Education Costing & Financing Specialist

Education Costing & Financing Specialist - ESWATINI

The Costing & Financing Specialist provides the technical costing backbone of the assignment: translating the strategic priorities and interventions into a credible, resourced, and financeable plan, and designing the financing arrangements that sit inside the Implementation and Monitoring Framework.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the indicative costing for the Draft and Final Multi-Year Action Plan, costing each priority intervention against activities, targets, and implementation timelines
• Lead the financing requirements analysis within the Implementation and Monitoring Framework — annual budget estimates, funding gaps, and resource mobilization options
• Analyze the fiscal space and existing education financing environment in Eswatini (national budget allocations, donor co-financing, MoET recurrent/capital budget lines) to ground the costed plan in realistic assumptions
• Advise on a resource mobilization strategy for financing gaps identified in the new plan
• Participate in stakeholder validation workshops to present and defend costing assumptions, and revise costing based on feedback from the MoET Planning Unit and the Technical Steering Committee

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Economics, Public Finance, Education Financing, Development Finance
• Demonstrated experience in education sector costing, budgeting, and financing analysis, ideally at national/sector-plan level rather than project level
• Proven experience costing multi-year sector plans or similarly complex, multi-intervention programmes
• Sub-Saharan African or similar developing-country context
• Strong grounding in public financial management and national budget processes, ideally in a developing country context
• Experience with resource mobilization strategy design — identifying and sequencing domestic and donor financing options
• Ability to translate strategic/results-based planning language (outputs, outcomes, indicators) into costed line items and budget structures

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