Overview
The Impact Measurement Verification and Learning Manager leads in the generation, verification, and use of high-quality impact intelligence to support investment decisions, portfolio performance management, and organizational learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide forward-looking intelligence to inform investment strategy, pipeline development, and portfolio performance.
- Develop impact intelligence products to support strategy and investment decisions.
- Analyze sectoral, geographic, and thematic trends relevant to blended finance and impact investing.
- Develop impact theses aligned with organizational priorities.
- Produce portfolio-level impact insights to inform resource allocation and risk management.
- Institutionalize learning and contribute to sector-wide knowledge.
- Develop internal guidance materials and technical notes.
- Develop, disseminate and maintain repositories of lessons learned and best practices.
- Produce thematic briefs and research outputs.
- Support publication of case studies.
- Promote innovation in impact methodologies.
- Generate actionable learning following structured evaluation of UNCDF investments and programs.
- Contribute to development of evaluation frameworks suited to blended finance models.
- Ensure integration of evaluation learning loops into program and investment design.
- Translate evaluation findings into practical recommendations.
- Ensure robust, standardized, and practical measurement of impact across UNCDF investments and programs.
- Integrate contextual intelligence into decision frameworks.
- Support due diligence by assessing theory of change coherence, environmental and social safeguards adherence and expected development outcomes.
- Safeguard the credibility, integrity, and reliability of reported impact results.
- Lead verification of impact data reported by investees and partners.
- Conduct periodic data quality audits, spot checking and validation exercises.
- Develop and enforce impact assurance protocols.
- Manage relationships with external verification partners where applicable.
- Identify risks related to impact overstatement or data gaps.
- Ensure traceability from reported outcomes to source evidence.
- Ensure reliable infrastructure for collecting, managing, and analyzing impact data.
- Coordinate with Corporate IT on the development and maintenance of impact data platforms.
- Define system requirements for data collection and reporting.
- Ensure data interoperability across programs and investments.
- Support visualization tools and dashboards.
- Maintain data governance standards.
- Ensure accurate, credible reporting to internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Lead preparation of impact reports for senior leadership, donors, and investors.
- Support reporting against development and Strategic Framework commitments.
- Ensure alignment between reported results and verified evidence.
- Contribute to UNCDF annual reports, impact disclosures, and strategic reviews.
- Prepare briefing materials on impact results for the UNCDF Executive Secretary, Managing Director, and Executive Board.
- Maintain productive relationships with internal and external IMVL partners contributing to impact outcomes.
- Coordinate with investment teams to integrate impact into decision-making.
- Liaise with investees to strengthen their measurement capacity.
- Advise on engagement of donors, development partners, and co-investors on impact matters.
- Support as necessary the organization in technical working groups.
- Lead a small team of staff and consultants delivering high-quality analytical and technical outputs.
- Develop and manage the IMVL annual work plans, ensuring that all planned deliverables are meeting time and quality expectations.
- Manage and mentor IMVL team, assigning workloads and ensuring efficient task management.
- Set performance expectations and development plans.
- Build team capacity in evaluation methods and data analytics.
- Maintain a collaborative, results-oriented team culture.
Required Experience
Minimum of 10 years (with a master’s degree) or 12 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in international finance and development experience including at a senior level. Proven experience with financial modelling and transaction structuring, including loans and guarantees. Proven experience in underwriting, due diligence and structuring processes for bankable projects in developing countries. Experience partnering with the private sector to deliver measurable development outcomes. Experience designing and implementing impact management frameworks, strategic selectivity approaches, and portfolio management tools within development finance institutions. Experience working with UN organizations, and multi-lateral / bilateral financial institutions.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Finance, Economics, International Development or related fields is required OR A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
