The organisation is hunting for advisors at all levels – from senior to assistant – as well as business manager.

However BIT said the candidates must be authorised to work in the US as it is not able to provide visa sponsorship.

Its first work is working with US Cities using behavioural insights to services challenges and establishing evaluation methods to determine what is working, part of the Bloomberg What Works Cities initiative. This is a programme evaluating Cities’ data use and evidence to engage citizens, make government more effective and improve people’s lives.