Senior Advisor – Digital Public Services & Digital Transformation at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Role Summary
One major challenge is the increasing cost to run
government, coupled with decreasing quality of public services. It is
unsustainable for citizens to pay higher taxes while getting less in return.
Technology can help break this cycle – not just improving, but fundamentally
redesigning Government to enable a more efficient, data-driven, and agile
State. Technology offers the opportunity to rethink the processes within the
public sector, and the design and delivery of public services. If leveraged
successfully, technology and data can increase governments’ agility and make
public services more inclusive, proactive and personalized.
The Senior Advisor, for Digital Government and Public
Services will contribute to the evolution of TBI’s tech offer, supporting
senior political leaders with the transformational solutions to 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 level of our advisory expert track and will be held by
an exceptional candidate with deep and extensive experience in digital
government, public services, 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
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 government, digital transformation, 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.
- Tech
Solution Development: Maintain relentless focus on developing
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 transformation and digital
public services. Contribute to the establishment of partnerships with
private vendors for the co-development of tech solutions to address the
needs of our clients.
- 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% of time dedicated to advancing client service
priorities, ensuring we are bringing the best of TBI in digital government
and service design and delivery.
- Work
collaboratively with regional and country leadership and their teams. Draw
in and foster strong linkages between advisory, partnerships and policy
work.
- Scoping
and opportunity development: identify opportunities, propose solutions
to senior political leader priorities to improve public service and the
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.
- Internal
leadership
- Internal
Communications: support the Director for Government Innovation
and AI to effectively capture and cascade key developments, successes, and
learnings from our portfolio of work to inform the development of TBI tech
offer in line with clients evolving needs and demands.
- Demand
and Offer: Represent aggregate client need and opportunities to
wider institute to enable key stakeholders 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.
- Products
development: work closely with the AI Incubator to ensure that
products development responds to clients’ demands and leads to products
that can be scaled.
- 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: contribute
to develop and enhance our network with the private sector, 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
- Significant
experience in government, or government advisory, related to digital
transformation and delivery of digital government and innovative public
services design and delivery.
- Experience
in developing and implementing a digital government strategy, or driving
digitalization efforts in the public sector, or establishing a vision and
framework to leverage data and technology to innovate service design and
delivery (e.g., fostering data interoperability for sharing and reuse,
adopting UX service design).
- Familiarity
with the policies and regulations needed to foster and enable technology
deployment and adoption in the public sector and ability to make
recommendations and propose specific solutions to senior political leaders
to ensure safeguard in the interest of the public good (e.g., data
privacy, data sovereignty).
- Experience
in identification of project opportunities 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.
- Excellent
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 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.
- Excellent
collaboration skills and strong team-player mindset.
- Strong
diplomatic skills
Associate, Systems and Reporting at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Role Summary
The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry aims to
promote and facilitate new investments in Kenya through the Kenya Investment
Authority (KenInvest). KenInvest is a statutory body established in 2004
under the Investment Promotion Act No. 6 of 2004 whose mandate is to promote
and facilitate domestic and foreign investments in Kenya. KenInvest
as an Investment Promotion Agency has established a one-stop facilitation and
acceleration mechanism to support sector specific Investments as well as build
capacity for accelerating strategic deals.
TBI is providing embedded advisory support to the KenInvest
CEO to establish, operationalise, and deliver impact through a new KenInvest
Deal Room. The KenInvest deal room will accelerate strategic private and public
sector investments that require government support offering a coordination,
agile problem solving, escalation and deal actualisation support.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) seeks one
exceptional candidate to serve as Delivery Associate 0 systems and reporting
within the newly operational KenInvest Deal Room of Kenya Investment
Authority. Kenya Investment Authority (KenInvest) is a statutory body
established in 2004 under the Investment Promotion Act No. 6 of 2004 within the
Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry (MITI) that promotes and
facilitates domestic and foreign investments in Kenya. This position is a key delivery
leadership role tasked with driving strategic green and non-green investment
projects to deal close, implementation, and aftercare.
