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The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change supports political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive and prosperous societies in a globalised world. We do this through developing policy and advising governments.
Job Description
Are you excited by the prospect of transforming developing and emerging nations in Africa through the application of technology and innovations across public services, agriculture, and health?
Do you have experience of consulting or working in the tech field and of leading teams to drive systemic and transformative change in an emerging or developing country? Do have experience translating tech solutions for public sector clients?
The Tech Transformation Specialist is a short-term opportunity to lead scoping of new partnership opportunities under our landmark Tech for Development (T4D) programme, which has been enabled by a dynamic external partner across existing and new operations in our Government Advisory and Tech & Public Policy divisions.
Although the initial contract is short-term (around three months), we are a rapidly expanding team and expect additional opportunities to become available for longer-term roles, should that be of interest to the successful candidate.
Currently, we are exploring specific ways that our unique value proposition could support the ambitions of three governments in East/Southern Africa.
The Tech Transformation Specialist will join another Institute resource to lead the next stages of scoping and partnership discussions with government counterparts, with the former focused on tech/digitisation opportunities and the latter scoping general advisory services in Centre of Government.
A successful scoping exercise would result in a concrete offer from TBI to the respective government in support of a transformative technology and digitisation agenda and/or narrow in on a few specific opportunities where TBI’s offering provides value and impact.
The ideal opportunities identified should focus on or directly support presidential priorities and have the potential for transformational or scalable change for public benefit.
Given the high stakes of the scoping exercise, the Tech Transformation Specialist will work closely with T4D leadership to adjust the strategy and approach and to tailor the value proposition to the specific needs and opportunities in the local context.
This role can be based in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Lusaka and travel will be required.
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