Insight Junior Analyst – Côte d’ivoire (E4Y)  (Full Time)

About ESPartners

ESPartners (Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners) is a leading consultancy founded in 2010 in Washington DC, dedicated to fostering sustainable enterprise development across Africa. With regional offices in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) and Kigali (Rwanda), we serve West, Central, East, and Southern Africa.

Our mission is to empower African entrepreneurs with the tools for sustainable success. We deliver “Intelligent Capital™” – a unique combination of insights and funding – through two key practice areas:

• SCALE: Supporting entrepreneurs from ideation to acceleration, with access to diverse financing solutions
• INSIGHTS: Providing innovative consulting services for sustainable development through value chain optimization and business strategy

ESPartners has four core values expressed via P.A.C.E.: Passion, Agility, Collaboration and Equity.

Position Overview

Reporting to Manager Insights, the successful candidate is an essential member of the team and actively participates in projects. He/she is involved in documentary research, analyzes as well as in the production and restitution of clients’ deliverables. 

At ESPartners, you will work on strategic issues and will benefit from the opportunity to participate in briefings, working and feedback sessions with clients in the field. You will be exposed through the various projects to the tools and methodologies developed and used by ESPartners.

You will collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex problems from diverse perspectives and developing new skills and experience to help you at every step of your career—at ESPartners and beyond. You will receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching from teams. 

You will work within a multicultural team with different profiles, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement: this includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations. You will also have the opportunity to present results to clients’ management and implement recommendations in collaboration with clients’ team members.

Duties and Responsibilities

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated Junior Analyst. More specifically, you will participate in : 

• Review of literature.
• Data collection and data manipulation and analysis – survey, interviews, focus groups;
• Production of data sets and presentations against our objectives / deliverables;
• Preparation of briefings, working and feedback sessions;
• Case study / benchmark conception;
• Writing of final reports.
• Identification of new business opportunities and the writing of proposals and presentation to clients 

Required Qualifications

• Master Degree in Economics, Statistics, Finance or any other related field
• 1 to 2 years of professional experience in a strategy consulting firm (would be an asset)
• Demonstrated career trajectory – evidence of taking on larger responsibilities and/or more senior roles (even during your undergrad);
• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis;
• Demonstrated aptitude for strategy consulting, data analysis, economic modeling and/or competitiveness; 
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing;
• Ability to transform complex data in to easily digested actionable insight;
• You are meticulous and pay attention to detail;
• You are a solid team player who’s also an independent thinker;
• Deadline-driven, organized and able to multitask;
• Strong presentation skills;
• Endless curiosity and a penchant for challenging the impossible;
• Strong computing skills (Word processing, PowerPoint and Excel);
• Good knowledge of statistical software (CSPRO, STATA, SPSS, SPAD)
• Good knowledge of data collection platforms (Surveymoney, SurveyCTO)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills;
• Ability to build relationships with various stakeholders.

We offer

• An opportunity to become part of a highly professional, motivated, and dynamic team. 
• A unique opportunity to have a strong impact in building the African entrepreneurial sector. 
• An entrepreneurial adventure to be lived daily. 
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train / Help the next generation of entrepreneurs. 
• A structuring and expanding initiative. 
• Access to a high-level network 
• A good opportunity to challenge and grow with a competitive rewarding package. 

How to apply

Please send your CV, cover letter and two (02) references to the following email address, specifying the job title:

esptalent@espartners.co