Job Description
Background and Contract
This is a role that promises good growth potential, with the chance to work across multiple geographies. The position of Junior Impact Analyst, at Bridges Outcomes, will support education projects funded by Sustainable Development Goals Outcomes Fund (SDG OF).
Reporting to the Operational lead, the primary focus of this position will be the successful delivery of the Sierra Leone Early Childhood Education (SLECE), the Rwanda Early Childhood, and South African Early Childhood initiatives. However, we also anticipate this role to support our work in the Ghana Education Outcomes Programme (GEOP), leveraging overlapping themes and collaborative opportunities across these impactful projects.
You will contribute to programme performance, data quality and evidence generation across initiatives in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa and Ghana. Across all programmes, we work with a mix of national and international NGOs.
Sierra Leone Early Childhood Education (SL ECE)
A national initiative focused on expanding safe community based centres, improving access and attendance, strengthening structural and process quality, and enhancing holistic child development outcomes. Delivery is implemented through multiple lots with NGO partners. The programme is currently in implementation and runs from 2026 to 2029.
Rwanda Early Childhood Education Programme
Launched in 2026, this four year programme focuses on strengthening early childhood development outcomes through evidence driven delivery and performance management.
South Africa Early Childhood Programme
Initiated in 2026, this three year programme supports improvements in early learning quality and access through partnerships with national and international NGOs.
Ghana Education Outcomes Programme (GEOP)
Supporting the government s GALOP strategy through outcomes based delivery across rural districts and major urban centres. The programme includes an Accelerated Learning Programme for out of school children and a Mainstream School Improvement Programme. Implementation runs from 2023 to 2026.
For more details visit Bridges Outcomes Partnerships website
Role Purpose
The Junior Impact Analyst will be accountable for:
Providing hands on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) guidance to in country delivery partners (national and international NGOs), ensuring practical, context appropriate monitoring systems that drive performance improvement.
Coordinating closely with delivery partners to track milestones, validate outcome achievements, and ensure timely submission of evidence required by the Outcomes Fund commissioner.
Enhancing the data capabilities of delivery partners, with a strategic emphasis on effective decision-making.
Developing practical performance management tools and forecasting models that help anticipate delivery risks and guide course correction.
Creating and disseminating actionable insights and learnings to support delivery partners and internal teams, emphasizing strategic problem-solving to enhance outcomes.
Ensuring that delivery partners within the programme adopt data-driven approaches to continuously refine and improve service delivery.
Leading and standardizing data analysis efforts across programmes, driving improvements in services, systems, and processes through collaborative work with the team.
Spearheading the development of templates and process frameworks that empower delivery partners to achieve operational excellence.
Overseeing and fulfilling comprehensive reporting requirements, including the preparation of impact assessments and reports for commissioners and the board.
Ensuring MEL systems meet programme level compliance requirements, including data quality assurance, verification readiness, and alignment with commissioner standards.
Strategically supporting financial processes by overseeing invoicing and budgeting to enhance financial efficiency and sustainability of projects.
Key responsibilities
Delivery Impact
Co develop MEL frameworks with delivery partners, ensuring indicators, tools, and data flows are realistic for community level implementation and aligned with programme outcomes
Facilitate collaboration among data analyst teams from delivery partners to proactively address challenges and co-create solutions aimed at enhancing service delivery
Follow up with delivery partners on activity completion, milestone progress, and evidence submission, ensuring timely and accurate reporting into programme systems.
Process Improvement
Lead strategic initiatives to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
Refine and adapt existing working files and tools to optimize usability and performance, while evaluating current practices and identifying opportunities for substantial improvements.
Identify opportunities for process automation and improving utilisation of management data
Strengthen MEL processes within delivery partners, including data collection protocols, field supervision routines, and feedback loops for continuous improvement.
Data Analysis
Deliver high-quality statistical analysis and comprehensive impact reports to engage diverse stakeholders and provide meaningful insights that include short, medium, and long-term projections for enhanced programme impact.
Ensure the relevance and effectiveness of data dashboards by integrating early warning systems to highlight priority areas for action.
Translate data into practical performance insights for delivery partners, highlighting operational bottlenecks and recommending corrective action
Provide mentorship and strategic oversight to M&E teams within delivery partners, ensuring the effective completion of roles and responsibilities.
Maintain meticulous attention to detail and ensure high standards of grammar and accuracy in all documentation.
Data Integrity
Collate and update volumetric and programme data and systems, continually developing and refining data collection processes.
Strengthen data reliability by enhancing data flow from beneficiaries through to final reporting.
Conduct periodic data quality checks with in country CSO teams, ensuring accuracy of field level data and alignment with verification requirements
Ensure compliance with data protection legislations when retaining and sharing information.
Identify opportunities for process automation and ease of access to information.
Impact Presentation
Deliver consistent, aggregated representations of project performance against targets, ensuring clear and compelling presentations.
Partner closely with the Programme Director and Manager to create and deliver engaging and accurate programme outcome presentations.
Tailor communication to suit varied audiences, including formal presentations for high-level stakeholders.
Relationship Management
Collaborate with Analyst colleagues to streamline data processes, minimizing manual interventions where possible.
Build strong working relationships with in country CSO teams, providing supportive, capacity building engagement that strengthens MEL practice and operational delivery
Work collaboratively with finance and investment teams to monitor programme invoicing and maintain awareness of the intersection between outcome achievement and the financial status of the project.
Actively contribute to stakeholder meetings and forums, demonstrating focus and attentiveness to discussions
Support the Operations Lead and Senior Impact Analyst in ensuring delivery partners meet commissioner compliance requirements, including documentation, evidence standards, and reporting timelines.
Experience, Skills & Abilities
To take on the above responsibilities, we will be looking for you to demonstrate strengths in the following competencies:
1 to 2 years relevant post-graduate professional experience in education, international development, consulting, or similar sectors.
Curious and Inquisitive: You crave knowledge and consistently seek learning opportunities. You look for patterns and ask questions that nobody else has thought to ask.
MEL and Analytical Skills: Demonstrated experience designing or implementing MEL systems, analysing programme data, and generating insights that inform operational decision making
Problem Solving: You can make sense of something complex and recommend practical solutions.
Adaptable: You can adapt easily to changes in work. You are flexible and act as an advocate for change.
Communication: You can confidently communicate your ideas verbally and in writing. You can simplify complexities and adapt your communication so others can understand.
Autonomy: You take ownership of your tasks and can plan and manage your own time to achieve them.
Relationship Building and Teamwork: You can build credible and trusting relationships internally and externally, including with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Attention to Detail: You are detail-focused and ensure the work you produce is accurate and of a high quality.
IT and Data Analytic Skills: You have a strong working knowledge and understanding of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and you embrace the opportunity to learn new IT applications.
Experience working directly with in country civil society organisations (not only HQ based teams), ideally in education . click apply for full job details
This is a role that promises good growth potential, with the chance to work across multiple geographies. The position of Junior Impact Analyst, at Bridges Outcomes, will support education projects funded by Sustainable Development Goals Outcomes Fund (SDG OF).
Reporting to the Operational lead, the primary focus of this position will be the successful delivery of the Sierra Leone Early Childhood Education (SLECE), the Rwanda Early Childhood, and South African Early Childhood initiatives. However, we also anticipate this role to support our work in the Ghana Education Outcomes Programme (GEOP), leveraging overlapping themes and collaborative opportunities across these impactful projects.
You will contribute to programme performance, data quality and evidence generation across initiatives in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa and Ghana. Across all programmes, we work with a mix of national and international NGOs.
Sierra Leone Early Childhood Education (SL ECE)
A national initiative focused on expanding safe community based centres, improving access and attendance, strengthening structural and process quality, and enhancing holistic child development outcomes. Delivery is implemented through multiple lots with NGO partners. The programme is currently in implementation and runs from 2026 to 2029.
Rwanda Early Childhood Education Programme
Launched in 2026, this four year programme focuses on strengthening early childhood development outcomes through evidence driven delivery and performance management.
South Africa Early Childhood Programme
Initiated in 2026, this three year programme supports improvements in early learning quality and access through partnerships with national and international NGOs.
Ghana Education Outcomes Programme (GEOP)
Supporting the government s GALOP strategy through outcomes based delivery across rural districts and major urban centres. The programme includes an Accelerated Learning Programme for out of school children and a Mainstream School Improvement Programme. Implementation runs from 2023 to 2026.
For more details visit Bridges Outcomes Partnerships website
Role Purpose
The Junior Impact Analyst will be accountable for:
Providing hands on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) guidance to in country delivery partners (national and international NGOs), ensuring practical, context appropriate monitoring systems that drive performance improvement.
Coordinating closely with delivery partners to track milestones, validate outcome achievements, and ensure timely submission of evidence required by the Outcomes Fund commissioner.
Enhancing the data capabilities of delivery partners, with a strategic emphasis on effective decision-making.
Developing practical performance management tools and forecasting models that help anticipate delivery risks and guide course correction.
Creating and disseminating actionable insights and learnings to support delivery partners and internal teams, emphasizing strategic problem-solving to enhance outcomes.
