🌱 MEL LEAD — ONE ACRE FUND

📍 Location: Zomba, Malawi
💼 Career Level: Professionals
🎁 Benefits: Health insurance, housing, comprehensive benefits
📅 Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible

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, home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers. It provides farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, agronomic training, and other agricultural services — enabling supported farmers to increase income and assets by more than 35%. The organization has 9,000+ full-time staff. Its Malawi program, founded in 2016, supports more than 670,000 farmers from its office in Zomba, serving the country's southern region.

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, leading large-scale research to guide the Malawi program toward deeper impact at scale. They will also lead a team of 100+ members, responsible for their growth and well-being.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Oversee Malawi MEL Execution:
👉 Independently lead in-country or program-level impact evaluations and studies
👉 Establish and continuously improve quality assurance frameworks, processes, and procedures with key stakeholders, including the Global MEL team
Analysis and Reporting:
👉 Update existing analysis plans and develop new analysis for new programs/business units
👉 Develop high-quality survey reports and presentations, summarizing key findings and proposing actionable recommendations
Drive Evidence to Action:
👉 Work with Program teams and Global stakeholders to ensure MEL results are understood and acted upon
👉 Strengthen availability and use of high-quality MEL data for decision-making across the organization
👉 Contribute to Malawi's impact deepening strategy
Team Management:
👉 Contribute to MEL OKRs based on Malawi's Impact Strategy and Global MEL priorities
👉 Manage HR matters within the department, including hiring and development of MEL staff
👉 Oversee departmental budgeting and financial management, balancing growth and efficiency with team sustainability and data quality