The posting states 'Remote' with no geographic, work authorization, timezone, or language restrictions. The role is for a global organization (ALG operates across 50+ countries) with no indication of physical presence requirements or regional exclusions. The target user—English monolingual, Caribbean-based, UTC-5—meets all stated requirements.
“Remote” Physical presence — No physical presence, relocation, or in-office requirement stated anywhere in the posting.
“Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce methodology notes, donor briefs, board materials, impact reports, white papers, and thought leadership.” Language — English-language communication is the stated requirement; no additional languages are required or mentioned.
Are you a rigorous impact leader who can build trusted evidence systems at scale? Do you know how to combine world-class evaluation methods with the speed and pragmatism of a high-growth organization? Are you equally comfortable discussing RCTs, sampling, confidence intervals, and causal inference as you are working with product, data, fundraising, and executive teams to turn evidence into better decisions, stronger donor confidence, and more powerful learner outcomes? Do you want to help build one of the most trusted, scalable impact engines in education and workforce development?
About The African Leadership Group (ALG)
The African Leadership Group is a family of mission-aligned institutions building one of the world’s most ambitious pipelines of ethical, entrepreneurial talent. Founded by Fred Swaniker in 2004, ALG has spent over two decades creating education and career pathways that identify overlooked potential, develop it through applied learning, and connect it to real opportunity -- from African Leadership Academy’s early leadership development, to African Leadership University’s mission-driven higher education, to ALX’s high-scale workforce training. Across this ecosystem, ALG is working toward a bold mission: developing 3 million leaders by 2035. To date, the Group has raised more than $1.7 billion in philanthropic support, graduated 373,000+ leaders across 50+ countries, supported the development of 10,000+ ventures, and demonstrated that high-quality, career-connected education can change trajectories at scale.
ALX 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.
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.
Build the trust infrastructure for ALG’s next phase of scale: the methodologies, systems, validation partnerships, dashboards, governance, and public-facing evidence needed to make our impact claims credible under scrutiny.
Develop and own ALG’s impact methodology, including approaches to data collection, verification, sampling, extrapolation, attribution, contribution, confidence intervals, error margins, data quality, and limitations
Move ALG’s impact narrative beyond short-term placement statistics to include income lift, economic mobility, promotions, entrepreneurship, household uplift, family support, resilience, and long-term career progression.
Strengthen internal alignment around core impact definitions, metrics, data sources, reporting standards, and evidence thresholds, ensuring leadership, fundraising, product, and program teams are working from a single source of truth.
Design and lead a rigorous research and evaluation agenda, including RCTs, quasi-experimental studies, tracer studies, longitudinal research, employer studies, learner surveys, and mixed-methods evaluation.
Partner with Data, Product, Engineering, Learning, Community, and Operations teams to embed impact measurement across the learner journey, from registration and baselines through program completion, transition into work, long-term outcomes, and alumni progression.
Strengthen data pipelines and verification systems across surveys, platform data, CRM tools, employer feedback, relationship manager inputs, alumni updates, financial or KYC rails, LinkedIn/digital trace data, and other relevant sources.
Build QA and governance systems that make impact data audit-ready, including audit trails, anomaly detection, dashboard health checks, data dictionaries, internal controls, documentation, and clear ownership for core metrics.
Develop donor-facing and public-facing collateral that clearly explains ALG’s evidence standards, collection methods, verification layers, sampling approach, extrapolation logic, audit protocols, and methodological limitations.
Produce or oversee white papers, methodology briefs, board materials, impact reports, donor evidence packs, and thought leadership on ALG’s approach to economic mobility, AI-era workforce development, youth employment, entrepreneurship, household uplift, and durable career resilience.
10+ years of relevant experience in impact evaluation, applied research, economics, workforce development, education outcomes, labor market analytics, social impact strategy, data science, or a related field.
Deep expertise in rigorous impact methodology, including RCTs, quasi-experimental methods, causal inference, longitudinal studies, tracer studies, sampling, survey design, mixed-methods research, and evaluation design.
Experience at or with organizations such as J-PAL, IDInsight, Opportunity Insights, Jobs for the Future, Burning Glass / Lightcast, One Acre Fund, GiveDirectly, 60 Decibels, IPA, MDRC, Mathematica, World Bank, major foundations, or high-growth social enterprises.
This role requires strong self-management, proactive communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, cross-functional environment. The successful candidate should be comfortable working across teams and time zones, using digital collaboration tools, and maintaining momentum in a remote-first setting.
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