Head of Impact

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🕒 July 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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ALX South Africa

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

🏢 Enterprise

Education • B2C • Enterprise

ALX South Africa is the South African arm of ALX, a pan‑African career accelerator and skills training organisation that delivers intensive, outcome‑focused programmes and career tracks in areas such as AI & Data, Creative, and Entrepreneurship. ALX provides online and in‑person learning infrastructure, peer learning communities, employer partnerships and sponsored access (via partners such as the Mastercard Foundation) to help learners gain high‑demand skills, build portfolios, and move into paid work or start ventures. The organisation emphasises measurable employer outcomes and youth employment across the continent.

📋 Description

• Build the evidence and trust architecture • Lead rigorous evaluation and external validation • Build impact intelligence systems and data quality • Turn evidence into learning, fundraising, and thought leadership • Lead and evolve the Impact Team

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in impact evaluation, applied research, economics, workforce development, education outcomes, labor market analytics, social impact strategy, data science, or a related field. • Deep expertise in rigorous impact methodology, including RCTs, quasi-experimental methods, causal inference, longitudinal studies, tracer studies, sampling, survey design, mixed-methods research, and evaluation design. • Experience designing, managing, commissioning, or partnering on external evaluations with academic researchers, research organizations, foundations, multilaterals, or independent evaluators. • Strong understanding of education-to-employment, workforce development, economic mobility, youth employment, entrepreneurship, income lift, household outcomes, or labor market transitions. • Strong data fluency, including comfort working with dashboards, data pipelines, data warehouses, CRM systems, survey platforms, product analytics, and data quality processes. • Ability to translate complex research and methodology into clear, credible materials for donors, boards, executives, governments, employers, and public audiences. • Experience working cross-functionally with product, data, engineering, operations, learning, fundraising, communications, and senior leadership teams. • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce methodology notes, donor briefs, board materials, impact reports, white papers, and thought leadership. • Excellent judgment on evidence quality, including when to use gold-standard evaluation methods, when to use faster pragmatic approaches, and how to communicate uncertainty or limitations. • Proven ability to lead teams, build systems, manage ambiguity, and operate effectively in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments. • Strong ethical grounding around data privacy, consent, responsible AI, equity, transparency, and the risks of overclaiming impact. • A bias toward action, paired with the discipline to build systems that are credible, auditable, and trusted.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role requires strong self-management, proactive communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, cross-functional environment. • The successful candidate should be comfortable working across teams and time zones, using digital collaboration tools, and maintaining momentum in a remote-first setting.

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