Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, R&D (Job Vacancy)

Monitoring amp; Evaluation Lead

About Mantra

A decade ago, Mantra4Change stepped into the education ecosystem with a vision to transform Public Education in India. We believe that in a unique nation like India, our approach to quality education cannot be exclusive of systemic reforms. We work with stakeholders in the system especially in positions of leadership to enable school improvement across the states we work with. A key question that drives us is - how might we enable enriching experiences for children at scale, with speed, and sustainably?

Our Programs are designed to improve and impact critical challenges:

at ground level like teacher capacity building - Transform

at system level like empowering leaders with administrative and academic tools - Enable

at ecosystem level by inspiring thought leaders and entrepreneurs to build a collective of changemakers. - Inspire

Read more - www.mantra4change.org

Monitoring amp; Evaluation Lead

The Mamp;E Lead role is aimed at developing impact strategy for the org/programs, design Mamp;E frameworks, learning from research, and helping organisation with its data needs.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Arrive at Organisation’s impact measurement strategy collaborating with the core leadership team
• Proactively build evidence in Mantra’s programs/interventions by supporting with data wherever required and developing robust structures to document the impact
• Engaging with the research and design team to design a monitoring and evaluation (Mamp;E) framework for the programs
• Design, collaborate and plan for data collection with the field teams or organisations
• Design and package the Mamp;E templates and resources to be disseminated with the solution packages
• Plan and partner with organisations for impact analyses, data collection amp; research, etc.
• Consolidate and analyse the collected data to report insights about the programs
• Present the reports and insights whenever required
• Document the processes and create reports wherever required
• Assist in developing org/program specific data dashboards to showcase progress on outputs amp; outcomes
• Support with building the capacity of the team to do research and design evidence-informed solutions
• Close collaboration with program teams, external technical and research partners

Competencies amp; Skills

• Systemic thinking
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to research
• Willingness to learn in the face of uncertainty and difficult situations
• Effective planning skills and time-task management
• Experience having worked on Python / R, Stata, SQL
• Prior experience in Monitoring and evaluation of large-scale interventions
• Minimum of 2 years commitment

Location: Bengaluru; might require travel to field sites.

Compensation range: 7-9 LPA