Seeking an exceptional M&E professional with 5+ years experience working in MEL in mission-driven organizations.
About One Acre Fund: Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff. Our Malawi program, founded in 2016, provides more than 670,000 farmers with quality farm supplies and training. The office is located in Zomba, in the country's southern region, which has the highest concentration of smallholder farmers in the country.
About the Role: The Malawi MEL Lead will independently lead all in-country evaluations across One Acre Fund Malawi's Agriculture, Agroforestry, and Carbon portfolios. They will lead rigorous large-scale research projects to develop recommendations that guide the Malawi program toward deepening impact at scale, and will lead a team of 100+ members, responsible for their growth and well-being.
Responsibilities:
- Independently lead in-country or program-level impact evaluations and studies; establish and continuously improve frameworks, processes and procedures for quality assurance in consultation with key stakeholders including the Global MEL team.
- Analysis and Reporting: update existing analysis plans and develop new analysis for new programs/business units within the Malawi program; develop high-quality survey reports and presentations summarising key findings and proposing actionable recommendations.
- Drive evidence to action: work closely with Program teams and other Global stakeholders to ensure MEL results and recommendations are understood and acted upon; strengthen availability and use of high-quality MEL data for decision-making at all levels; contribute to the development of Malawi's impact deepening strategy.
- Team Management: contribute to the development of MEL OKRs based on Malawi's Impact Strategy and Global MEL's priorities; manage all human resource matters within the department including hiring and development of MEL staff; oversee departmental budgeting and financial management.
Qualifications:
- Strong academic or professional experience designing and implementing evaluations and analysing data (e.g. large-scale data collection and field team management).
- Knowledge of evaluation concepts and mastery of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs.
- Strong analytical skills, especially statistical techniques used in impact evaluation (propensity score matching, difference in difference, regression discontinuity, etc.).
- Knowledge of statistical software such as Stata or R.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple projects of varying complexity.
- Clear and compelling written communication with an eye for design and visual presentation.
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible. Benefits: health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits. 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.
Closing date: 20 November 2026
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the One Acre Fund vacancy page. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until a hire is made. Application Deadline: 20 November 2026. One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process; official emails always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Do not send applications or application materials to the global hotline address.
https://oneacrefund.org/vacancies/malawi-mel-lead