Impact Assurance Advisor Consultant Roster

Prosper Global

10d • Remote

About The Position

The Jobtech Alliance is an ecosystem-building initiative that seeks to catalyse an inclusive African jobtech sector to create and improve one million quality jobs by 2032. We partner with jobtech start-ups across Africa to support strategy, product, and operational innovations that make their services more viable and scalable, more inclusive and/or delivering better quality jobs for the users they serve. This is complemented by research, community-building, and influence activities to ensure that learnings are replicated/scaled, and to change the way the system works. Results measurement is central to how Jobtech Alliance learns, makes decisions and reports to funders. What we measure informs and helps grow the overall jobtech ecosystem. Jobtech Alliance is seeking an Impact Assurance Advisor to strengthen how we measure, report, and verify our results. The work will span three areas: Building a full-employment framework that captures participants' whole livelihood picture. Revamping MEL documents for donor engagement. Verifying the outcomes we report.

Requirements

• 10-15+ years of experience in monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL), ideally within international development, social impact, or donor-funded programs
• Prior experience working with major institutional funders
• Direct experience with donor verification, compliance, or audit processes — understands what funders typically probe for (data provenance, privacy, accuracy, attribution)
• Strong qualitative interviewing skills — comfortable engaging startup founders/platform teams to surface credible, well-evidenced data narratives
• Skilled at translating messy or partial results data into donor-ready reporting language
• Experience with proposal-stage MEL writing (indicators, frameworks, reporting plans)
• Diplomatic but firm communicator — able to manage difficult donor questions and pushback
• Comfortable working in an advisory capacity — proactively flagging issues rather than waiting to be asked

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with jobs/livelihoods impact measurement (job creation, job quality metrics) is a strong plus
• Experience working with or advising startups/early-stage ventures is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design survey tools, such as the full-employment framework survey tool that captures participants' full livelihood picture, including the contribution of work found through the platforms we support. It should build on the Quality of Work Measurement Tool developed by the Measurement in Jobtech Working Group, and draw on established approaches such as the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework.
• Conduct survey tools piloting and testing, involving working with the data collection organization to prepare the tool’s pilot, including joining initial tests.
• Revise survey tools based on pilot findings.
• Update relevant sections of our Results, Learning & Research playbook to reflect themes addressed by tools, such as participants' full livelihood picture.
• Support new donor MEL document development by joining MEL calls with new donors and populating and/or revamping MEL documents such as MEL plans, the Theory of Change, Pathways Framework, Self-Reporting Protocol, and Terms of Reference for technical working groups.
• Conduct results verification by reviewing the outcomes we report against the supporting evidence to confirm they hold up.
• Interview a sample of start-up founders about the support they received and how much it contributed to their results.
• Report on what the review and interviews found.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed