Postgraduate Consultant_Singapore

Job Title
Postgraduate Consultant_Singapore

Business/Department
Dalberg Advisors

Job Category
Consulting

Location
Singapore, SG (multi-location)

Closing Date
1/12/2024

Job Description
Maximize your potential. Tackle the world’s toughest problems.
Build expertise in areas that matter to you. Become a global development leader.

Note:

• Employment in all the Dalberg offices is conditional on the candidate having or obtaining the requisite authorization to live and work in that country.
• Your application must include a resumeand anassignment.
• The hiring team will be reviewing your application post the requisition closes on December 01, and should they find your background fit for the role; they will contact shortlisted candidates latest by the mid of December.

ABOUT DALBERG
We are a global group working to build a more sustainable planet and inclusive societies where all people can thrive. As a diverse, purpose-driven community of professionals, it works in collaboration with local communities and global networks to create bold and equitable solutions and develop the next generation of impact leaders. Dalberg brings together strategy and management consulting, equity-centered community design, data, research, implementation, and communications to achieve its mission of solving the most pressing challenges of our time through systemic change.

ABOUT DALBERG ADVISORS
Dalberg Advisors is a strategic advisory firm combining the best of private sector strategy skills and rigorous analytical capabilities with deep knowledge and networks across emerging and frontier markets. We work collaboratively across the public, private and philanthropic sectors to fuel inclusive growth and help clients achieve their goals.

ABOUT YOU
You aspire to become a leader in global development by tackling global issues, from malnutrition to climate change to economic inequality, ensuring no population is left behind. You enjoy working hard and collaborating with teams across continents and cultures. You are a problem-solver and excel at clear strategic thinking and quantitative and qualitative analysis, and you want to hone these skills and put them to work – transforming organizations, advising investors, and shaping new initiatives. You are an entrepreneur that is ready to jump in and help us take our firm to the next level. You have been a top performer in your previous career. You are passionate about development.

Typical qualifications for a Postgraduate Consultant:

• Full-time graduate student pursuing an MBA, MPA, MPP, and/or other similar degrees with expected graduation dates of May/June 2026, or May/June 2025 for one-year graduate programs
• Excellent academic record
• Experience working in a leading international management consultancy firm, financial services firm or similar type of private sector experience; or experience working in a strategic role for a high-performing social or public-sector organization
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative
• Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner, both written and oral
• Demonstrated ability to bring big ideas to life, build impact-oriented enterprises, and lead teams to accomplish ambitious goals
• Understanding of the political and cultural environments of international organizations or environments
• In addition, if you have skills or abilities in the following areas, please be sure to let us know in your application:
  • Fluency in spoken and written languages other than English, such as Mandarin, is a plus
  • Experience with financial analysis, excel, STATA
  • In-depth knowledge on specific topics related to Dalberg’s work
  • Demonstrated ability to innovate new programs, ideas or initiative

WHAT YOU WILL DO AND HOW YOU WILL GROW
You will drive the creation of innovative and results-oriented solutions for Dalberg’s clients – helping us change the development landscape around the world. Dalberg Postgraduate Consultants take ownership of key aspects of the client’s challenges, initiate critical and creative thinking on these strategic issues, lead research and complicated analyses and contribute to developing our relationships with clients.

Examples of recent projects that Dalberg consultants have worked on include creating a macro-economic plan for the Government of Ethiopia to accelerate industrial growth, designing a major foundation’s strategy to control sleeping sickness in Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries, and launching a new impact investment fund for agriculture in Nigeria.

Dalberg is a platform for change. Our staff is empowered to start new programs, institute best practices, and develop traditions that will define the Dalberg experience for years to come. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not only valued at Dalberg; they are essential to our success. In addition to providing training, management-level advising, and mentoring, we empower Dalberg Postgraduate Consultants to learn by doing, engaging them as full members of project teams from day one.

The Dalberg Postgraduate Consultant Program, which is 08-10 weeks long, is one of the primary paths to full-time employment for Postgraduate Consultants at Dalberg Advisors. As a Postgraduate Consultant, you will get the opportunity to better understand what it would be like to work at Dalberg full-time, and we will have the opportunity to get to know you. Postgraduate Consultants will be considered for full-time offers to join the firm after graduation. Please note that applicants must be enrolled in a full-time graduate school program with an expected graduation date of May/June 2026 or May/June 2025 for one-year graduate programs.

ABOUT OUR CLIENTS
Our clients come to us with some of the most difficult global problems, seeking solutions where the obvious ones have failed. We are entrepreneurs and innovators, designers and creative problem solvers, thinkers, and doers who supply new ideas, drawing from a deep base of knowledge that cuts across sectors and geographies and is growing every day. We partner with and serve communities, governments, and companies throughout the world.

JOIN OUR TEAM
Our current opportunities for this role are in Singapore. You must have authorization to work in the country to which you are applying.

Please submit your application at our Career Centre by 11:59PM EST on Sunday, 1st December 2024
Your application should include a resume and an assignment
Resume noting current SAT/ACT and GPA, or British Class system and/or ECTS Grading as applicable, and current university transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable). In addition to your resume and transcript, please submit the following assignment:

Assignment: As part of our application process, we invite you to submit 01 (one) page slide deck in either PPT or PDF format (file size not exceeding 25 MB).

You are required to describe a Developmental Issue (e.g. health & nutrition, education but not limiting to these sectors) that you are passionate about.
Represent this issue as a newspaper headline you would like to publish on the front page, if given an opportunity. Additionally, explain your approach and reasoning for arriving at this headline.
You will be evaluated on the following parameters:

• Structured thinking
• Written communication
• Creativity

Please note that applications without this submission or exceed more than 01 (one) page submission will be automatically disqualified.
Location preference: Please select the first location preference for which you would like to be considered and have the requisite authorization to work.

During the same recruitment period, please only apply for one position at Dalberg. Candidates selected for interviews will be invited to interview by video. Interviews will test consulting skills through case questions and discuss the candidate’s interests and experience.

Dalberg values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. Qualified and interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, religion, background, or ethnic affiliation are encouraged to apply for the vacancy.

We have also pledged to three commitments for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) across the firm:

• COMMITMENT 1: We commit to publishing internal Dalberg DEI reports annually, to hold ourselves accountable, report on progress and share lessons from our regional DEI plans.
• COMMITMENT 2: We commit to delivering regular training for all staff (including leadership) on how to engender inclusive workplaces and mitigate unconscious bias.
• COMMITMENT 3: We commit to addressing imbalances in how power and privilege are formally distributed and informally exercised across the firm.