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Job Title: Senior Consultant/Associate Director

Line Manager: Regional Director, West Africa

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Type of Contract: Full time – 2 years

The company

africapractice is an Africa focused strategic advisory firm, operating at the intersection of industry and government. We combine insights and advocacy, enabling our clients to navigate complex stakeholder ecosystems and lead with confidence.

We believe sustainable performance depends on managing political and policy risk, doing no harm, building trust and delivering meaningful social and economic impact. Over the past 15 years we have advised some of the largest institutions and investors in Africa and delivered assignments in over 45 countries, building deep sector knowledge in the process.

The role

africapractice West Africa (APR&B) is one of four hub offices within the africapractice group.  We are looking for an exceptional candidate to play a leadership role in our Nigeria team, leading our advocacy team, with a specific focus on the digital economy. This is for an initial fixed term 2 year role.

Profile required

We are looking for a dynamic individual who can take ownership of our advocacy work, who combines technical, policy and regulatory knowledge in the Digital Economy and Digital Financial Services sector with strategy development and exceptional stakeholder management skills. Experience of designing and directing large scale advocacy campaigns is also desirable.

The role will assume the following five key areas of responsibility:

Research

• Oversee and deliver a detailed research project to assess global examples of effective advocacy programmes in the relevant sector.

Project and team management

• Act as the team manager overseeing all aspects of relevant project delivery.

Strategy and Planning

• Developing and implementing advocacy and engagement strategies to deliver on client objectives
• Providing clients with strategic advice to guide the evolution of strategy and engagement as the project evolves.

Technical advisory and leadership on advocacy

• Providing technical advisory and input into client’s positioning, messaging, and advocacy strategy to ensure it accurately and effectively represents their project objectives.

Network and team management

• Utilising strong interpersonal skills and subject knowledge, the successful candidate will act as the relationship manager for a broad range of stakeholders.
• The candidate will also manage a support team of africapractice consultants and associate consultants, working closely with the regional client service team to ensure optimal delivery.

Reporting

• The candidate will be required to co-ordinate all project reporting, both internally within the network and externally with clients.

Financial Management

• Managing project budgets
• Ensuring profitability of accounts with a per capita revenue/staff utilization rate

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• More than 8 years’ experience in advocacy or similar advisory roles in Africa, with a proven track record of project management, devising strategies and organisational development.
• Financial services and/or financial inclusion specific experience and knowledge is strongly preferred.
• Strong consulting background, disciplined analytical thinking and effective management style.
• Outstanding presentation, written and verbal communications skills.
• Capability to build and manage complex and sensitive stakeholder relationships (including government relations) and provide senior counsel to clients.
• Masters or MBA degree from a respected institution.

If Interested please click the ‘Apply’ button.

Deadline- 30/11/2019

POSITION: Associate Consultant/Consultant

LOCATION: Lagos, Nigeria

LINE MANAGER: SENIOR CONSULTANT

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Full-time, Permanent & Pensionable

ROLE PROFILE: 

Monitoring, Research & Analysis

• Evaluate the effects of policies and laws on government, businesses and people
• Advise clients based on market insights and expertise
• Monitor current events, policy decisions and legislation changes
• Stay up-to-date with, and forecast, political, economic and social trends and developments
• Provide original, concise, well structured and detailed commercial and political research and analysis materials  that show an understanding of the clients requirements
• Present research and analysis in well drafted reports, or by giving presentations and publishing articles
• Develop Africa- and industry-specific  expertise and network through reading, research and attendance at relevant seminars, and establish contacts and sources to use in future research

Client Support:

Business Development:

• Provide background research and intelligence for pitches and meetings with potential clients
• Participate in marketing events
• Proactively seek opportunities to increase AP’s visibility across the region

MIN REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

3 year(s)

MIN QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor’s Degree

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 3 years’ demonstrated professional experience
• Must be eligible to work in Nigeria
• Experience of operating within a commercial environment
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Sound reasoning and critical thinking
• Good grasp of political and economic affairs
• Ability to synthesise large amounts of information in a concise manner while extracting pertinent insights
• Proficiency in MS Applications
• Willingness to learn

Do you want to join a dynamic, purpose-driven and ambitious company? Please send us your CV together with a cover letter explaining why you think you are suited to this position. Please specify your availability and send the application with the reference ‘C Lagos’’ to Oyetola Adesanmi, the HR & Office Manager at oadesanmi@africapractice.com .

Deadline – 14/11/2019

Position: Consultant, Strategic Communications

Location: London, UK

Line manager: Director

Type of contract: Full-time, Permanent & Pensionable

We are recruiting for a Consultant to join our London team, which acts as the international hub for the group. The role will primarily be delivered in English but strong French language skills will be essential as several of our clients operate in Francophone Africa.

