Senior Associate - Reporting, Data and Analytics Acumen East Or West Africa

As the Senior Associate: Reporting, Data and Analytics, you will support the Impact Manager in strengthening how Green Rise Africa collects, manages, analyses, visualises, and reports programme data across all pillars. The role will serve as a link between the Impact/MEL team, programme teams, partners, and systems and technology functions. It will be central to ensuring that Green Rise Africa can track progress toward its ambitious 2030 targets, including reaching 443,200 young people, in dignified and fulfilling green work. The Senior Associate will play a hands-on role in maintaining MEL data systems, supporting partner reporting, producing routine reports and dashboards, strengthening data quality assurance processes, and generating insights to inform programme decision-making.

• Support the development and implementation of quarterly, biannual, and annual reporting processes across Green Rise Africa pillars.
• Produce routine reports against programme indicators, KPIs, targets, and disaggregations, including actuals versus targets.
• Build and maintain dashboards in Salesforce, Power BI, or equivalent platforms to provide up-to-date performance views for programme and leadership teams.
• Develop clear infographics and data visualisations to communicate programme results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Respond to ad hoc data requests from internal teams, partners, and external stakeholders, including the Mastercard Foundation.
• Work closely with Finance to support the integration and quality assurance of financial and impact data, including for Impact Linked Finance reporting.
• Oversee programme indicator data flows, ensuring data submissions are complete, accurate, and received on time across reporting periods.
• Manage partner data submissions through mobile and online collection tools such as KoBoToolbox, Airtable, Salesforce, or equivalent platforms.
• Consolidate data from multiple partners, countries, and programme pillars into master datasets and reporting tools on a routine basis.
• Maintain and update indicator tracking sheets and reporting templates in line with programme targets.
• Conduct quantitative analysis of programme datasets to identify trends, gaps, risks, performance issues, and areas of strong progress.
• Run descriptive and diagnostic analyses disaggregated by gender, age, geography, country, sector, pillar, and partner.
• Support the Impact Manager to translate data into insights that inform programme learning, adaptation, and decision-making.
• Prepare clean, well-documented datasets for internal reviews, external evaluations, and donor reporting.
• Contribute to Value for Money, benefit-cost, SROI, or Impact Linked Finance analyses as required.
• Support the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of MEL data systems, including Salesforce, Power BI, Airtable, KoBoToolbox, or equivalent tools.
• Ensure data collection, management, analysis, and reporting systems are aligned with the programme MEL framework and indicator requirements.
• Support the development and maintenance of technology-enabled tools that improve data collection, reporting, analysis, and learning.
• Advise on technology and AI-enabled solutions that can improve MEL workflows, reporting efficiency, data quality, and learning.
• Develop and apply standardised data validation rules, quality checklists, and data cleaning protocols.
• Review incoming datasets to identify duplicates, outliers, missing values, logical inconsistencies, and other data quality concerns.
• Maintain clear documentation and audit trails for data cleaning, validation, and changes to source data.

• Candidates must demonstrate at least five years of relevant experience, including:
• Practical, hands-on experience in monitoring, evaluation, learning, data management, and reporting in an international development context.
• Experience managing programme data flows across multiple partners, countries, or programme workstreams, including partner submissions, data cleaning, consolidation, validation, and reporting.
• Experience producing routine MEL reports, including reporting against indicators, KPIs, targets, and actuals versus targets.
• Strong skills in data cleaning, data quality assurance, validation, documentation, and audit trail management.
• Experience analysing programme data and producing insights for decision-making.
• Strong proficiency in data analysis and visualisation tools such as Excel, Power BI, SPSS, Stata, R, Python, or equivalent.
• Experience working with MEL databases and digital data collection systems such as Salesforce, Airtable, KoBoToolbox, CommCare, SurveyCTO, or equivalent.
• Experience building or maintaining dashboards, reporting tools, databases, or other technology products that support MEL.
• Experience advising teams or partner organisations on data management, reporting, and data quality best practices.
• Working knowledge of data consent, use, retention, protection, and security requirements.
• Proven attention to detail and a systematic approach to managing complex datasets.
• Ability to communicate data clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work across teams in a matrix-managed, multi-country programme environment.
• Desirable Criteria:
• Formal training in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, statistics, information systems, project evaluation, or a related field.
• Experience working on youth employment, gender inclusion, climate, green growth, enterprise development, or private sector development programmes.
• Experience with Impact Linked Finance, Value for Money, SROI, cost-benefit analysis, or similar.