Title:  Senior Consultant

Job Purpose

JESA Advisory & Digital Solutions is the management consulting business unit of JESA, delivering consultancy services for JESA clients in industry, infrastructure and urban development throughout Africa.

We collaborate with continent’s largest and critical institutions to address their most complex opportunities, encompassing intertwined stakes and challenges (economic, technical, environmental, social). 

Our services are structured around three broad lines: Strategy, Operations & Digital. We deliver superior value to our clients by combining business & management perspective with technology, engineering and execution capabilities in our expertise sectors (Mining, chemicals, manufacturing, agribusiness, energy, water, transportation, cities, real estate, social infrastructure).

We are aiming to attract, onboard and develop exceptional Senior Consultants to build a strong people group and deliver on our strong growth perspectives.

As a consultant, you will be at the center of integrated project teams from different backgrounds and disciplines working on complex challenges. You will collaborate with team of other consultants, managers, principals & experts to deliver key project streams. You will actively participate in project definition, problem solving, recommendation development and client interaction to deliver superior value in every engagement.

Main Scope/Responsibilities

• Owning issue definition and structuring for a significant scope
• Conceptualizing path to impact and resolution methodology
• Screening data sources, collecting and processing relevant quantitative and qualitative data 
• Imagining, designing and performing analyses to support resolution methodology
• Interacting with internal and client stakeholders to challenge and strengthen analyses 
• Developing reports to support oral and written communication for owned scope
• Leading presentation of recommendations to client teams
• Collaborate with internal and client teams to implement recommendations and action plans
• Coaching junior team members supporting your scope

• Professional Mobility to different locations as required by the assigned project.

Education

• Bac +5
• Curricula: Top Tier engineering & business institutions from Africa, Europe & North America (Grandes Ecoles, top universities)
  • Part or whole of International education is a plus
• Personal attributes
  • Passion for Africa development (economic, social & human) and future looking to tackle continent’s biggest challenges & opportunities
  • Interest in our target sectors (industry, infrastructure and urban development) and underlying technologies
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Curiosity, openness, collaboration, flexibility, personal drive, can-do attitude

Global Experience

•  4 to 6 years

Specific Experience in the position

• 1st experience in consulting
• 1st experience in target sectors (industry, infrastructure and urban development) is a strong plus
• International / African experience is a plus
• 1st management experience is a plus