Delivery Advisor at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Leveraging and strengthening Delivery expertise
• Manage and nurture Community of Practice programme on delivery with embedded delivery advisors and colleagues with high fluency on delivery
• Lead internal capacity building and training efforts, including through established research and knowledge-based partnerships
• Train Country Directors and in-country advisors on all TBI’s delivery products, methodologies and tools
• Engage with network of internal and external experts to support a series of talks and events (e.g., fireside chats) on delivery

Specialised hands-on support to country teams for delivery project scoping and set up

• Support delivery scoping exercises and government delivery needs assessments, in line with global best practices and TBI’s proprietary delivery framework
• Provide expert delivery support and surge capacity, especially during inception, planning and early operationalisation phases – includes delivery assessment reports, delivery labs, stocktake meeting preparation, progress reports, delivery sprints
• Ensure standardised use and application of TBI’s delivery framework and offer across the globe, and update guidelines as needed
• Support implementation of quality assurance processes for TBI’s delivery offer
• Follow a metrics-based approach to identify risks, problem-solving and learning during implementation – make recommendations for course-correction as needed
• Support coordination of capacity building efforts on delivery for TBI’s counterparts, including implementing institutions

Pushing the frontier – innovating on delivery

• Explore and reimagine delivery with creative solutions addressing specific needs of TBI’s government counterparts
• Support the design and operationalisation of TBI’s new delivery offer. This includes but not limited to data-driven prioritization (e.g., data analytics for granular targeting), combining design thinking, behavioral insights and data science with delivery planning tools (e.g., delivery labs and sprints), and clear line of sight and tools to scaling up results (e.g., pay-for-success contracts, outcome funds, results-based financing)
• Develop joint delivery frameworks with other advisory sectoral practices (e.g. e-government, digital ID, Agri-food) and global innovation team
• Contribute to developing, piloting and rolling-out new/innovative toolkits, templates, and ways of working (tech and non-tech)

Partnerships

• Support establishment of partnerships through ensuring TBI’s proprietary delivery methodology, impact on the ground, and strategic priorities are well reflected in the program of work
• Support mechanisms to use knowledge resources and new capabilities resulting from partnerships into TBI’s operations with country teams and practices
• Liaise with partnerships and MEL team to contribute to reporting mechanisms (e.g., data collection, preparation of reports to financiers if need be

Contribution to wider TBI

• Contribute to wider TBI corporate activities
• Quickly become a valued and supportive team member of the GCS team, clearly linking strategy, policy and technology with delivery
• Support the Director Delivery in overall strategy development and implementation

Person Specification

This is a role in a fast-paced virtual team working out of different geographies and in complex policy areas. The successful candidate will build effective trusting relationships, and help shape and influence change through project teams and in the governments. With a knowledge of delivery principles and processes, the postholder will have a grounding in business development and programme management.

Successful candidates for the role should be able to display the following:

• Significant experience in government delivery functions, management consulting or programme/project management. Experience working in a government delivery mechanism is essential and experience with adaptive management techniques such as Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation
• A proven track record of developing frameworks and tools, process quality improvement and standardisation in addition to relevant experience of working in a project and programme environment
• Familiarity with capacity-building program development would be valuable
• High quality communication, drafting and presentation skills are essential, including in power point. Graphic design skills are an advantage
• Ability to develop and implement tools at different levels of complexity, including professional knowledge management tools and the tools of the Microsoft 365 environment
• Be a strong team player with excellent soft skills as well as flexibility to help where needed
• Highly developed analytical skills that can be deployed in a range of contexts
• Willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice
• Prior experience working with or for governments would be an added advantage
• Fluency in English is required (oral and written). French is valuable.