Principal – Health Financing, Human Development at Genesis Analytics

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

Who you are

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 and energetic problem-solvers
• Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
• Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with an excellent academic record

For this role, 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