Global MEL Manager/Senior Manager – One Acre Fund (Nigeria, Uganda or DRC)
One Acre Fund – Global MEL Manager/Senior Manager
Locations: Minna, Nigeria; or Jinja, Uganda; or Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Career level: Professionals (senior)
Application deadline: 17 November 2026 (rolling – applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made)
Preferred start date: As soon as possible
Eligibility
"One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred."
Nationality is therefore not a restriction. Applicants must be able to obtain appropriate work authorisation for one of the stated locations, and placement in other One Acre Fund countries of operation (primarily Rwanda; also Kenya, Malawi or Zambia for nationals of those countries) may be considered.
About the role
Seeking an experienced MEL manager to oversee monitoring, evaluation and learning across the Uganda, Nigeria and DRC programs, and to own the systems and operations that help the entire Global MEL team deliver consistent, high-quality evidence at scale.
Responsibilities
- Oversee MEL across the Uganda, Nigeria and DRC country programs.
- Directly manage the three Country MEL Leads (Uganda, Nigeria, DRC), owning their goal-setting, performance reviews, development and career trajectory.
- Ensure survey design and roll-out are executed to global standards across the region.
- Review analysis conducted by the team and oversee reporting, including development of reports and actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
- Participate in country steering-committee meetings, presenting MEL results and building buy-in on data-driven programmatic recommendations and global priorities.
- Oversee country-level MEL budgets and plans to ensure growth happens efficiently without sacrificing data quality, and ensure adherence to all global MEL guidance.
- Own the systems, operations and ways of working of the Global MEL team: operational and process guidance, SOPs, selection and roll-out of project-management systems and tooling across all regions, team knowledge management, and team-level project and capacity planning.
- Build and run onboarding and non-technical training for new staff and Country MEL Leads; maintain contingency and knowledge-transfer plans.
- Represent the team in global forums and contribute to thought leadership and global department-improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- Experience with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, implementing evaluations, designing data-collection tools, statistical analysis and reporting; mastery of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs such as randomized controlled trials, propensity score matching and difference-in-differences. Proficiency in both Stata and R.
- Project management and process design – selecting and rolling out systems and tooling, standardising workflows and driving adoption across distributed teams (change management).
- Knowledge management – structuring documentation, versioning and information systems so a dispersed team can find and reuse work.
- People management, and the ability to manage and develop staff across multiple countries and time zones, largely remotely.
Benefits: health insurance, housing and comprehensive benefits.
How to apply
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