**Contingent upon Donor Funding**
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Position Status: Full-time, Exempt or Non-exempt, Regular
Risk Level: X Level 3 ☐Level 2 ☐Level 1
(Level 3: Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability.
Level 2: Some contact with participants; unplanned non-direct contact with children.
Level 1: Likely to have no contact with participants or sensitive data)
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutionsinto action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within.
Now, and for the future. Mercy Corps is transitioning to Prosper Global. Learn more here. As the transition is being implemented by location, you may see the Mercy Corps and Prosper Global names used concurrently during this period. This is an administrative transition, and our teams, programs and commitments continue without interruption.
The Program / Department / Team
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, and its influence spreads across the continent. Yet, inequality and insecurity have consistently undermined Nigeria's development. Mercy Corps Nigeria was established in 2012 to respond to these challenges. The Nigeria team is headquartered in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and has programs across 16 states. Mercy Corps works with communities to build economic opportunities, enhance water security, drive peace and good governance, and ensure food security. Our activities aim to build resilience through an integrated approach, helping communities and the most marginalized within them cope, adapt, and thrive in the context of numerous shocks and stresses. With a strong and growing team, Mercy Corps works to achieve the vision of a Nigeria in which all people are empowered, engaged, resilient, and secure.
The Position
The Evidence, Measurement, Learning & Impact Director is a senior leadership position responsible for shaping and leading the program's evidence, learning, impact, and adaptive management agenda. The role ensures that data, evidence, technology, and learning are leveraged as strategic assets to improve program performance, inform decision-making, strengthen accountability, and support sustainable development outcomes.
The Director will lead the development and stewardship of integrated measurement, learning, knowledge management, and impact systems that transform data into actionable insights, enabling adaptive management, innovation, organizational learning, and evidence-based decision-making across the program.
Working closely with program leadership, partners, and technical teams, the Director will oversee the design and implementation of evidence, learning, and impact systems that strengthen performance management, support continuous improvement, and generate high-quality evidence to inform strategy, implementation, and learning.
The position will provide strategic oversight of digital systems, research initiatives, impact measurement approaches, evaluations, and knowledge-management platforms to better understand program effectiveness and inform adaptive action. The Director will ensure that evidence and learning are systematically translated into improved decision-making, stronger program quality, enhanced accountability, and sustainable results.
The Director will also support partner organizations in strengthening evidence generation, learning, and data utilization practices while fostering a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the program.
Essential Responsibilities
STRATEGY AND VISION
- Provide visionary leadership Development Programs’ Evidence, Learning and Impact agenda, positioning evidence, data, technology, and learning as strategic assets that drive decision-making, portfolio performance, systems change, and long-term impact.
- Design and oversee a portfolio-wide Evidence, Learning and Impact ecosystem that enables harmonized data systems, shared services, real-time decision support, and consistent measurement across all consortium partners while generating insights that can be leveraged by broader sector actors.
- Champion the transformation of data into actionable intelligence by driving the use of analytics, digital platforms, participant feedback, market intelligence, and emerging technologies to inform strategy, adaptive management, investment decisions, and program innovation.
- Lead the generation and curation of evidence that demonstrates what works, for whom, under what conditions, and why, ensuring that portfolio learning informs implementation, strengthens market systems, influences policy and practice, and contributes to sector-wide knowledge.
- Establish a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement across the portfolio, ensuring evidence is routinely translated into action, adaptation, and improved outcomes for young people to access job opportunities.
- Position Mercy Corps as a leader in evidence-driven programming by building partnerships with research institutions, governments, private sector actors, and learning networks, and generating influential insights, thought leadership, and scalable models that inform policy, strengthen practice, and contribute to sustainable systems-level change.
MEL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
- Lead the design, development, and continuous evolution of an integrated portfolio-wide Evidence, Measurement, Learning & Impact Director, ecosystem that enables adaptive management, real-time performance monitoring, impact measurement, and accountability to Mercy Corps standards.
- Serve as a member of the Portfolio Senior Leadership Team, providing strategic intelligence and evidence-based insights that inform portfolio decisions, resource allocation, risk management, innovation, and adaptive management across all consortium partners.
- Establish and oversee portfolio-wide data governance frameworks, standards, and protocols to ensure data quality, security, interoperability, ethical data management, and responsible use of participant information across all systems and partners.
- Design and institutionalize shared Evidence, Learning and Impact services that harmonize measurement approaches, reporting standards, analytics, learning processes, and performance management systems across the portfolio.
- Champion the use of digital technologies, automation, analytics, dashboards, artificial intelligence, and real-time decision-support tools to transform data into actionable intelligence that improves program effectiveness and accelerates impact.
- Lead the development of integrated learning, feedback, and accountability systems that strengthen participant voice, support adaptive management, and ensure evidence is routinely translated into program improvements and strategic decisions.
- Collaborate with Community Accountability and Response Mechanism (CARM) teams, safeguarding leads, and technical specialists to strengthen portfolio-wide accountability, participant-centered learning, and responsible data practices.
- Build the capacity of consortium partners to generate, interpret, and use evidence for decision-making, fostering a culture of learning, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
- Work closely with global, regional, technology, analytics, and data teams to introduce emerging approaches, strengthen digital infrastructure, and position the portfolio as a leader in evidence-driven climate-smart agriculture programming.
- Ensure portfolio systems generate high-quality evidence and learning products that not only support implementation but also contribute to policy influence, systems change, sector learning, and the advancement of job opportunities for young people.
LEARNING AND ADAPTATION:
- Lead the Portfolio Learning Agenda, ensuring the generation of actionable evidence on what works, for whom, under what conditions, and why, to strengthen the portfolio's contribution to jobs for young people.
- Establish portfolio-wide learning and adaptive management processes that integrate implementation data, participant feedback, market intelligence, climate evidence, and partner experiences to inform strategic decisions, program adaptation, and investment priorities.
- Drive the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of high-value evidence, insights, and learning products that influence portfolio strategy, strengthen ecosystem actors, inform policy engagement, and contribute to broader sector knowledge and practice.
- Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and evidence use across portfolio partners, ensuring that lessons and insights are translated into improved performance, adaptive action, and scalable approaches that benefit both the portfolio and the wider climate-smart agriculture ecosystem.
REPORTS MANAGEMENT
- Provide strategic oversight of portfolio reporting, ensuring timely, high-quality, and evidence-based reporting that demonstrates results, impact, learning, and contribution to systems change.
- Lead the generation, synthesis, and communication of evidence, insights, and knowledge products, transforming data into actionable intelligence that informs decision-making, influences stakeholders, and supports adaptive management.
- Establish and maintain portfolio-wide reporting standards and quality assurance processes, ensuring consistency, data integrity, and effective knowledge sharing across all portfolio partners.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION/ ASSESSMENTS
- Liaise with the baseline lead to ensure baseline methodology, tools, and approaches are in line with overall program MEL. -...