Insights and Advocacy Manager, GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator عودة إلى الفرص

Department: GSMA M4D
Team: M4D Ecosystem Accelerator
Location: Tunis
Position type: Fixed Term contract

Start date – End date: 3 October 2022 – 30 June 2023

What the hiring manager says

“This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in scaling innovation & supporting entrepreneurship in Tunisia by boosting entrepreneurs’ ability to partake in the digital economy. The role will include supporting the development of mobile digital solutions across various sectors as well as the promotion of platform economy with a specific focus on supporting championing a responsible and ethical gig economy in Tunisia”

Philippe Bellordre, Head of GSMA Innovation Fund

About the Team

The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator programme focuses on bridging the gap between mobile operators and start-ups, enabling strong partnerships that foster the growth of innovative mobile products and services. These partnerships bring impactful mobile solutions to the people and places that need them most, generating the greatest socio-economic impact. By opening the dialogue between start-ups and operators, the programme helps operators contribute their assets and expertise to the most promising ideas. This in turn supports innovators to secure the funding and direction they require in order to bring their products and services to scale.

In 2020, the GSMA signed a new grant from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), to create a GSMA Mobile Innovation Lab as part of the Tunisian Digital Transformation Centre implemented by GIZ. Together with the Tunisian government, GIZ and the GSMA will collaborate on the development of mobile digital solutions across various sectors as well as the promotion of the platform economy with a specific focus on supporting women and girls in the digital economy.

About the Role

The Insights & Advocacy Manager will play an active role in researching, producing, and disseminating key publications and learnings deliverables about mobile digital solutions and the platform economy in Tunisia. The final candidate will also be engaging with the key stakeholders identified in their research activities to implement concrete activities that will support the objectives of the grant and structuring National Dialogues where an action plan is developed to help government and private sector to work together to create new social and commercial value and deliver on the SDGs through mobile technologies.

More specifically you will:

• Identify and share international best practices that have led to policy changes towards start-up and gig economy
• Create a stakeholder mapping for each of the challenges and sectors related to those challenges
• Put together an advocacy action plan and identify potential outcomes for each major theme
• Represent the GSMA on occasions internally and externally in bilateral meetings and at conferences that will often include public speaking engagements.
• Organize or support in the organization of event/ national dialogues
• Contribute to white papers and reports to show impact of overall advocacy program
• Identify relevant and promising opportunities and trends for the promotion of the platform economy in Tunisia: including mobile operator-start-ups collaborations, telecoms corporate venture activities
• Research and produce key insights and learnings deliverables, under the guidance of the Tunis-based Senior Engagement Manager and the London based programme leadership team
• Draft high quality written outputs (including reports, case studies, infographics, blog posts and PowerPoint presentations) with minimal review
• Deliver public presentations, workshops, and webinars to disseminate key insights with key stakeholders
• Identify internal/external experts and topics, with the goal of running mentoring and capacity building to public sector and innovators in Tunisia
• Lead and liaise, on a regular basis, with the marketing team to ensure an efficient and impactful dissemination of publications through social media and at conferences
• Work closely with other GSMA Mobile for Development teams to ensure collaboration where possible (i.e. joint research publications)

Contract type

FDN Contractor

Worker type

Contingent Worker