TBI is providing embedded advisory support to the KenInvest
CEO to establish, operationalise, and deliver impact through a new KenInvest
Deal Room. Reporting to the Deal Room Director, the Delivery Associate- Systems
and reporting will develop the investment pipeline tracking, escalation and
coordination tools that will support problem solving and coordination for the
deal room and key stakeholders. This role is pivotal to KenInvest in the
development of tools for tracking, escalation and analysis pivotal for
operational routines that lead to investment acceleration into deals.
This role provides the opportunity to shape the frontlines
of Kenya’s economic transformation, delivering real-world impact by moving
high-stakes deals from concept to reality.
Key Responsibilities
1.System Development and Digital enablement
- In
collaboration with KENINVEST deal room, analyse the business need for the
deal room and recommend the best fit solution.
- Design
in collaboration with the deal room director and oversee the
implementation of digital tools for investment pipeline management and
deal room operations.
- Incorporate
emerging technologies (i.e AI) in the system design to process diverse
data sources and simplify workflows.
- Support
investment tracking platforms and ensure accessibility, user-centric
design and security of the deal room tools
- Support
integration and interoperability of system tools with other government
data sources and stakeholder platforms or user interfaces
2. Reporting and Analytics
- Support
the deal room director on dashboard design and iteration exercises to
align with pre-agreed KPI’s, documented bottleneck and deal progression
stages
- Generate
real-time insights from system data to support strategic decision making
for deal room operations, cross-functional coordination with deal owners
(sector leads) and Technical Investment Committee preparedness
- Prepare
routine and on-demand analytical reports for key internal stakeholders and
relevant public sector actors for active strategic deals in project mode
- Coordinate
with Pipeline managers and analysts at the deal room to ensure consistent
data
3.Operational Coordination
- Support
coordination of cross government tasks teams by availing up to date data
and system status reports
- Ensure
consistent data input for effective pipeline management such as clear
escalation paths and targeted interventions
4. Capacity Building and Knowledge Management
- Train
KenInvest and deal room staff on use of new digital tools and system
including ad-hock iterations that support deal room coordination with key
stakeholders.
- Document
system operational routines, user guides and workflows
- Support
delivery culture formation through continuous collecting of user feedback
and adaptation to deal room tools
Competencies
- Outcome
focused and agile project and people management capabilities; creative and
resourceful problem-solver with a can-do attitude
- Strong
analytical skills, including great comfort with business financials and
data
- Business
acumen: a good understanding of private sector, quick to comprehend
industry dynamics and trends
- Strong
written & spoken communication skills: able to produce high-quality
reports and executive level presentations.
Experience
- Relevant
background in digital transformation and performance management with
minimum of 5 years work experience
- Experience
in digital tools design, development, roll-out and training support for
human-centric technology projects.
Reporting
- The
delivery Associate will report directly to the deal room director and
administratively with the project lead and country director oversight.
- The
consultant should finalize their workplan within 10 days of starting, with
support from the deal room director and TBI technical and delivery team.
- The
consultant is expected to provide weekly updates during the delivery team
meetings, keeping the team informed about their progress and any
challenges or issues they may encounter. They will use the tools provided
for the project e.g., trackers and presentation templates.
- Consultant
will attend meetings and program activities of the institute to foster
institutional knowledge transfer and cross program learning across the
institute
- Additionally,
the consultant will prepare monthly progress reports for the program lead,
summarizing their achievements, milestones reached, and any
recommendations or insights they have gained.
- Towards
the end of the consultant’s term, they will be responsible for sharing
comprehensive hand-over notes. These notes should include lessons learned
from their support during the duration of the project, along with any
relevant supporting documentation that will facilitate a smooth transition
for future activities or team members.
Closing Date: 08-09-2025
Graduate Associate Intern at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Role Summary
We are hiring for the Graduate Associate Intern – Finance,
this is a role in a fast-paced team, working within complex divisions that are
highly scrutinised.
Therefore, the successful candidate for the role should be
able to display the majority of the following:
- Bank
and Cash Reconciliations: Ensure timely reconciliations of TBI bank
accounts both UK and overseas including petty cash/foreign currencies/ in
country trackers/credit cards/prepaid card.
