Senior Manager

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Role Summary

leaders and governments on strategy, policy and delivery, with technology as an enabler across all three functions. In so doing we make a significant and positive impact on citizens around the world.

The Senior Manager will support our growing project portfolio (both in-country or support from our UAE hub), business development activities and horizontal offerings of expertise to our clients.

These are exciting roles requiring exceptional candidates with relevant experience and competencies.

We would consider supporting applicants not currently based in or with a right to work in the UAE to relocate for this role

Key Responsibilities

Senior Managers possess the following accountabilities:

• Management of discrete pieces of client deliverables and operational client relationships occupying the role of middle manager between the Project Director and junior team of Managers and Associates
• Ownership of content/insight development using best-in-class approaches to research, analyses and written syntheses
• Integration and synthesis of written inputs into the development of complex documents in PPT and Word
• Apprenticeship of junior colleagues (i.e. Associate and Manager) in the core advisory skill-set and key software tools (i.e. Microsoft Office suits, incl. Excel)
• Co-ownership of performance evaluations of junior project colleagues (i.e. at Associate and Manager level)
• Engagement and co-leadership of business/practice building activities targeted at making TBI a more efficient, effective and attractive place to work for all TBIers
• The Senior Manager will be accountable to the Project Director (N-2 regionally) who will own the Senior Manager s downward feedback
  
  

Person Specification

We are looking for consulting leaders in policy, strategy, and delivery or experienced professionals with relevant backgrounds:

• No less than 7 years of professional experience
• More than 3 years of progressive experience working in public sector advisory/consulting industry occupying a post-MBA role with front-line accountabilities to clients, or
• Progressive career path built in government, think tanks, foundations and specialist firms enabling development of vertical depth in international relations, economic development, climate policy/finance, social policy, digital transformation, and urban affairs/management.
• Willingness to work as more than an individual contributor by leading mini-teams within small- to-mid sized project teams comprising a variety of skill sets, nationalities and cultural backgrounds
• Undergraduate and graduate degrees from globally reputable institutions
• Business fluency in English required with business competency in Arabic is advantageous