Vacant Roles at Genesis Analytics

• Role: 
• We are seeking a technically strong and delivery-oriented Senior Associate in Education and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) to join the Education Team within the Human Development practice. The successful candidate will lead and contribute to MEL projects across all levels of education. We currently have an exciting portfolio of MEL projects in education spanning mixed methods experimental evaluations of pre-primary and foundation learning programmes, providing MEL support across secondary education, and evaluating and designing MEL systems for higher education. All projects apply cutting edge MEL methodologies to deliver impact on education outcomes. This portfolio is growing.
• This is a consulting role – focused on applying rigorous analysis to real-world education policy and system challenges. The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of the education sector, excellence in MEL, analytical acumen, combined with commercial awareness, and 5-10 years professional experience. We are looking for someone who is a self-starter and can work independently from day one in a highly dynamic setting. We will recruit someone based in Africa for this role, and the work will be focused on (but not limited to) Africa.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery and Technical Leadership

• Contribute and progressively lead the design and delivery of education MEL projects, ensuring methodological rigour and policy relevance.
• Translate quantitative and qualitative findings into clear, policy-relevant recommendations and deliverables.
• Supervise, and mentor junior analysts and associates, fostering internal capacity for high-quality MEL work leading to positive change.

Consulting and Client Engagement

• Engage directly with ministries, development partners, and private sector actors to co-create solutions to education system challenges.
• Communicate insights and recommendations effectively through presentations, reports, and workshops to engage decision-makers within the political economy of education systems.
• Manage or co-manage project workstreams, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.

Thought Leadership and Business Development

• Support and lead business development, including proposal design, methodological framing, and client engagement.
• Contribute to the team’s intellectual leadership on MEL in education.
• Collaborate across Genesis’ Human Development practice.

Requirements

• Master’s (or PhD) in Economics, Development Studies, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of experience working in consulting or very similar.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), including strong quantitative and analytical skills with knowledge of STATA or similar software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical findings into actionable policy advice.
• A proven entrepreneurial and self-starter mindset.
• Willingness to be based in Africa
• Prior experience in prestigious international development programs such as the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellowship, the World Bank (WB) Young Professionals Program, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Young Professionals Program, or similar highly selective programs, is desirable.

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Description

• We are looking for a senior nutrition professional to join the Human Development practice on a fixed-term basis (maternity cover). This is a leadership role: you will take responsibility for the nutrition portfolio, lead client engagements, manage analytical teams, ensure the quality and strategic direction of outputs, and play an active role in winning new work.
• Our nutrition portfolio spans the full range of questions that governments, donors, and global initiatives need rigorous analysis to answer: What does the evidence say about which interventions work at scale? How should a country finance its nutrition strategy? How should a national stunting reduction package be structured and costed? Where is public spending going, and is it reaching the right people? The work draws on strategy development, quantitative financing analysis, policy research, programme evaluations, and evidence syntheses.

You will: 

• Lead and manage nutrition workstreams. Take ownership of analytical and advisory project components — from scoping through to delivery. Set the analytical agenda, manage timelines, and ensure outputs are both technically strong and accessible to senior audiences.
• Manage client relationships. Act as primary point of contact for senior clients, including UNICEF, GAIN, the World Food Programme, national governments, and multilateral development banks. Lead working sessions, technical reviews, and presentations.
• Oversee core analytical products. Costing models, public expenditure analyses, financing gap analyses, investment cases, policy research, programme evaluations, evidence syntheses — translated into high-quality reports, slides, and policy briefs fit for senior audiences.
• Drive business development. Take an active role in growing the nutrition portfolio — leading and contributing to proposals, identifying new opportunities, and building and maintaining relationships with existing and prospective clients. You will bring both technical credibility and commercial instinct to business development, drawing on your networks in the global nutrition and development community.
• Manage and develop team members. Provide technical oversight, feedback, and line management to analysts and associates. Build analytical skills across the team and uphold Genesis output standards.
• Bring sectoral depth. Apply your understanding of nutrition systems, public health, and health economics to ensure analysis reflects how decisions actually get made within government and donor systems.

For the right candidate, there may be potential for this role to continue beyond the fixed term, subject to mutual agreement and ongoing business needs. 

Requirements

You are likely to have:

• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Public Health Nutrition, Health Economics, Economics, Development Economics, or a closely related field.
• 8+ years' professional experience in nutrition, health, or a related development field, with a substantial portion in consulting or advisory work
• A track record of leading research or analytical workstreams — financing analysis, policy research, programme evaluation, or evidence synthesis — to high professional standards in a consulting context.
• Demonstrated experience leading a consulting team or project portfolio, including responsibility for delivery, quality, and team performance.
• Strong understanding of the economics of consulting, including project management, budgeting, and revenue targets.
• Solid working knowledge of nutrition and/or health financing, including the policy and programmatic landscape in low- and middle-income countries.
• Proven ability to build and maintain senior relationships with governments, multilateral agencies, bilateral donors, UN agencies, and foundations.
• A track record of contributing to or leading business development, including proposal writing and client cultivation.
• Experience managing or developing junior professional staff.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with the global nutrition architecture (SUN, N4G, Power of Nutrition, GFF, UNICEF, WFP).
• Excellent written and verbal English; French is an advantage.