Ensuring that delivery partners within the programme adopt data-driven approaches to continuously refine and improve service delivery.
Leading and standardizing data analysis efforts across programmes, driving improvements in services, systems, and processes through collaborative work with the team.
Spearheading the development of templates and process frameworks that empower delivery partners to achieve operational excellence.
Overseeing and fulfilling comprehensive reporting requirements, including the preparation of impact assessments and reports for commissioners and the board.
Ensuring MEL systems meet programme level compliance requirements, including data quality assurance, verification readiness, and alignment with commissioner standards.
Strategically supporting financial processes by overseeing invoicing and budgeting to enhance financial efficiency and sustainability of projects.
Key responsibilities
Delivery Impact
Co develop MEL frameworks with delivery partners, ensuring indicators, tools, and data flows are realistic for community level implementation and aligned with programme outcomes
Facilitate collaboration among data analyst teams from delivery partners to proactively address challenges and co-create solutions aimed at enhancing service delivery
Follow up with delivery partners on activity completion, milestone progress, and evidence submission, ensuring timely and accurate reporting into programme systems.
Process Improvement
Lead strategic initiatives to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
Refine and adapt existing working files and tools to optimize usability and performance, while evaluating current practices and identifying opportunities for substantial improvements.
Identify opportunities for process automation and improving utilisation of management data
Strengthen MEL processes within delivery partners, including data collection protocols, field supervision routines, and feedback loops for continuous improvement.
Data Analysis
Deliver high-quality statistical analysis and comprehensive impact reports to engage diverse stakeholders and provide meaningful insights that include short, medium, and long-term projections for enhanced programme impact.
Ensure the relevance and effectiveness of data dashboards by integrating early warning systems to highlight priority areas for action.
Translate data into practical performance insights for delivery partners, highlighting operational bottlenecks and recommending corrective action
Provide mentorship and strategic oversight to M&E teams within delivery partners, ensuring the effective completion of roles and responsibilities.
Maintain meticulous attention to detail and ensure high standards of grammar and accuracy in all documentation.
Data Integrity
Collate and update volumetric and programme data and systems, continually developing and refining data collection processes.
Strengthen data reliability by enhancing data flow from beneficiaries through to final reporting.
Conduct periodic data quality checks with in country CSO teams, ensuring accuracy of field level data and alignment with verification requirements
Ensure compliance with data protection legislations when retaining and sharing information.
Identify opportunities for process automation and ease of access to information.
Impact Presentation
Deliver consistent, aggregated representations of project performance against targets, ensuring clear and compelling presentations.
Partner closely with the Programme Director and Manager to create and deliver engaging and accurate programme outcome presentations.
Tailor communication to suit varied audiences, including formal presentations for high-level stakeholders.
Relationship Management
Collaborate with Analyst colleagues to streamline data processes, minimizing manual interventions where possible.
Build strong working relationships with in country CSO teams, providing supportive, capacity building engagement that strengthens MEL practice and operational delivery
Work collaboratively with finance and investment teams to monitor programme invoicing and maintain awareness of the intersection between outcome achievement and the financial status of the project.
Actively contribute to stakeholder meetings and forums, demonstrating focus and attentiveness to discussions
Support the Operations Lead and Senior Impact Analyst in ensuring delivery partners meet commissioner compliance requirements, including documentation, evidence standards, and reporting timelines.
Experience, Skills & Abilities
To take on the above responsibilities, we will be looking for you to demonstrate strengths in the following competencies:
1 to 2 years relevant post-graduate professional experience in education, international development, consulting, or similar sectors.
Curious and Inquisitive: You crave knowledge and consistently seek learning opportunities. You look for patterns and ask questions that nobody else has thought to ask.
MEL and Analytical Skills: Demonstrated experience designing or implementing MEL systems, analysing programme data, and generating insights that inform operational decision making
Problem Solving: You can make sense of something complex and recommend practical solutions.
Adaptable: You can adapt easily to changes in work. You are flexible and act as an advocate for change.
Communication: You can confidently communicate your ideas verbally and in writing. You can simplify complexities and adapt your communication so others can understand.
Autonomy: You take ownership of your tasks and can plan and manage your own time to achieve them.
Relationship Building and Teamwork: You can build credible and trusting relationships internally and externally, including with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Attention to Detail: You are detail-focused and ensure the work you produce is accurate and of a high quality.
IT and Data Analytic Skills: You have a strong working knowledge and understanding of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and you embrace the opportunity to learn new IT applications.
Experience working directly with in country civil society organisations (not only HQ based teams), ideally in education . click apply for full job details
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