Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing refinement of the Center’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework, including indicators, tools, protocols, and reporting templates.
• Define and maintain core performance and outcome indicators across the Center’s entrepreneurship pipeline, including student programs, alumni ventures, grants, events, and ecosystem engagement.
• Build practical data collection and reporting systems that can be used consistently across programs and teams.
• Translate donor, institutional, and internal management requirements into a coherent Center-wide measurement architecture.
• Ensure that the Center’s MEL approach supports not only compliance and reporting, but also continuous improvement and strategic learning.

• Oversee the collection, cleaning, validation, storage, and maintenance of program, participant, venture, cohort, grant, mentor, and alumni data.
• Establish data standards, collection protocols, definitions, and quality controls to improve consistency across all Center activities.
• Maintain the Center’s core data systems and records, ensuring they are accurate, current, and reporting-ready.
• Conduct regular data quality audits and resolve issues related to completeness, duplication, inconsistency, and weak documentation.
• Train and support staff across the Center on agreed data collection and reporting protocols, and help build a stronger culture of evidence discipline.

• Lead the production and maintenance of the Center’s KPI dashboards and performance reporting tools.
• Provide data, analysis, and evidence inputs for quarterly and annual donor reports, Board materials, leadership updates, and institutional reporting.
• Produce regular performance reviews covering participation funnels, completion patterns, stage progression, venture outcomes, grant performance, and other priority indicators.
• Prepare clear, defensible impact summaries for both internal and external audiences.
• Maintain an evidence library of results, venture milestones, testimonials, case material, and supporting documentation for reporting, fundraising, and storytelling purposes.

• Design and conduct outcome and impact assessments across areas such as venture growth, job creation, funding raised, founder development, and broader ecosystem outcomes.
• Develop approaches for longitudinal tracking of alumni ventures and participant outcomes over time.
• Identify patterns, gaps, and performance risks across programs and recommend changes to improve effectiveness and coherence.
• Support the development of case studies, learning products, and evidence-based knowledge outputs in collaboration with Faculty Partners, Programs, and Communications.
• Benchmark the Center’s performance, systems, and indicators against relevant peer institutions, entrepreneurship centers, and ecosystem standards.

• Serve as the Center’s internal lead on evidence quality and performance interpretation.
• Advise Center leadership on what the data supports, where evidence is strong or weak, and what claims can be made credibly in donor, Board, and external-facing materials.
• Work with Programs to strengthen outcome tracking and progression logic across the Idea–Project–Venture pipeline.
• Work with Communications to ensure public-facing claims are evidence-based and supported by documented results.
• Support leadership in using data not only to report on the Center’s work, but to make better strategic decisions about what to improve, expand, redesign, or stop.

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, social sciences, public policy, development studies, data science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation, MEL system design, program evaluation, impact measurement, data analysis, or a related role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing MEL frameworks, data collection tools, dashboards, and reporting systems.
• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets and at least one analysis or visualization tool such as Power BI, Tableau, R, Stata, SPSS, or similar.
• Experience supporting donor reporting and working within grant compliance and evidence requirements.
• Strong writing and synthesis skills, including the ability to translate data into clear insights for non-technical and executive audiences.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to build systems that are both rigorous and practical.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence teams to adopt stronger data and reporting practices.

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