Senior Policy Analyst - Team Lead, Development Impact and Digital, Grade PAL8

Company Description

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, that works to build better policies for better lives. Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.  Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. From improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.

The Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) encourages coordinated, innovative, international action to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030 in developing countries, and improve the financing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Directorate helps set international standards for development co-operation, supporting the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and monitors how donors deliver on their commitments. Drawing upon OECD-wide expertise, DCD supports members and partners with data, analysis and guidance. Within DCD, the Reforms and Partnerships for Development Impact Division (RPDI) leads several workstreams that aim to improve the quality, effectiveness and impact of development co-operation.

DCD is looking for a Senior Policy Analyst / Team Lead for Development Impact and Digital. This is a new role, overseeing several existing and emerging initiatives within RPDI with an emphasis on partnering with Member and non-Member development co-operation agencies to improve their impact. The position includes oversight of activities related to system-wide reforms, including: on-demand support to governments  in strengthening their institutions, policies and processes to maximise development impact; work on and with emerging donors;; and new initiatives to support development co-operation agencies in the area of digital technologies (e.g. investment in digital public infrastructure; developing a new workstream on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for effective development co-operation).

Job Description

DCD is looking for a Senior Policy Analyst / Team Lead for Development Impact and Digital. This is a new role, overseeing several existing and emerging initiatives within RPDI with an emphasis on partnering with Member and non-Member development co-operation agencies to improve their impact. The position includes oversight of activities related to system-wide reforms, including: on-demand support to governments  in strengthening their institutions, policies and processes to maximise development impact; work on and with emerging donors;; and new initiatives to support development co-operation agencies in the area of digital technologies (e.g. investment in digital public infrastructure; developing a new workstream on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for effective development co-operation).

The selected candidate will be entrepreneurial and is expected to lead in identifying potential partnerships, developing a pipeline of projects and funding, and working with teams across DCD and the OECD. This includes, for example, working with other teams on DAC Peer Reviews, the DAC Network on Evaluation, and development effectiveness, as well as experts beyond RPDI. The selected person will work under the guidance and supervision of the Head of the RPDI Division.

Main Responsibilities

Strategy and delivery

• Design and launch a new digital for development co-operation workstream, linking experts and practitioners from across development co-operation agencies and beyond.
• Manage, within the digital workstream, a dedicated initiative on development co-operation for Digital Public Infrastructure.
• Develop a coherent work programme for the Development Impact and Digital team and ensure its smooth and cost-effective implementation.
• Attract financial support for the work programme and oversee effective management of funding relationships.
• Lead RPDI-wide thinking on the use of AI in development co-operation agencies to improve the achievement, measurement and communication of impact in their activities. This may include building a new AI “consortium” that could take forward pilot work in this space with interested Member and non-Member agencies.
• Develop and nurture an innovation mindset within and beyond the team, acting as a “sandbox” within RPDI for incubating and testing new ideas that relate to deve