Senior Manager – Budget Strategy and Policies

Lead the Government Budget Sector’s Centre of Excellence, responsible for benchmarking, best-practice research, alignment with the OECD Principles of Budgetary Governance and comparable international standards, maturity and gap assessments, and the development of the sector’s enhancement action plan.

Drive the execution of the enhancement agenda by acting as the Project Management Office (PMO) for transformational projects across the Government Budget Sector, and govern the sector through the development of budget policies, the internal strategic plan, and an institutionalized performance management system.

• Lead benchmarking studies against leading government budgeting institutions and comparable international peers, and translate findings into applicable recommendations for the Government Budget Sector.
• Research, evaluate and disseminate leading practices in public financial management, including medium-term fiscal frameworks, performance-based budgeting, spending reviews, capital budgeting and fiscal transparency.
• Assess the sector’s alignment with the OECD Principles of Budgetary Governance and other recognized international standards, and maintain a documented position on the level of adherence.
• Conduct periodic maturity and gap assessments across budget processes, governance arrangements, tools, capabilities and operating model, and quantify the impact and root causes of identified gaps.
• Develop, obtain approval for and maintain the sector’s multi-year enhancement action plan, sequencing initiatives by impact, feasibility, cost and interdependency.
• Act as the sector’s technical reference point and trusted advisor to senior management on reform options, trade-offs, implementation risks and international precedents.

• Manage the transformational projects within the Government Budget Sector, including governance structure, stage gates, decision forums and escalation protocols.
• Convert approved enhancement actions into structured projects with defined scope, deliverables, timelines, owners, resource requirements and success criteria.
• Monitor project execution, track milestone achievement and benefit realisation, and report deviations together with corrective action recommendations.
• Maintain project risk, issue and dependency registers, and coordinate interfaces across divisions, government entities and enabling functions.
• Lead the stakeholder engagement, communication and change management activities required for the adoption of approved reforms.
• Manage external consultants and service providers supporting transformation projects, including scope definition, technical evaluation, deliverable review and performance oversight.

• Develop, review and maintain the policies, frameworks, manuals, methodologies and procedures governing the Government Budget Sector, ensuring internal consistency, clarity and enforce ability.
• Develop the sector’s internal strategic plan, translating the Department’s strategic objectives into sector objectives, initiatives, targets and resource requirements.
• Design, implement and maintain the sector’s performance management system, including the KPI architecture, measurement definitions, data sources, targets, review cadence and reporting mechanism.
• Maintain the sector’s policy and governance repository as the single authoritative reference for internal and external stakeholders.

• Build and maintain a comprehensive analytical view of historical government spending patterns across entities, sectors, economic classifications, programmes and cost drivers.
• Analyze expenditure trends, growth drivers, cost…