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.
About the Role: Seeking an experienced MEL manager to lead monitoring, evaluation & learning across our Uganda, Nigeria, and DRC programs and 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, 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 your 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.
- Oversee country-level MEL budgets and plans to ensure growth happens efficiently without sacrificing data quality.
- Own the systems, operations and ways of working of the Global MEL team: operational and process guidance, SOPs, project-management systems and tooling adoption across all regions, team knowledge management, and team-level project and capacity planning.
- Build and run onboarding and non-technical capacity building so new staff and Country MEL Leads ramp quickly; maintain contingency and knowledge-transfer plans.
- Contribute to Global MEL strategy and thought leadership, representing the team in global forums (e.g. COP, Impact meet-ups, MEL manager calls) and undertaking 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 (randomized controlled trials, propensity-score matching, difference-in-differences). Proficiency in both Stata and R.
- Project management and process design: ability to select and roll out systems and tooling, standardize workflows and drive adoption across distributed teams (change management).
- Knowledge management: structuring documentation, versioning and information systems for a dispersed team.
- People management, with the ability to manage and develop staff across multiple countries and time zones, largely remotely.
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible. Job Location: Minna, Nigeria or Jinja, Uganda or Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; placement in other countries of operation (primarily Rwanda, but also Kenya, Malawi or Zambia for nationals of those countries) may also be considered. Benefits: health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits. Eligibility: One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role; nationals of (or those with extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.
Closing date: 17 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: 17 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 hotline address.
https://oneacrefund.org/vacancies/global-mel-managersenior-manager