{"id":77099,"date":"2022-11-23T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=77099"},"modified":"2022-11-23T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T16:01:22","slug":"tony-blair-institute-for-global-change-new-jobs-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/tony-blair-institute-for-global-change-new-jobs-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair Institute for Global Change New Jobs 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you passionate about the possibilities of transforming government, public services, and economies through the power of technology? Do you have experience consulting or working with senior political leaders and government in the tech sector, driving systemic and transformative change?<\/p>\n<p>At the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), we work at the highest levels of government to help leaders go further and faster to make their citizens\u2019 lives better. Moving the dial on the great global challenges of our time requires engaged, focused, and motivated leaders. When political leadership is relentlessly deployed, at the highest levels, incredible things can be achieved. Using our distinctive expertise and global outlook, our expert advisors and embedded teams advise governments all over the world in strategy, policy, and delivery, underpinned by technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title: User Design Advisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TBI\u2019s growing technology transformation advisory offer and The Tomorrow Partnership support senior political leaders to harness the power of the technological revolution for national transformation across sectors including health, government services, digital identity, agriculture, education, and climate. It is supported by cutting-edge insights from our Technology Public Policy team and through collaboration with leading players in the global technology space.<\/p>\n<p>To support a growing portfolio of work in digital government across Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and beyond, TBI is seeking a User Design Advisor, to join our central team supporting TBI country teams and senior political leaders harnessing digital and technology transformation to improve government and public services.<\/p>\n<p>The role of User Design Advisor offers the unique opportunity to support TBI\u2019s tech transformation work across the global portfolio you will advise our country teams in the application of user design principles and directly support and contribute to improving key documents for initial design and delivery. Given our focus, the user in question is largely the citizen, as well as those across government where process and behavior change need to be part of the design from the outset. This work is envisioned to be internally and externally facing and will require direct collaboration with government client counterparts and technology partner companies with whom TBI is working to design and deliver initiatives. In other instances, you will need to advise and equip TBI country teams to engage stakeholders on UX\/CX requirements. As such, an ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and partners is crucial and a willingness to travel globally is required.<\/p>\n<p>When not directly supporting the initial design and delivery in partnership with country teams, you will work with other specialists in our Global Client Solutions Team, which houses our tech and sectoral expertise, to continuously improve our offers, tools, and frameworks and contribute to knowledge creation and learning culture around the user and citizen experience in technology transformation for the public good.<\/p>\n<p>This role requires an exceptional candidate who brings a breadth of experience in government technology and digital transformation, advisory on user-design projects, and an understanding of progressive policy. The ideal candidate brings strong people and communication skills, and a stop-at-nothing attitude to support the growth and ambition of this program. You\u2019re a calculated risk taker, a true team player, and a practical optimist, and you belief in the power of technology to transform the world for equitable good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The key responsibilities of this role will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use evidence- and context-based design to support TBI country teams (Country Heads, Heads of Tech, and their teams) in the integration and application of user design requirements in initiative design from initial scoping through to start-up<\/li>\n<li>Build user\/citizen-centered practices in TBI teams and government clients to improve the initial design and delivery<\/li>\n<li>Develop guidance and best practices that help teams understand user experience and design to ensure initiatives designed and technology solutions selected keep the user and citizen at the center of design and delivery<\/li>\n<li>In collaboration with Country Teams, Global Innovation Unit, Global Client Solutions Tech team, and technology partners, support improved design, prototyping, and piloting of relevant solutions to solve government priority challenges<\/li>\n<li>In collaboration with the GIU team, drive Client Services provision of prototyping, either outcomes or programs by understanding synergies and parameters<\/li>\n<li>Align user research activities with wider sectoral offers and ensure TBI\u2019s technology offers to governments meet the needs of end-users<\/li>\n<li>As required, travel to countries to provide deep-dive support to Country Teams and their governments at critical junctions of design and development that would benefit from your UX lens<\/li>\n<li>Advise leadership on the UX considerations or challenges experienced in our initiatives to improve program design and product requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Person Specification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The successful candidate should demonstrate the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience as an advisor or project manager in a consulting firm, foundation\/NGO, or private sector organization with significant experience in user experience design and research<\/li>\n<li>Experience helping organizations understand the diversity of users of government services and building inclusive practices that deliver accessible digital services; experience advising senior political leaders and government teams delivering digital transformation is a plus<\/li>\n<li>Experience with international development, public sector advisory, and technology for development contexts is highly desired<\/li>\n<li>Demonstratable strength in agile project management, structured problem solving, top-down communication, and portfolio thinking<\/li>\n<li>Excellent communication skills, from the executive office and ministerial levels through to the technical level, and who is adept at speaking to senior leadership, knows how to navigate ambiguous environments, and is comfortable at managing up and beyond the hierarchy<\/li>\n<li>Ability to distill complex insights into easily usable formats to translate user experience principles to a wide variety of stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Direct experience working in LMICs is highly desired and strong cross-cultural communication skills required<\/li>\n<li>Experience in working in entrepreneurial and matrixed environments and is comfortable working in ambiguity while closely collaborating with global functional and geographic teams<\/li>\n<li>Who commits to business objectives and pulls out the stops to make sure they are always met<\/li>\n<li>Relevant language skills for TBIs regions of work are a bonus (French, Portuguese, Balkan languages, Bahasa, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About The Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization. We exist to equip political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive, and prosperous societies. We work hard, every day, to make a difference. When governments work well they are able to create economic and social change in a way that promotes fairness, social justice, and opportunity. We work relentlessly to support leaders and governments with the challenges they face. Giving them practical solutions and actionable insights, that once implemented, can be transformative for their people<\/p>\n<p>We do this within two connected divisions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Government Advisory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Government Advisory teams work directly with political leaders and governments around the world to implement reforms that improve the lives of their citizens. It works with a variety of partners and its outputs cover a range of disciplines and projects across countries in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy Futures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Policy Futures work encompasses three broad areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renewing the Centre: developing a bold and innovative domestic policy program to help renew the center ground of British politics;<\/li>\n<li>Tech and Public Policy: exploring the policy challenges and opportunities presented by the technological revolution; and<\/li>\n<li>Extremism Policy Unit: creating solutions designed to tackle the threat of extremist ideologies in the UK and around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an organization, the core beliefs we all embrace are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open and Progressive: you\u2019ll believe in the value of teamwork<\/li>\n<li>Bold and Pragmatic: you\u2019ll approach everything you do with integrity and authenticity<\/li>\n<li>Optimistic Changemaker: you\u2019ll be focused on results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TBI believes embracing diversity and inclusion makes us a better place to work. It\u2019s our goal to reflect everyone in society and we actively welcome applications from individuals and groups who are under-represented in the workplace. We celebrate differences be it ethnicity, religion, age, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. We will only ever assess you on your abilities and fit for a role. We\u2019re happy to discuss any adjustments you need to ensure a level playing field during recruitment and, if you\\\u2019re successful, discuss any adjustments you might need to thrive in your role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you passionate about the possibilities of transforming government, public services, and economies through the power of technology? 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