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Nigeria Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist

Minna, Niger, Nigeria

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

The Nigeria program, established in 2018, is headquartered in Minna, Niger state. We're currently serving over 100,000 unique farmers across the state via our inputs on credit 'Core' program, inputs on cash 'Retail' program, and have a free tree seedling distribution 'Agroforestry' program. To learn more about our work, look at our Nigeria program blog.

About the Role

We seek a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist with 3+ years of experience in designing and deploying robust systems that translate analysis-ready data into actionable recommendations that improve the well-being of smallholder farmers.

Responsibilities

Design Studies

  • Create the Theory of Change (ToC).
  • Conceptualize the key impact pathways for simple BUs or products
  • Conceptualize and develop study design, including an evaluation strategy and implementation plan.
  • Scope out and draft an evaluation strategy (including an implementation plan).

Select survey participants

  • Calculate the sample size and define the sample selection process.
  • Select the sample and prepare the Control Sheet.
  • Revise existing questionnaires, with oversight from the manager.

Clean and analyze data

  • Update existing analysis plans, with some manager support.
  • Develop new analysis plans, based on previous reports and/or do files.
  • Produce summary statistics with Stata.
  •  Routine maintenance of data management system - system of do files, datasets, quality assurance trackers.

Reporting

  • Develop mid-survey summary reports.
  • Develop final survey reports and presentations (including summarizing the key findings and proposing actionable recommendations) that are of a high quality.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Agriculture, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5 -7 years in  MEL, field research, or program evaluation.
  • Able to write Stata do files (not pointing and clicking using GUI) to perform data cleaning, data analysis, data transformation, data visualization and other programmatic tasks.
  • Able to automate repetitive programmatic tasks with minimal human interaction using Stata do files, Excel/Google sheets, R, Python or any other programming language.
  • Can produce written deliverables, like reports, briefs, and memos, with some revision necessary.
  • Able to perform complex data processing in Excel/Google sheets using advanced formulas.
  • Fluent in English (and Hausa will be nice to have but not mandatory).

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Minna, Niger, Nigeria.

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria.

Application Deadline

02 October 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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