Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Impact Portfolio Officer Jobs in Nigeria

Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Impact Portfolio Officer Jobs in Nigeria

About Us

The AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a development institution that finances early and growth-stage businesses to innovate, create jobs, and leverage investments and markets to create resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa.

Since 2008, we have invested over US$ 220 million in over 420 businesses across sub-Sahara Africa focusing on Agribusiness, Renewable Energy, and Climate-smart Technologies. We have impacted more than 28 million lives, created over 25,000 jobs, and leveraged over US$ 757 million in matching funds to our portfolio companies.

AECF is headquartered in Kenya, with offices in Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia.

The Programme

The Investing in Women Nigeria (IIW-N) programme, is a Global Affairs Canada investment programme designed to support women-owned and women-led enterprises and other organizations operating in climate-smart agriculture in Kano State, Nigeria.

The Impact Portfolio Officer will be a key member of the IIW–N delivery team and will be responsible for supporting the ongoing impact measurement, analysis, and insight generation across the IIW-N portfolio of investees and activities. The incumbent will contribute to reporting at the project level, and collaborate with AECF’s impact and knowledge team, feeding data and impact stories into thought leadership, storytelling, and dissemination of learnings.

The role holder will take the lead in analyzing and leveraging the data collected from portfolio companies, updating performance on all impact metrics, and producing analytical insight and knowledge products from IIW-N’s portfolio. Data, evidence, and insights will be used in supporting programme management, future program design, business intelligence, and promoting the voices of the communities and entrepreneurs we support to build the resilience of rural and underserved communities in Kano and across Africa.

This role will report to the Programme Manager IIW-N.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Develop and own the portfolio monitoring plan of the projects in IIW-N’s portfolio in line with AECF policies and procedures, donors, and partner requirements.

Support the development of investee monitoring plans, targets, and budgets during the process of investee selection and reviewing as needed throughout the project lifecycle.

Coordinate with the programme team and making use of AECF’s digital platform and automated tools, ensure high quality of data (qualitative and quantitative) collection, aggregation and processing, verification, and analysis, in a timely manner.

Provide an evidence-based feedback loop to the programme’s team on an ongoing basis, and contribute to producing, packaging, and disseminating impact and change stories.

Assist in designing, coordinating and conducting project evaluation (mid-term and end-line) and post implementation monitoring surveys.

Support partners in designing and disseminating research studies by providing

relevant input.

Reporting and documentation

Ensure accurate and timely compliance with all reporting requirements, including supporting the preparation of annual AECF impact reports, periodic donor reports, and ongoing ad hoc reports.

Maintain a dashboard to track performance against key impact indicators, providing feedback to all relevant teams on projects’ performance, as and when needed.

Co-develop, with the portfolio Officers, field visit reports, including learning insights.

Learning and sharing

Contribute to monthly and ongoing insight generation and knowledge creation from analysis of impact data, exchange and interviews with investees and programme partners, and feed into the broader AECF insight and knowledge practice.

Share learning from results measurement and impact analyses with the wider team.

Develop and disseminate monthly short evidenced-based articles, updated project summary briefs, reports, human interest stories, website content etc.

Identify and participate in impact and insight networks.

Suitable candidates should possess:

Minimum 5 years of experience in data science or statistical analysis.

A Bachelors Degree preferably in Statistics, Economics or a related field.

Experience in Kano, Nigeria, focused on SME development, women empowerment or sustainable agriculture.

Curiosity to keep abreast of innovative practices for understanding systemic change, capturing and measuring women empowerment, resilience, adaptation to climate change of vulnerable populations.

Understand the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards for private sector-led development in relevant sectors.

Possess superior data analysis and presentation skills, software skills (MS Office) as well as data manipulation and visualisation skills (Airtable, Tableau, Power BI).

Have excellent writing, analytical and communication skills in Hausa and English.

Demonstrate productive drive in working with peers, partners, consultants and others to achieve pre-targeted and measurable business results.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Impact Portfolio Officer Jobs in Nigeria

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