Available Positions

Research & Learning Associate

1 open positions

We are looking for a Research and Learning Associate who can transform information into clear, decision-ready outputs that guide programs, policy, and advisory work.

This role is centered on understanding context, structuring thinking, and producing high-quality written outputs. It requires the ability to work with information from multiple sources, engage directly with underlying data and materials, interpret meaning, identify gaps, and translate this into insights and recommendations that can be used without further translation.

The role operates across multiple assignments and geographies, including in-country, regional, and Africa-wide work. It demands consistency, speed, and the ability to maintain quality under pressure.

This is not a technical processing role. It is a thinking and output-driven role that requires judgement, clarity, and professional communication.

The ideal candidate is one that is able to take information that is incomplete, complex, or spread across multiple sources and convert it into outputs that are clear, coherent, and directly usable for decision-making.

You are able to independently develop high-quality proposals and technical documents that are competitive and submission ready. Your work consistently requires minimal revision, demonstrates strong judgement, and reflects a clear understanding of both the information and the context in which it sits. You maintain quality while delivering at speed and across multiple assignments.

What This Role Requires

  • Strong ability to interpret information within context, linking findings to real-world systems, markets, institutions, and behaviours

  • Ability to work with raw, incomplete, and unstructured information, extracting meaning, identifying patterns, and building coherent narratives

  • Capacity to interrogate information, challenge assumptions, identify inconsistencies, and resolve them through validation and triangulation

  • Ability to engage directly with underlying datasets and source materials, ensuring all outputs are grounded in evidence and are analytically sound 

  • Proven ability to develop clear insights and recommendations, moving beyond summaries to implications, trade-offs, and actions

  •  Excellent professional writing and documentation skills, producing structured, concise, and high-quality outputs suitable for advisory and development contexts

  • Strong presentation and formatting capability, ensuring outputs across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and similar tools are clear, consistent, and professionally delivered

  • Demonstrated ability to develop complete technical proposals independently, including interpreting Terms of Reference, structuring methodologies, and producing submission-ready documents

  • Strong structuring capability, organizing complex information into clear, logical outputs with no gaps, overlaps, or contradictions

  • Ability to maintain coherence across large deliverables, ensuring alignment between sections, arguments, and conclusions

  • Capacity to deliver at pace and volume, managing multiple assignments and parallel deliverables without compromising quality

  • Ability to translate guided direction into high-quality outputs, requiring minimal iteration

What This Role Is Not

  • Not suited for individuals who rely on tools without applying judgement or understanding context

  • Not suited for candidates who can analyze but cannot translate findings into clear, structured written outputs

  • Not suited for those who produce fragmented, inconsistent, or poorly organized work

  • Not suited for individuals without demonstrated experience producing complete, client-ready deliverables independently

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field

  • 3–5 years of experience in research, advisory, program support, or similar roles

  • Demonstrated experience producing high-quality reports, proposals, and analytical outputs

  • Proven experience in end-to-end proposal development, with evidence of independently producing competitive submissions

  • Experience working across multiple sectors, countries, or regional assignments is an added advantage

Kampala, Uganda

Investment Associate

1 open positions

Job Title: Investment Associate

Reports to: Manager, Investment Advisory


Job Scope

The Investment Associate will support the Investment Advisory team by executing strategic investment tasks and providing detailed financial analysis. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, asset management, or a related field. This role requires strong analytical skills, market research capabilities, and the ability to develop and implement investment strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supervise the Analysts within the Investment Advisory Department.
  • Conduct market research and build business cases to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or organizational transformation. 
  • Leverage innovative thinking, structured macro analyses and adaptive problem-solving skills to inform planning and data-driven advisory provided to clients in the public and 3rd sector with the objective of aiding future investment decisions of national and regional impact. 
  • Provide investment advice, tactics and recommendations. This should be using applicable methodologies of investment appraisal, valuation and portfolio management. 
  • Perform reviews of spreadsheets, data computing platforms and reports to ensure accuracy, consistency and clear communication of results. 
  • Provide on the job training to junior analysts as well as participate in the delivery of other technical trainings within the firm. 
  • Present findings and reports to clients and manage client and investor relationships 
  • Quantitative and Qualitative analysis of data with ability to identify and infer key highlights about historic or current performance to establish the indicative future performance of a sector/business. 
  • Term Sheet development and negotiation of the same 
  • Development of plans to support the progression of companies through the deal pipeline. This involves the creation and oversight of investment readiness activities such as review of training materials, provision of strategic advice and interaction of digital assessment and management platforms.  
  • Managing the fundraising process, i.e. from deal sourcing activities to grow the deal pipeline, matching of existing pipeline to investors and managing investor engagements through to deal closing 
  • Perform process mapping field visits to each of the selected enterprises. 
  • Monitor and analyse data collected from enterprises. 
  • Develop and review complex excel based financial models and use them to create and implement new modelling and forecasting strategies. 
  • Adaptively write reports communicating key insights, performance, and other key trends for a variety of clients/audiences. 
  • Support business owners during strategic discussions and recommendations for process improvements with the objective of improving business profitability. 
  • Organize and facilitate coaching meetings, to show detailed outcomes, and strategies to be recommended. 
  • Document reports that demonstrate progress and key performance milestones related to the coaching of all the enterprises, improvement in business management, reporting of expected results, and the number of beneficiaries reached. 
  • Project management support on current investment and business advisory projects.    

Qualifications and Experience

  • Graduate with a second-class upper degree and above in Engineering or any quantitative field.
  • MBA or related Master’s level qualification would be highly desired 
  • +3 years relevant working experience in providing investment or consulting services to businesses. 
  • Openness to learning the automation process of data analysis and related development of back-end technology for the same 
  • Strong report writing skills that are adaptable for a variety of audiences. Evidence of these skills are an added advantage. 
  • Interest in data analytics, business strategy, and investment research. 
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and/or SQL. 
  • Strong, pro-active communication skills.
  • Displays a high level of energy and personal commitment to teamwork.
  • Able to take on tasks outside of academic specialties. 
  • Strong analytic and quantitative skills. 
  • Passionate about solving problems, creating impact, and thinking innovatively and creatively to deliver value in their work

 


Kampala, Uganda
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