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Food4Education
Kenya
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Department: Impact (MEARL)
Reports To: Manager, Impact Systems & Quality
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract
Working Model: On-site, 5 days a week
Travel Requirements: Occasional domestic travel to county sites (up to 15%)
About Food for Education
Hungry kids can’t learn or grow.Food4Education is an award-winning, locally rooted, and African-led solution to end classroom hunger. Building on more than a decade of learning by doing, we’re powering a new school feeding industry and sharing our blueprint to scale sustainable, nutritious, and affordable school feeding programs across Africa.
Today, we serve 600,000 kids DAILY in Kenya. But every day, we deliver more than a meal – improving nutrition and education outcomes for children while also creating jobs and opportunities for whole communities.
We are an experienced and trusted non-profit partner that operates with the excellence of a global business, reinvesting the value we create into local economies.
To learn more, please visit www.food4education.org
Our Values
At Food for Education, our values are guiding principles that provide us with purpose and direction and set the tone for our interactions with all stakeholders:
Build with excellence and curiosity - We’re not afraid to try new things and iterate as much as we can to find the best and most efficient way to get results;
Be the change you seek - We acknowledge that continuous improvement is a shared responsibility;
We do what we say; and say what we do - We embrace an ownership mentality;
Ask why; and commit - Share openly and question respectfully and commit fully. When we understand the why, we are able to work with a purpose.
As Food4Education scales to reach 1 million learners in Kenya by 2027 and 3 million across Africa by 2030, the volume and importance of evidence we generate is growing fast. The Impact team handles four integrated workstreams — Measurement Systems & Data Quality; Field Data Collection & Quality; Research & Evaluation; and Insights, Reporting & Learning — to ensure every data point translates into a decision.
The Senior Associate, Insights, Learning & Reporting owns the “use” and “learn” stages of our impact system. The role turns monitoring data, evaluation findings, and field intelligence into clear reports, compelling visuals, and decision-ready insights for internal leadership, program teams, donors, and external partners. The Senior Associate works closely with the rest of the Impact Team, our Communications team, our Business Insights team, and consultant designers to ensure that the story we tell is accurate, well-sourced, and actionable — and that recommendations are tracked through to adoption.
Reporting & insight generation
Lead the production of internal and external impact reports, donor reports, board updates, learning briefs, and presentations — owning the end-to-end process from data pull to final design-quality output.
Translate complex monitoring and evaluation data into clear narratives, visuals, and “so what” insights that help leadership and program teams make decisions.
Maintain a reporting calendar that maps every recurring deliverable to its data sources, owners, review cycles, and deadlines, and ensures timeliness across all reporting commitments.
Balance methodological precision with communication clarity: keep the thread of sample size, design, and limitations intact internally, while producing simple, decision-ready facts externally.
Data visualization & storytelling
Partner with Measurement Systems teammates and the BI/Tech team to specify and review dashboards, ensuring reported metrics align with indicator definitions, the Theory of Change, and donor commitments.
Work with designers to produce visually compelling, accessible, and on-brand reports, infographics, and presentation decks; uphold a consistent visual identity for Impact outputs.
Build reusable templates, chart libraries, and report components that improve speed and consistency across the team.
Learning & adoption
Facilitate learning sessions that close the loop between evidence and action — surfacing what data is telling us, what we should change, and who needs to act.
Track recommendations from evaluations, monitoring reviews, and learning sessions through to adoption, and report regularly on what has shifted as a result.
Document institutional knowledge so that lessons travel across teams, regions, and time.
Quality assurance & cross-team coordination
Apply rigorous QA to every output: triangulate figures across sources, audit indicator definitions, verify disaggregation, and ensure citations and methodologies are transparent.
Coordinate with Senior Associates across Data Systems, Field Monitoring, and Research & Evaluation to integrate inputs into coherent insights products.
Support the Manager and Senior Manager with cross-cutting analyses, ad-hoc deep dives, and inputs to strategy and grant-making conversations.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Communications, Data Science, or a related field. Postgraduate training in M&E, public policy, data analytics, or a related discipline is an added advantage.
Experience
Minimum 4–6 years of relevant experience in M&E, research, communications, or insights/analytics roles, with at least 2 years focused on producing reports and insights for senior or external audiences.
Demonstrated portfolio of high-quality reports, dashboards, presentations, or learning products you personally led from data to final output.
Experience working with monitoring or program data in education, nutrition, public health, or large-scale service delivery contexts is strongly preferred.
Experience collaborating with BI/data engineering, design, and program teams to deliver polished, decision-ready outputs.
Skills & Competencies
Strong analytical foundation: comfortable working with monitoring data in Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, and at least one BI tool (Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or similar). Familiarity with R, Python, or Stata is a plus.
Excellent data visualization and design sensibility — produces charts and reports that are both accurate and easy to understand at a glance.
Outstanding written communication: can turn a complex dataset into a one-page narrative a non-technical reader can act on.
Working knowledge of M&E fundamentals: indicators, Theory of Change, results frameworks, data disaggregation, and basic methods for triangulating evidence.
Strong project management instincts: owns deadlines, manages multiple concurrent reporting streams, and is proactive about flagging risks early.
High attention to detail — double-checks numbers, citations, definitions, and visuals before anything goes out.
Curious, collaborative, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-scaling environment.
Experience producing donor-facing reports for institutional, foundation, or corporate donors.
Familiarity with modern data stacks (BigQuery, dbt, Looker) and mobile data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare).
Experience designing or facilitating learning and reflection sessions that translate evidence into program decisions.
Exposure to qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, case studies) and the ability to weave qualitative texture into quantitative reports.
Within the first 90 days, a reporting calendar is in place, all recurring deliverables have clear owners and timelines, and the team has visibility into what is due, when, and from whom.
Internal and external impact reports are consistently delivered on time, accurate, well-designed, and lead with a clear “so what.”
Dashboards built with BI reflect indicator definitions and the Theory of Change, and are actively used by program leadership to make decisions.
A visible “recommendations to action” tracker shows which insights have been adopted, by whom, and what changed as a result.
Senior leadership and donors describe Impact reporting as clear, credible, and decision-useful — strengthening trust and unlocking continued investment.
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You will have weekly check-ins with your manager, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You will have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding, long-term career.
To apply, please submit your updated CV and answer the application questions listed. All applicants will receive communication on the outcome of their application, regardless of outcome.
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued and people are supported to do their best work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and make employment decisions based on merit, potential, and alignment with our values.
