Analyst,Early-Stage Finance (ESF) at FSD Africa

• Collaborate with the pillar team to align pillar research and partnership agenda with FSD Africa’s broader objectives and research priorities.
• Develop a research plan with clear methodologies and timelines, leveraging sources such as industry reports, expert interviews, and databases.
• Conduct regular market research on all aspects of Africa’s early-stage financing ecosystem, including trends, gaps and opportunities, as well as bespoke research priorities as required.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a robust digital knowledge and partnership management system to ensure relevant data is easily accessible and actionable.

• Collaborate with the ESF team, other pillars/Centre of Excellence and cross-functional teams to understand ESF analysis needs.
• Conduct research and analysis to identify and assess the viability of project opportunities, drawing from a range of sources and adhering to best practices in research methodology.
• Produce insightful research outputs (e.g. databases, reports, position papers, slide decks) tailored to team needs, enabling informed project decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support project proposal development through to project approval, leveraging research and analysis to contribute to new initiatives.

• Review and analyse implementing partner narrative and financial reports, ensuring alignment with project objectives and tracking development impact and EDI performance metrics.
• Support risk assessment and monitoring processes for all projects, identifying challenges and proposing mitigation strategies.
• Participate in project progress meetings, taking minutes and following up on agreed actions and research as required.
• Support ESF team in management of relationships with implementing partners, external consultants and other stakeholders.
• Assist in enhancing reporting templates, processes and dashboards to improve data collection and decision-making across the pillar.

• Support the pillar team in the creation of blogs, reports, slide decks and other materials to share key insights on the early-stage financing ecosystem and highlight the pillar’s work.
• Contribute to the creation of knowledge-sharing materials for dissemination to internal and external stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant subject and 2 years of experience or Higher Diploma in relevant subject with 3 years of experience
• Excellent skills in written and spoken English

• At least 1 year of experience as an Analyst conducting market research and analysis.
• Demonstrated knowledge in Africa’s early-stage financing, including supply, demand and trends.
• Track record of effective project management with experience of using relevant tools or trackers
• Solid understanding of good research practice with a track record of undertaking quality research, analysing and processing data effectively, evaluation and report production

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