Overview
Consultant Specialist in Public Finance to continue the Climate Public Expenditure Analysis and Institutional Review (CPEIR) of El Salvador. The role involves developing reports on expenditure analysis, policy priorities, institutional arrangements, and integration of climate change objectives within the budgetary process.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct a review of updated climate policy instruments and identify relevant laws/regulations.
- Define and validate the time frame of the expenditure analysis.
- Map national and sectoral climate policies, assess coherence with development/poverty reduction goals, and identify integration opportunities.
- Document stakeholder participation in policy processes and analyze the use of evidence in policymaking.
- Evaluate monitoring and evaluation frameworks for climate policy effectiveness.
- Update institutional mapping and analyze the Ministry of Finance’s role in budget labeling/climate markers.
- Review inter-ministerial coordination mechanisms and describe local governments’ capacity for climate action.
- Assess management of international cooperation.
- Prepare a review of available data sources, analyze and quantify climate-relevant expenditures.
- Identify and apply a weighting for the climate change relevance of policies and programs.
- Develop a climate spending data analysis.
- Identify "negative" expenditures.
- Review tax instruments, considering revenue-generating and behavioral-changing instruments.
- Prepare and deliver a comprehensive report (draft and final) consolidating all analyses performed.
Required Experience
- Five (5) years of work experience related to public finance, policy analysis, and national budgets, or in a closely related field, is required.
- One (1) study on climate-related public spending is desirable.
- Experience collaborating with government institutions on policy analysis, inter-institutional dialogue, or policy development is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-level coordination (national, subnational, and/or sectoral) in financial planning and budgeting is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in preparing reports and official documents for technical and high-level meetings is desirable.
- Experience with international organizations is desirable.
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in economics, public finance, or a closely related field is required.
- Master´s degree in climate change, finance, public policy, or a closely related field is desirable.
