JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Two Trainers/Technical Assistance Providers
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 two trainers / technical assistance providers to work with an international project team of six people that will implement the new initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Project Manager and IBP Training Manager in developing and achieving training and technical assistance objectives.

• Conduct assessments of the strategic environment for civil society budget work and the organizational capacity of potential partners.

• Undertake training and technical needs analysis of partner organizations.

• Design and produce training materials to assist civil society organizations to undertake applied public finance analysis and advocacy.

• Provide directly and coordinate one-on-one technical assistance/mentoring to individual organizations in the targeted regions.

• Identify organizations and strategic opportunities to undertake and promote civil society budget work in the targeted regions.

• Work with the Project Manager and the Senior Analyst to design and undertake applied research to determine the impact of partners’ work on governance, poverty, and social service delivery.

Knowledge, education and experience:

• Post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience in applied public finance, public policy or related subject;

• One of the trainers should have a strong background in public health policy and/or public health financing.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in training methods and training provision.

• At least three years experience in providing training in applied budget analysis and advocacy work, applied public finance, or public policy-related training.

• Several years of experience working in sub-Saharan Africa and / or Asia.

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

Location: One of the trainers should be based in sub-Saharan Africa and the other in Asia.

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.