Impact Manager - Reporting, Data and Analytics (Acumen East or West Africa)

<p style="text-align: center;">Acumen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact Manager with at least 8 years of work experience to provide Reporting, Data and Analytics leadership at a regional level for a transformative business and economic empowerment programme across Africa with a strong focus on young women.</p> <p>This role<strong> will be based out of Acumen office in Nairobi or Lagos</strong> with an expectation of working from office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option.</p> <p><strong>About Acumen</strong></p> <p>Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit<a href="http://www.acumen.org/"> acumen.org</a>.</p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>As the <strong>Impact Manager</strong>: <strong>Reporting, Data and Analytics</strong> you will be responsible for designing and implementing the technology solution for the programmatic MEL framework. That is potentially adapting existing solutions like Salesforce and Google sheets, or creating/identifying new technology solutions, to ensure that the MEL framework has a functioning and efficient technology platform, routine reporting on key data points. We expect the role to focus on continual identification of system and data management and reporting improvements. We expect candidates to be highly technically efficient with data and software solutions with growing skills in the use of AI.&nbsp;</p> <p>You&nbsp;will work closely with the <strong>Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and learning. </strong>The Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will focus on MEL framework design and implementation and adaptive learning.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additionally, you will work closely with other Impact &amp; Insight staff based in the UK and in East and West Africa.&nbsp;</p> <p>The postholder is expected to travel occasionally within the region.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Accountabilities include:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>MEL framework design and implementation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support the implementation of the programmatic MEL framework (including MEL plan, data collection plan, data mana