Data & Technology Manager, Acumen East & West Africa

About this role

Acumen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact Data and Technology Manager with at least 8 years of work experience to provide Data, System Operations and Technology leadership at a regional level for Green RISE (Resilient Impact through Sustainable Entrepreneurship) Africa.

About Green RISE Africa
Green RISE Africa is a program being implemented by Acumen in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation. It is focused on creating 443,000 dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young people — with 70% being young women — across Sub-Saharan Africa. The program operates across four pillars:

• GROW — Partnering with Entrepreneurship Support Organisations (ESO's) to provide practical training and mentorship to nano and micro entrepreneurs in 7 countries (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone)

• BUILD — Training and mentoring 320 young climate leaders via a Green Entrepreneurship Fellowship

• ACCELERATE — Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs through structured readiness and scale-readiness programs

• SCALE — Identifying and scaling 35+ high-impact enterprises across the continent

This role will be based out of Acumen's office in Nairobi or Lagos with the expectation to work in office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option.

About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.

About the Role

As the Data and Technology Manager you will be responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and continuously improving the systems and technology platforms that support the programmatic MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) framework under Green RISE Africa. This is a systems and technology role: you will NOT be responsible for designing or carrying out MEL itself. Your focus is building and running the technology that enables the MEL team to collect, manage, quality-assure, and report on data.

You will report to the Associate Director of Impact, Green Rise Africa.

The technology stack and solutions Acumen is leveraging include, but are not limited to:

• Salesforce as the central record for grant management, impact capture and reporting

• FormAssembly

• Google Suite

• AI-powered tools and enterprise solutions

Over the grant’s implementation we expect the role to focus on continual identification of system, data, and data management, and reporting improvements.Candidates must be well-versed in Salesforce applications, have highly technical proficiency with data and software solutions, and a growing skills base in the use of AI. This role will work closely with the Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. The Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will focus on MEL framework design and implementation and adaptive learning. Additionally, you will work closely with other Impact & Insight staff based in the UK and in East and West…