Impact Evidence & Insights Lead

Africa Practice is a mission-led strategic consulting firm that has been advising investors and development partners across the African continent for over two decades. The firm’s mission is to shape a prosperous Africa that inspires the world. Africa Practice partners with global investors, policy-makers, development partners, and other changemakers to drive transformation across the continent through strategic advisory services. The firm specializes in insights and advocacy solutions that are rooted in detailed systems and stakeholder understanding.

Africa Practice identifies, generates, and analyzes human-centered systems data to design impactful advocacy interventions. The company delivers world-class insights and advocacy solutions through its extensive local presence that spans across the African continent and extends to London. Africa Practice operates as an integrated company with a diverse team working on a hybrid basis across multiple African cities including Abuja, Cape Town, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Gaborone, Johannesburg, Lagos, and Nairobi, as well as London.

The firm’s workforce comprises risk analysts, development economists, advocates, storytellers, data scientists, policy experts, systems thinkers, and creative professionals. The organization maintains a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, with over 80 percent of staff being African and over 50 percent being women. Africa Practice has been a signatory to the UN Global Compact since 2021 and achieved B-Corp certification in 2024, reflecting its commitment to meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

This role is designed for a research expert who is passionate about solving complex socio-economic challenges within the African context. Africa Practice is seeking someone who excels in designing and executing creative and rigorous research methodologies that blend both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The successful candidate will become the firm’s internal expert on building primary data collection strategies, including innovative digital and social media-based surveys, while combining a variety of data and insights repositories and synthesizing diverse inputs into powerful, evidence-based narratives.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable handling quantitative data and supporting basic economic models. Success in this role will depend on demonstrated curiosity, strategic thinking, and the ability to connect rigorous research to the firm’s wider mission of building a prosperous Africa. This is not a purely technical position; it is a strategic role that requires a self-starter who can develop solutions, manage complex deliverables, and is deeply motivated to make a positive impact.

The role will support Africa Practice’s growth team, which invests in “breakthrough projects”—significant initiatives focused on issues considered critical to unlock Africa’s prosperity. This includes understanding intra-African migration flows and quantifying the impact of media bias on investment flows. Additionally, the candidate will support client projects requiring rigorous mixed-method research, particularly those working with the public policy team that advises clients on strategic engagement with policymakers.

This often requires assessing the socio-economic impact of policy, corporate interventions, or specific projects.

• Lead the design and execution of creative and rigorous mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) research methodologies for client projects and internal insights
• Act as the internal expert on complex, mixed-method research and quantitative data analysis for high-stakes research
• Develop…