YOUNG PROFESSIONALS’ INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT - 2025 INTAKE

at  Genesis

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS’ INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT - 2025 INTAKE

Imagine being part of a dynamic firm making a significant global impact.
Genesis Analytics, an impact firm headquartered in Africa, has worked in 52 African countries and more than 115 countries globally. Uniquely, Genesis is focused on the Young World – the arc of countries with young populations stretching across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.
In a world undergoing convulsive technological and political change, Genesis partners with key actors to deliver urgent, lasting impact in critical areas.

These are three ways in which Genesis works differently:

• We combine global reach and country depth. More than 80% of our staff live in our impact countries, and bring deep knowledge and networks to bear on our work. Change happens at a local level, but needs to be informed by global experience.
• We work pro-actively. We identify transformative opportunities to unlock social value. Then we cooperate to marshal the funding, technology and alignment required.
• We blend human engagement and technology to overcome barriers and achieve scale. We have a proven ability to build coalitions for change, find joint solutions, and sustain peer-to-peer learning. Our engagement processes are backed by on-point analytics utilising sophisticated primary data capabilities that we have inside Genesis.

We have expertise in diverse fields such as behavioural sciences; competition economics and regulation; climate finance and economics; the digital economy and regulation; economic impact assessment; financial services strategy; gender human development; monitoring, evaluation and learning; public health and financing; shared value and corporate impact; and youth employment. Some of our best work has been through combining our complementary areas of expertise to find fresh solutions.
Genesis is expanding at a rapid rate, and we welcome new talent into our firm.
About Genesis’ International Graduate Intake
As part of the firm’s growth, Genesis recruits cohorts of young talent each year. These candidates may be newly or recently qualified graduates, as well as early career professionals who aim to do meaningful work to bring about positive change and development. Successful candidates join as young professionals from the outset.
Our International round is aligned to the UK academic year and focuses on target universities in the UK, Kenya, Ethiopia and beyond. We are especially interested in ‘returning Africans’, that is African nationals who have completed their education abroad but are keen to return to their home countries to commence their international career. We welcome applications from SA students but our major recruitment round for them is in the beginning of each year in South Africa aligned to their academic year.
Each successful applicant joins as an analyst in a home practice where you will grow and develop as a world-class consultant within a specialist area of expertise.

Our Practice Areas:

• Centre of Digital Excellence
• Climate Finance and Economics
• Competition and Regulatory Economics
• Evaluation for Development
• Financial Services Strategy
• Health
• Human Development
• Shared Value and Impact

What our work offers:
We offer a steep learning curve while providing an opportunity to make a difference and build your career. We will invest in your professional development through on-the-job learning, regular feedback and mentoring, structured training and coaching programmes, as well as a career ladder.

In addition, the Genesis offer includes:

• Doing work that matters, from day 1, often in countries other than your own
• A fertile ground for learning enabled by our internal flat structure. You’ll work in high performance teams within a collaborative and supportive culture
• Building your skills and confidence to enable you to make an impact and develop as an expert in your field
• Exposure to projects, solving real and high-impact problems alongside clients in the public-, private, and donor sectors
• Becoming part of the solution – helping rewrite the script of how impact firms can bring about change at scale in complex situations

The work you will do:

You will work with Genesis colleagues in teams to help our clients unlock and realise value. In each project, you will be involved in responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Performing rigorous data analysis using both conceptual and quantitative approaches
• Applying specialist thinking and logic to problem-solving
• Preparing clearly thought-out and logically written documentation
• Performing relevant research related to projects to source required data
• Cleaning data to make it project-specific and relevant
• Vetting information to ensure accuracy
• Client interaction and negotiation
• Building intellectual capacity and property.

Click on the links below to where colleagues share more about Genesis:

• Founder, Chair, Stephan Malherbe’s introduction to a career a Genesis
• Nana, Human Development
• Amy, Competition and Regulatory Economics
• Mncedisi, Health
• Adriaan, Financial Services Strategy
• Korstiaan, Centre of Digital Excellence
• Belinda, Climate Finance and Economics
• Emma, Shared Value and Impact
• Mishkah, Evaluation for Development

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, resilient and energetic problem solvers
• Value integrity and exhibit ethical behaviour
• Are analytical thinkers and fast learners with an excellent tertiary record.

In addition, preferred candidates will possess the following skills and competencies:

• Postgraduate degrees in Economics or related disciplines, Development Studies, International Development, Public Policy, Policy Evaluation, Public Health (Epidemiology), Health Economics, Behavioural Science, PPE, Sustainability, Climate Change, Global Studies, Programme Evaluation
• Master’s degrees in any of the above-mentioned disciplines are an advantage
• Leadership potential, with the capability to lead and manage projects
• Ability to solve problems through clear thinking, with strong qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills in English

We hire young talent with the belief that they can become partners at Genesis. Each step of your career journey depends on your performance.
Location:
Genesis is a globally distributed firm. We believe that early career professionals benefit from spending time in person with their colleagues. As such we prefer to hire analysts in our hub locations. Thereafter a hybrid work week is commonplace with working days split between time in the office and WFH.
We have hubs in: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Lagos Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Goa and London. Candidates must already hold the legal right to work in the location they apply for. Although preference will be given for candidates to be based in our African offices, the Human Development practice, in particular, is keen to identify talent for their Goa hub

• Performing rigorous data analysis using both conceptual and quantitative approaches
• Applying specialist thinking and logic to problem-solving
• Preparing clearly thought-out and logically written documentation
• Performing relevant research related to projects to source required data
• Cleaning data to make it project-specific and relevant
• Vetting information to ensure accuracy
• Client interaction and negotiation
• Building intellectual capacity and property