Senior Health Public Financial Management Advisor

• International Budget Partnership (IBP) Hiring Senior Health Public Financial Management Advisor
• The International Budget Partnership (IBP) works to make governments raise and spend public money more fairly so that people have access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.
• Job Title: Senior Health Public Financial Management Advisor
• Organisation: International Budget Partnership (IBP)
• Department: GAPP
• Job Location: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time, Fixed-Term
• IBP partners with budget analysts, community organisers and advocates in more than 100 countries to advance public budget systems that work for people.
• Contract Length: Initial 1-year fixed-term contract, with a view to renewal
• Closing Date: 22 October 2026 at 1:00 PM GMT
• Preferred Start Date: January 2027
• Reports To: Global Lead, Policy and Research
• Its work includes generating evidence, advocating for reform, and strengthening the skills and knowledge of people so they can participate in budget decisions that affect their lives.
• IBP has staff based across multiple countries, with in-depth country work in Nigeria, South Africa, Indonesia and Francophone Africa.

About the Role

IBP is seeking a Senior Health Public Financial Management Advisor to provide technical expertise for its growing health public financial management (PFM) portfolio.

The Advisor will provide direct technical assistance and capacity strengthening to country teams and civil society partners.

The role will help teams diagnose and address problems in how health resources are planned, budgeted, released, spent and accounted for, while developing research methods and diagnostic tools to support evidence-based work.

The position requires a strong PFM practitioner who can work across health and finance systems and move between hands-on technical support, applied research and diagnosis, and facilitation of problem-solving among diverse actors.

Job Summary

• Employer: International Budget Partnership (IBP)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
• Category: Finance
• Salary: Illustrative annual gross salary ranges include: - Nigeria: USD 41,475-43,430 - Senegal: CFA 26,156,180-29,214,581 - South Africa: ZAR 789,698-826,908 - Kenya: KES 4,348,190-4,553,080 - Europe: EUR 65,000-80,000
• Closing Date: 2026-10-22

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct technical assistance to regional and country teams and partners, with a focus on Africa and IBP's broader partner engagements on health budgets.
• Diagnose and address health PFM problems, including budget credibility and execution, resource flows, procurement, expenditure controls and reporting.
• Help teams identify technical, institutional and political causes of identified problems.
• Map actors, relationships, incentives and accountability mechanisms that shape health PFM challenges.
• Develop feasible strategies for addressing identified problems.
• Facilitate technical dialogue and joint problem-solving among finance and budget institutions, health institutions, subnational governments, civil society, oversight institutions, communities and development partners.
• Design and deliver capacity strengthening and training for IBP teams, civil society partners, government counterparts and other accountability actors.
• Provide ongoing technical advice and facilitation in English and, where possible, French.
• Develop and refine practical research methods and diagnostic approaches for health PFM problems and their surrounding accountability ecosystems.
• Conduct or oversee country-level analysis combining quantitative budget and expenditure data with institutional and political economy analysis.
• Analysing health budget credibility, execution, resource flows, reporting and oversight.
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations, technical briefs, diagnostic reports and other products.
• Identify recurring problems and evidence gaps across countries.
• Use lessons from implementation to strengthen IBP's health PFM methodologies and technical assistance.
• Work with IBP's Global Policy and Partnerships team, country Policy Leads, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning colleagues.
• Integrate health PFM expertise into country programming.
• Connect learning across countries and align activities with IBP's broader strategy.
• Coordinate work planning, budgets and reporting for assigned health PFM projects and activities.
• Contribute technical content to concept notes, funding proposals and donor reports.
• Represent IBP's health PFM work with donors, government counterpart…