Impact and Learning Officer

BOOST is seeking a highly analytical, results-driven and innovative Impact and Learning Officer to lead the organisation's impact measurement, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and organisational learning functions.

The successful candidate will play a strategic role in strengthening BOOST's ability to generate credible evidence, demonstrate measurable results, improve programme performance and translate learning into actionable decisions.

The position requires an individual who can move beyond conventional activity reporting to demonstrate meaningful changes in young people's skills, employment, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, innovation and socioeconomic wellbeing.

Job Summary

• Employer: BOOST
• Job Type: Full-time
• Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
• Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
• Closing Date: 2026-11-05

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and continuously improve BOOST's organisational Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework, aligned with its 2026-2030 Strategic Plan.
• Design programme theories of change, results frameworks, logical frameworks, performance measurement plans and indicator tracking tools.
• Establish robust systems for measuring programme outputs, outcomes and longer-term impact.
• Develop methodologies for tracking youth transitions from training into employment, self-employment, enterprise creation and sustainable livelihoods.
• Coordinate baseline assessments, endline evaluations, tracer studies, outcome surveys and impact assessments.
• Ensure programme indicators are measurable, clearly defined and aligned with donor commitments and organisational objectives.
• Lead the design and maintenance of integrated programme monitoring databases, dashboards and performance reporting systems.
• Develop digital data collection tools using platforms such as KoboToolbox, ODK, Microsoft Forms or comparable systems.
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, performance gaps, emerging outcomes and opportunities for improvement.
• Produce compelling data visualisations, dashboards, infographics and evidence-based impact summaries.
• Strengthen data quality assurance through routine verification, validation, spot checks and data quality assessments.
• Ensure responsible data collection, secure storage, confidentiality and ethical management of participant information.
• Coordinate routine monitoring of BOOST programmes across project locations and thematic areas.
• Support programme teams in developing monitoring plans, performance indicator tracking tables and reporting schedules.
• Track progress against programme targets, budgets, workplans and agreed results frameworks.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, annual and donor-specific performance reports.
• Monitor implementation progress and proactively identify delivery gaps, risks and corrective actions.
• Support donor reviews, monitoring missions, project evaluations, audits and organisational performance assessments.
• Establish and coordinate BOOST's organisational learning agenda, ensuring lessons inform programme design, adaptation and strategic decision-making.
• Facilitate periodic programme reflection sessions, learning workshops and after-action reviews.
• Document success stories, case studies, promising practices, innovations and lessons learned.
• Translate programme evidence into knowledge products, policy briefs, learning reports and impact publications.
• Support research, evidence generation and documentation of scalable youth development models.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, reflection, accountability and evidence-based innovation across BOOST.
• Develop and strengthen mechanisms for participant feedback, community accountability and responsive programme improvement.
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation processes are inclusive, gender-responsive, youth-centred and sensitive to disability and other dimensions of exclusion.
• Build the capacity of programme staff, field teams, volunteers and implementing partners in results-based management, data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Promote compliance with relevant donor reporting standards, safeguarding requirements and organisational policies.
• Collaborate with programme, finance and communications teams to ensure consistency between implementation results, expenditure reporting and external impact communications.
• Support the development of evidence-based proposals, programme designs and resource mobilisation initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Monitoring and Evaluati…