Job Title: Associate
Direct supervisor: Managing Partner | Engagement Lead
Department: Project Implementation
Job Grade: Mid-level (3-6 years of experience)
Location: Addis Ababa
Post Date:06.12.2026
Position Type: Permanent
Deadline:06.25.2026
Role
About ACE Advisors
ACE Investment and Impact Advisors is an independent advisory firm that brings a strategic cross-domain perspective, with deep expertise in public sector support and private sector development. By augmenting the public sector service delivery capabilities to meet the private sector demand, ACE Advisors provides various services aligned within the following three pillars:
- Investment support and facilitation
- Implementation Acceleration (Initiative’s development and implementation); and
- Institutional Building (Resource identification and mobilization).
Through these pillars ACE provides bespoke services across sectors and projects ranging from public policy analysis; result-based management and implementation support; research and analytics; strategy development; organizational assessment; and capacity building.
As a woman-owned and led firm, ACE is committed to living its values focused on equity, professionalism, meticulousness, and empowerment of voices within and related to the partners it aims to serve.
Overall Objective and Responsibilities
To enable our firm successfully to implement its strategic vision, ACE is seeking to recruit experienced, motivated, aspiring Associates to join our firm.
The role requires a commitment to personal and professional growth, flexibility to work in a startup environment, and the willingness to go above and beyond to deliver timely and quality outputs.
The Associate will work directly with the Senior Advisors and Managing Partner, as required, and lead the implementation and delivery of projects and organizational targets within assigned verticals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing selected work streams or projects within assigned verticals including leading and supporting in the preparation of brief analysis, proposal, and concept development.
- Identifying, collecting and analyzing key data from a variety of sources to contribute to project delivery. Reliability and validity in data collection and triangulation will be necessary, with an emphasis on attention to detail.
- Leading the development of high-quality written materials and contribute to content development and data analysis including presentation to clients.
- Designing project work plan and approach, tracking tools, managing execution, and track progress of work-streams as assigned and agreed by Project Leads and/or Lead Advisor;
- Problem-solving: identify and structure problems, develop and apply appropriate analytical framework and approaches, leading brainstorming sessions with own team.
- Guiding analysts, training and mentoring team members to develop high quality analysis.
- Support senior advisors and MP in identifying new business opportunities and developing the evidence for the proposed engagements.
- Build successful relationships and trust with various stakeholders including government, private sector, donor/partners and effectively engage these stakeholders in ACE’s focus areas
