Revenue Mobilisation Manager

ABOUT GENESIS

In a world undergoing convulsive technological and political change, Genesis partners with key actors to deliver urgent, lasting impact in critical areas.

Genesis, an impact firm founded, incorporated and headquartered in Africa, has worked in 46 African countries and more than 100 countries globally. Uniquely, Genesis is focused on the Young World – the arc of countries with young populations stretching across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.

By 2030 four in five children will be born in the Young World, making this region central to the future. With growing markets and young, productive populations, Young World countries have the most positive potential trajectory in the world. It is here that investments of all kinds will have the highest social and economic returns.

Our job at Genesis is to help societies, governments and businesses across the Young World succeed at three fundamental historic transitions:

• Reconfiguring economies: creating income for large, rapidly urbanising youth cohorts within a global economy undergoing profound changes
• A human transition: a fundamental rethink of how societies, governments and markets can ensure the health and cognitive and social well-being of all those young people, including the most vulnerable
• A just climate transition: both to decarbonise and to manage the human and economic impacts of a global crisis they did not cause

To do this work, we are building a new type of impact firm

LOCATION: This role is remote, preference will be given to candidates based in Sub-Saharan Africa(SSA) and Middle East and North Africa(MENA)regions.(You must already have the right to work in the location you apply for)

PRACTICE AREA DESCRIPTION

The Human Development team works for a world where everyone can develop to their full potential. We are focused on expanding meaningful rights and opportunities for people who are marginalised. Part of a Global African firm, we are particularly committed to children, women, and young people in Africa and the Middle East. We help governments, their global partners, and private and non-state clients to improve the delivery of key human development services while navigating rapid changes in demography, climate, and technology, and the shock of Covid-19. We work in health, nutrition, and WaSH; youth, education and early childhood development; and social protection and social care. We provide services in diagnostics; regulation; strategy, planning and implementation; financing; service delivery; and monitoring and evaluation

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Manager is being recruited to take a leadership role in developing the Domestic resource mobilisation and innovative financing workstream. S/he will not only be at the forefront of generating evidence, assisting in formulating policies, designing reforms and building capabilities but s/he will also have much independence to shape and steer the work on the ‘’Raise’’ side of PFM.

This entails developing business through the identification of opportunities, applying for these opportunities as well as building partnerships with other firms with complementary expertise and/or geographical presence. S/he will assist Governments in improving revenue mobilisation through; (i) streamlining sources of revenues and accessing innovative financing, (ii) optimizing administration, processes and institutional arrangements as well as (iii) leveraging technology to prevent and avoid leakages.

The Manager will work within a team of dedicated consultants committed to delivering excellent work, conducting business intelligence to stay on top of the competition, understanding the needs of clients to respond to them with targeted options of solutions that can be implemented in a practical manner, and producing various forms of publications to showcase our work. S/he will collaborate with decision-makers and stakeholders for impactful interventions.

S/he will need to be committed to learning fast and improving her/his skills, remaining curious and keeping abreast of industry discourses/innovations and collaborating across service lines and practices. S/he needs to be passionate, self-motivated and an energetic problem solver. S/he must value integrity.

We hire Managers with the strong belief that they can become partners at Genesis. Genesis offers a highly rewarding, challenging and flexible career. Working with your mentor, we encourage you to explore living and working in different locations and deepening and complementing your specialized skills and knowledge in fiscal issues.

Genesis consultants carry a balanced combination of powerful intellect, strong technical skills, and a consulting character to match. Successful candidates for roles at Genesis:

• Are passionate, self-motivated and energetic problem-solver
• Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
• Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with excellent academic record

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 PFM 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
• Excellent ability to communicate –orally and in written - in English and French
• 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
• Knowledge of Arabic or Portuguese
• Social skills and networking

HOW TO APPLY

• Please follow the online application process on the career portal of the Genesis website, we are unable to accept any e-mailed CVs or applications
• Your application will primarily be considered for this role. If that are multiple roles that you are interested in, please submit your application to each position
• Once you have applied via our career portal, you will receive a system-generated confirmation e-mail that your application was received
• NOTE: Please be advised that uploaded documents/attachments cannot be bigger than 4MB in total, as the system will not accept your application if the uploaded documents exceed 4MB
• Communication will be with short-listed candidates only - if you do not receive any feedback on your application within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful
• Genesis Analytics reserves the right not to proceed with an appointment of any advertised role
• All appointments will be made in line with Genesis Analytics’ Employment Equity Plan and Transformation Policies
• All applications will be treated confidentially

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