Associate- Middle East and North Africa
2 months ago
An Associate is an entry-level position for regional, functional or sector practices. Associates support practice leads and other senior staff with scheduling, team operations, drafting and editing client deliverables, and other duties that support the team’s client service and internal functioning. This job exposes the employee to the details of ASG business and client work, allowing them to begin to develop geopolitical, regional, and sectoral/industry expertise.
Responsibilities
- Administrative Support: Supports the practice lead and other senior staff with scheduling, team operations and other duties as needed; and engages with clients in a support role, as requested. This may include:
- Managing administrative functions and tasks of the practice
- Arranging senior team members’ schedules, appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements.
- Preparing and editing correspondence, communications, presentations, and other documents.
- Supporting communications with clients and members of the ASG Advisory network.
- Periodically evaluating team operations, promoting increased efficiencies, including the adoption of technology wherever possible.
- Coordinating with team members as well as members of other ASG practices as needed to support workflow.
- Client Service and Thought Leadership: Supports the practice with drafting and editing client deliverables, white papers, and other products as needed. This may include:
- Developing drafts of country reports, briefing memos, client presentations, and stakeholder maps.
- Recording, transcribing, and distributing meeting minutes.
- Working to develop geopolitical, regional, functional or sector/industry expertise by engaging other members of their practice and participating in client engagements as needed.
- Beginning to learn ASG best practices in research and product delivery, including the use of ASG proprietary knowledge and diverse sources of public information.
- Beginning to develop the ability to analyze and work with senior staff to make judgments about events and developments.
- Business Development: Supports the practice lead and other senior staff with business development, as needed. This may include:
- Identifying ways to approach business development or enhance client profitability; associates are not expected to directly lead or produce revenue.
- Functioning as the “keeper” of team’s business development pipeline in Scoro.
- Contributing to the production of new business development memos, and proposals for prospective clients.
- Adding, updating, and maintaining new or existing accounts and opportunities for your team.
- Adding, updating, and maintaining contacts for your team; create distribution/mailing lists.
- Tracking events and convenings your team has hosted or attended.
- Perform other duties assigned at the discretion of management.
Core Competencies
- Customer Service: Works to become a trusted partner to colleagues, continuously focused on developing substantive expertise to meet the team’s needs.
- Research: Adept at conducting desktop economic and policy research across variety of topics and sectors and synthesizing into well written reports and/or presentations for clients.
- Oral/Written Communications: Can effectively produce portions of written products with direction but minimal supervision. Communicates well with other members of the ASG team. Effective communicator with the ASG network and/or local offices, with strong emphasis placed on the ability to speak and write in a local language.
- Personal Characteristics: Entrepreneurial and focused on value creation. Energetic, forward-thinking, “can-do” and creative individual with the highest ethical standards and an appropriate professional presentation.
- Teamwork: Interacts effectively with colleagues at all levels and across firm. Manages ASG team members to work together to produce agreed upon deliverables. Works to create a positive work environment.
- Firm Contributions: Contributes to the development, administration, and culture of the firm. Takes an active role in institution building.
Qualifications
- Zero to three years of relevant prior work experience.
- Exceptional research and writing skill.
- BA/BS in political science, international relations, public policy or business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with a Master’s in related field a plus.
- Highly proficient in PowerPoint and other MS Office tools.
- Speaking, reading, and writing fluency in Arabic is preferred but not required.
About Us
Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), part of Dentons Global Advisors (DGA), is the premier global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm. With a commitment to excellence, integrity, and discretion, we help our clients navigate challenges and capture opportunities in markets around the world. ASG goes beyond opening doors, collaborating with our clients to develop and implement tailored strategies. The global ASG network includes over 230 regional and sectoral experts and has a record of success in over 120 countries. In 2021, ASG became a founding member of Dentons Global Advisors (DGA), an elite multidisciplinary advisory firm that provides an even broader set of integrated strategic counsel and support for clients facing complex opportunities and challenges spanning commercial, reputational, financial, regulatory and governance dimensions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG) is committed to equal opportunity in recruitment and employment practices and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination. No job applicant or employee receives unfavorable treatment on the grounds of color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or any other status protected by law.
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