Tupande MEL Manager

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 all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. Our Kenya program, founded in 2006, operates under the local brand Tupande. Close to 500 staff in our Kakamega headquarters support 1,747 field staff and serve more than 1 million farmers. In Nairobi, around 50 staff support global functions like procurement, recruitment, government relations, and communications About the Role The Tupande MEL Manager will be responsible for overseeing all Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) functions within Tupande. This includes managing and overseeing all ongoing and future MEL projects in the country, ensuring they meet the needs of various stakeholders, including in-country teams, Global MEL and other global teams, and various donors. Additionally, the Tupande MEL Manager will play a key role in contributing to thought leadership within Tupande, particularly focusing on data quality initiatives that support and advance Tupande’s vision as well as the Tupande Impact Plan. Responsibilities Directly Oversees MEL Strategy and Execution within Tupande Independently lead in-country or program-level impact evaluation and studies of interest to the program. Represent MEL work within Tupande and One Acre Fund and ensure stakeholders clearly understand the actionable results presented. Full ownership of the most complex workstream(s) while also overseeing all other work streams within the country. This will include: Developing evaluation plans - from outlining the theory of change to determining the study designs, and implementation plan. Developing data collection tools. Ensuring that all projects implemented adhere to MEL’s minimum must do’s. Establish and continuously improve frameworks, processes and procedures for quality assurance, monitoring, analysis, and reporting of impact work data in consultation with key stakeholders. Ensure systems established are running in alignement with organisational processes and systems. Work closely with the Program teams and other stakeholders to ensure the MEL results and recommendations are understood and acted upon. Manage all team leadership matters within the department including overseeing the hiring, development and performance management of MEL staff. Oversee the departments’ budgeting and financial management ensuring that growth and efficiencies are explored without compromising team sustainability and data quality. Provide direct support to various stakeholders on ad-hoc requests related to study design, analysis, data collection and any reporting that’s tied to MEL data. Partner with senior leadership in strategic decision making related to impact work. Strengthen availability and use of high-quality MEL data for decision-making at all levels of the organization. Integrate data analysis, reflection & interpretation, recommendation and use with ongoing organizational activities. Data Analysis and Reporting Develop or update existing analytical frameworks for all Tupande MEL projects. This would also include exploring analytical efficiencies related to data cleaning, data automation and reporting. Own the analysis of all MEL data for Tupande. Own all Tupande MEL reporting. Contribution to the Advancement of Tupande’s Impact Strategy Contribute to thought leadership in relation to the Impact Strategy including: Developing studies that speak to Tupande's impact strate