About the Role

As Food4Education scales to reach 1 million learners in Kenya by 2027 and 3 million across Africa by 2030, the volume and importance of evidence we generate is growing fast. The Impact team handles four integrated workstreams — Measurement Systems & Data Quality; Field Data Collection & Quality; Research & Evaluation; and Insights, Reporting & Learning — to ensure every data point translates into a decision.

The Senior Associate, Insights, Learning & Reporting owns the “use” and “learn” stages of our impact system. The role turns monitoring data, evaluation findings, and field intelligence into clear reports, compelling visuals, and decision-ready insights for internal leadership, program teams, donors, and external partners. The Senior Associate works closely with the rest of the Impact Team, our Communications team, our Business Insights team, and consultant designers to ensure that the story we tell is accurate, well-sourced, and actionable — and that recommendations are tracked through to adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting & insight generation

• Lead the production of internal and external impact reports, donor reports, board updates, learning briefs, and presentations — owning the end-to-end process from data pull to final design-quality output.
• Translate complex monitoring and evaluation data into clear narratives, visuals, and “so what” insights that help leadership and program teams make decisions.
• Maintain a reporting calendar that maps every recurring deliverable to its data sources, owners, review cycles, and deadlines, and ensures timeliness across all reporting commitments.
• Balance methodological precision with communication clarity: keep the thread of sample size, design, and limitations intact internally, while producing simple, decision-ready facts externally.

Data visualization & storytelling

• Partner with Measurement Systems teammates and the BI/Tech team to specify and review dashboards, ensuring reported metrics align with indicator definitions, the Theory of Change, and donor commitments.
• Work with designers to produce visually compelling, accessible, and on-brand reports, infographics, and presentation decks; uphold a consistent visual identity for Impact outputs.
• Build reusable templates, chart libraries, and report components that improve speed and consistency across the team.

Learning & adoption

• Facilitate learning sessions that close the loop between evidence and action — surfacing what data is telling us, what we should change, and who needs to act.
• Track recommendations from evaluations, monitoring reviews, and learning sessions through to adoption, and report regularly on what has shifted as a result.
• Document institutional knowledge so that lessons travel across teams, regions, and time.

Quality assurance & cross-team coordination

• Apply rigorous QA to every output: triangulate figures across sources, audit indicator definitions, verify disaggregation, and ensure citations and methodologies are transparent.
• Coordinate with Senior Associates across Data Systems, Field Monitoring, and Research & Evaluation to integrate inputs into coherent insights products.
• Support the Manager and Senior Manager with cross-cutting analyses, ad-hoc deep dives, and inputs to strategy and grant-making conversations.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Communications, Data Science, or a related field. Postgraduate training in M&E, public policy, data analytics, or a related discipline is an added advantage.

Experience

• Minimum 4–6 years of relevant experience in M&E, research, communications, or insights/analytics roles, with at least 2 years focused on producing reports and insights for senior or external audiences.
• Demonstrated portfolio of high-quality reports, dashboards, presentations, or learning products you personally led from data to final output.
• Experience working with monitoring or program data in education, nutrition, public health, or large-scale service delivery contexts is strongly preferred.
• Experience collaborating with BI/data engineering, design, and program teams to deliver polished, decision-ready outputs.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical foundation: comfortable working with monitoring data in Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, and at least one BI tool (Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or similar). Familiarity with R, Python, or Stata is a plus.
• Excellent data visualization and design sensibility — produces charts and reports that are both accurate and easy to understand at a glance.
• Outstanding written communication: can turn a complex dataset into a one-page narrative a non-technical reader can act on.
• Working knowledge of M&E fundamentals: indicators, Theory of Change, results frameworks, data disaggregation, and basic methods for triangulating evidence.
• Strong project management instincts: owns deadlines, manages multiple concurrent reporting streams, and is proactive about flagging risks early.
• High attention to detail — double-checks numbers, citations, definitions, and visuals before anything goes out.
• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-scaling environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience producing donor-facing reports for institutional, foundation, or corporate donors.
• Familiarity with modern data stacks (BigQuery, dbt, Looker) and mobile data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare).
• Experience designing or facilitating learning and reflection sessions that translate evidence into program decisions.
• Exposure to qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, case studies) and the ability to weave qualitative texture into quantitative reports.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 90 days, a reporting calendar is in place, all recurring deliverables have clear owners and timelines, and the team has visibility into what is due, when, and from whom. Internal and external impact reports are con

