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Janaagraha is hiring: Head – Municipal Finance

We at Janaagraha seek an exceptional individual to lead our municipal finance mission to the next level of impact. We aim to increase municipal revenues, ensure transparency in spending, and improve accountability for citizen outputs and outcomes. Transforming public finance in cities is quintessential to human development in India. Over the last four years, we have achieved remarkable milestones in the pursuit of our municipal finance mission, including:

• Public disclosure of audited annual accounts of over 4,200 municipalities in a comparable format on www.cityfinance.in
• Catalyzing property tax reforms in 20 states resulting in a 50% growth in pan-India property tax collections since 2017-18
• Digital grant management of USD 15 billion of XV FC grants on www.cityfinance.in

More importantly, we have put together an exemplary, majority-women team. We are looking for a senior leader with a proven track record in systems practice to join our team and take our municipal finance program to new heights of systems change.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver on government and donor engagements.
• Engage closely with senior leaders in government and the market ecosystem to both advocate for systemic reforms in municipal finance and to inform Janaagraha’s strategy for the same.
• Continuously strive to transform municipal finance in India at scale and with speed and agility, through a whole of systems approach.
• Lead planning and development of Janaagraha’s Municipal Finance programme.
• Engage with the urban governance and municipal finance ecosystem.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree or equivalent in business administration, finance, public finance, public administration, public policy or other directly relevant fields OR a Membership of a Professional Institute such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
• 15+ years of experience in government advisory, public finance, business management/consulting or senior leadership roles in finance.
• Candidates with direct government experience in any civil services are particularly welcome.

Location: Bengaluru/Delhi

Interested candidates can send in their CV to [email protected]

You can learn more about the role here.

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About Janaagraha

Janaagraha is a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit institution working to transform the quality of life in India’s cities and towns. It defines quality of life as comprising quality of infrastructure and services, and quality of citizenship. To achieve its mission, Janaagraha works with councillors and citizens to catalyse active citizenship in city neighbourhoods, and with governments to institute reforms to city-systems. Janaagraha has worked extensively on urban policy and governance reforms for over two decades including on JnNURM, and with the XIII, XIV and XV Finance Commissions, Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, NITI Aayog/Planning Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), as well as the state governments of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and Assam.