Positions: 3
Background
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is establishing a dedicated Strategic Implementation Unit (SIU) to enhance integrated strategy, policy, and delivery support to the Prime Minister and senior leadership. The SIU is modelled on international best practices, where such units have proven effective in providing evidence-based insights, rapid analytics, and focused implementation tracking at the highest levels of government.
The SIU will function as a rapid-response analytic task force for the Prime Minister and the PMO, providing decision-ready inputs on priority economic sectors and policy questions. It will carry out rigorous analysis to stress-test proposals submitted by line ministries, SOEs, regulators, and development partners, and will support sectoral oversight across Pakistan's key economic priorities, including energy and power, petroleum, agriculture, commerce, finance, and other areas identified by the Prime Minister.
Technical experts and Analytics Specialists embedded within the SIU will work under the direction of the Head-SIU to analyse critical issues across economic sectors, develop evidence-based assessments, collect inputs from relevant government agencies, and prepare comparative analyses in situations involving conflicting stakeholder positions. They will assist in the examination of policy and implementation options, including the assessment of respective advantages and disadvantages, with clear articulation of economic implications, implementation risks, and other relevant considerations.
Activity Context
Effective policy reform and sectoral oversight requires more than technical expertise in individual areas, it demands a cross-cutting analytical capability that can generate and synthesise evidence, track implementation, and provide decision-ready intelligence across a broad and complex portfolio of policy priorities.
Four lead sectors have been identified as critical economic priorities for the SIU:
• Petroleum: upstream and downstream sector governance, pricing reform, and regulatory frameworks
• Energy & Power: power sector governance, tariff reform, circular debt resolution, and distribution efficiency
• Agriculture: productivity, market access, input policy, and agri-finance
• General Governance: public financial management, procurement, SOE oversight, and regulatory reform
In addition, the portfolio spans secondary sectors, including health, education, and human rights, which intersect with governance and service delivery priorities. The Data and Policy Analytics Specialist will maintain analytical coverage across all of these areas, without limiting focus to any single sector.
Work under this role is organised around two core areas:
• Policy Analytics: Gathering relevant data, mapping global practices, contextualising historical trends, and synthesising cross-sectoral evidence to build the analytical foundation for decision-making and course correction.
• Case-to-Case Analytics: Support targeted, decision-oriented analysis for high-priority policy decisions as they arise across the portfolio, as directed by Head SIU.
The Data and Policy Analytics Specialist will support the analytical function within the SIU, providing high-quality, cross-sectoral policy analytics and decision support, as directed by the Head SIU. The role will support both policy analytics and case-to-case analytics workstreams, ensuring that decisions reaching the Head SIU and the PMO are grounded in rigorous evidence, global best practice, and robust data analysis.
Duties and Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Policy Analytics
• Carry out the policy analytics function across multiple sectors
• Gather, synthesise, and critically assess relevant data, global practices, international reform experiences, and historical context to build the evidence base for policy design and implementation.
• Prepare high-quality sectoral policy briefs, cross-sectoral evidence syntheses, and comparative analyses for senior decision-makers in the PMO, working under the guidance of the Head SIU.
• Support the identification analytical gaps across the SIU’s portfolio and develop strategies to address them.
• Support development of monitoring frameworks, outcome-oriented KPIs, and performance benchmarks across priority sectors.
Case-to-Case Analytics
• Support targeted, decision-oriented analysis for high-priority policy decisions as they arise across the portfolio, as directed by Head SIU.
• Support the design and prepare decision support systems, including structured options analyses, risk and impact assessments, and trade-off summaries, as directed by the Head-SIU.
• Scarry out stress-test of proposals submitted by line ministries, SOEs, regulators, and development partners, as designed by Head SIU providing objective assessments of economic implications, implementation risks, and trade-offs.
• Follow-up tracking on high-priority decisions, ensuring analytical continuity and timely updates to senior leadership.
• Ensure that case-to-case analytical products are concise, actionable, and tailored to the needs of the relevant decision-making forum.
Sector Level Engagement
• Prepare analytical inputs for review sessions and ministerial meetings.
• Contribute directly to policy sessions through analytic presentations and data inputs.
• Engage with sector experts, government counterparts, and technical teams to ensure analytical work is contextually grounded and operationally relevant.
Qualifications and Experience
• Master’s degree in economics, business administration, public policy, data science, development studies, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in policy analysis or economic research.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytical functions supporting senior government decision-makers.
• Expertise in policy analytics across multiple sectors.
• Strong capabilities in both quantitative and qualitative analysis, including data gathering, evidence synthesis, comparative policy analysis, and preparation of technical briefs.
• Familiarity with reform practices and international benchmarking methodologies.
• Familiarity with Pakistan's economic, institutional, and sectoral landscape.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce decision-ready analytical outputs under tight timelines.
• Experience working with government institutions or development partners is strongly preferred.
Reporting
The consultant will report to:
• Head, Strategic Implementation Unit (SIU), Prime Minister’s Office
Duration and Expected Level of Effort
• Days/Month: 18
• Months: 5
• Total Expected LOE: 90
Application Deadline: Thursday 28 th May
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