Programme Management

• Ensure workplan delivery and its planned evolution, based on evolving priorities of relevant stakeholders.
• Build, maintain and manage relations with all stakeholders, especially Government at all levels.
• Proactively guide and manage the team to deliver effectively on planned outputs and document knowledge products for advocacy.
• Ensure smooth running of day-to-day operations and troubleshooting.

Provide technical assistance to strengthen urban public finances and budget processes:

• Development of a Grants Dashboard for HUDD – to track expenditure by all ULBs on different schemes and programmes.
• Support to ULBs (Urban Local Bodies) budget preparation and expenditure planning processes.
• Payment process mapping and re-engineering to enable efficient delivery of HUDD’s key welfare programmes.
• Conceptualise and implement smarter payment mechanisms and improve features of IT systems that support urban financial governance (for e.g. Just in time transfers, works management systems to name a few).
• Strengthen accounting and audit systems of ULBs.

Develop thought leadership on PFM:

• Build knowledge products on key PFM issues for public consumption.
• Lead diagnostics of budget processes and data to inform programme design and delivery.
• Enable visibility of the organsiation’s work and Government’s good practices. For instance, document
• PFM best practices being followed in states and ULBs.

• Experience of managing programme delivery in a dynamic environment.
• Prior knowledge of working with Government’s public finance systems (IFMIS, PFMS etc) and processes is a plus.
• A good understanding of urban governance systems and nature of fiscal decentralisation in India a plus.
• Field based experience working with multi-cultural and geographically diverse and spread teams.

Janaagraha is an equal opportunity employer and offers a highly dynamic and enabling work environment. We provide competitive remuneration commensurate with relevant experience, skill-sets and background.

This position is based out of Bhubaneswar.