Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Managing Director - Africa

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Posted on: 
September 10, 2024

The successful candidate will bring strong executive leadership capability to a team already operating across nearly 20 countries. They will achieve incredible impact through highest quality advice to political leaders in government on how to deliver positive change for their citizens.

Reporting to the Institute’s Global Managing Director, Advisory - the Managing Director, Africa, is a key and senior role, leading and managing an already large and impressive practice that has a globally supported mandate to further deepen TBI’s positive impact in Africa.

The Managing Director will build and maintain deep relationships with political leaders and key stakeholders across Africa, contribute to TBI’s overall global advisory strategy, and work closely with all other members of TBI’s executive leadership team.

The successful candidate will be based full-time in one of TBI’s hub offices in Nairobi, Accra, Dakar, or Johannesburg where they will work with the Institute’s global teams to further professionalise our African operations and ensure they operate at the highest levels of professionalism and capability.

The Managing Director is the direct supervisor of several senior TBI leaders in Africa and has broad responsibility for approximately 250 advisory team members.

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