About Us
The AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a development institution that finances early and growth-stage businesses to innovate, create jobs, and leverage investments and markets to create resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa.
Since 2008, we have invested over US$ 300 million in over 510 businesses across sub-Sahara Africa focusing on Agribusiness, Renewable Energy, and Climate-smart Technologies. We have impacted more than 33 million lives, created over 35,000 jobs, and leveraged over US$ 838 million in matching funds to our portfolio companies.
AECF is headquartered in Kenya, with offices in Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Sudan, Benin, and Somalia.
The Program
The Investing in Women(IIW) in Benin/Burkina Faso program is a Global Affairs Canada investment program designed to support women-owned and women-led enterprises and other organizations operating in climate-smart agriculture. The Impact Portfolio Officer will be a key member of the IIW–Benin/ Burkina Faso delivery team and will be responsible for supporting the ongoing impact measurement, analysis, and insight generation across the entire portfolio of investees and activities. The incumbent will contribute to reporting at the project level, and collaborate with AECF’s impact and knowledge team, feeding data and impact stories into thought leadership, storytelling, and dissemination of learnings.
The role holder will take the lead on analyzing and leveraging the data collected from portfolio companies and enterprises, updating performance on all impact metrics, and producing analytical insight and knowledge products from the IIW-Benin/ Burkina Faso portfolio. Data, evidence, and insights will be used in supporting program management, future program design, business intelligence, and promoting the voices of the communities and entrepreneurs we support to build the resilience of rural and underserved communities across Africa.
This role will report to the Programme Manager-IIW-Benin/ Burkina Faso.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and own the portfolio monitoring plan of the projects in the IIW-Benin/Burkina Faso portfolio in line with AECF policies and procedures, donors, and partner requirements.
- Support the development of investee monitoring plans, targets, and budgets during the process of investee selection and reviewing as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Provide an evidence-based feedback loop to the program’s team on an ongoing basis, and contribute to producing, packaging, and disseminating impact and change stories.
- Ensure accurate and timely compliance with all reporting requirements, including supporting the preparation of annual AECF impact reports, periodic donor reports, and ongoing ad hoc reports.
- Maintain a dashboard to track performance against key impact indicators, providing feedback to all relevant teams on projects’ performance, as and when needed.
- Contribute to monthly and ongoing insight generation and knowledge creation from analysis of impact data, exchange and interviews with investees and program partners, and feed into the broader AECF insight and knowledge practice.
- Share learning from results measurement and impact analyses with the wider team.
- Develop and disseminate monthly short evidenced-based articles, updated project summary briefs, reports, human interest stories, website content, etc.
- Monitor and report on the social performance of portfolio investments and manage the AECF impact measurement process.
- Ensure compliance with GAC reporting requirements and advocate for impact investment principles by representing the organization externally through industry events and forums.
Suitable candidates should possess:
- A Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data science or statistical analysis.
- Experience in Benin/ Burkina Faso focused on women-owned, women-led enterprises preferably in the agribusiness sector, women empowerment, or sustainable agriculture.
- Curiosity to keep abreast of innovative practices for understanding systemic change, capturing and measuring women empowerment, resilience, and adaptation to climate change of vulnerable populations.
- Understand the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards for private sector-led development in relevant sectors.
- Superior data analysis and presentation skills, software skills (MS Office), and data manipulation and visualization skills (Airtable, Tableau, Power BI).
- Demonstrate productive drive in working with peers, partners, consultants, and others to achieve pre-targeted and measurable business results.
- Experience in designing and implementing impact measurement systems, assessment tools, and methodologies, especially in fragile contexts.
- Excellent writing, analytical, and communication skills in French and English.
How to apply
The AECF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered based on merit without regard to race, sex, colour, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
AECF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
If you believe, you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role register and apply on: https://recruitment.aecfafrica.org . Interviews will be on a rolling basis and will close once a suitable candidate is identified.
For more information, please visit our careers page on www.aecfafrica.org
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.