Global MEL Senior Associate (Fixed-Term)

7 hours, 35 minutes ago
Contract
Mid Level
Data Science and Analytics
One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund provides smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa with essential resources such as financing, training, seeds, and fertilizer to enhance their agricultural productivity and economic stability.

Food Products
1K-5K
Founded 2006
$5M raised

Description

  • Provide technical guidance and feedback to country MEL Leads throughout the program cycle.
  • Review survey instruments, mobile data collection programming, and data collection approaches.
  • Improve data quality assurance, back-check processes, and automated validation pipelines.
  • Review country-level analyses in Stata and ensure analytical rigor, reproducibility, and appropriate interpretation.
  • Quality-control MEL reports, dashboards, presentations, and other deliverables.
  • Advise on evaluation designs, including quasi-experimental methods and randomized controlled trials.
  • Identify methodological risks and contribute to global MEL standards, frameworks, tools, and templates.
  • Design and deliver MEL training and capacity-building programs for country teams.
  • Share cross-country learnings and support portfolio-level analyses and methodology initiatives.
  • Potentially provide analytical support for agroforestry measurement, data systems, and evidence-building.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, and/or applied research.
  • Master’s degree in economics, applied statistics, agricultural economics, or a related field.
  • Advanced quantitative skills and proficiency in Stata; R experience is preferred.
  • Experience with propensity score matching, difference-in-differences, and/or randomized controlled trials.
  • Experience designing and programming mobile surveys; CommCare experience preferred.
  • Ability to develop data quality processes, back-check surveys, and automated validation systems.
  • Agriculture background required; knowledge of agricultural MEL indicators preferred.
  • Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and smallholder agriculture strongly preferred.
  • Agroforestry, tree-planting, or forest ecosystem measurement experience is strongly preferred.
  • Professional English fluency, strong communication skills, willingness to travel 10–25%, and French fluency preferred.

Benefits

  • Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits.
  • Flexible location across countries of operation.
  • Work permit support available.
  • Weekly manager check-ins, mentorship, training, and regular performance feedback.
  • Career reviews every six months and opportunities for long-term professional growth.
  • Two-year contract with an expected start as soon as possible.

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