Senior Director Of Research and Learning

Employer: Village Enterprise

Industry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social Entrepreneurship

Job Title: Snr Director of Research and Learning

Position Type: Full-time

Reports to Chief Operations Officer

Location: Global with travel approximately 30% of the time

About Village Enterprise

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action. Our programming equips people living in extreme poverty with the resources to create sustainable businesses and achieve financial independence. We are scaling our work across Africa through partnerships with leading international and local nonprofits and NGOs, governments, and private sector companies. Our goal is to end extreme poverty for 20 million people by 2035.

Position Overview

Village Enterprise is seeking a Senior Director of Research and Learning to advance the organization's mission by ensuring the rigor, quality, and relevance of the organization's research portfolio, which includes externally conducted impact evaluations as well as internally conducted analyses. This is a senior leadership role that requires someone with both strong technical research skills and interpersonal skills to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously with a diverse range of teams and partners. The selected candidate will be a proactive, all-hands-on-deck team member with a collaborative spirit who will own the broader organizational research strategy and lead on internal evidence integration and external dissemination. In addition to overseeing all ongoing studies, the Senior Director of Research and Learning will serve as the organizational focal point for cost-effectiveness strategy, owning the organizational guidelines and analyses that allow Village Enterprise to credibly assess and communicate the value of its programming. While not directly responsible for program monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), this role will collaborate closely with the MEL team and contribute to the development and execution of organizational learning agendas.