Associate Director, Measurement, Analytics & Strategic Information - Healthy Learners

JOB TITLE: Associate Director, Measurement, Analytics & Strategic Information

REPORTING TO: Senior Director, Impact, Research & Innovation | Monitoring & Evaluation

DEPARTMENT: Monitoring & Evaluation

CLASSIFICATION LEVEL: Associate Director

LOCATION: Remote in Africa

ABOUT YOU

You exemplify the qualities of being Humble, Hungry, and Smart in your leadership:

• Humble (Continuous Learning & Inclusion): You actively seek, encourage, and facilitate feedback sharing, fostering an environment of continuous learning. You adapt and grow continuously, cultivating a culture of inclusion and belonging.
• Hungry (Efficiency, Excellence, and Innovation): Your relentless drive for efficiency and excellence is evident in your approach to both everyday tasks and complex challenges. When obstacles arise, you don't merely seek answers; you develop solutions and establish structures to address future obstacles proactively. Your hunger for innovation permeates the organisation, where you eagerly explore new and best practices, ensuring our people's operations remain modern and highly effective.
• Smart (Emotional Intelligence & Psychological Safety): Your exceptional emotional intelligence is your superpower, allowing you to create psychological safety within the organization. Through your ability to build trust, encourage risk-taking, and nurture courageous conversations, you promote an environment where individuals can thrive and collaborate effectively.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Associate Director, Measurement, Analytics & Strategic Information will lead Healthy Learners ’ measurement, analytics, and strategic information function. The role exists because Healthy Learners ’ next phase of impact depends on our ability to generate trusted data, interpret it well, and translate it into action for programme improvement and government-owned scale.

This role connects directly to Healthy Learners ’ mission by ensuring that data from schools does not remain locked in systems or dashboards, but becomes practical insight that improves care, strengthens programme quality, supports evidence generation, and helps government partners make better decisions. The role will help centralize analytical complexity so that programme teams, frontline users, and government partners can act on clear interpretation rather than raw data.

The role will have limited direct interaction with children. Its primary work is with data, systems, staff, partners, and decision-makers. However, because the role influences how data about children is collected, interpreted, protected, and used, it must uphold Healthy Learners ’ child safeguarding, data protection, consent, and responsible data-use standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Program performance measurement strategy