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  • Posted: Oct 24, 2023
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    Senior Associate/Manager, Climate Finance & Economics

    About the position 

    The Climate Finance and Economics practice is searching for a dynamic mid-career leader with consulting background in climate economics and finance, who is eager to join the growth of this new area of work in Genesis and passionate about accelerating the climate transition. This position is ideal for a person who is keen to have a proactive role with a broad array of responsibilities including. The candidate will support in the following:

    Technical

    • Understanding of the financial industry and financial markets.
    • Experience in developing sustainable financing mechanisms and instruments, especially in relation to project finance, green-infrastructure finance and effective public-private partnerships.  
    • Financial structuring and financial modelling skills - applied to mitigation and adaptation.
    • Experience in developing climate finance governance frameworks. 

    General

    • Work closely with the partner and build a business together with enthusiasm and teamwork, with a focus on the growth of our climate finance area.
    • Bid for, design, and execute consultancy assignments for donor, corporate, foundation and government clients.
    • Use quantitative (and qualitative) analysis tools to inform analytical problems. This will ultimately lead to structuring and applying economic frameworks to analytical problems.
    • Solve problems with a high level of autonomy, logically, creatively, and laterally. 
    • Take personal responsibility for high levels of excellence, analytical insights, with exemplary attention to detail.
    • Be able to prepare and lead high quality written and visual communication.
    • Have strong verbal communication skills.
    • Play a leading, managing, and mentoring role with more junior consultants.
    • Enthusiastically take up personal development, enjoying the freedom to build a career in a supportive environment.

    The candidate can be located in Johannesburg, London or elsewhere and be willing to travel for assignments and spend time at the Genesis office in London and/or Johannesburg. 

    Skills, experience and competencies

    • Mid-level work experience in management or developing consulting is essential.
    • Strong masters’ level degrees in Economics, Sustainable Finance or related fields. 
    • Purpose-driven, enthusiastic, ethical, respectful, lives by Genesis values.
    • Strong self-starting problem solver, critical thinker, and analyst.
    • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
    • Project management abilities.
    • Comfort with quantitative and qualitative research techniques.
    • Ability to work closely with senior leaders

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    Senior Associate, Human Development, ECED

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • As part of our consulting teams, you will work on innovative projects that shape the future of children in the Young World. You will collaborate with governments, policymakers, and multilateral organizations to design, implement, and manage innovative solutions that address some of the most pressing development opportunities and challenges created by the demographic dividend and rapid technological change. You will help our clients understand and provide for the needs of very young children to help them and their families develop to their full potential; as well as supporting clients improve the quality and coverage of early childhood education.

    Examples of projects that you could work on include:

    • Developing an investment case for Early Childhood Education for a Ministry of Education as part of their advocacy package in a Young World country.
    • Creating costing scenarios for implementing different integrated Early Childhood Development service delivery packages in an Eastern African country.
    • Conducting a fiscal space analysis to determine the pathways for increasing access to Early Childhood Education in a country in the Middle East.
    • Supporting Young World government to scale up ECE provision towards universal enrolment at high quality, while working within available fiscal space
    • Understanding links between costing and structural and process quality in Young World Classrooms
    • Support young mother to re-enter the workforce in informal childcare centres, providing livelihoods for families and improving developmental outcomes for children.

    A Senior Associate is a critical member of our ECE/D workstream. You will play a key role in the following activities:

    • Business development work in early childhood education, and/or early childhood development, including responsibility for leading and managing proposals;
    • Technical work on projects in the areas of ECE/D financing, policy development and review, evaluation, system planning and implementation, curriculum, teacher training, other quality enhancement interventions, amongst others.
    • Thought leadership and knowledge production. Turning new ideas on early childhood education, and/or early childhood development, into concrete products, such as blogposts, academic articles, conference presentations, or innovative products for clients.
    • Strategy and management. Practice organisation, including working on practice strategy, business systems, recruiting, nurturing, and training consultants, and building and leading new specialisms in education and early childhood development.

    In each project, you will:

    • assess and structure the problem to be solved;
    • collect, organise, interpret, and analyse data and information;
    • test and refine hypotheses; and draft and communicate conclusions and recommendations, often directly to the client.
    • In some cases, you will travel to do this, usually with colleagues.

