Senior Advisor – Data-Driven Government NGO Job Tony Blair

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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.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Design and implementation of data governance and infrastructure: Advise governments on national data governance, including strategies, architecture, standards, and interoperability (i.e. broader enterprise architecture vision, with interoperability rules and norms & standards for open data).
• Policy advisory: Provide expert input on the ethical and secure use of data for service design and delivery, economic development, and digital government reform.
• Capacity building and institutional strengthening: Support the development of internal data capabilities, including upskilling civil servants and strengthening data governance mechanisms.
• Insight generation and analytics: Work with public institutions to turn raw data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and operational improvement.
• Stakeholder coordination: Advise on how to facilitate collaboration across ministries, departments, and development partners to align data-related initiatives and infrastructure.
• Delivery support: Apply TBI’s delivery model to help governments turn strategy into action, using data to monitor and drive implementation.

The Senior Advisor will be responsible for :

Strategy and programme development

• Design the advisory services needed to strengthen governments’ capacity to establish the enabling foundations and use data for decision making and service delivery as part of TBI’s tech offer to governments, including practical ways in which TBI can support governments to better use data to set policy and strategy, deliver on priorities and design and deliver more proactive and personalized public services. This will include assessing and adjusting existing data governance models, as well as change management as governments create new data-driven cultures and capabilities.
• Work closely with other GCS advisors and relevant colleagues across TBI to enable TBI’s broader Digital and Tech Transformation vision and cross-functional strategy (e.g. working with the Delivery Team to see how actionable insights can improve policy implementation in real time, with the AI and DID senior advisors to support governments in increasing the availability of quality data).
• Work closely with TBI’s embedded country teams, providing technical expertise and thought partnership to scope and design opportunities in support of countries’ top challenges, leveraging disruptive technology (e.g. AI), digital identity/digital wallets, generating innovative solutions, connecting to related agendas (e.g. cloud strategy and public sector innovation), 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.

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