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Job Category: Consulting
Location: Addis Ababa| Lagos| Nairobi
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Description Summary:
What You’ll Do for Us
As an Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for some select core functions within the business portfolio. Additionally, you will develop new abilities and expand on your firm-specific talents. To oversee the client’s projects and objectives, you will receive great training in addition to regular coaching and mentoring from coworkers and senior leaders on your teams.
Responsibilities:
- You will lead the day to day execution of a client project while guiding and developing individual team members.
- You will work directly with clients – usually on site – and take ownership of the overall project and its end products.
- Make important contributions to the analysis, design and implementation of business performance approaches.
- Develop tailor-made solutions and work closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results.
- You will implement recommendations with client team members including gathered and analyzed information, formulated and tested hypotheses, and develop recommendations for presentation to client management.
Requirements:
Qualification
- Post graduate degree with excellent academic record; MBA, MPH, MPP, PhD or relevant advanced professional degree is preferred
- 8+ years of consulting working experience in international environments, with the stature necessary to interact as thought partner with senior colleagues and clients
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English
- Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others
Additional Qualification
- Flexible team player with a collaborative and inclusive style; ability to inspire and develop others.
- Non-hierarchical approach with the flexibility and ability to build consensus.
- Good judgement, superb integrity, maturity and fairness in dealing with people and confidential information
- High level of drive and initiative, willing to go the extra mile
- Good judgement, superb integrity, maturity and fairness in dealing with people and confidential information
- Rigorous and solution-oriented problem solving and analytical skills, combined with capability of thinking through nuanced and complex situations; ability to navigate ambiguity at ease
What We Can Do for You:
Salary
- Competitive base salary (Very Attractive)
Additional Information
You’ll work out of our offices in East Africa or Lagos, where you’ll typically supervise a group of three to five consultants as you assist our customers in the public and social sectors with some of their most pressing issues.
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified applicants should click on Apply Now to start and complete your application