ALG Head of Impact at Alxafrica · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Build the trust infrastructure for ALG’s next phase of scale: the methodologies, systems, validation partnerships, dashboards, governance, and public-facing evidence needed to make our impact claims credible under scrutiny.
Develop and own ALG’s impact methodology, including approaches to data collection, verification, sampling, extrapolation, attribution, contribution, confidence intervals, error margins, data quality, and limitations
Define the standards for what ALG can claim internally, what can be shared with donors, what requires caveats, and what is ready for external publication or independent validation.
Move ALG’s impact narrative beyond short-term placement statistics to include income lift, economic mobility, promotions, entrepreneurship, household uplift, family support, resilience, and long-term career progression.
Strengthen internal alignment around core impact definitions, metrics, data sources, reporting standards, and evidence thresholds, ensuring leadership, fundraising, product, and program teams are working from a single source of truth.
Design and lead a rigorous research and evaluation agenda, including RCTs, quasi-experimental studies, tracer studies, longitudinal research, employer studies, learner surveys, and mixed-methods evaluation.
Identify which research methods are appropriate for different programs, geographies, and questions — balancing gold-standard rigor with the practical realities of a fast-moving, scaled organization.
Build partnerships with credible external validators, researchers, economists, evaluation firms, academic institutions, and research labs to strengthen public and donor confidence in ALG’s impact.
Create a roadmap for when, where, and how ALG should pursue external validation, publish findings, commission independent evaluations, or subject its methodology to external review.
Ensure external validation efforts are directly connected to organizational learning, fundraising, program improvement, and public trust, not research for research’s sake.
Partner with Data, Product, Engineering, Learning, Community, and Operations teams to embed impact measurement across the learner journey, from registration and baselines through program completion, transition into work, long-term outcomes, and alumni progression.
Strengthen data pipelines and verification systems across surveys, platform data, CRM tools, employer feedback, relationship manager inputs, alumni updates, financial or KYC rails, LinkedIn/digital trace data, and other relevant sources.

Qualification

Experience designingStrong data fluencyStrong written communication skillsExcellent judgment on evidence qualityProven ability to lead teamsA bias toward action

Required

Deep expertise in rigorous impact methodology, including RCTs, quasi-experimental methods, causal inference, longitudinal studies, tracer studies, sampling, survey design, mixed-methods research, and evaluation design.
Experience designing, managing, commissioning, or partnering on external evaluations with academic researchers, research organizations, foundations, multilaterals, or independent evaluators.
Strong understanding of education-to-employment, workforce development, economic mobility, youth employment, entrepreneurship, income lift, household outcomes, or labor market transitions.
Strong data fluency, including comfort working with dashboards, data pipelines, data warehouses, CRM systems, survey platforms, product analytics, and data quality processes.
Ability to translate complex research and methodology into clear, credible materials for donors, boards, executives, governments, employers, and public audiences.
Experience working cross-functionally with product, data, engineering, operations, learning, fundraising, communications, and senior leadership teams.
Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce methodology notes, donor briefs, board materials, impact reports, white papers, and thought leadership.
Excellent judgment on evidence quality, including when to use gold-standard evaluation methods, when to use faster pragmatic approaches, and how to communicate uncertainty or limitations.
Proven ability to lead teams, build systems, manage ambiguity, and operate effectively in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments.
Strong ethical grounding around data privacy, consent, responsible AI, equity, transparency, and the risks of overclaiming impact.
A bias toward action, paired with the discipline to build systems that are credible, auditable, and trusted.
Experience at or with organizations such as J-PAL, IDInsight, Opportunity Insights, Jobs for the Future, Burning Glass / Lightcast, One Acre Fund, GiveDirectly, 60 Decibels, IPA, MDRC, Mathematica, World Bank, major foundations, or high-growth social enterprises.

ALG Head of Impact

Responsibilities

Qualification

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Benefits

Company

Alxafrica