Annual Young Professionals Africa Recruitment - 2025 Intake

Genesis Analytics

  • South Africa
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 17 days ago
Genesis is a leading impact and strategy consultancy and has worked in more than 100 countries globally. We are focussed on the Young World and we do work that matters!In a world undergoing convulsive technological and political change, Genesis partners with key actors to deliver urgent, lasting impact in critical areas.Genesis, an impact firm founded, incorporated, and headquartered in Africa, has worked in 46 African countries, and more than 100 countries globally. 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.By 2030 four in five children will be born in the Young World, making this region central to the future. With growing markets and young, productive populations, Young World countries have the most positive potential trajectory in the world. It is here that investments of all kinds will have the highest social and economic returns.Our job at Genesis is to help societies, governments, and businesses across the Young World succeed at three fundamental historic transitions:1. Reconfiguring economies: creating income for large, rapidly urbanising youth cohorts within a global economy undergoing profound changes
2. A human transition: a fundamental rethink of how societies, governments and markets can ensure the health and cognitive and social well-being of all those young people, including the most vulnerable
3. A just climate transition: both to decarbonise and to manage the human and economic impacts of a global crisis they did not causeTo do this work, we are building a new type of impact firm.About Genesis’ Annual African Graduate IntakeAs part of the firm’s growth, Genesis welcomes cohorts of young talent each year. 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 commencement of employment.Our Africa round focuses on students studying at African universities and those that follow a Southern Hemisphere academic calendar. We place emphasis on those who are citizens of and studying at universities in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, however, we welcome all talent to apply as we recruit across the continent. In addition to the regional focus, we are keen to welcome talent from Francophone and Lusophone countries.Our firm is expanding at a rapid rate, and we are always excited to welcome young and passionate talent to work with us.Each successful applicant joins as an analyst or associate into a home practice where you grow and develop as a world-class consultant within a specialist area of expertise.Our Practice Areas:
  • Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE)
  • Climate Finance and Economics (CFE)
  • Competition and Regulatory Economics (CRE)
  • Evaluation for Development (E4D)
  • Financial Services Strategy (FSS)
  • Health (HP)
  • Human Development (HD)
  • Shared Value and Impact (SVI)
Excitingly, we have a new centre of excellence, namely, our Primary Data Intelligence (PDI) unit, which partners with our practice areas to provide technical and intellectual expertise dedicated to data generation and application on project work.What our work offers:We offer you an opportunity to work on important work that makes a difference, in tandem with a steep learning curve. 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 analysis of data 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.
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 degrees including, Economics or its variant disciplines, Data Science, 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 preferred
  • Leadership potential, and 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
We hire young talent with the belief that they can become partners at Genesis. Each step of your career journey depends on you.Location:Genesis is a globally distributed firm. We believe that early career professionals benefit from spending time in person with their colleagues. As such we prefer to hire analysts in our hub locations. Thereafter a hybrid work week is commonplace with working days split between time in the office and WFH. Candidates must already hold the legal right to work in the location for which they apply. Preference will be given to candidates to be based in our African offices.In line with our global African firm, applications from current students and recent graduates will be considered. Consideration will be given to candidates whose eligibility allows them to work from various geographies.How To Apply:
  • Please follow the online application process on the career portal of the Genesis website, we are unable to accept any e-mailed CVs or applications
  • Your application will primarily be considered for this role. If that are multiple roles that you are interested in, please submit your application to each position
  • Once you have applied via our career portal, you will receive a system-generated confirmation e-mail that your application was received
  • NOTE: Please be advised that the collective size of your uploaded documents cannot exceed 4MB in total as the system will not accept your application due to the large file
  • Communication will be with short-listed candidates only - if you do not receive any feedback on your application within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful
  • Genesis Analytics reserves the right not to proceed with an appointment of any advertised role
  • All appointments will be made in line with Genesis Analytics’ Employment Equity Plan and Transformation Policies
  • All applications will be treated confidentially

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