Regional Principal, AI Economic Preparedness

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of each country's engagement from the initial scoping phase to closure, establishing objectives and success measures with government partners.

• Define the scope in collaboration with delivery partners, lead efforts on cooperative initiatives, and oversee key milestones.

• Develop initial hypotheses and research queries tailored for each country.

• Oversee analysis and research methodologies, ensuring the quality of outputs before they are delivered to governments and partners.

• Tailor reference scenarios to the specific contexts of each country and facilitate workshops with ministers, senior officials, local experts, and international collaborators.

• Transform workshop outcomes into actionable next steps.

• Identify and gather economists, think tanks, and officials to form ongoing working groups.

• Assist governments and local partners in establishing early-warning indicators, selecting policy alternatives, and formulating national preparedness strategies and research agendas.

• Represent Windfall within the region, fostering relationships with multilateral country offices, regional institutions, knowledge partners, and funders.

• Contribute to proposals aimed at securing funding for new country initiatives.

• Monitor learning across various countries and assist in shaping Windfall's regional strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in economic policy, international development, government advisory, or strategy consulting, including leadership in multi-stakeholder programs.

• Proven track record of engaging with governments, preferably within ministries of ICT, finance, education, economy, or planning in developing nations or regional contexts.

• Solid foundation in development economics and public policy, covering areas such as labor markets, informality, structural transformation, trade, or public finance.

• Experienced in designing and facilitating workshops or gatherings with senior officials.

• Proven ability to build and manage expert networks, working groups, or coalitions.

• Experience in team management, overseeing consultants or partners, and managing budgets and timelines across multiple workstreams.

• Strong, persuasive written and verbal communication skills tailored for senior government, multilateral, and funding audiences.

• Genuine interest in how advanced AI could transform economies, employment, and public finances.

• A collaborative and dependable work style suitable for a small team operating across different time zones.

• Experience with a multilateral or development organization, strategy consulting, foresight or scenario planning, regional economist and policymaker networks, proficiency in a relevant language or experience in the region, as well as involvement in funding proposals and relationships with funders are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Consistent overlap with European and US working hours.

• Opportunities for international travel (approximately 20–30%).