Manager – Municipal Finance

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About the Organization

Janaagraha began as a movement to promote participatory democracy at the neighbourhood level. We soon discovered, however, that citizen participation alone was not enough.

Governments must also be equipped to deliver infrastructure and services, build their own capacity through training and technology, fully empower elected leaders, and ensure high standards of accountability and transparency.

We then adopted a two-track approach: resolving issues on services and infrastructure through participation, even as we worked to reform the systems that delivered them.

Job Description

Municipal finance reforms have been a core focus area for Janaagraha since its inception and the Municipal Finance Program is working towards solving one the most important problems being faced by Indian Cities: making them financially sustainable and accountable.

We directly work with the union, state and urban local governments for engendering on-ground change through systemic reforms and further work towards translating these on-ground reform successes into usable “products” on Cityfinance to bring about “change-at-scale”. Over the years, we have worked with and supported government stakeholders at both central and state level on financial management reforms ranging from own revenue augmentation, urban infrastructure financing, municipal accounting, budget and expenditure management.

We are looking for a mid-career professional to be a part of the Municipal Finance Program in a role that involves designing national and state-level financial management reforms to augment cities’ own revenues and catalyse commercial financing for urban infrastructure projects.

Job Responsibilities

Managing State Engagements for Own Revenue Enhancement:

• Conceptualise and deliver systemic governance reforms for augmenting local governments’ own revenues through engagement and persuasion of state and local government functionaries
• Manage Government stakeholders and work in collaboration with Janaagraha’s state teams and other teams to ensure robust design of interventions, provide project implementation support, and ensure timely delivery on commitments
• Create blueprints of the revenue reforms implemented at the State/city level and build templates for national advocacy engagement
• Collaborate with the Public Financial Management (PFM) team and State teams at Janaagraha to achieve large-scale reforms in strengthening own revenues of local governments, including property tax, user charges and other underutilised sources of own revenue specifically on strengthening the property tax policies, laws and operations

Advocating for Municipal Revenue enhancement at national level

• Work with the Municipal Finance team to deliver on own-revenue enhancement commitments made as part of the MoU with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and other engagements
• Deepen knowledge and analytical firepower on municipal revenues and identify contemporary trends and advocacy agendas
• Draft thought leadership pieces by analysing trends in own revenue sources and fiscal sustainability of urban local government
• Draft policy collaterals like toolkits, case studies, ready reckoner documents, etc. as per requirement
• Identify and work with small cohorts of knowledge partners/consultants on joint advocacy agendas

Municipal Borrowing and Urban Infrastructure Financing:

• Create thought leadership on commercial financing of urban infrastructure projects
• Identify key stakeholders at central and state government level & engage with them, explore synergies with an aim to amplify & strengthen non-budgetary financing of urban infrastructure projects in India
• Work with Janaagraha’s Product team to conceptualise new products and features for cityfinance.in for facilitating commercial financing for urban infrastructure projects

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Post Graduate or equivalent in business administration, economics, finance, public policy or a Chartered Accountant
• 6+ years of experience in government advisory, business consulting, public policy research or in a non-profit
• Candidates from alternative academic backgrounds with outstanding academic and career accomplishments and relevant work experience would also be considered
• Candidates with prior experience in public finance, municipal finance, infrastructure financing or urban governance would be preferred

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