Head Impact Evaluation & Learning Job at Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund - Career Opportunity in Kenya

Vacancy title:
Head Impact Evaluation & Learning

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Administrative & Office ]

 

Jobs at:

Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund

Deadline of this Job:
30th August 2019  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:

The ideal candidate for this role should be innovative, passionate about impact orientation and measurement with strong analytical and leadership skills, and a good grasp of social impact investment initiatives. .

Job Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Direction:
• Lead on delivering an ambitious results and impact measurement, knowledge and learning framework and strategy Specifically, but not limited to developing results frameworks and plans for data capture, analysis and dissemination of results in order to facilitate learning and evoke the desired response from stakeholders.
• Lead the development and implementation of appropriate ex ante impact evaluation frameworks that supports investment appraisal including on potential returns on investments based both on primary and secondary evidence.
• Lead the development and implementation of appropriate ex-post impact evaluation frameworks for harvesting the diversity and magnitude of the AECF’s investments.
Portfolio management:
• Support AECF’s Management Team in the development and active use of a portfolio wide results framework and monitoring dashboard to help ensure good management and delivery of AECF’s programmes and policy work. This should include ensuring the generation of evidence to demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of AECF programmes and ensuring this knowledge is well communicated and applied to support programme scale up/ down, replication of achievements, and driving innovation.
• Ensure evaluations across the AECF are well designed, managed and communicated. This will involve close working with the Portfolio Investment Team and engaging them to help them envision and embed creative methods for impact measurement into the solutions they are delivering to our partners at the concept note, design, competition, and implementation phases.


Job Skills:
• Strong technical skills across results and evaluation and ability to use and advise on different data collection and evaluation approaches and methods; ability to demonstrate thought leadership on technical monitoring and evaluation issues;
• Background in statistics to ensure technical inputs into relevant programmes and help develop the institution wide evidence base;
• Ability to independently priorities and manage a diverse workload and manage multiple concurrent workstreams;
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with a keen ability to synthesize and present complex data in a simple, compelling, meaningful way (ability to produce beautiful and top-notch data visualization is a plus);
• Confidence in working and engaging externally with the results and evaluation community, donors, the private sector and Development Finance Institutions;
• Ability to facilitate the process of turning impact data into meaningful stories;
• Experience of working in developing countries is desirable.


Job Qualifications:
• A Master’s degree in International Development, Economics, Mathematics, Communications or related field;
• A minimum of 10 years of full-time work experience in research, impact measurement, and evaluation preferably in international development context, working with SMEs and applying DCED standards;


Job Education Requirements: Not Specified


Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

 

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Job application procedure
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role, please submit your application quoting in the subject line the Job Title e.g “Head Impact Evaluation and Learning – AECF/HIEL/2019”, as the case may be and attach a detailed CV, e-mail address and telephone contacts.
To be considered, your application must be received by Friday, 30th August 2019 addressed to: recruitment@aecfafrica.org 


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Job Info
Job Category: Administrative jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 30th August 2019
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 22-08-2019
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 22-08-2019
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 22-08-2065
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