Impact Assurance Advisor Consultant Roster

Mercy Corps; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Prosper Global is seeking an Impact Assurance Advisor to strengthen how we measure, report, and verify outcomes for the Jobtech Alliance. The consultant will help build an employment framework, verify results, and design survey tools with input from data and impact teams.

The role emphasizes collaborating with startups, engaging with donors, and updating policy playbooks to reflect evidence-driven learning. Remote with international scope.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of experience in monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL) within international development or donor-funded programs.
• Direct experience with donor verification, compliance, or audit processes.
• Strong qualitative interviewing skills with startup founders or platform teams.
• Skilled at translating messy results data into donor-ready reporting language.
• Experience with proposal-stage MEL writing (indicators, frameworks, reporting plans).
• Diplomatic but firm communicator able to handle donor questions and pushback.

Responsibilities

• Build a full-employment framework to capture participants' livelihood picture.
• Verify outcomes reported and ensure data provenance and accuracy.
• Design, pilot, and update survey tools and related instruments.
• Join MEL calls with donors and contribute to donor communications.
• Prepare and vamp MEL documents such as MEL plans and Theory of Change.
• Conduct interviews with startup founders to surface credible data narratives.
• Produce and report findings, linking results to evidence and program impact.

Skills

MEL

Donor funders

Qualitative interviewing

Data storytelling

MEL writing

Advisory capacity

Jobs/livelihoods measurement

Startup advisory

Diplomatic communication

Donor verification

Job description

Impact Assurance Advisor Consultant Roster

Programs and Technical SpecialitiesAnywhere,United States

Please note this consultancy is remote globally with preference for time-zones that overlap with African countries

Background

Barely enough is not enough for anyone. Prosper Global is a humanitarian organization working alongside communities facing conflict, climate change, and economic hardship to meet urgent needs and create the conditions for lasting progress. Today's challenges demand new solutions , so we pair local knowledge with global resources to help communities build what's needed, test what's possible, and scale what's proven so that people everywhere can pursue a full life on their own terms. In 2026, we changed our name from Mercy Corps to Prosper Global, to reflect our belief that when every community can prosper, all of humanity moves forward.

Purpose / Project Description

The Jobtech Alliance is an ecosystem-building initiative that seeks to catalise an inclusive African jobtech sector to create and improve one million quality jobs by 2032. We partner with jobtech start-ups across Africa to support strategy, product, and operational innovations that make their services more viable and scalable, more inclusive and/or delivering better quality jobs for the users they serve. This is complemented by research, community-building, and influence activities to ensure that learnings are replicated/scaled, and to change the way the system works.

Results measurement is central to how Jobtech Alliance learns, makes decisions and reports to funders. W hat we measure inform s and helps grow the overall jobtech ecosystem .

Jobtech Alliance is seeking an Impact Assurance Advisor to strengthen how we measure, report, and verify our results. The work will span three areas:

• Building a full-employment framework that captures participants' whole livelihood picture.
• Verifying the outcomes we report.
• Designsurvey tool s . S uch as the full-employment framework survey tool that captures participants' full livelihood picture, including the contribution of work found through the platforms we support. It should build on the Quality of Work Measurement T ool developed by the Measurement in Jobtech Working Group, and draw on established approaches such as the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework.
• Survey t ool s piloting and testing . I nvolv es working with the data collection organization to prepare the tool’s pilot, including joining initial tests .
• Revis ing survey tool s based on what pilot s shows.
• Updat ing relevant sections of our Results, Learning & Research playbook so they reflect theme addressed by tools, such as participants' full livelihood picture.
• Join MEL calls with new donor s .
• Populate and/or r e vamp MEL documents . Such as MEL plan s , the Theory of Change, Pathways Framework, Self-Reporting Protocol, and Terms of Reference for technical working groups
• Results verification
• Review the outcomes we report against the supporting evidence to confirm they hold up.
• Interview a sample of start-up founders about the support they received and how much it contributed to their results.
• Report on what the review and interviews found.

Consultant Deliverables

The Consultant will deliver the following :

• Full-employment survey tool, ready for pilot
• Revised survey tool, incorporating pilot findings
• Updated playbook sections on user-level indicators and tools
• Finalized donor documents (five)
• Results verification report : rolling basi s (approximately two per year)

Timeframe / Schedule

The Jobtech Alliance team will work with the consultant to determine availability, work schedule on a needbasis during a 2-year period .

The Consultant Will Report to

Jared Wachira Adema, Department Lead: Data & Impact – Jobtech Alliance (based in Nairobi, Kenya)

The Consultant Will Work Closely With

• Jobtech Alliance’s Results Measurement team
• Jobtech Alliance’s Inclusivity team
• Jobtech Alliance’s Venture Building team

Required Experience and Skills

• 10-15 + years of experience in monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL), ideally within international development , social impact, or donor-funded programs
• Prior experience working with major institutional funders
• Direct experience with donor verification, compliance, or audit processes — understands what funders typically probe for (data provenance, privacy, accuracy, attribution)
• Strong qualitative interviewing skills — comfortable engaging startup founders /platform teams to surface credible, well-evidenced data narratives
• Skilled at translating messy or partial results data into donor-ready reporting language
• Experience with proposal-stage MEL writing (indicators, frameworks, reporting plans)
• Diplomatic but firm communicator — able to manage difficult donor questions and pushback
• Familiarity with jobs/livelihoods impact measurement (job creation, job quality metrics) is a strong plus
• Comfortable working in an advisory capacity — proactively flagging issues rather than waiting to be asked
• Experience working with or advising startups/early-stage ventures is a plus

Team Engagement and Effectiveness

Achieving our mission starts with how we build our team and collaborate. By bringing together individuals with a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives, we strengthen our ability to solve complex challenges and drive innovation. We foster a culture of trust and respect, where every team member is valued for their contributions, empowered to reach their full potential, and motivated to do their best work.

We recognize that building a strong and effective team is an ongoing process, and we remain committed to learning, improving, and growing together.

Prosper Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color , sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected under applicable law.

Safeguarding and Ethics

Prosper Global is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Prosper Global Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.