil society budget work.

• Conduct comparative research on the impact of civil society budget analysis and advocacy on governance, poverty and social service delivery.

• Design, conduct and manage cross-country research into the implications of partner research for international poverty policy issues, including a focus on international health policy and financing.

• Support the training and technical assistance team with materials development and training provision on public finance and policy issues.

Knowledge, education and experience:

• Post-graduate degree, or equivalent experience, in applied public finance or a related discipline;

• At least five years of experience as a practitioner in public finance and poverty research design and management at a university, donor, or civil society organization.

• Knowledge and experience of working with non-governmental organizations.

• Ability to work in English and one other of the Projects languages is required (French, Spanish, Portuguese).

Location: This position could be based in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America or the United States.

Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience.

Please send a resume with cover letter by e-mail to: price@cbpp.org

Resumes will be accepted until January 14, 2007.

The Center is an equal opportunity employer, and as such, takes affirmative action to insure that discrimination does not occur on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law.