    Requirements
    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 Education, Economics, Development Studies, or similar
    • 3-4 years’ relevant professional experience in education and/or early childhood development.
    • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams in changing environments
    • Leadership potential, and the capability to lead and manage projects
    • Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, and strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including attention to detail.
    • Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English
    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • Proficiency in Excel.

    Other desirable skills and competencies include:

    • Consulting experience
    • Experience as a teacher, early childhood carer, or youth worker.
    • 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 Arabic and French.

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    Associate, Human Development, ECED

    Requirements

    • As part of our consulting teams, you will work on innovative projects that shape the future of children in the Young World. You will collaborate with governments, policymakers, and multilateral organizations to design, implement, and manage innovative solutions that address some of the most pressing development opportunities and challenges created by the demographic dividend and rapid technological change. You will help our clients understand and provide for the needs of very young children to help them and their families develop to their full potential; as well as supporting clients improve the quality and coverage of early childhood education.

    Examples of projects that you could work on include:

    • Developing an investment case for Early Childhood Education for a Ministry of Education as part of their advocacy package in a Young World country.
    • Creating costing scenarios for implementing different integrated Early Childhood Development service delivery packages in an Eastern African country.
    • Conducting a fiscal space analysis to determine the pathways for increasing access to Early Childhood Education in a country in the Middle East.
    • Supporting Young World government to scale up ECE provision towards universal enrolment at high quality, while working within available fiscal space
    • Understanding links between costing and structural and process quality in Young World Classrooms
    • Support young mother to re-enter the workforce in informal childcare centres, providing livelihoods for families and improving developmental outcomes for children.

    You will work with Genesis colleagues in consulting teams to help our clients unlock and realise value in human development. In some projects, you will play a leadership and management role for particular workstreams or junior staff, working closely with and supported by project leaders.

    In each project, you will:

    • assess and structure the problem to be solved;
    • collect, organise, interpret, and analyse data and information;
    • test and refine hypotheses; and
    • draft and communicate conclusions and recommendations, often directly to the client.

    In some cases, you will be asked to travel to do this, usually with colleagues.

    You will also play a role in:

    • business development, including progressive responsibility for leading and managing proposals;
    • turning new ideas into concrete products, such as blogposts, academic articles, conference presentations, or innovative products for clients.
    • practice organisation, including working on practice strategy, business systems, and recruiting, nurturing and training junior consultants.

    EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES:

    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 Education, Economics, Development Studies, or similar
    • 2-3 years’ relevant professional experience in education and early childhood education and/or development.
    • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams in changing environments
    • Leadership potential, and the capability to lead and manage projects
    • Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, and strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including attention to detail.
    • Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English
    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • Proficiency in Excel

    Other desirable skills and competencies include:

    • Consulting experience
    • Proficiency in advanced software packages, such as STATA, R, Python, data visualisation, presentation or design software, and GIS
    • Languages relevant to Genesis’ geographies

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    Public Health Data Systems Associate (Financial)

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • As a Public Health Data Scientist (Financial), you will assist government departments and their partners in organising, interpreting and analyzing financial and health programme data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can be used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public health programs and services. 
    • You will work closely with colleagues and clients to develop digital monitoring, reporting and analytics solutions using financial and health programme data and develop and implement data-driven strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce costs.

    Requirements

    KEY REQUIREMENTS & ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES: 

    • The candidate should have at least two years of experience in developing digital analytics, reporting and dashboard solutions with data sources from multiple sources, using widely used software and programming language such as Microsoft Excel VB, PowerApp, Python, Tableau and Stata. The candidate should have experience working in the public sector, ideally the health sector, and have a development economics or public health management background. Working experience in public financial management systems in Africa would be a strong advantage. 

    The successful candidate’s key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

    • Develop needs-based and client-centred digital analytics, data integration, financial/ programme reporting and dashboard solutions for government clients and their partners.
    • Analyze financial and health data to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
    • Contribute to developing and implementing data-driven strategies to improve value for money in public health programmes.
    • Develop and construct complex Excel-based costing models and databases with automated functionality, including reporting dashboards, importing and exporting data and what-if functionality.
    • Use statistical analysis software to analyze data and generate reports.
    • Develop and maintain databases to store and manage health and financial data.
    • Conduct research on public health issues and trends.
    • Participate in multidisciplinary project teams, actively engaging in discussions and contributing to problem-solving efforts.
    • Communicate findings to other professionals in the public health sector.
    • Develop and implement data quality control procedures to ensure the accuracy of primary and secondary data collected.
    • Provide training on data analysis and management to other professionals in the public health sector.

    EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES: 

    • Bachelor's or Master's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, public health, or a related field.
    • Experience and proficiency working in the Microsoft Power Platform environment using PowerApp and PowerBI
    • Proficiency in another programming language or statistical software such as Python, R, STATA or SQL for data, Tableau
    • Strong knowledge of data modelling and data mining techniques.
    • Advanced user of MS Excel and Google environment
    • Ability to work with large datasets and apply data analysis techniques to draw meaningful insights.
    • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
    • Strong communication skills to effectively define client needs and present complex findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Knowledge of public health management, public financial management and health economics concepts is desirable.
    • Prior experience or knowledge of public budget and expenditure analysis and health-related data sources is an advantage.
    • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

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    Programme Manager

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • Genesis Health is recruiting a Program Manager for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) funded initiative known as Sycona. Sycona is the research-to-action arm of the South-to-South HIV Prevention Learning Network (SSLN). The initiative aims to facilitate learning and application of best practice for HIV prevention programmes in 15 African countries and to support research utilisation in two of these. 
    • This program will work with key country stakeholders, including national level implementing partners – who can be empowered to apply best practice and research to implementation design and implementation; government and donor organisations in the countries – who can enable the environment for adaptation; and local research institutions - to conceptualise research and evaluate programs and country progress. 

    The program objectives are to: 

    • Support countries to accurately identify their specific capacity development needs and technical assistance requirements for an effective HIV prevention response.
    • Synthesise and disseminate HIV prevention research and best practice to inform key HIV prevention stakeholders in-country, in a way which supports uptake and use.
    • Mentor country stakeholders to become champions for HIV facilitated learning, and hence address key gaps and practically apply best practice for optimised program implementation.
    • Inform more targeted country strategies and funding proposals for HIV prevention with HIV.
    • Identify further critical questions for optimising HIV prevention programming that can be supported by research utilisation in two countries.
    • Support cross-country sharing of best practice and joint problem solving for key barriers and bottlenecks experienced by country HIV program implementers. 
    • The Program Manager will play a critical role in overseeing and coordinating the successful planning, execution, and delivery of the program. They will lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement to ensure the achievement of program objectives while adhering to the budget and timelines. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills and has excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

    Requirements

    KEY REQUIREMENTS & ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Support the Program Director with the day-day operations of the grant, including program planning and strategy, resource management, risk and issue management and stakeholder management through facilitation of the country engagements and the dissemination of activities.
    • Work closely with the SSLN Program Manager and team to support seamless integration of both programs.
    • Lead, manage, motivate and develop program operations and finance staff, encouraging their commitment to program objectives, and meeting their personal development needs.
    • Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, including those at global, regional and country level.
    • Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks to minimize potential impact on project timelines and deliverables. Implement contingency plans as needed to ensure successful program outcomes.
    • Implement quality control measures to ensure that deliverables meet the required standards and adhere to the project's scope.
    • Ensure sound financial management, working with the program’s finance and compliance leads to manage programmatic budgeting, spending, forecasting and reporting.
    • Continuously identify process inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement within the program, working with the Knowledge Manager and SSLN Program Manager to implement best practices and foster a culture of continuous learning across the two programs.

    EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES: 

    • Minimum 5+ years of professional experience; 2-3 years’ experience in a similar role within grant and programme management.
    • Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
    • Experience working with and implementing donor-funded programmes preferably in the health sector; familiarity with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would be an advantage.
    • Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams.
    • Experience working across sub-Saharan Africa.
    • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities, coupled with a results-oriented mindset.
    • Financial and operational management experience for successful programme delivery.
    • Excellent writing, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
    • Fluency in written and spoken English is required, business proficiency in French/Portuguese is an asset.

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    Data Scientist (Associate), Social Sectors Financing, Human Development

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • We are looking for a senior data scientist who can drive notable improvements in how we use and adapt existing and new data in understanding sector financing issues in Africa and the Middle East, particularly for young people, women, and marginalised people. This team player will build on our existing work on human development, in particular in social sector financing and youth, and on related sectors, such as disaster finance, to generate a distinctive consulting offering that will realise value in health financing in our focus geographies, based on strong data analytics and visualisation techniques. We expect this offering to be applicable across a mix of projects responding to formal requests for proposals from funders and projects that are proactively created by our team using existing knowledge and relationships with clients of a range of types.

