Current Opportunities at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Role Summary

• Our new Global Client Solutions team is at the heart of how we capture “what we do” and then deploy the best of the Institute and our networks to global leaders through our country advisory teams. Our globally and regionally situated experts provide valuable counsel, technical support, thought partnership, and surge capacity and lead the development and evolution of our solutions, methods, and offers in the service of our partner governments.

As a centre of excellence, Global Client Solutions is comprised of our global and regional experts – functional and sectoral. Our functional offers include

• Strategy: supporting political leaders to identify priorities and barriers to progress,
• Policy advisory: finding the right solutions,
• Delivery: making change happen, and then harnessing the transformative power of Technology to support leaders to engage with forward-looking opportunities. Sectorally, we work on the topics at the heart of senior political agendas from economic prosperity, climate change and energy, health and education, to peace and security.
• We are hiring a Senior Advisor, Public Financial Management - Advisory. In this new senior role, you will support to build and grow a global practice providing support to senior political leaders and Ministers of Finance, our clients, on public financial management (PFM). Including solutions to enable TBI teams and clients solve critical issues in modern PFM: how to align government financial constraints with strategic, political, citizen-centric priorities, how to reform internal digital financial management systems, how to reform internal PFM governance, and major macroeconomic issues from currency to debt sustainability.
• This will require strong interpersonal relationship building, as well as strong political and policy development experience helping governments achieve their priority goals. To deliver your remit, you will work with country teams to drive our global offer, but will need to effectively engage with the knowledge and resources across the Institute including our partnerships team and Policy & Politics Division.
• This is a global senior expert role with significant travel expected (~30%) to current and potential TBI client locations from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. The ideal candidate will have globally relevant expertise and experience working at the highest levels of government.

Please note that for our Nairobi and Athens offices you must have an existing right to work in country.
Key Responsibilities
Advisory support and expertise:

• Provide hands-on support to clients and TBI country teams to create actionable, articulate PFM development plans, including strategic fiscal framework allocations, PFM digital tool development and internal PFM governance reforms.
• On policy design, collaborate with TBI’s internal advisory, policy and politics expertise, regional/country teams and external experts to bring world-class policy thinking to our clients
• Shape and embody a positive culture that drives ambition, innovation and delivery

Leadership & offer development:

• With the Senior Director, Economic Prosperity lead the development of TBI’s global PFM offer, identifying its core areas of support, TBI’s unique value proposition, implementing partnerships and staff resourcing
• Support organisational learning on PFM methodologies and technologies by leading the creation of a toolkit and supporting learning & knowledge events within Advisory, as well as across TBI
• Support a true team and “one TBI” culture, and the rest of the organisation to engage in communities of practice agnostic of “boxes and lines”

External engagement:

• Represent the Institute at global events and potentially contribute to written PFM thought leadership and publications in collaboration with TBI External Communications and the Policy & Politics division
• Advance TBIs participation or leadership of global events
• Support TBI PFM network development which contributes to our growth and partnerships which enhance our support to senior political leaders

Person Specification
This is a senior leadership role requiring an exceptional candidate:

• Notable, hands-on experience as a senior advisor to governments on PFM systems, debt sustainability and IMF programs/processes.
• Professional with strong history helping governments and political leaders with budget processes, identifying strategic fiscal priorities, how to define sustainable forward-looking national fiscal frameworks while balancing the day-to-day fiscal pressures of governing.
• A strong network with the major international financial institutions including the IMF and World Bank
• Experience with stakeholder management, relationship building and “getting things done” in complex organizations
• A track-record developing frameworks and toolkits to enable organisations and colleagues to learn and deliver effectively
• Fluency in English is required with proficiency in an additional language an advantage
• Willingness for international travel approximately 30 percent

Closing Date:
2024-01-22

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Role Summary

• The Data & AI, Senior Advisor will have the political acumen to convincingly engage senior officials on the political importance and transformative power of data-driven governments and the growing impact of AI. Their experience advising governments or directly applying insights from data into a public sector context should be supported by a strong grasp of AI and other emerging technologies. They will be able to communicate how next-generation AI systems, Large Language Models, and advanced data analytics enable governments to be more adaptive and agile, while also stimulating innovation and growth throughout their countries more broadly.
• This role is part of a growing team of expert advisors in TBI’s Global Client Solutions (GCS) team, part of TBI’s Government Advisory division. GCS is a hands-on center of excellence bringing the best of the Institute and distributing it at scale to enhance the quality and impact of our advice to senior political leaders.
• As a central resource, the Senior Advisor for Data & AI will set the vision for how governments are able to fully leverage data and AI to 1) support more strategic and responsive government operations 2) deliver higher quality public services, and 3) facilitate innovation within private and third sectors. Providing valuable counsel, technical input, quality assurance, and thought leadership to colleagues and governments around the world, the Senior Advisor will ensure TBI’s support on Data & AI is as impactful as possible. Drawing from hands-on experience implementing data driven projects and helping governments adopt emerging technologies, they will identify opportunities to continually improve and evolve the offer and relevant tools, including through the creation of partnerships for design and delivery.