- Liaise
with bankers for queries and resolve discrepancies, e.g., payment queries.
- Supplier
Invoice Processing: Process supplier invoices in the accounting systems
accurately and efficiently including check authorisations and prepare
payments to suppliers in accordance with relevant TBI policies & KYC
process.
- Supplier
Account Reconciliation: Reconcile all supplier accounts regularly to
resolve any discrepancies.
- Review
creditor’s aging report regularly for timely payment processing.
- Process
required payments ensuring correct authorisations.
- Ensure
all entries are posted with the correct VAT coding.
- Manage
your own workload to meet team deadlines for month end and offer support
to other team members.
- Review
receipts, accuracy of accounting recording and process staff expenses
reports in accordance with TBI expenses policy.
- Compliance
and Regulations: Ensure compliance with finance polies and procedures and
assist with audit by providing relevant documentations and explanations.
- Collaboration
with finance team and other departments to address financial concerns and
provide support.
- Other
duties including filing of financial records/data accurately.
- Any
reasonable duties required by the Financial Manager or wider Finance team.
Know-How:
- Ensuring
detailed knowledge of finance processes, policies and procedures
- Ensuring
clear communication is provided to stakeholders.
- Ensuring
up to date with the Institute’s structure, especially in relations to the
allocation of costs and a clear understanding of the importance of donor
funded projects
- Strong
understanding of finance systems and tools, ensuring all relevant training
is up to date.
Accountability:
- Ensure
expenditures are posted accurately with relevant supporting approval
documentation.
- Prepare
the suppliers/staff expense payments within the payments run cycles.
- Timely
reconciliation of bank statements each day.
- Proactively
follow-up on late submissions and/or incomplete information (e.g.,
unallocated receipts)
- Full
ownership of all Finance entries and administration e.g., reconciled
creditor accounts.
Responsibility:
- Build
relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure
information is shared effectively and collaboratively.
- Informed
challenges of details on invoices with internal stakeholders/suppliers for
details which do not appear correct e.g., VAT codes.
- Embracing
global finance team, supporting all team members when needed.
- Ad hoc
pieces of work or projects as required by Financial Manager or Finance
Leadership team.
Judgement:
- Anticipate
and mitigate any concerns or risks appropriately and escalate where
necessary.
- Ability
to challenge others if you perceive a decision to be incorrect or damaging
to TBI.
Ownership/ambition:
- Contributing
to overall Finance OKRs
- Influence
process change within and out of your region.
- Be an
ambassador for work that the Institute undertakes.
- Help
shape best practice guidelines and methodology for Finance processes.
- Model
& maintain TBI Core Values – Courageous, Collaborative &
Compassionate.
Person Specification
- A
qualification in a finance background or equivalent demonstratable
experience, and fundamental knowledge and understanding of accountancy.
- Experience
of general accounting – e.g., Debit vs Credit entries, Purchase Ledger,
Reconciliations, accruals, and prepayments.
- Excellent
Microsoft Excel skills required.
- Excellent
attention to detail and strong organisational skills
- A
collaborative and supportive team-player, with demonstrable experience in
working as part of a team.
- Great
interpersonal skills – able to establish good cross departmental working
relationships.
- Great
time management skills.
- Ability
to articulate verbally and by written presentation, and toto express
complex ideas in a clear and straightforward way.
- Demonstrate
the ability to prioritise against tight deadlines.
- Customer
service/experience focused – flexible & adaptable approach
- A
flexible approach – you’ll be open to taking on unfamiliar tasks and
learning new skills.
- Enthusiastic,
self-driven, ambitious, and always seeking continuous improvement.
- Experience
of the demands of working within a growing business advantageous.
- Understanding
of local financial regulations and compliance requirements.
- Experience
of working with Workday System is beneficial.
- Demonstrate
discretion working with sensitive information.
A keen interest in our work as an Institute, expansion and
sharing of knowledge and personal development
Closing Date:2025-08-14