    This role will also involve supporting colleagues to working on youth skills and ecosystems, including designing, setting up databases and supporting creating of dashboards 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 social sector 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
    • 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.

    As part of your role, you can expert to do the following:

    • Data Collection & Processing: Lead on gathering, cleaning, and processing data from various sources relevant to human development initiatives.
    • Analytical Support: Lead in the development and execution of quantitative models, statistical analysis, and predictive analysis
    • Report Preparation: Lead in creating comprehensive reports, visualizations, and dashboards to present insights in a clear and effective manner and quality assuring work from junior team members
    • Research Collaboration: Work closely with other team members to research current trends and best practices in human development, contributing to the ongoing projects.
    • Mentoring, coaching and support: Provide support to various junior team members that are part of the data and analytics team

    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.

    Requirements

    EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES:

    • You will be an exceptional candidate. You are focussed on the positive impact of your consulting work. You have experience and a learning appetite in databases, data analytics, visualisations and developing bespoke analytical products for clients. You have a deep understanding of the social sector issues, across Education, Health, Social Protection, WaSH, and Nutrition. You have at least 3 years of experience.

    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

    • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, or a related field.
    • Experience in the human development sector or in working with related data sets.
    • Proficiency (expert level) in advanced software packages, such as STATA, R, Python, Power Bi, Tableau and in data visualisation, presentation or design software, and GIS
    • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams in changing environments
    • Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, and strong quantitative 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

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    Talent Acquisition Consultant (Projects)

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • Primary responsibility for the rapid staffing of quick turnaround projects.  This involves proactively identifying and engaging top talent, managing candidate relationships, conducting rapid screenings, coordinating swift applicant tracking, and ensuring a seamless recruitment process for project staffing. The Talent Acquisition Consultant (Projects) collaborates closely with hiring managers, project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure timely and effective resource allocation. Additionally, Talent Acquisition Consultant (Projects) plays a key role in managing and continually improving the projects staffing database and ensuring compliance with USAID (and other) audit requirements.
    • Supporting the Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant recruiting for permanent Genesis roles.  This support is likely to take the form of taking the lead on end-to-end recruitment for mid-level roles and ensuring compliance with internal processes across the talent acquisition process

    * Note: There may be potential for this role is to transition from sitting within HR's Talent Acquisition team to being embedded within the DSU (Delivery Support Unit ) once it is established. Initially this role will have a dual focus:

    KEY REQUIREMENTS & ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Project Staffing: 
      • Focus on rapidly staffing projects, ensuring swift deployment of qualified resources.
        • Proactively anticipate project staffing needs and build/manage a database of potential candidates.
        • Employ agile and efficient recruitment strategies to meet tight deadlines and project demands.
    • Full Talent Acquisition Cycle:
      • Manage the end-to-end talent acquisition process including requisition management, sourcing strategies, screening, assessment, selection, and offer management.
      • Collaborate with hiring managers and project managers to understand project requirements, timelines, and resource needs.
      • Provide regular updates and progress reports to stakeholders regarding project staffing status.
    • Internal Stakeholder Relationship Management:  Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including hiring managers and project managers.
    • Candidate Relationship Management: Develop and maintain relationships with candidates to ensure a talent pipeline for rapid deployment.
    • Rapid Screening:  Conduct rapid screenings of candidate applications to assess qualifications and alignment with project requirements.
    • Applicant Tracking: Utilise applicant tracking systems (ATS) to manage candidate data, track progress, and maintain accurate recruitment records.
    • Projects Staffing Database and Compliance:
      • Take ownership of the projects staffing database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information on candidate profiles, project assignments, and resource availability. 
      • Ensure compliance with US AID (and other) audit requirements related to candidate information, documentation, and project staffing records.
    • Continuous Improvement:  Continuously evaluate and improve rapid staffing practices based on feedback, lessons learned, and industry trends.

    Note: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the Talent Acquisition Consultant (Projects) position. It should not be seen as an exhaustive list of responsibilities

    Requirements

    • A bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field is typically required. A master's degree may be preferred but not mandatory.
    • 3 to 6 years in end to end talent acquisition function, preferably in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on project staffing and end-to-end recruitment.
    • Consulting experience or exposure would be an advantage.
    • Experience in managing databases, preferably with projects staffing database management.
    • Strong familiarity with USAID (and other) requirements related to recruitment and compliance.
    • Experience in collaborating with stakeholders, such as hiring managers and project managers, to understand staffing needs and deliver effective resource allocation.
    • Proven track record of managing candidate relationships, conducting screenings, utilising applicant tracking systems, and generating relevant reports and metrics.
    • Exposure to mid-level permanent hiring processes and understanding of best practices in permanent talent acquisition.
    • Good knowledge of recruitment landscape in East Africa.

