Entry Level Job Opening at McKinsey & Company

Job Field:             Consultancy

Job description

The Africa Delivery Hub is a quickly growing team within McKinsey addressing complex public, societal and government challenges within a new Firm delivery mode. We are looking to add ADH consultants in our Johannesburg and Nairobi offices.*

* Local language skills and knowledge/experience highly preferred

Detailed Description

The ADH develops and implements exciting social sector or government programs such as reforming primary schools in South Africa, implementing special economic zones in Kenya or transforming power infrastructure across African countries. Associates and analysts will work on projects that are typically longer-term, more tangible, and with a greater focus on leadership and coaching of client teams.

Possible Involvement / Work Types

·         Client Engagement 
Work exclusively with governments, donors, and senior leaders in civil service on transformational challenges in economic development by building capabilities,
overseeing transformation, and delivering policy solutions. 

·         Client Development
Partake in client development and workshops for new and current clients and write proposals for new client engagements. 

·         Knowledge building and transfer 
Participate in and lead internal knowledge building initiatives and contribute to industry conferences and workshops. 

Targeted Impact 

African economies possess high potential for social and economic development but often lack the necessary skills to achieve their developmental potential. McKinsey’s ADH consultants apply their knowledge of international development topics to advise clients or provide expert backup and support to client teams. Specific contributions will vary depending on skills and experience, but could include:

·         Driving Delivery 
Support client teams to rapidly identify and prioritize actions for, and executing on, client strategy to deliver on critical targets. 

·         Coaching 
Provide ongoing, targeted capability-building of teams and/or individuals in context-specific skills, performance management, problem-solving, and analytics to enable
them to more effectively deliver results. 

·         Problem-solving 
Analyze data to identify opportunities and drive performance. Help clients to surface issues and bottlenecks and develop tactical action plans to quickly resolve them. Identify and disseminate lessons learned and best practices across clients.

·         Managing performance 
Co-create performance targets and milestones with clients. Set up and manage project management systems to track performance. Support client to aggressively minimize bottlenecks to progress.

·         Specializing 
Hone specific technical/sectorial expertise to offer specialist delivery support (e.g. agriculture sector delivery) to clients with targeted needs. 

Desired Skills

 ·         We are looking for individuals with 0-3 years of experience in a development-consulting style position or working in a public or social sector institution.

·         Backgrounds in electric power, health, agriculture, and education are most desirable with a strong focus on applicants with experience working in Africa.

·         Applicants should demonstrate sound reasoning and critical thinking skills, impressive academic achievement and a passion for working on the economic development of Africa.

·         Minimum 4 year degree (or equivalent) required.

*Kindly condense your resume to 2 pages or less
*Include all test scores, honors, grades and/or GPAs
*References not required 

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should apply on McKinsey & Company Career Page on LinkedIn

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What to Expect
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