RFP: Impact Report Content Lead (Consultant, contract)

We rigorously measure the impact of our work through annual household surveys, peer-comparison benchmarks, and longitudinal cohort tracking. Every year, we publish a comprehensive Impact Report that anchors funder relationships and serves as the public face of our methodological rigor. Read our 2025 Impact Report here.

For the first time this year, our Impact Report will be produced as a web-first report via our online Impact Studio microsite (completing a shift that began at a smaller scale in 2025), and as an abridged PDF report.

Our goals for the 2026 project are to:

• Expand the Impact Studio microsite into a comprehensive and interactive digital report (2026 edition) with full reporting and analysis, deeper structured views, multiple cohort reports, and a consistent template system that scales annually;
• Produce a substantive but shorter PDF Impact Report;
• Take a single-source, dual-output approach to content development, authoring content once and adapting for use in both products.

We are seeking a consultant to write the report, working in close collaboration with our data and communications teams.

What you’ll do

• Write Impact Studio and PDF report content. Maintain a consistent narrative voice across both products, aligned with RTV’s brand and messaging guidelines, and ensure that the framing and narrative are factual and engaging;
• Edit and fact-check content: Cross-check and fact-check numbers, percentages, methodology footnotes, glossary terms, cohort labels, and framing for consistency between PDF and Studio at every gate. Run a final pre-launch QA pass on both;
• Upload content to the Impact Studio CMS and QA for accuracy and readability.

Success means:

• A high-quality and accurate Impact Studio and accompanying PDFs launch on schedule in a phased process from September to December;
• Frameworks and guiding documents are developed to support an effective and efficient process this year and in future years.

Who you are

You are the rare hybrid: A person with one foot in monitoring and evaluation and one foot in communications. You have built complex reports that are part research report, part communications tool, and have experience writing about what the data says, what the organization has learned, and how its programs and impact are evolving, while clearly articulating our mission and helping stakeholders understand why their support matters.

You understand data and read cohort tables, ROI calculations, and longitudinal indicators with comfort, and have a passion for bringing information to life through clear, rigorous and compelling writing. You are able to take complex impact data, understand the findings, and write content that hones in on why it matters – the so what? – to people and the organization. You have experience developing the frameworks and ways of working that ensure the successful production of complex reports. You are a meticulous editor and fact-checker with a relentless eye to ensuring consistency of voice and information across platforms.

Required:

• 10+ years of writing and producing impact reports, research publications, or annual reports for nonprofit, philanthropic, research, or development-sector organizations, with lead writing responsibilities of at least one comparable publication to our 2025 Impact Report;
• Background in monitoring, evaluation, and learning or development economics and demonstrated comfort with quantitative impact data: cohort analysis, ROI, peer-comparison methodology, distribution analyses, longitudinal indicators. You can read it, understand it, and write about it without flattening it;

• Excellent writing skills, with experience writing for a variety of audiences and platforms, and a range of products, including reports, executive narratives, data spotlights, and impact
• Comfort with single-source / dual-output writing, modular content, content reuse, and CMS work;
• Familiarity with how to use AI to support – not direct – report creation;
• Strong understanding of the different ways of working of – and ability to collaborate with – MEL, communications, and web design;
• Remote work East Africa or Toronto-overlapping working hours preferred.

Strongly preferred:

• Familiarity with poverty graduation, ultra-poverty programming, smallholder agriculture, or livelihoods development in sub-Saharan Africa;
• Direct experience with Uganda or east Africa development

How we’ll work together

Modular engagement

• Work is broken into clear phases and deliverables — content audit, drafting, CMS build-out, QA, launch — so scope and effort are visible at every

Time profile

• We estimate that this project will require a total of 13 weeks of work between late July and end of December.
  • Light in July: Planning, alignment to tone and messaging, content audit;
  • Peak in August–November Writing, editing, coordination, data checks, CMS input;
  • Taper in December: Final QA, launch,

Fee structure

• We are open to either a day-rate engagement or a fixed-fee retainer with milestone-based payments.

How to apply

Proposals should include:

1. A short cover letter (no longer than one page) that describes who you are, why this engagement is a fit, your relevant experience, where you are based, and your confirmation of availability from July to December;
2. Your CV

3. Two to three relevant work Ideal examples include impact reports or similar publications you led, and a piece where you communicated quantitative findings clearly. Links are fine, as are redacted PDFs;
4. Proposal and quote, including preferred engagement
5. Two relevant professional references

Deadline: Email proposal to connect@raisingthevillage.org by July 10, 2026. We will review proposals on a rolling basis.

Selection process

• Review and shortlist within one week of the deadline
• Video interview with shortlisted candidates to review work samples, experience, and discuss two scenarios drawn from the engagement.
• Short paid technical assessment
• Reference check