To successfully deliver the remit, the postholder will need to work effectively with teams across the Institute, including:

• Other GCS Leads to ensure our overall engagement with countries is strategic and optimised for maximum impact and sustainability, and to apply the Data & AI offer to specific subject matter areas (i.e. health) and functional offers (i.e. Delivery Mechanisms)
• Country teams and embedded advisors who will benefit from the support provided while also helping to ensure the offer evolves and remains relevant for centres of governments.
• Policy & Politics colleagues, providing a unique opportunity to close the gap between progressive policy, thought leadership on cutting edge topics like AI, and hands on implementation.
• Strategy & Partnerships teams, supporting the development of key partnerships that enhance the officer and help actualise the Institute’s vision for change and progress and complementing our in-house expertise
• Strategic Communications teams, co-creating collateral that captures lessons learned and highlights successes to a global audience.

Key Responsibilities

• This is a senior role within TBI and will be held by an exceptional candidate with deep and extensive experience helping senior political leaders generate, and then act on insights from data to solve the key challenges of the public sector and support new opportunities for growth in private and third sectors. The senior advisor will also

Key responsibilities will include:
Strategy and programme development

• Design a Data & AI offer for TBI’s clients, including practical ways in which TBI can support governments to better use data and AI capabilities to set policy and strategy, as well as to deliver on their priorities.
• Ensure the global portfolio of D4DM projects is cohesive.
• Work closely with other GCS Leads to enable the broader Digital & Tech Transformation vision and cross-sector strategy (e.g. working with the Delivery practice to see how actionable insights can improve policy implementation in real time)
• Develop a repository of Data & AI assets to support advisory colleagues to engage in the offer and present it propositionally to current and new clients globally.
• Work closely with country teams, providing technical expertise and thought partnership to scope and design opportunities in support of countries’ top challenges, leveraging disruptive technology, generating innovative solutions, and framing them in a compelling way for political leaders
• Drawing from the thought leadership of the Policy & Politics team, identify and apply emerging data-related technologies – including AI – into a cohesive offer for governments.

External engagement and partnerships

• Develop and enhance our relationships with leading innovators, technology companies, implementation partners, and thought leaders in the Data & AI space, deepening our understanding of emerging innovation and improving our offer to governments
• In line with TBI’s partnerships strategy and the Tomorrow Partnership platform, help to identify, curate, and secure technology partnerships.
• Provide senior-level representation and presentations for TBI at external fora and events.
• Engage with relevant external stakeholders such as other not-for-profit organisations, donors, suppliers, and agencies.

Programmatic delivery

• Support country teams to maintain effective and trusted government relationships which enable the successful delivery of our Data for Decision Making projects. Where required develop relationships with relevant country counterparts and stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance to teams in supporting client governments to establish human capacity, policies, strategies, and structures required to utilise data to improve public sector delivery and outcomes
• Lead the development of assessment frameworks and other assets TBI teams can use with government counterparts to increase understanding of how to leverage the latest innovations such as AI or to inform decisions on data analytics tools more broadly.
• Work with Director for Digital and Tech Transformation and Advisory leadership to troubleshoot and ensure country teams can access the best of the Institute to support their work.

Enabling Systems

• Support the development of instructional and implementation material for both TBI country teams and government counterparts
• Work closely with the TBI Evidence and Impact teams to contribute to a learning culture which effectively captures and utilises lessons to continuously improve our work.
• Support country and regional teams as needed to attract and hire talent in support of our work, contributing to the recruitment, induction and support for new hires and mentoring and coaching where needed.
• Shape and embody a positive culture that drives innovation and delivery. Play a key role in the broader community at TBI, building strong working relationships across the Institute.

Person Specification
We are looking for an experienced Specialist in Public Sector Data Use and adoption of AI technologies with:

• Experience advising governments on advanced use of data, AI and other emerging technologies (the significance and enablers)
• Relevant experience leading or supporting data-driven decision-making process with senior political leaders, and deep understanding of how public sector systems work
• Ability to advise on AI regulatory frameworks and data policy foundations and regulations
• Demonstrated strategic thinker with the ability to deliver in challenging contexts
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with discretion and tact, and the ability to foster trusted relationships with a diverse selection of stakeholders
• Sensitivity to a broad range of cultural and regional norms
• Willingness to travel globally and up to approximately 30 percent.

