Our purpose is to unlock value in Africa. We use our analytical capabilities to improve decision-making and, through better decisions, to unlock substantial value for our clients and society. While we are the largest economics-based consulting firm in Africa, we use a large number of techniques and approaches to achieve clarity for decision-makers. We work across various domains. Early specialisations were competition and regulatory economics, and then financial services strategy. Since then we have added: agriculture and agribusiness, applied behavioural economics, infrastructure, health, monitoring and evaluation and shared value.

What you will do:

You will work with Genesis colleagues to acquire, lead and deliver consulting projects to help our clients unlock and realise value in human development, by helping governments and their partners spend enough, spend well, and access innovative sources and modes of financing, while understanding how population dynamics and economic change will affect requirements and resources. You will oversee rigorous economic and statistical analysis of data and reports using both conceptual and quantitative approaches. The intended result of this is that marginalised populations will have access to better social sector services. In each project, you will:

• Ensure service excellent and delivery;
• Manage interactions and negotiations with clients;
• Performance manage the team and team members;
• Ensure project profitability and efficiency;
• Assess and structure the problem to be solved, and approach to the analysis of data and information, testing and refining hypotheses, and drafting and communicating conclusions and recommendations to the client.

In some cases, you will travel to do this, usually with colleagues.

You will also lead work in:

• business development in social sector financing, including responsibility for leading and managing proposals;
• turning new ideas on social sector financing into concrete products, such as blogposts, academic articles, conference presentations, or innovative products for clients.
• practice organisation, including working on practice strategy, business systems, recruiting, nurturing, and managing consultants, and building and leading new specialisms in social sector financing.

Who you are:

The ideal Genesis candidate carries a balanced combination of powerful intellect, strong technical skills, and a consulting character to match. Such candidates:

• Are passionate, self-motivated and energetic problem-solvers
• Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
• Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with an excellent academic record.

For this role, the preferred candidate will possess the following essential skills and competencies

• Master’s degree in Economics, Development Studies, Maths, Statistics or similar
• At least 5 years’ relevant professional experience in social sector financing.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams in changing environments
• Leadership skills, and the capability to lead teams and projects
• Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, and strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including attention to detail.
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellence in Excel, and STATA, R, Matlab or Tableau.

Other desirable skills and competencies include:

• Consulting experience
• Proficiency in other advanced software packages, such as Python, dashboards, such as PowerBI, data visualisation, presentation or design software, and GIS
• Languages relevant to Genesis’ geographies, especially French.

Additional information:

• All applications must be made online on the Genesis website
• Applicants must be eligible to work and willing to be based in any one of the following countries: South Africa, Kenya, Côte d’ Ivoire, United Kingdom, and India, or from home in other countries.
• Candidates should be willing to travel for short periods of time (1-4 weeks at a time) to countries to conduct fieldwork depending on project requirements
• Candidates should be comfortable to work with colleagues in a face-to-face and virtual setting.
• Applications will be reviewed on a regular basis: we recommend interested candidates submit their applications now.