Vacancy at McKinsey & Company for an Associate - Africa Delivery Hub
McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps
leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting and
substantial improvements in their performance.
McKinsey’s Public Sector
Practice provides management consulting services to governments at the
federal, state, and local levels.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Associate - Africa Delivery Hub
Location: Lagos
Industries: Public Sector, Social Sector
Who You'll Work With
You’ll 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.
What You'll Do
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. You’ll also have the opportunity to present results to
client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with
client team members.
- You’ll work on projects that are typically longer term, more
tangible, and with greater focus on leadership and coaching of client
teams.
- You will 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 be expected to rapidly identify and prioritize actions
for, and executing on, client strategy to deliver on critical targets.
- You will 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 will be expected to analyze data to identify opportunities
and drive performance. Associates co-create performance targets and
milestones with clients.
- You will 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.
- You will partake in client development and workshops for new and
current clients and write proposals for new client engagements. You’ll
also have the opportunity to 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.
- You will apply your knowledge of international development
topics to advise clients, or provide expert backup and support to client
teams.
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 year Degree (or equivalent) and excellent academic record required
- Doctoral and advanced Degree candidates in public health, development, economics and related disciplines are encouraged to apply
- Demonstrate sound reasoning and critical thinking skills
- Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s)
- 4-6 years of experience in development-consulting style position or working in a public or social sector institution
- Backgrounds in electric power, health, agriculture and education are most desirable
- Experience working in Africa is a strong plus
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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