Consultant / Manager

**About us**:
Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.

**Global Government Advisory Practice**

Access Partnership works with governments and multilateral institutions across the world to design, implement, and measure the impact of digital and tech-related policy and regulation. Blending technical and public policy expertise with in-depth industry insights we ensure that policy is innovative, impactful, and contributes to solving major public policy questions. Specifically, the practice focuses on:

- public policy and regulatory design for governments;
- programme strategy, design, and implementation for international donors and multilateral banks and other global institutions; and
- campaigns at multilateral institutions.
- Past and current clients include:_ governments in the Asia-Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO), Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), USAID, the ASEAN Secretariat, the APEC Secretariat, and the UN’s International Telecommunications Union**.**

**What you can expect to be doing**:
Leading small project teams, managing larging project teams, or working as an experienced individual contributor on larger, cross-functional teams, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality work that exceeds client expectations. You will build strong client relationships identify new opportunities and contribute to account growth. It is expected that you will develop a personal, expert brand, representing the expertise of yourself and the company at conferences and external events where opportunities arise.
- **Client**: You research client needs, policies, and trends to create targeted materials, proposals, and presentations. Your insights help the team offer relevant solutions, build client trust, and win work.
- **Technical and Industry Expertise**: You analyse issues using critical thinking and research, adding insight beyond the data to shape stronger recommendations. Your curiosity about digital transformation, digital ID, digital finance, AI and emerging technologies, as well as the important role of public policy deepens the team’s understanding of our clients, their mandates and improves our strategic advice.
- **Project Delivery**: You deliver high-quality work backed by strong research, analysis, and writing. You flag potential issues early, helping the team stay on track and meet client expectations.
- **Collaboration and Initiative/Leadership**:You work effectively in a team and across practices and clients, clearly sharing ideas and updates. You proactively offer to support work across the business and learn from feedback and experience.

You will have expertise or interest in digital transformation and public policy, as well as a passion to work with our clients on real-world problems to deliver tangible impact. You will also be intellectually curious and be keen to work on challenges at the intersection of public policy, technology, international affairs and/or economics.

**Research and Analysis**
- Keeping abreast of tech policy trends at a national, regional, and multilateral level.
- Keeping up-to-date with new programmatic approaches and the spending priorities of our core public sector clients.
- Undertaking desktop research, including structured literature reviews and meta-analysis.
- Support stakeholder consultations by preparing briefs, developing interview guides, taking detailed notes, and helping to synthesise key findings.

**Communications**
- Undertaking effective written and verbal communications with stakeholders of varying seniority, primarily internal stakeholders, but being able to constructively engage with external stakeholders together with senior team members.

**Teamwork**
- Maintaining a curious mindset and being unafraid to ask the right questions, particularly among internal stakeholders.
- Being a strong team player, by always proactively asking where you can support the team, and how you can be a better team player.
- Proactively driving your own professional development, as well as contributing to the development of technical expertise of your immediate team by readily sharing new experiences.

**Operational Excellence**
- Adhering to established workflows and processes to ensure efficiency of delivery and suggesting areas for improvement.
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