Vacancy title:
Governance Advisor SEO

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
British High Commission

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 30 2025

Duty Station:
Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 17 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The British Government is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer.  We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law. We promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow. The FCDO operates an agile workforce and to facilitate this, you may be required to undertake other duties from time to time, as we may reasonably require.

Job Category  

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Policy & Political roles)

Job Subcategory  

Governance and Political

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)  

The Governance Advisor (Public Sector) will lead FCDO Tanzania’s engagement with the Government of Tanzania (GoT) using innovative ways to ensure strengthened governance for improved service delivery. This will require ability to engage and interact with a wide range of stakeholders including Government of Tanzania (GoT) (national and local levels), development partners and other stakeholders. 

As part of the Political and Governance Team, the postholder will provide high quality, reliable, timely and relevant governance advice to colleagues across the BHC network and the Senior Leadership Team, ensuring the UK continues to play a leading role in the efforts to strengthening government systems including the Public Financial Management (PFM) systems, focusing on improving the efficiency of public resources, mitigation of fiduciary risks and supporting the partner government to tackle the underlying causes of poverty.

Postholder will work closely with other members of the Political and Governance Team which includes G7 Governance Advisor, Programme Managers, and Political Team.  The Postholder will report to G7 Governance Advisor. Postholder will be Programme Responsible Owner (PRO) for the Strengthening Public Finance Programme (SPFMP) which is the BHC programme to support public finance reforms in Tanzania. Jobholder will also be expected to actively lead BHC engagement at the Development Partners Group (DPG) on Tax and Public Finance. This is a short-term position due to budget uncertainty next Financial Year. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, jobholder will be responsible and accountable for:

• Leading FCDO’s policy engagement and advocacy in the public sector reform, helping to ensure that national and international efforts results in real changes for ordinary Tanzanians (20%). This will involve representing FCDO in the Public Sector dialogue with other development partners and government, providing leadership role in terms of policy influence, coordination, problem solving, and ensuring FCDO’s investments are where they can achieve greatest impact. Ensure that FCDO’s engagement on public sector reform work contribute towards strengthening the Governments approach to improve delivery of basic services at LGA levels.
• Working cohesively with FCDO’s Sector Teams  - Human Development and Sustainable Growth Teams to identify and address key governance bottlenecks in the delivery of the sector programmes through the government systems (20%). Ensure they are embedding an understanding of key central institutions and processes. Specifically lead and infuse a good appreciation of the working of the Ministry of Finance, the President’s Office of Regional and Local Government and the way in which ministries interact with regional and district authorities.
• Supporting the development of BHC’s future approach to systems strengthening programme (20%): Working with other team members and teams ensure our approach identifies and tackles key gaps in the central and local systems (for example public finance, public sector and decentralization) to enable successful implementation. Ensure effective design, implementation, and monitoring of programmatic activities (public sector reform component) as per the requirements of FCDO Smart Rules
• Leading FCDO Public Finance Management workstreams: Provide advisory and technical assistance support on Public finance management (PFM) workstreams(30%). This include working as Programme Responsible Officer (PRO) for the Strengthening PFM programme, lead the closure of the SPFM programme. Successfully leverage Centrally Managed Programmes (CMPs) and relevant Centres of Expertise on Public Finance. Work cohesively with relevant development partners group (Governance Working Group & PFM and Tax Group). Undertake diagnostics studies and use analytical/research evidence to inform policies and programmes and as evidence for policy advocacy
• Contributing to the effectiveness of the FCDO Tanzania Political and Governance Team and work effectively with wider HMG colleagues on shared interests(10%). Contribute to the political economy analsysis and lead on quartely cross-office political tracker which looks at the intersection of policial and governance trends.

No people management expectations. Strengthening Public finance management programme is a £3m annual spend programme which the jobholder will manage and ensure good value for money for this programme.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience  

• Experience of working, engaging and supporting government systems/public sector reform
• Using political analysis or similar tools
• Excellence team working skills and ability to work collaboratively across and within teams

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience  

• Understanding the structure of government at the national and local level and relevant legislations, rules and regulations
• Experience in contributing towards sustainable improvements in the delivery of key basic services
• Understanding of the international development context and ability to work effectively with bilateral and multilateral agencies.
• Understanding of the international development context and ability to work effectively with bilateral and multilateral agencies

Required behaviours  

Communicating and Influencing, Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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