ALU and the broader African Leadership Group (ALG) are entering a new phase of growth. We have demonstrated the ability to scale rapidly, reach learners across the continent, and generate meaningful early outcomes.
We are looking for a Head of Impact to build the rigorous, scalable, externally credible impact engine that will support ALG’s next chapter. This role will lead the evolution of our Impact function from a reporting and monitoring function into a world-class evidence, learning, validation, and impact intelligence capability.
The mandate is ambitious: to make ALG one of the most trusted organizations in education and workforce development for impact quality, transparency, data integrity, and external validation.
This leader will own the systems, methods, partnerships, collateral, and team needed to make our impact claims audit-ready, donor-ready, decision-ready, and, where appropriate, publication-ready. They will help the organization move beyond short-term placement statistics toward a deeper understanding of income lift, economic mobility, career progression, promotions, entrepreneurship, household uplift, family support, resilience, and long-term opportunity.
The right candidate will bring deep expertise in rigorous impact methodology, including RCTs, quasi-experimental methods, longitudinal studies, sampling, survey design, and causal inference, while also being able to operate in ALG’s fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment. This is not a slow academic research role, nor is it a traditional M&E compliance role. It is a senior builder role for someone who can bring rigor without rigidity, structure without bureaucracy, and external credibility without slowing down innovation.