Senior Manager Impact and Intelligence

Remote, South Africa

Position overview SNV is building a catalytic commercial accelerator, built to close the gap between capital and impact in markets where both are urgently needed. The Senior Manager for Impact and Intelligence is the intellectual engine within the unit. This role has two distinct but connected responsibilities: delivering client-facing impact measurement as a billable service, and synthesising knowledge across the portfolio to build a body of evidence that sharpens our offer and strengthens our market position.

This is not a back-office role. Impact measurement is a revenue line in its own right — impact investors, DFIs, and corporations with sustainability commitments are increasingly willing to pay for rigorous, credible measurement of their programmes. The right person combines analytical rigour with commercial awareness, and understands that evidence is only valuable if it changes decisions.

SNV holds a significant body of institutional knowledge — proposals, evaluations, programme data, sector evidence — accumulated across 50+ years and 25+ countries. Most of it is inaccessible or underused. This role is responsible for changing that: activating SNV ’s knowledge base as a...