Development Insights & Data Manager

About Imagine Worldwide

All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don’t have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide’s mission is to empower millions of children across Sub-Saharan Africa with the literacy and numeracy skills they need to reach their full potential. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Nine Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) across multiple countries and settings have shown dramatic learning gains, increased school attendance, and gender parity, all for less than $7 per child per year.

Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child-directed, tablet-based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are a California-based (United States) nonprofit organization operating across seven Sub-Saharan African countries. Learn more on our website.

About the Role

The Development Insights & Data Manager serves as the development team’s central point person for retrieving, interpreting, organizing, and communicating program and organizational data. This role sits at the intersection of fundraising, impact measurement, and knowledge management. The Manager will coordinate closely with research, finance, and country offices to provide the development and communications teams—and ultimately all external audiences—with accurate, compelling impact metrics, financial indicators, and qualitative insights.

A successful candidate brings a combination of data literacy, clear communication skills for non-technical audiences, and strong project coordination. We’re looking for a detail-oriented, analytical professional who enjoys transforming data and qualitative insights into meaningful, donor-friendly narratives. They are skilled at navigating quantitative and qualitative information, coordinating with global teams, and maintaining structured systems for data accuracy and knowledge-sharing. They bring experience in data management and comfort working with impact metrics while understanding how to communicate complex ideas to non-specialist audiences.

This role reports to the Executive Head - Development and Communications

Key Responsibilities

Data Retrieval & Metrics Management

• Serve as the development team’s primary liaison with research, country and programs teams to secure impact indicators, KPIs, and performance data.
• Maintain an updated repository of organizational metrics in key impact areas including learning gains, climate benefits, and livelihoods for proposals, reports, and donor materials and external communications.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across country programs and reporting cycles.

Financial Indicators

• Collaborate with finance team to retrieve high-level financial data (e.g., cost-per-student, efficiency metrics, budget trends).
• Support development colleagues in interpreting and presenting financial data clearly for donor audiences.

Qualitative Insights & Knowledge Management

• Collect and synthesize qualitative inputs from country offices, including best practices, lessons learned, and solution development for common challenges for both internal and external use.
• Maintain systems for sharing and accessing qualitative insights across the development team.
• Work with the communications and development teams to produce coherent narrative summaries and programmatic context for proposals, donor reports, and briefings.

Donor-Facing Content Support

• Translate technical data and research findings into clear and accessible formats for external audiences.
• Create simple charts, tables, and data visualization.
• Draft supporting narrative content when needed in collaboration with grant writers.

Team Systems & Coordination

• Maintain organized data dashboards and ensure information is easily retrievable for development staff.
• Track data needs for active proposals, reports and narrative priorities.
• Support cross-team planning related to evidence, reporting, and knowledge management.

Requirements

The successful candidate will possess the following competencies, experiences, and qualities:

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, economics, statistics, public policy, education, or another relevant field; or equivalent practical experience.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret, clean, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data.
• Strong writing and communication skills for nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and basic data analysis tools.
• Experience coordinating across diverse teams and time zones.
• Familiarity with CRM or knowledge management systems (e.g., Salesforce, Airtable, SharePoint) preferred.

Specific skills (required)

• Highly analytical, organized, and detail-oriented.
• Strong synthesizer who enjoys interpreting data and identifying key insights.
• Clear communicator with the ability to simplify complexity.
• Collaborative and comfortable coordinating with globally distributed teams.
• Commitment to rigorous evidence, ethical storytelling, and responsible data use.
• Curious, proactive, and eager to build efficient systems for information flow.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Location

The Development Insights & Data Manager must be based on the African continent with a preference for the countries that Imagine is already operating in. Regional travel to field sites may be required.

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Imagine Worldwide is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.