Associate Consultant, TechCabal Insights (TC Insights)

About Us Big Cabal Media tells the African stories that matter to Africans (on and off the continent) and to global audiences. Riding a wave of global distribution platforms seeking new stories and high-quality local content, and audiences that are consuming ever more content, Big Cabal is building the most exciting new media company to tell those stories. We create content in a wide range of formats for global distribution, under our two publications - TechCabal and Zikoko. TechCabal vividly captures the players, human impact and business of technology in Africa; providing the content, reporting, data and events to help the world understand where tech is taking Africa. Its intelligence and research unit, TechCabal Insights (TC Insights) provides actionable data on startups and the tech ecosystem across Africa to investors, entrepreneurs, big tech companies, regulators and other players on and off the continent. TC Insights is aiming to become one of the leading digital economy consultancies in Africa. Join us as we achieve our mission of providing answers and solutions for Africa’s digital economy. We’re interested in talented and adaptable professionals looking to do challenging and high-impact work in a collaborative environment. The Senior Consultant role is a managerial role and you will take a front seat in transitioning the unit to a leading digital economy consultancy. You will be involved in optimizing current processes and developing best practices that help us deliver value to our clients. What you will do 1) Help the team transition to a consultancy by optimizing processes and developing best practices. Identify potential clients and work with the team lead and BizDev team to develop proposals to address their briefs. 2) Manage client projects from scope definition to delivery. 3) Drive efforts to build the unit's content marketing stack for its consulting service. 4) Define the scope and methodology for data collection for industry reports and custom research, analyse data and then write and present reports to internal and external clients. 5) Responsible for scanning the industry for insights and trends and recording these in the team repository. 6) Being up to date on the latest trends in the industry and approaches to data collection. 7) Provide support to team lead wherever possible. The role is a full-time one but there will be a 3-month probation period. It’s a hybrid role with a few days in person.