The consultant will be responsible for the following specific duties:
Capital Infrastructure Stocktaking & Budget Tagging:
- Conduct a thorough review of Moscow's public finance registry to compile and systematically classify capital infrastructure investments executed over the last three (3) financial years.
Spatial Finance Integration & Geo-Referencing:
- Coordinate with relevant municipal departments to identify the precise geographical locations of major capital assets.
- Structure this financial data into a clean, geo-referenced spatial matrix to enable thematic mapping.
Financial Heatmap Modeling & Gap Assessment:
- Analyze expenditure concentrations to identify priority spatial patterns, infrastructure delivery mechanisms (including Public-Private Partnerships and green financing tools), and existing financing gaps relative to SDG implementation targets.
Drafting and Stakeholder Validation Support:
- Prepare high-quality technical inputs, graphs, tables, and narrative texts for the financial sections of the VLR and its background SDG Discussion Papers.
- Refine all data layers based on feedback from UN-Habitat review teams and Government counterparts.
Qualifications/special skills
- Academic Qualification: An advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) in Economics, Public Policy, Public Finance, Political Science, Development Studies or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree, combined with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- A minimum of two (5) years of relevant work experience in the field of public finance, public policy, urban governance research is required;
- Strong analytical skills with the capacity to synthesize complex municipal financial datasets and translate them into policy-relevant documents and visual heatmaps is required
- Experience working on Own Source Revenue and/or municipal finance is required;
- Relevant experience in working in the Russian Federation and Moscow is desirable;
- Experience in SDG-related work, urban sustainability reporting, or VLR/VNR development is desirable;
- Working experience with international development agencies such as the United Nations is desirable.