Role Purpose

• Manage strategic communications mandates for clients
• Lead engagement with international, pan-African business and trade media
• Create outstanding content and design and deliver compelling digital engagement programmes

Responsibilities

Client service 

• Manage client servicing on strategic communications mandates (leadership positioning, issues management and crisis communications, corporate communications, public diplomacy, advocacy and media relations)
• Build relationships with clients as a trusted advisor on complex issues
• Manage assigned accounts efficiently and profitably
• Create outstanding written and multimedia content designed to tell intriguing stories and connect with the target audience
• Apply strong digital skills to design and execute creative, distinctive and data-driven advocacy strategies
• Design and deliver innovative and effective media relations strategies to build and defend client reputation and establish a strong leadership position
• Demonstrate industry knowledge and insights in sectors reflecting your clients’ business (likely to be primarily private equity, development, agribusiness, FMCG, infrastructure, Government)

Business Development

• Develop proposals with guidance from directors
• Design and deliver marketing and thought leadership initiatives to generate new business leads and build Africa Practice’s profile and reputation amongst core target audiences

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Proven track record (3-5 years’ experience) designing and delivering strategic communications mandates for blue chip clients
• High level, current media contacts with international, pan-African and specialist trade media
• Strong digital skills (social media listening and engagement; production of creative digital multimedia content)
• Outstanding consulting skills, confident media relations specialist, robust project management skills, astute analytical capability, strategic thinking and effective management and team working style, proven ability to counsel clients in periods of crisis
• Industry experience in several of the following sectors: private equity, development finance, development, agribusiness, FMCG, infrastructure, technology
• Outstanding written and verbal presentation and communications skills – ability to influence and persuade
• Proven ability to build and manage complex and sensitive client and stakeholder relationships
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic working environment
• Knowledge of African media, business trends and dynamics
• Fluency in French

Do you want to join a dynamic, purpose-driven and ambitious company? Please send us your CV together with a covering letter explaining why you think you are suited to this position. Please specify your availability and send the application with the reference ‘Consultant, Strategic Communication, London’ to Modiri Nlanda, Group HR Manager at hr@africapractice.com .

Deadline: 14/10/2019

Position: Digital Services Manager

Location: Applications accepted from our hub locations in Nairobi, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Botswana or London.

Line manager: Director, Digital Services

Type of contract: Full-time, Permanent & Pensionable

Africa Practice is a strategic advisory firm, operating at the nexus of industry and government. We supply insights and advocacy solutions to corporations, investors, governments and foundations in Africa, enabling them to unlock value to drive sustainable and equitable development.

About the role

Africa Practice’s digital solutions provide our clients with data driven insights, actionable intelligence and smart engagement capability. Our class leading stakeholder management platform, InGauge, is used by leading companies and governments across the continent. We are committed to growing and developing our digital portfolio, alongside our established consulting practice, to provide clients with a world class user experience across all touch-points and support their transformation journey.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the centre of our company and network, working closely with our Digital Services Director (DSD) and our small but brilliant digital team, to bring user experience and high quality digital services to everything we do; continuously improving our information environment and ways of working, providing our consultants with user-centric apps and services and creating world class solutions for our clients.

Job Description

Technical infrastructure, support and services

• Maintain and administer our cloud platforms, infrastructure and core technologies
• Manage our 1st and 2nd line technical support function with escalation points
• Help us to evaluate, procure and manage excellent working relationships with technical suppliers and partners
• Manage the product roadmap for digital solutions, including hands on oversight of external technical delivery teams as appropriate
• Establish, maintain and drive best practice information security and management standards and policies across the group.

‘Internal’ digital services and knowledge management

• Work closely with Ops, Client Service and other stakeholders to design, prototype and roll out user centric systems and services to underpin our world class consulting capability
• Build understanding and awareness of digital best practices, design thinking and agile management approaches
• Monitor and promote adoption of digital services through a combination of hands on training, rich media user guidance and by helping to upskill our team of digital champions.

Client facing digital solutions

• Work closely alongside AP consultants to evaluate client requirements and assess the potential and fit for digital solutions as an adjunct to consulting services or through SaaS
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to design, pitch, promote and deliver digital solutions, supporting roll outs and adoption by clients.

Skills and Experience

• This is a mid-level role. You will have proven skills, experience and employment record, having studied computer science or equivalent relevant subject to at least degree level.

• Demonstrable experience as part of a software delivery team, as an engineer, data scientist, digital project manager, or UX designer

• Our ideal candidate is a true digital native; creative and hands on with a passion for everything new and good the connected world has to offer

• You will be collaborative, solution-focused, organised, analytical and great with people – with the ability to influence and build relationships across the organisation – confident training and supporting a distributed network of people to use and understand digital technologies and the opportunities they bring

• Comfortable with design thinking and visual thinking approaches – supporting multidisciplinary teams to design, prototype and test ideas in a user centric and insight driven way

• Awareness, exposure and interest in working to best international quality standards across all aspects of our information systems and our software development and deployment practices.