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    Practice Manager - Health Practice

    ROLE DESCRIPTION:

    • The Practice Manager is primarily responsible for the operational management of the health practice, helping to realise the vision and strategy of the practice. Reporting to the HP partners, this person must be prepared to work independently and as part of a team. We are looking for someone based in one of our hubs (Johannesburg, London, or Nairobi). Genesis works on a hybrid model such that team members based in hub cities will be able to work from home and in the office, with a minimum number of two days per week expected in the office.
    • We are looking for a proactive team member who enjoys constant innovation and iteration and use of tools and systems to improve the team’s efficiency and effectiveness. 

    Requirements

    KEY REQUIREMENTS & ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Practice/ Project management:

    • Supporting the development of and adherence to the existing Standard operational procedures (SOPS) and systems
    • Develop and oversee that standard project management practices are applied across all projects
    • Ensure projects are compliant with Genesis processes
    • Ensure projects are documented and regularly updated within Genesis systems, and relevant  registries/resource sites
    • Play in active role in supporting the project management of large, long-term projects
    • Support the building of an inclusive culture in the practice

    Business Development:

    • Collaborate with internal (General Group Services, Business Development Unit, Head of Commercial) and external (key partners and clients) stakeholders.
    • Provide guidance to the Practice around the bid management process and G:tools available.
    • Act as Bid Manager for specific strategic opportunities within the Practice, building knowledge across key donor frameworks: lead the process from kick-off meeting to post-mortem stage; create and manage the bid work plan; manage the recruitment process; liaise with partners and subcontractors around the technical and financial proposal; provide compelling inputs into the technical proposal; support in budget development.
    • Support strategic learning through post-mortem and bid-dissemination sessions, using learnings to improve the bid management process.

    Support marketing of the health practice, working with the Genesis Marketing Communications Manager

    • Maintain project descriptions and capacity statements for use in marketing materials
    • Development of marketing materials
    • Oversight of the Practice sections of the Genesis website

    Finance Support

    • Provide guidance and support to Project Managers on finance-related issues, helping to ensure project compliance as per company policies and processes. This includes providing guidance around the monthly reconciliation process and ensuring, through oversight, that project budget templates are completed and submitted for each new project by the respective Project Managers.
    • Provide support in the development of project budgets for a range of donors, including B&MGF, USAID and FCDO, guiding project teams around donor compliance and specific budget templates.
    • Coordination of practice pipeline, order book and forecasts, working with Service Line Leads to resolve any issues appropriately.
    • Develop and maintain strong relationships with the central finance team.

    Human Resources and People Management Support

    • Lead on the induction of new joiners, including collaborating with HR around the company induction, updating practice specific induction materials, leading induction sessions and other administrative processes related to on-boarding new staff.
    • Work with General Services and the Head of HR around updates to the performance review matrix for technical and operational staff.
    • Provide support to hiring managers in the recruitment of new staff across a range of levels:
      • Administrative support including development of job descriptions and case studies, CV screening, HR coordination and interviewing of candidates.
      • Strategic support to Partners and Service Line Leads in recruitment forecasting and management of project budgets versus new potential hires.
    • Support Service Line Leads with utilization management, including the roll-out and implementation of new tools to support utilization

    EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES:

    • Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required
    • Donor experience, especially USAID and the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation
    • Relevant business qualifications at a minimum of a bachelor’s degree
    • IT literate and proficient in the use of Google Workspace and/or Microsoft Office and other hybrid working tools
    • Skilled in using financial management tools and related software
    • Confident communicator with people at all levels
    • A creative approach to solving problems
    • High level of discretion and confidentiality
    • Client centric and dedicated to providing the best possible support and service to the practice area
    • Self-motivated and driven to succeed with a proactive work approach
    • Able to work independently using initiative
    • Solution-focused attitude
    • Ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate and multitask
    • Comfortable working with teams that are across time zones and culturally diverse
    • Comfortable working with team members that are part of a hybrid and remote team environment based in different countries  

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