Head, Budget Planning, Monitoring, and Reporting (AfCDC)

Organization Information

Reports to:  Director of Finance
Directorate/Department/Organ: Africa CDC
Number of Direct Reports: 0
Number of Indirect Reports: 0
Job Grade: P5
Number of Positions: 1
Contract Type: Appointment for Limited Duration (ALD)

Purpose of Job

The Head, Budget Planning, Monitoring and Reporting provides strategic leadership and managerial oversight for institutional budget planning, programme-based budgeting, performance monitoring, reporting, and accountability. The role ensures that Africa CDC’s strategic objectives and public health mandates are translated into costed plans, approved budgets, effective resource allocation, and robust performance and financial reporting frameworks.

The incumbent leads the integration of planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, and accountability systems to ensure transparency, results-based management, optimal resource use, and evidence-based decision-making throughout the organization.

Main Functions

• Provide strategic leadership and managerial oversight of the Division to ensure effective delivery of budget planning, monitoring, reporting, and accountability functions.
• Lead the development, consolidation, and presentation of Africa CDC’s annual and multi-year budgets in line with approved strategies and priorities.
• Ensure alignment between strategic plans, business plans, programme priorities, budgets and performance results.
• Design and implement policies, systems, tools, and frameworks for results-based budgeting, performance monitoring, and reporting.
• Oversee budget execution, monitor expenditures, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions, including reallocation of resources where necessary.
• Strengthen accountability mechanisms linking results achieved to resources deployed.
• Ensure robust, timely and high-quality financial, programme and performance reports (monthly, quarterly, mid-term and annual).
• Provide technical leadership on planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting to internal stakeholders and partners.
• Manage risks, ensure compliance with AU/Africa CDC rules and regulations, and contribute to business continuity planning.
• Represent Africa CDC in relevant forums, meetings, and conferences related to planning, budgeting, and performance management.
• Foster a high-performance culture that promotes collaboration, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement.

Specific Responsibilities

Budget Planning

• Lead the end-to-end preparation, consolidation, and submission of Africa CDC’s annual and multi-year programme and operational budgets in line with approved strategic priorities and governance requirements.
• Translate institutional strategies, mandates, and business plans into costed budget frameworks, ensuring alignment between objectives, activities, outputs, and available resources.
• Provide strategic guidance and quality assurance on budget proposals submitted by Directorates, Centers, and Divisions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable rules and standards.
• Conduct financial analysis, cost estimations, scenario planning to support prioritization, decision-making, and optimal allocation of resources.
• Ensure approved budgets are accurately reflected, controlled, and managed within ERP systems, and that budget ceilings and allotments are respected.
• Lead mid-year and periodic budget reviews, assess financial performance against plans, and recommend reallocations or corrective measures as required.
• Advise senior management on budgetary trends, risks, funding gaps, and resource optimization opportunities.
• Strengthen institutional capacity in results-based budgeting through guidance, tools, and targeted training.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Establish and oversee institutional monitoring and reporting frameworks, including KPIs and performance scorecards, linking results achieved to resources deployed.
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of high-quality financial, programme, and performance reports (monthly, quarterly, mid-term, and annual) for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead data analysis, interpretation, and visualization to provide clear insights on progress, risks, and performance trends to senior management.
• Monitor budget execution and programme performance to ensure accountability, transparency, and value for money. Coordinate management responses to audit, evaluation, and oversight findings, ensuring the timely implementation of agreed recommendations.
• Establish and oversee performance monitoring frameworks, KPIs, and scorecards linking results achieved to resources deployed.
• Ensure timely preparation of high-quality financial, programme, and performance reports (monthly, quarterly, mid-term, and annual).
• Lead data analysis, visualization, and interpretation to provide evidence-based insights for management decision-making.
• Oversee monitoring of budget execution and programme performance to ensure accountability, transparency, and value for money.
• Coordinate responses to audit, evaluation, and oversight findings, ensuring implementation of agreed recommendations.

Academic Requirements and Relevant Experience

A Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Management/Administration with twelve (12) years of relevant work experience, out of which seven (7) and five (5) years should have been served at managerial and supervisory levels.

• Experience in international or intergovernmental organizations is required.
• Professional certification (CPA, ACCA, CA, CIMA, or equivalent) is required.
• Experience in result-based budgeting and other equivalent budget methodologies is key.
• Experience in using SAP and knowledge of other ERP systems is a plus.

Required Skills

• Managerial skills, political tactfulness, and supervisory skills to achieve documented objectives.
• Ability to initiate and promote collaborative approaches between geographically and culturally disparate partners.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations both internally and externally.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and conceptual thinking skills.
• Proven ability to lead complex planning, budgeting, and reporting processes. Excellent leadership, people management, and coaching skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to manage risk, drive accountability, and deliver results.
• Proficiency in one AU working language; knowledge of another AU language is an added advantage.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Perspective ….
• Change Management….
• Developing others…
• Managing Risk..

Core Competencies

• .Building Partnership
• Fosters Accountability Culture….
• Learning Orientation…..
• Foster Accountability Culture…

Functional Competencies

• Conceptual thinking ….
• Job Knowledge and information sharing:
• Drive for result:
• Fosters Innovation:

TENURE OF APPOINTMENT:

The Appointment will be for a period of Eleven (11) Months, of which the first three (3) months will be considered as a probationary period. Thereafter, the contract may be renewed subject to funding availability, satisfactory performance and agreed deliverables.

GENDER MAINSTREAMING:

The Africa CDC is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

REMUNERATION:

The salary attached to the position for the eleven month period is  US$ 115,904.18  (P5 Step 5) inclusive of all allowances for internationally recruited staff, and US$ 99,327.62 inclusive of all allowances for locally recruited staff of the African Union Commission.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Applications must be submitted no later than April 20, 2026, 11:59 p.m. EAT.

Only candidates who meet all job requirements and are selected for interviews will be contacted.

Consideration will be given only to those candidates who have submitted a fully completed online application with a curriculum vitae (CV), an African passport, and the required academic qualifications, such as Diplomas, Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees and any relevant certificate in line with the area of expertise.

The African CDC is an equal opportunity employer, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Candidates from less represented countries within the African Union are strongly encouraged to apply for positions that fit their profiles.

These countries include: Algeria, Angola, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Sahrawi D.R., Sao Tome and Principe., Seychelles, Somalia and Tunisia.