Company Overview
Extension Africa, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria, is an agritech platform building Africa’s largest network of trained field extension agents to bridge the gap between smallholder farmers and the knowledge, markets, inputs, and innovations they need. Combining a verified agent network (over 6,000 active agents reaching more than one million farmers, mainly in Nigeria and Kenya) with digital tools such as the Afrexa training academy, FarmEx advisory platform, and CASE agent-deployment engine, the company provides scalable last-mile services to governments, development partners, and agribusinesses, aiming to make agricultural extension seamless, trusted, and commercially sustainable across the continent.
Extension Africa invites qualified candidates to fill in the position below:
Job Title: Evaluation Officer
Location: Abuja
Salary Offer: (NGN) – 0 / Monthly
Job Description
- Extension Africa is seeking an Evaluation Officer to bring evaluation technical depth directly into project implementation.
- Based in Abuja or Kano with regular field travel, the successful candidate will design and deliver needs assessments, baseline, midline and endline evaluations and impact assessments, ensuring that Extension Africa’s Research & Evaluation Framework — which draws on UNDP evaluation approaches and OECD-DAC criteria — is applied consistently across all assigned projects.
- This is a delivery role: the successful candidate will be in the field, in the data and in the report, accountable for evidence that clients, donors and government partners can rely on. Contract is 12 months, renewable subject to performance and funding.
- Up to 20% field travel required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Economics, Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, Sociology, Rural Development, Public Health or a closely related field; Master’s degree is an advantage
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation with at least 2 years leading or substantially contributing to baseline, mid-line, end line or impact evaluations
- Demonstrated experience applying recognized evaluation standards — UNDP evaluation guidance or OECD-DAC criteria — in practice
- Strong mixed-methods capability: sampling design, survey analysis, qualitative interviewing and coding
- Practical experience with digital data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare or similar)
- Proficiency in at least one statistical package (SPSS, Stata, R or Python) and advanced Excel
- Excellent English report writing — candidates will be assessed on a writing sample
- Willingness to travel frequently to rural project locations
- Experience in agriculture, rural development or agri-fintech programmes in Nigeria is an advantage
- Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau is an advantage.
Benefits
- Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience
- 12-month renewable contract subject to performance and funding
- Exposure to donor-funded evaluation and research across multiple states and programmes
- Mission-driven work environment with real community impact
- Equal opportunity employer — women are strongly encouraged to apply
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online