Genesis Analytics: International Graduate Programme 2025
Job Highlights
Genesis Analytics, an impact firm headquartered in Africa, has worked in 52 African countries and more than 115 countries globally.
Closing date: 14 November 2024
Uniquely, Genesis is focused on the Young World – the arc of countries with young populations stretching across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.
Location: We have hubs in: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Lagos Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Goa and London. Candidates must already hold the legal right to work in the location they apply for.
About Genesis’ International Graduate Intake
As part of the firm’s growth, Genesis recruits cohorts of young talent each year. These candidates may be newly or recently qualified graduates, as well as early career professionals who aim to do meaningful work to bring about positive change and development. Successful candidates join as young professionals from the outset.
Our International round is aligned to the UK academic year and focuses on target universities in the UK, Kenya, Ethiopia and beyond. We are especially interested in ‘returning Africans’, that is African nationals who have completed their education abroad but are keen to return to their home countries to commence their international career.
We welcome applications from SA students but our major recruitment round for them is in the beginning of each year in South Africa aligned to their academic year.
Each successful applicant joins as an analyst in a home practice where you will grow and develop as a world-class consultant within a specialist area of expertise.
Our Practice Areas
- Centre of Digital Excellence
- Climate Finance and Economics
- Competition and Regulatory Economics
- Evaluation for Development
- Financial Services Strategy
- Health
- Human Development
- Shared Value and Impact
What the work offers
We offer a steep learning curve while providing an opportunity to make a difference and build your career. We will invest in your professional development through on-the-job learning, regular feedback and mentoring, structured training and coaching programmes, as well as a career ladder.
In addition, the Genesis offer includes:
- Doing work that matters, from day 1, often in countries other than your own
- A fertile ground for learning enabled by our internal flat structure. You’ll work in high performance teams within a collaborative and supportive culture
- Building your skills and confidence to enable you to make an impact and develop as an expert in your field
- Exposure to projects, solving real and high-impact problems alongside clients in the public-, private, and donor sectors
- Becoming part of the solution – helping rewrite the script of how impact firms can bring about change at scale in complex situations
The work you will do
You will work with Genesis colleagues in teams to help our clients unlock and realise value. In each project, you will be involved in responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Performing rigorous data analysis using both conceptual and quantitative approaches
- Applying specialist thinking and logic to problem-solving
- Preparing clearly thought-out and logically written documentation
- Performing relevant research related to projects to source required data
- Cleaning data to make it project-specific and relevant
- Vetting information to ensure accuracy
- Client interaction and negotiation
- Building intellectual capacity and property
Requirements
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, resilient and energetic problem solvers
- Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
- Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with an excellent tertiary record.
In addition, preferred candidates will possess the following skills and competencies:
- Postgraduate degrees in Economics or related disciplines, Development Studies, International Development, Public Policy, Policy Evaluation, Public Health (Epidemiology), Health Economics, Behavioural Science, PPE, Sustainability, Climate Change, Global Studies, Programme Evaluation
- Master’s degrees in any of the above-mentioned disciplines are an advantage
- Leadership potential, with the capability to lead and manage projects
- Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, with strong qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English
How to Apply
We hire young talent with the belief that they can become partners at Genesis. Each step of your career journey depends on your performance.
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