Role Overview
The financing questions our clients face are not straightforward. How should a ministry of health allocate a constrained budget across a fragmented health system? What would it take to crowd in domestic resources for social protection at scale? Where are donor flows going — and are they reaching the right levels of the system? These are the questions our Senior Associates work on, at the frontier of applied policy analysis.
This is a leadership role. You will lead engagements, manage teams, and serve as a primary point of contact for senior clients — while also contributing substantive analytical and advisory work yourself. You will mentor junior colleagues, shape project design, and contribute to the growth of our Social Sectors Financing practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Client Engagement & Leadership: Lead client engagements end-to-end — designing analytical approaches, managing project teams, overseeing quality, and serving as a trusted interlocutor for senior government and donor counterparts.
- Quantitative & Analytical Work: Deliver and oversee complex quantitative work: fiscal space assessments, health financing strategies, public expenditure reviews, costing models, and budget reform analyses, across a range of data sources and methodologies.
- Output Delivery: Develop and present high-quality outputs — technical reports, policy briefs, strategy documents, and slide decks — to senior audiences including ministers, heads of agency, and bilateral and multilateral partners.
- People Management: Manage and mentor Analysts and Associates, reviewing their outputs and building their consulting and analytical skills.
- Business Development: Play a meaningful role in proposal development and business development, including leading methodology sections, writing technical narratives, and engaging with prospective clients.
- Practice Strategy: Contribute to the strategic development of the Social Sectors Financing practice — identifying new opportunities, building client relationships, and helping shape how the team grows.
Requirements
- Experience: 5–8 years of professional experience, including demonstrated leadership of client-facing analytical or advisory engagements in consulting, international development, or a policy research institution.
- Analytical Skills: Deep proficiency in quantitative analysis applied to public finance or social sector financing questions, with the ability to design and oversee complex analytical workstreams.
- Leadership: A strong track record managing and mentoring junior staff and coordinating multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication in English — able to distil complex technical findings for senior government, donor, and partner audiences.
- Contextual Experience: Direct experience working with governments, multilaterals, or bilateral donors in low- or middle-income country contexts.
- Education: A Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Economics, Public Policy, Statistics, Data Science, Finance, Mathematics, International Development, PPE, or related field. A Master’s degree or PhD is preferred.
- Languages: Working proficiency in French or Arabic is a significant advantage given our client portfolio in Francophone Africa and the Middle East.
