We are looking for a a Senior Delivery Advisor with extensive experience in our CoGD (Centre of Government and Delivery) practice central team. The role will primarily support our in-country TBI advisors, partner governments, and other key stakeholders on strengthening CoGD delivery in Africa. The candidate will drive implementation of our work in the 16+ countries we work in.
This is a senior role requiring an exceptional candidate with relevant expertise, deep networks with governments, development and technical partners active in centre of governments in Africa.
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Delivery Advisor
The CoGD Practice provides technical leadership and support to TBI’s work with governments in Africa, and the application of our delivery methodology. Our mission is to be a centre of excellence for learning and innovation on CoGD effectiveness. The team supports TBI’s embedded advisory work in 16+ countries in Africa. The practice team supports:
- quality assurance and training;
- the mainstreaming of context-appropriate tech and non-tech;
- and the development of productive partnerships to facilitate cross–country learning and exchange; and our engagement in the global debate on effective government in low income and emerging countries.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Regional Directors and Country Heads in CoGD project scoping and setup
- Lead socio-economic scoping exercises and develop a clear understanding of governments’ overarching vision, implementation challenges and opportunities
- Lead diagnosis of centre of government capability and key drivers to deliver on governments’ national development priorities
- Facilitate high level discussions with senior government counterparts on TBI’s support areas and jointly define and agree on TBI’s scope of work through the available options to ensure delivery
- Coordinate capacity building efforts for CoGD counterparts, including implementing the establishment of institutions
- Capacity Strengthening and Quality Assurance:
- Provide thought partnership and strategic advisory support to Regional Directors, Country Heads and Advisors
- Provide high impact advisory support to country teams to help projects ensure end to end impact
- Demand-led implementation of delivery and centre of government training, delivery labs and other delivery tools
- Support the product development of our CoGD offering in areas like delivery, strategy and policy, strategic communications and international relations
- Assess existing capability gaps and support project teams to build the capacity of centres of government to effectively implement their transformation agenda, including technological transformational initiatives
- Strengthening and innovating our product offering
- Work with the Technology for Development (T4D) team to design centre of government and delivery tech offerings fit for the digital age
- Work closely with the T4D team to integrate e-government and T4D into our CoGD approach, while ensuring our e-government efforts remain anchored to our CoGD and Delivery model
- Work with other the sector practice leads (e.g. industrialisation) to strengthen our CoGD offering when a sectoral lens is required.
- Business development and partnerships
- Support fundraising efforts in collaboration with the Fundraising Team, Regional Directors, Country Heads and other sectoral team leads for our CoGD offering to governments
- Identify and scope business development opportunities
- Support the development of relationships with strategic partners, both existing and potential
- Maintain intelligence on market needs, competition and market gaps
- Contribution to TBI’s Broader Mission
- Contribute to wider TBI activities
- Quickly become a valued and supportive team member of the Africa Advisory team on matters of CoGD
- Support the Centre of Government and Delivery Lead in overall strategy development and implementation, thought leadership and management of the practice team.
Person Specification
This is a role in a fast paced virtual team working out of different geographies and in complex policy areas. We are looking for someone with a proven track record of leadership and delivery in the public or private sectors, who can demonstrate the following:
- Extensive experience in a leadership role, cutting across centre of government, governance, delivery and management consulting in Africa
- Ability to work and interact at the highest levels of political decision-making structures in Governments and to support the emergence of trusted relationships
- Strong political acumen and able to rapidly develop an understanding of the needs of senior officials
- Highly developed analytical skills that can be deployed in a range of contexts
- The ability to work in the face of a range of competing views and priorities, possessing highly-developed negotiation skills
- Exceptional communication, drafting and presentation skills
- Be a strong team player with excellent soft skills as well as flexibility to help where needed
- An ability to work independently, think strategically and translate strategies into concrete and implementable plans; an acute attention to detail, as well as organisational and communication skills
- Proven ability and experience leading and managing people and teams
- Experience with project development and project management
- Able to motivate and influence others, including TBI country specific roles, as well as funders, government counterparts and partners
- Willingness to travel extensively, sometimes at short notice, in particular to TBI’s countries of operation in Africa
- Strong sense of ethics, discretion and perseverance required
- Experience of living and working in developing countries is strongly desirable
- Fluency in English is required. Fluency in French is desirable