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Evaluation Officer
About this role
Extension Africa is recruiting an Evaluation Officer to design and conduct evaluations for projects, with duties centred on field data collection, reporting and ensuring adherence to the organisation’s Evaluation Framework drawn from UNDP and OECD-DAC criteria. The role is based in Abuja or Kano with regular field travel and involves up to 20% field travel. It is a 12-month contract, renewable subject to performance and funding. The organisation describes itself as a data-driven agritech platform delivering private extension services to value chain actors, aiming to improve smallholder access to resources and drive impactful outcomes for youth, women and farmers. The position targets candidates with strong monitoring and evaluation experience who can contribute technical evaluation depth to project implementation.
What you would do
- Design and deliver needs assessments, baseline, midline, and endline evaluations and impact assessments.
- Ensure consistent application of Extension Africa's Research & Evaluation Framework across projects.
- Conduct field data collection and analysis to produce reliable evidence for clients, donors and government partners.
- Prepare reports and contribute to learning and knowledge sharing across programmes.
- Support data quality assurance and use of digital data collection tools.
What they are asking for
- Minimum of 3 years' M&E experience, with at least 2 years leading or substantially contributing to baseline, midline, endline or impact evaluations.
- Proficiency in at least one statistical package (SPSS, Stata, R or Python) and advanced Excel.
- Willingness to travel frequently to rural project locations.
- Experience applying UNDP evaluation guidance or OECD-DAC criteria.
- Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau is an advantage.
- Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics, Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, Sociology, Rural Development, Public Health or related field; Master's degree an advantage.
- Strong mixed-methods capability including sampling design, survey analysis, qualitative interviewing and coding.
- Excellent English report writing; writing sample will be assessed.
- Practical experience with digital data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare or similar).
- Experience in agriculture, rural development or agri-fintech programmes in Nigeria is an advantage.
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