Principal – Health Financing, Human Development at Genesis Analytics

Job Description

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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

About Job

This role will also involve supporting colleagues to lead our work on youth skills and ecosystems, including coaching and mentoring around our youth strategy, leading project acquisition and delivery, and team-building.

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 helping clients understand and help populations to manage risks. You will help resilient health financing arrangements and programmes that are adequately financed, allocate budgets wisely and efficiently, make good use of technologies, and are adaptive and responsive to shocks and opportunities. The result of this will be that marginalised populations will be better able to manage risks and shocks in health, and more broadly across social sectors.

In each project, you will:

Ensure service excellence 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 play a role in:

business development in health financing, including responsibility for leading and managing proposals turning new ideas on health 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 leading and building new specialisms in health financing

We offer you a steep learning curve while providing an opportunity to make a difference. We will invest in your professional development. We offer meaningful work with professional, talented and supportive teams; mentoring and regular feedback from partners; structured training and coaching programmes; and a career ladder.

We hire principals with the expectation that they can become partners at Genesis. Genesis offers a highly rewarding, challenging and flexible career. Working with your mentor, we encourage you to explore living and working in different locations, and deepening and complementing your specialised skills and knowledge in health financing and youth.

Requirements

The preferred candidate will possess the following essential skills and competencies

Master’s degree in Economics, Development Studies, Maths, Statistics or similar At least ten years’ relevant professional experience in health financing, health systems strengthening or related, with a focus on African health systems 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 Excellent consulting experience, with experience in public consulting in health financing highly desirable Experience working in government, with experience working to address health services access, improvement of quality and advancement of equity highly desirable Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English Strong interpersonal skills Proficiency in Excel

Other desirable skills and competencies include:

Proficiency in other advanced software packages, such as STATA, R, Python, 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