Senior Socioeconomics and Impact Manager

About the role

The Senior Socioeconomics and Impact Manager will provide strategic leadership for socioeconomic research, impact assessment, learning, adoption studies, and evidence generation across all programs. The role ensures that project investments translate into measurable outcomes, sustainable livelihoods, increased resilience, and scalable impact for smallholder farmers and rural communities.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the organization’s socioeconomic research, impact measurement, and learning agenda.
• Provide strategic guidance on project design, theories of change, results frameworks, and impact pathways.
• Design and oversee baseline, midline, and endline studies, household and livelihood surveys, adoption and diffusion studies, market and value‑chain assessments, gender and social inclusion studies, and farmer segmentation research.
• Ensure methodological rigor in research design, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Develop and manage impact measurement systems and lead impact evaluations across agricultural, livelihoods, climate resilience, and enterprise development programmes.
• Establish learning frameworks, capture lessons learned, and promote evidence‑based decision‑making.
• Produce impact reports, learning briefs, and knowledge products for internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide technical oversight to the MEAL function and serve as the focal point for impact evaluation and learning.

Required profile

• Senior‑level management experience with responsibility for strategic leadership of socioeconomic research and impact assessment.
• Proven ability to provide technical oversight to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) functions.
• Experience designing and managing baseline, midline and endline studies, household surveys, adoption studies, and market assessments.

Required skills