Locations
- Nairobi - in-person, full time
Deadline
Early decision deadline: 26 December 2025
After that, we will consider applications on a rolling basis.
Role Overview
As a Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of AI and data projects by managing defined workstreams, coordinating day to day activities, and ensuring smooth communication between internal teams and external stakeholders. You will work closely with senior project leads who provide strategic direction and oversight, while you focus on execution, organization, and ensuring tasks move forward as planned. You will engage with clients to understand their needs, manage routine communication, and ensure updates and decisions are clearly documented. Internally, you will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product owners to track timelines, anticipate risks, and escalate challenges early. This role is ideal for someone who is strong in structured execution, comfortable coordinating across multidisciplinary teams, and eager to grow into increasingly complex responsibilities within AI and data delivery contexts.
Essential qualifications and skills
Anyone fulfilling the essential qualifications is encouraged to apply.
- Project management: At least 3 years of experience managing defined workstreams within larger projects, including planning, task tracking, and coordinating delivery activities
- Problem structuring and requirements gathering: Ability to ask critical questions that uncover clients underlying needs, gather the right inputs to clarify what success looks like, and contribute to developing structured scopes, requirements, and project documentation
- Curiosity about AI driven problem solving: Genuine interest in how AI and data can be applied to real world challenges, with a learning mindset that supports engaging with technical teams and evolving solution areas
- Client engagement: Ability to manage and own day to day client interactions, share routine updates, and support senior leads in expectation setting and decision making
- Multi-stakeholder coordination: Experience coordinating across internal teams and external partners, ensuring quality delivery of outputs, while escalating alignment issues to senior leads when needed
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize information clearly and present it in structured formats
- Risk management: Ability to identify emerging risks or bottlenecks early and work with senior leads to address them
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring clarity on tasks, timelines, and dependencies
- Agile ways of working: Familiarity with iterative delivery approaches that support continuous feedback and improvement
Desirable qualifications and skills
We do not expect candidates to meet all desired qualifications.
- Experience in social impact contexts: Exposure to working with development organizations or in LMIC settings
- Understanding of AI/data product development: Awareness of how data and AI-driven tools move from concept to deployment, including testing and iteration
- AI & machine learning: Familiarity with various AI concepts and technologies, including GenAI, and their practical applications in decision support tools
- User centred design awareness: Basic understanding of UX principles that support intuitive and accessible product experiences.
- Why Dalberg Data Insights?
- At Dalberg Data Insights, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environment. Our mission is to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges using AI and data, and we need a passionate, driven individual to lead our GenAI initiatives. If you are a problem-solver with an entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for using AI to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.
- What is DDI?
- We are seeing an increasing gap in awareness and adoption of AI in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), which can lead to a long-term and irreversible digital divide between LMICs and High-Income Countries. At Dalberg Data Insights, we democratize AI access for impactful organizations by:
- Designing AI and data strategies and solutions
- Providing AI literacy training to our clients and partners
- Piloting AI solutions
- Consulting on Responsible AI practices
- Developing & scaling advanced AI solutions to transform data into actionable insights.
- We have built an AI platform, augment.impact, which enables us to efficiently build AI analysts and advisors (AIA) so they can quickly analyze and interpret data for greater productivity and impact.
- Dalberg Data Insights is the AI and Data Science entity of the Dalberg Group. We are a global group working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential. Comprised of Dalberg Advisors, Dalberg Data Insights, Dalberg Design, Dalberg Implement, Dalberg Media, and Dalberg Research, Dalberg’s businesses approach problems differently and work together to create impact on a scale.
- Established in 2001 by experienced private sector consultants, Dalberg operates from 29 worldwide locations. For more information, please visit Dalberg.
- How do I apply?
- No cover letter is needed. Submit your CV at the link above.
- Note: We are successfully fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we encourage candidates of all genders, backgrounds, and abilities to apply.
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