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• The Senior Advisor, Digital Health is an important senior expert role within our global health anchor team in Global Client solutions. Working with the Director, Health you will develop, evolve, and cohere our solutions for leaders on digital health including, but not limited to, virtual care, improved use of data for patient care and policymaking, electronic health records, leveraging cutting edge trends in artificial intelligence on diagnostics and treatment, and harnessing the new opportunities digital technology is bringing to the health space through strategy, policy, and delivery.
• You will deliver globally-recognised, practical subject matter expertise to TBI country teams and political leaders which supports client discussions, new project design, and key deliverables ensuring we are bringing the best of TBI to our health work. To do so, you will need to engage collaboratively with other advisory colleagues and with our global Policy & Politics and Strategy & Partnerships Divisions to bring in bold solutions from our growing body of thought leadership, and to draw on evolving partnerships which enable us to support practical implementation of the solutions we propose.
• This role is largely client-facing and comes with significant international travel of approximately 30 percent.

Visa support provided for London and Abu Dhabi/Dubai.
Nairobi - RTW In Country Is Required.
Accra - Relocation will be considered for the successful candidate.
Key Responsibilities

• This is a senior role within TBI and will be held by an exceptional candidate with deep and extensive experience and relationships in the health and digital health sectors. Key responsibilities will include:

Offer and solution development

• Working with the Director, Health in GCS, develop, enhance, and continually evolve our offer strategy in digital health and health reform more broadly, including helping leaders solve key challenges in the cost and quality of care, create pathways for adoption of innovation, and improve citizens’ access to and experience of health services.
• Lead the creation and development of assets and collateral which help solve the problems governments face, supporting global and country teams to develop and deliver quality and impactful projects and complement your hands-on expert support.
• Identify and use knowledge of upcoming trends and opportunities to generate new solutions to enhance our support to senior political leaders, drawing from our Policy & Politics department and our wider technology anchor team and community of practice.
• Capture best practices from our growing portfolio of work to create an effective, but agile feedback loop for our solutions and offer, working with performance and impact teams.
• Work collaboratively with GCS colleagues across offer areas (functional and sectoral) to create solutions which respond to complex challenges and cut across single subject areas.

Subject matter expertise in client service

• As a technical expert and thought partner, work with global and country advisory teams to advance a portfolio of work on political leaders’ priorities in digital health.
• Generate innovative solutions to client problems and frame them in a compelling way.
• Engage with senior client stakeholders, i.e. Heads of State, Ministers, and other senior stakeholders, to advance projects and solutions.
• Support advisory leadership to provide high quality advice. Ideate, troubleshoot to ensure we are bringing the best of TBI to our work.
• Bring subject matter expertise to support recruitment of other health expertise across the organisation including in-country embedded advisors.

Internal leadership

• Provide leadership and line management as applicable to advisors, associates and junior staff in the Global Client Solutions team.
• Shape and embody a positive culture that drives innovation and delivery.
• Support wider Institute priorities and initiatives in the health space by feeding in practical recommendations and experience to our wider body of health work including the Global Health Security Consortium (GHSC), strategic partnership development, Future of Britain, and priority policy projects, working collaboratively across the Institute.

External engagement and partnerships

• Provide senior-level representation as a global subject matter expert, including presentations, for TBI at strategic, high-profile external fora and events.
• Working with Partnerships & Initiatives team, develop and enhance our network and relationships with leading health innovators and partners in the health space for better solutions relevant to political leaders.
• Bring subject matter expertise to engagement with key donors, external stakeholders such as other not-for-profit organisations, media, suppliers and agencies as required to support TBI financial health.

Person Specification
The postholder will be an experienced candidate:

• Deep practical experience in the health sector advising political leaders on complex challenges in digital health, or working in government, or other professional advisory firms.
• Practical expertise and grasp of emerging innovations and cutting-edge digital technologies in the health space and supporting leaders to harness them at scale.
• Who has a complete toolkit which enables you to identify creative solutions for complex challenges.
• With exceptional ability to create high quality written deliverables, including under tight deadlines.
• A thought leader able to represent the Institute on a global scale through publications and exclusive events.
• Effective leader and collaborative team member, not afraid to be hands-on and pull out all the stops to achieve exceptional results.
• Who is a skilled written and verbal communicator and influencer, from executive office level through to technical level, and is adept at speaking to senior client and internal leadership, including politicians.