Specific skills : highly desirable

• Experience of administering and automating digital/cloud systems, products and services, especially in a lean/agile professional services environment, e.g. Google Suite, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce, AWS, Azure
• Agile project management, e.g.  scrum, kanban
• Digital product management : user experience design, user stories & journeys, creating and managing a backlog through test and delivery
• Technologies : Html5 , css3, php, javascript; other scripting languages e.g. Google script; visual & front end frameworks, e.g. React, Vue.js, D3.js; WordPress
• Devops : managing github or other code repo; server administration, deployment automation
• Rapid application development : e.g. Google App Maker, MS Power Apps, Salesforce Lightning.

If Interested please click the ‘Apply’ button. For an informal chat ping Steen Joffe via Linkedin

Location: Johannesburg, SA

Line manager: Director, Southern Africa

Type of contract: Full-time, 2-years, pensionable

We are recruiting for a Consultant to join our Johannesburg team, which acts as the regional hub for Southern Africa and supports Pan-African mandates of the group. The role will primarily be delivered in English but strong French language skills would be a major advantage as several of our clients operate in Francophone Africa.

Role Purpose

• Manage strategic communications mandates for clients
• Lead engagement with international, pan-African business and trade media
• Create outstanding content and design and deliver compelling digital engagement programmes

Responsibilities

Client service 

• Manage client servicing on strategic communications mandates (leadership positioning, issues management and crisis communications, corporate communications, public diplomacy, advocacy and media relations)
• Build relationships with clients as a trusted advisor on complex issues
• Manage assigned accounts efficiently and profitably
• Create outstanding written and multimedia content designed to tell intriguing stories and connect with the target audience
• Apply strong digital skills to design and execute creative, distinctive and data-driven advocacy strategies
• Design and deliver innovative and effective media relations strategies to build and defend client reputation and establish a strong leadership position
• Demonstrate industry knowledge and insights in sectors reflecting your clients’ business (likely to be primarily private equity, development, agribusiness, FMCG, infrastructure, Government)

Business Development

• Develop proposals with guidance from directors
• Design and deliver marketing and thought leadership initiatives to generate new business leads and build Africa Practice’s profile and reputation amongst core target audiences

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Proven track record (3-5 years’ experience) designing and delivering strategic communications mandates for blue chip clients
• High level, current media contacts with international, pan-African and specialist trade media
• Strong digital skills (social media listening and engagement; production of creative digital multimedia content)
• Outstanding consulting skills, confident media relations specialist, robust project management skills, astute analytical capability, strategic thinking and effective management and team working style, proven ability to counsel clients in periods of crisis
• Industry experience in several of the following sectors: private equity, development finance, development, agribusiness, FMCG, infrastructure, technology
• Outstanding written and verbal presentation and communications skills – ability to influence and persuade
• Proven ability to build and manage complex and sensitive client and stakeholder relationships
• Demonstrated experience in the design and execution of multichannel, segmented digital content strategy – using analytics for data driven design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic working environment
• Knowledge of African media, business trends and dynamics

Do you want to join a dynamic, purpose-driven and ambitious company? Please send us your CV together with a covering letter explaining why you think you are suited to this position. Please specify your availability and send the application with the reference ‘Consultant, Strategic Communication, Johannesburg’

Deadline: 30/11/2019

POSITION: Associate Consultant

LOCATION: Johannesburg, South Africa

LINE MANAGER: Consultant

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Full-time, 2-years, pensionable

ROLE PROFILE: 

Monitoring, Research & Analysis

• Monitor current events, policy decisions and legislation changes
• Stay up-to-date with, and forecast, political, economic and social trends and developments
• Provide original, concise, well structured and detailed commercial and political research and analysis materials that show an understanding of the clients requirements
• Present research and analysis in well drafted reports, or by giving presentations and publishing articles
• Evaluate the effects of policies and laws on government, businesses and people
• Develop Africa- and industry-specific expertise and network through reading, research and attendance at relevant seminars, and establish contacts and sources to use in future research

Client Support:

Business Development:

• Provide background research and intelligence for pitches and meetings with potential clients
• Participate in marketing events
• Proactively seek opportunities to increase AP’s visibility across the region

MIN REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

2 year(s)

MIN QUALIFICATION:

Bachelor’s Degree

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 2 years’ demonstrated professional experience
• Must be eligible to work in South Africa
• Experience of operating within a commercial environment
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Sound reasoning and critical thinking
• Good grasp of political and economic affairs
• Ability to synthesise large amounts of information in a concise manner while extracting pertinent insights
• Creative nature and ability to present complex information in a visual manner
• Proficiency in MS Applications, incl. excellent power point skills
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to learn

Do you want to join a dynamic, purpose-driven and ambitious company? Please send us your CV together with a cover letter explaining why you think you are suited to this position. Please specify your availability and send the application with the reference ‘Associate Consultant, Johannesburg’’

Deadline – 30/11/2019