Overview
- Contract Duration: 8 months
- Working Arrangement: Home Based
This assignment will assess the scale, composition, and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, including how these incentives are granted and reviewed. It will identify lessons from reform efforts and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
Responsibilities
- Assess the scale and composition of tax expenditures across Africa.
- Examine the equity implications of tax expenditures across African countries.
- Review how tax expenditures are granted and reviewed.
- Identify lessons from reform efforts.
- Support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on tax expenditure issues.
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Master’s - Economics, public finance, taxation, public policy, development economics or a closely related field.
- Work Experience:
- Minimum seven years of professional experience in tax policy, public finance or domestic revenue mobilisation, including substantive work in African contexts.
- Demonstrated experience analysing tax expenditures, tax incentives, or fiscal cost estimation.
- Familiarity with the Global Tax Expenditures Database, the Global Tax Expenditures Transparency Index, or equivalent national tax expenditure reporting is a strong advantage.
- Skills:
- Strong quantitative and data analysis skills, including demonstrated ability to construct comparable cross-country datasets from heterogeneous national sources.
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, publication-quality data visualisations.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse distributional and equity impacts of fiscal policy.
- Experience with child-focused or poverty-focused public finance analysis is an advantage.
- Track record of producing analytical writing of publication standard for both technical and policy/advocacy audiences.
- Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Working proficiency in French is highly desirable, given the concentration of detailed tax expenditure reporting in francophone West Africa.
Preferred Qualifications
- Established professional networks among relevant institutions (COATE member organisations, ATAF, ATRN, ICTD, ODI Global, IISD) is an advantage.
Compensation & Benefits
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Location
Home Based
Additional Information / Application Notes
- UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes.
- UNICEF does not ask applicants for bank account information.
- All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks, including verification of academic credentials and employment history.
- Qualified candidates are invited to submit:
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- A cover letter
- A separate financial proposal