Job at McKinsey & Company for an Africa Delivery Hub - Associate
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McKinsey & Company is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Africa Delivery Hub - Associate - EEMA - Sub-Saharan Africa
Location: Nigeria
Overview
- The Africa Delivery Hub is a quickly growing team within
McKinsey addressing complex public, societal and government challenges
within a new Firm delivery model.
- We are looking to add ADH consultants in our Johannesburg and Nairobi offices.
- Local language skills and knowledge strongly preferred
Detailed Description
- The ADH develops and implements 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.
- Associates and analysts will work on projects that are typically
longer term, more tangible, and with greater focus on leadership and
coaching of client teams.
Possible Involvement / Work Types
Client Engagement:
- 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.
Client Development:
- Partake in client development and workshops for new and current clients and write proposals for new client engagements.
Knowledge building and transfer:
- Participate in and lead internal knowledge building initiatives and contribute to industry conferences and workshops.
Targeted Impact
African economies possess high potential for social and
economic development but often lack the necessary skills to achieve
their developmental potential. McKinsey’s ADH consultants apply their
knowledge of international development topics to advise clients, or
provide expert backup and support to client teams. Specific
contributions will vary depending on skills and experience, but could
include:
Driving Delivery:
- Support client teams to rapidly identify and prioritize actions
for, and executing on, client strategy to deliver on critical targets.
Managing Performance:
- Co-create performance targets and milestones with clients.
- Set up and manage project management systems to track performance.
- Support client to aggressively minimize bottlenecks to progress.
Specializing:
- Hone specific technical/sectorial expertise to offer specialist
delivery support (e.g. agriculture sector delivery) to clients with
targeted needs.
Coaching:
- 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.
Problem Solving:
- Analyze data to identify opportunities and drive performance.
- Help clients to surface issues and bottlenecks and develop tactical action plans to quickly resolve them.
- Identify and disseminate lessons learned and best practices across clients.
Desired Skills
- We are looking for individuals with 4-6 years of experience in
development-consulting style position or working in a public or social
sector institution.
- Minimum 4 year degree (or equivalent) required.
- Doctoral and advanced degree candidates in public health,
development, economics and related disciplines are encouraged to apply.
- Backgrounds in electric power, health, agriculture and education
are most desirable with a strong focus on applicants with experience
working in Africa.
- Applicants should demonstrate sound reasoning and critical
thinking skills, outstanding academic achievement, impressive career
development and a passion for working on the economic development of
Africa.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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