Closing Date:
2024-01-21

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Role Summary

• The Senior Advisor, Digital Public Services, with the Director, Digital & Tech Transformation and the Sr. Advisor, Digital Government, will lead the evolution of TBI’s offer and solutions to help senior political leaders drive the transformation that will improve public service delivery and government operations. You will work in close collaboration with TBI country teams and our clients to lead scoping and partnership discussions, identifying areas of catalytic potential aligned with Head of State priorities.
• This is a crucial role for the Institute at the senior-most level of our expert track and will be held by an exceptional candidate with deep and extensive experience in digital government, public service, and senior political advisory. Travel is significant; expected approximately 30% of the time to work hands-on in support of teams delivering initiatives with senior political leaders and governments.

Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include:
Offer and solution development

• Offer Strategy: Develop, enhance, and continually evolve our offer strategy and solutions for our support to senior political leaders on topics of digital public services, working collaboratively with other senior experts to seamlessly integrate various aspects of digital transformation (e.g. Digital Identity, National Digital Infrastructure, Data for decision making, AI, etc.) into a comprehensive offer for Governments.
• Solution Development: Develop practical, implementable solutions, tools, frameworks, and models which enable and enhance our teams’ delivery. Proactively identify and translate insights from upcoming trends to generate new solutions to enhance our support to senior political leaders for digital public services.
• Best Practices: Galvanise the collection and sharing of lessons and best practices from across the portfolio and draw on and represent evolving global best practice leveraging your network and knowledge and working with Policy & Politics (P&P).

Subject matter expertise in client service

• Client Service: ~70 percent time dedicated to advancing client service priorities, ensuring we are bringing the best of TBI in digital government.
• Work collaboratively with regional and country leadership and their teams. Draw in and foster strong linkages between advisory, P&P, and Strategy & Partnerships teams (S&P).
• Scoping and opportunity development: identify opportunities, propose solutions to senior political leader priorities in improved public service and functioning of government, generate innovative solutions to client problems, and frame them in a compelling way.
• Delivery: Support teams to create viable project designs, delivery plans, as well as identify risks and challenges to implementation including digital readiness assessments, and suitable Government enterprise architectures.
• Government Relations: Support strengthening of client and senior government relationships as a trusted and reliable expert advisor in line with project strategies, positioning.

Internal leadership

• Internal Communications: support the Director Digital & Tech transformation to effectively capture and cascade key developments, successes, and learnings from our portfolio of work.
• Represent aggregate client need and opportunities to wider institute to ensure key stakeholders are able to work towards both client and institute priorities.
• Learning and Development: support the training and enablement of TBI country teams and wider institute to understand our offer and utilise tools and best practices to improve capacity and impact of our work.

External engagement and partnerships

• Thought leadership: Provide senior-level representation as a global subject matter expert, including presentations, for TBI at strategic, high-profile external fora and events.
• Partnerships: Working with S&P, develop and enhance our network with leading innovators and implementation partners in the digital government space for wider client impact.
• Business development: Bring subject matter expertise to conversations with key donors, clients, and income opportunities as required to support TBI financial health .

Person Specification
Required Experience & skills:

• Significant experience in consulting, government, or government advisory related to digital transformation and delivery of digital government and public service provision
• Experience in developing a digital strategy, services, or digitalisation effort, with understanding of requirements to establish an interoperable data exchange layer that connects all services (i.e. broader enterprise architecture vision, with interoperability rules and norms & standards for open data)
• Familiarity with the policies and regulations needed to foster and enable technology transformation for the public good and the ability to make recommendations and propose specific solutions to senior political leaders (e.g., data privacy, data sovereignty)
• Experience in project identification and strategy development, preferably in the tech sector, or linked to government advisory
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a wide range of government and non-government actors, including the private sector and development partners
• Effective communicator able to effectively convey complex or technical topics to senior political leaders or nontechnical parties.
• Bold thinker equipped to be a thought partner and peer to cutting-edge technology companies as well as government leaders to think towards the future of innovation
• Able to work independently, whilst drawing on expertise from colleagues globally
• Outstanding management skills and the proven ability to build and inspire teams to achieve exceptional objectives and contribute directly to outcomes hands-on
• Experience in developing and emerging economies, and sensitivity to a diverse range of cultural and regional norms.
• Willingness to travel internationally ~30 percent
• Proficient in the use of key Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and able to represent complex, technical ideas in easy to understand and compelling ways
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English, proficiency in another language is an asset

Closing Date:
2023-12-23