McKinsey & Company a management consulting firm is recruiting to fill the position below:
POSITION : Analyst - Africa Delivery Hub
DESCRIPTION
The incubent will work with our Africa Delivery Hub (ADH) in either our Johannesburg or Nairobi offices. The ADH is a quickly growing team within McKinsey addressing complex public, societal and government challenges.
We develop and implement exciting social sector or government programs such as reforming primary schools in South Africa, implementing special economic zones in Kenya or transforming power infrastructure across African countries.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work on projects that are typically longer term, more tangible, and with greater focus on leadership and coaching of client teams.
- Work exclusively with governments, donors, and senior leaders in civil service on transformational challenges in economic development by building capabilities, overseeing transformation, and delivering policy solutions.
- You will partake in client development and workshops for new and current clients and write proposals for new client engagements.
- Participate in and lead internal knowledge building initiatives and contribute to industry conferences and workshops.
- African economies possess high potential for social and economic development but often lack the necessary skills to achieve their developmental potential.
- Apply your knowledge of international development topics to advise clients, or provide expert backup and support to client teams.
- Identify and prioritize actions for, and executing on, client strategy to deliver on critical targets.
- Provide ongoing, targeted capability-building of teams and/or individuals in context-specific skills, performance management, problem-solving, and analytics to enable them to more effectively deliver results.
- You’ll work in teams of typically 3 - 5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement.
- This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations.
- Have the opportunity to present results to client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with client team members.
- Analyze data to identify opportunities and drive performance. Analysts co-create performance targets and milestones with clients.
- Set up and manage project management systems to track performance, and you’ll also have the chance to strengthen your specific technical/sectorial expertise to offer specialist delivery support (e.g. agriculture sector delivery) to clients with targeted needs.
Qualifications
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
- Wwork collaboratively in a team environment
- Work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s)
- Undergraduate degree and excellent academic record required
- Backgrounds in electric power, health, agriculture and education are most desirable
- Passion for working on the economic development of Africa
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