• Lead the production of internal and external impact reports, donor reports, board updates, learning briefs, and presentations — owning the end-to-end process from data pull to final design-quality output.
• Translate complex monitoring and evaluation data into clear narratives, visuals, and “so what” insights that help leadership and program teams make decisions.
• Maintain a reporting calendar that maps every recurring deliverable to its data sources, owners, review cycles, and deadlines, and ensures timeliness across all reporting commitments.
• Balance methodological precision with communication clarity: keep the thread of sample size, design, and limitations intact internally, while producing simple, decision-ready facts externally.
• Partner with Measurement Systems teammates and the BI/Tech team to specify and review dashboards, ensuring reported metrics align with indicator definitions, the Theory of Change, and donor commitments.
• Work with designers to produce visually compelling, accessible, and on-brand reports, infographics, and presentation decks; uphold a consistent visual identity for Impact outputs.
• Build reusable templates, chart libraries, and report components that improve speed and consistency across the team.
• Facilitate learning sessions that close the loop between evidence and action — surfacing what data is telling us, what we should change, and who needs to act.
• Track recommendations from evaluations, monitoring reviews, and learning sessions through to adoption, and report regularly on what has shifted as a result.
• Document institutional knowledge so that lessons travel across teams, regions, and time.
• Apply rigorous QA to every output: triangulate figures across sources, audit indicator definitions, verify disaggregation, and ensure citations and methodologies are transparent.
• Coordinate with Senior Associates across Data Systems, Field Monitoring, and Research & Evaluation to integrate inputs into coherent insights products.
• Support the Manager and Senior Manager with cross-cutting analyses, ad-hoc deep dives, and inputs to strategy and grant-making conversations.

• Strong analytical foundation: comfortable working with monitoring data in Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, and at least one BI tool (Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or similar). Familiarity with R, Python, or Stata is a plus.
• Excellent data visualization and design sensibility — produces charts and reports that are both accurate and easy to understand at a glance.
• Outstanding written communication: can turn a complex dataset into a one-page narrative a non-technical reader can act on.
• Working knowledge of M&E fundamentals: indicators, Theory of Change, results frameworks, data disaggregation, and basic methods for triangulating evidence.
• Strong project management instincts: owns deadlines, manages multiple concurrent reporting streams, and is proactive about flagging risks early.
• High attention to detail — double-checks numbers, citations, definitions, and visuals before anything goes out.
• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-scaling environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Communications, Data Science, or a related field. Postgraduate training in M&E, public policy, data analytics, or a related discipline is an added advantage.
• Minimum 4–6 years of relevant experience in M&E, research, communications, or insights/analytics roles, with at least 2 years focused on producing reports and insights for senior or external audiences.
• Demonstrated portfolio of high-quality reports, dashboards, presentations, or learning products you personally led from data to final output.
• Experience working with monitoring or program data in education, nutrition, public health, or large-scale service delivery contexts is strongly preferred.
• Experience collaborating with BI/data engineering, design, and program teams to deliver polished, decision-ready outputs.
• Experience producing donor-facing reports for institutional, foundation, or corporate donors.
• Familiarity with modern data stacks (BigQuery, dbt, Looker) and mobile data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare).
• Experience designing or facilitating learning and reflection sessions that translate evidence into program decisions.
• Exposure to qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, case studies) and the ability to weave qualitative texture into quantitative reports.