Senior Advisor, Delivery

**Key responsibilities for the role include**:
**1. Provide expert hands-on support to Global advisory regional leadership (e.g. Managing, Regional Directors, Country Directors in Delivery projects scoping and setup primarily in Asia**
- Lead delivery scoping exercises and develop a clear understanding of governments’ overarching vision, implementation challenges and opportunities
- Lead diagnosis of implementation capability and key drivers to deliver on senior leaders’ national development priorities
- Facilitate high level discussions with senior government counterparts on TBI’s support areas and jointly define and agree on TBI’s scope of work, and work through the available options to ensure delivery
- Help TBI teams determine the appropriate Delivery mechanisms and solutions suitable to the client context and best practices

**2. Quality assurance and thought partnership**
- Provide Delivery expertise, thought partnership and advisory support to Regional Directors, Country Directors and Advisors on their workstream plans, drive top performance, and effective resource planning for delivery projects and supporting new delivery unit set-up or refresh
- Provide sound thought partnership support to country teams to help projects ensure end to end impact of TBI client work in Delivery and draw from best of TBI
- Assess existing capability gaps and support project teams to build capacity of governments to effectively implement their transformation agenda, including technological transformational initiatives

**3. Strengthening and innovating our Delivery Offer and solutions**
- Identify game changers and lead creative, context specific processes to push the frontier on delivery solutions
- Champion and directly support the design, operationalization and mainstreaming, and adaptation of new delivery solutions in various contexts. 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)
- Ensure feedback loops between the implementation of our delivery offer with areas like strategy, policy, strategic communications and private office functions
- Work with other the sectoral team (e.g. Economic Prosperity) to strengthen our delivery offering when a sectoral lens is required

**4. External Engagement and partnerships**
- Lead establishment and maintenance of productive partnerships which enhance our offer and solutions in Delivery with a focus on the Asia region
- Support TBI as a visible expert on government Delivery in the region includes participating on panels, and working with our Policy & Politics team on thought leadership publications

**5. Contribution to wider TBI**
- Contribute to wider TBI activities as an expert on government Delivery and political leadership driving cross-TBI collaboration
- Participate in the Political leadership internal community of practice which connects our experts and coordinates across our 3 primary departments Strategy & Partnerships, Policy & politics, and government advisory
- Support the Director Delivery in overall strategy development and implementation, and thought leadership
- Broad and comprehensive experience in government Delivery and political leadership including experience leading a Delivery Unit and/or supporting the set-up of Delivery Units in multiple countries with demonstrable success in achieving tangible outcomes for citizens
- Extensive experience in a leadership role, cutting across centre of government, delivery, and/or management consulting globally
- Strong political acumen able to work at highest levels of political decision-making structures; able to rapidly understand of the needs of senior officials; and to support the emergence of trusted relationships
- Highly developed analytical skills that can be deployed in a range of contexts
- The ability to work in the face of a range of competing views and priorities, possessing highly developed negotiation skills
- Strong team player with excellent soft skills as well as flexibility to help where needed
- Ability to work independently, think strategically and translate priorities into concrete implementable plans
- Strong attention to detail, organisational, communication, drafting and presentation skills
- Experience with project development and project management
- Able to motivate and influence others, including TBI country specific roles, as well as funders, government counterparts and partners
- Willingness to travel extensively, sometimes at short notice; Experience of living and working in a variety of resource settings is strongly desirable
- Strong sense of ethics, discretion and perseverance required
- Fluency in English is required. Business Proficiency in another language of the