The National Treasury implementing the 2023–2028 Public Finance Management Reform Strategy to strengthen efficiency, transparency, accountability, and equitable allocation of public resources. As part of Kenya's commitment to inclusive development, the Government has strengthened child-, gender-, and disability-responsive budgeting in the FY 2027/28 budget process, requiring improved costing, expenditure tagging, tracking, and reporting. With support from UNICEF and other development partners, the initiative will strengthen Hyperion costing, child and disability expenditure tagging in IFMIS, reporting systems, and capacity development for MDAs and counties, while supporting Kenya's commitments under the Amman-Berlin Declaration, including enhanced disability financing and the "15 percent for the 15 percent" target. The overall aim is to improve the visibility, allocation, monitoring, and reporting of public expenditure for children and people with disabilities. This is intended to strengthen programme-based budgeting (PBB) and support Government of Kenya commitments to children and disability-through automated costing model and integrating children and disability tagging into IFMIS.
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The scope of this consultancy is to support the National Treasury-Budget Department to undertake three interrelated streams of work:
(1) complete the automated hyperion budget costing model;
(2) integrate the children and disability budget tagging manual into IFMIS and ePROMIS as an automated tool which will also enable tracking of ODA programmes with 15% disability objectives as per the global disability summit commitments; and
(3) build the capacity of Government of Kenya officials from the National Treasury and relevant line ministries and state departments, including Social Protection, Children Services, Health, Education, Labour and Youth, to apply the hyperion costing model and use children and disability tagging, tracking and reporting in IFMIS.
If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: 
TMC0007900 EXTERNAL TOR.pdf
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QUALIFICATIONS / SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE/ COMPETENCIES (CORE/TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL) / LANGUAGE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
Minimum Qualifications required:Bachelors in Software Engineering, ICT, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Public Finance, Finance, Public Policy, Planning or related quantitative professionals.
Years of Experience/ Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
Work Experience:
• At least 5 years’ working experience on issues related to public finance management automated systems.
• At least 5 years’ hands-on experience in Government Budget and IFMIS reforms.
• Experience supporting Ministries of Finance/National Treasuries and sector ministries on planning and budgeting processes.
• Hands-on experience with automated government costing systems.
• Hands-on experience in budget coding and tagging.
• Evidence of experience engaging with the National Treasury of Kenya.
• Hands-on experience in the development of budget manuals.
• Hands-on experience in capacity building and training of government officers on budgeting processes and systems.
Language Requirements:
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required
• Knowledge of a local language (e.g. Kiswahili) is an asset.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills:
• Demonstrated depth of ICT knowledge and skills that support public budgeting systems.
• Strong understanding of public finance management systems, budgeting, planning, and expenditure management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to support and strengthen the use of automated budgeting, costing, coding, and tagging systems within government institutions.
Desirables:
• Experience working in government digital transformation initiatives related to budget management and public financial management systems.
• Familiarity with Kenya’s budget formulation, execution, and reporting frameworks, including IFMIS.
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Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
- A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) TMC0007900 FINANCIAL PROPOSAL.docx
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