Responsibilities
- Be the right arm of the projects directors and partners to ensure successful project acquisition and delivery
- Lead consulting projects, managing the client relationship, delivery team, and other key project stakeholders such as subject-matter experts
- Develop, train, and mentor associate consultants to acquire fundamental consulting skills while working together on live projects
- Structure workstreams to distribute tasks to the consulting team
- Structure and contribute to brainstorming and creative discussions internally as well as with clients to address policy and social challenges
- Develop analytical frameworks and methodologies to address policy, social, organizational, and implementation challenges as part of the project scope
- Structure and conduct research through secondary research as well as interviews and primary field-work research
- Engage with social sector stakeholders through interviews, focus group discussions, and workshops
- Analyse, structuring, and summarizing research findings and insights
- Represent visually insights, concepts, and approaches with effective and compelling design
- Present insights, concepts, and approaches to our team and our clients
- Support Dunecrest’s partners to develop their practice areas (Islamic Social Finance; Spatial Intelligence; Healthcare Innovation; Climate and Green Infrastructure; People & Teams)
- Develop analytical frameworks and methodologies to address project tender requirements
- Analyse, structure, and summarizing secondary research findings, data, and insights
- Represent visually data, analysis, insights, concepts, and approaches with effective and compelling design
Requirements
- Experience in leading consulting projects
- Ability to manage client relationships and delivery teams
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement including interviews, focus groups, and workshops
- Strong research skills including secondary research and primary field-work research
- Experience in developing analytical frameworks and methodologies
- Ability to visually represent insights, concepts, and approaches
- Experience presenting to teams and clients
- Mentorship experience in training junior consultants
Benefits
- Exposure to clients, senior management, and industry leaders
- Personal and professional development with training, mentoring, and coaching
- Fast-track promotion to Consulting Manager for high performers
- Health insurance
- Generous annual leave
- Performance bonus
- Co-working office budget
- Remote work policy when not travelling for project
- Technology tools and software
Work Arrangement
On-site
Team
Structure: Consulting team with projects directors, partners, associate consultants, and subject-matter experts
Additional Information
- Position involves travel to support project implementation on-site in the MENA region and sometimes other regions
- Remote work allowed when not travelling
- Technology tools and software provided
