Gatsby Africa
Technical Director, Insights
Description
The successful candidate will play a vital role in enhancing Gatsby’s capacity to deliver on theInsights team’s breadth of work. They will be responsible for leading our programme of work inTanzania, bringing technical understanding of industrial policy and practical experience of whatworks to build capacity in this area. They will need to further cement Gatsby’s position as atrusted partner and build up the team to deliver on a wide-ranging programme of work.
The successful candidate will need excellent strategic and critical thinking skills, with the abilityto quickly identify opportunities and risks from different courses of action. They will need tounderstand Gatsby’s approach to economic transformation, collaborate effectively with colleaguesacross the organisation and build trusted relationships with Gatsby’s priority partners in Tanzania,deepening these relationships to provide insights into how Gatsby can best support change. As aresult, this role will require excellent mentoring and coaching skills, both for internal staff and external partners.
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