Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Head of Impact Evaluation and Learning Jobs in Kenya

Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Head of Impact Evaluation and Learning Jobs in Kenya

AECF staff are instrumental in the work that we do to ensure a prosperous and enterprising rural Africa. AECF offers you an opportunity to be part of the team impacting the lives of millions of rural poor across Africa through the over 266 investments it has made in private sector that have resulted in job creation, improved livelihoods, improved health and reduce emissions.

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.

Capability Building:

Strengthen the capacity and skills of AECF staff in results and evaluation and continue to build a culture of managing for impact across the institution. This will include providing results and evaluation training to staff, identify external training opportunities, support a selection of staff to apply for evaluation accreditation, and provide ongoing
capacity building through technical assistance at programme level.

Corporate Reporting and communication:

Lead on AECF corporate results monitoring and reporting, supporting evidence uptake, communicating monitoring and evaluation findings, translating and using the result to influence programme and policy decision.

Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations:

Collaborate with various key partners to raise the visibility of our work, with special attention to promoting our breakthroughs in result measurement and impact evaluation;

Understanding the processes, institutions and organizations that shape the changing international development context in which AECF operates, including the Sustainable Development Goals, legislation and government structures, and the roles of multilateral organizations and processes in development

Requirements

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;

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

How to Apply

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 “Head Impact Evaluation and Learning – AECF/HIEL/2019”, 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

For more information and job application details, see; Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Head of Impact Evaluation and Learning Jobs in Kenya

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