This position is with EAII Advisors, Evidence Action's technical partner in India.
Position Overview
Job Title: Deputy Director – Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation
Employment Status: Full Time
Position Location: New Delhi
About EAII Advisors
EAII Advisors, Evidence Action’s technical partner in India, supports the implementation of the school and Anganwadi-based National Deworming Day program, as well as iron and folic acid supplementation programs, across 11 states by providing technical assistance to applicable state ministries of health, education, and women and child development. Moving forward, EAII Advisors aims to expand its impact by collaborating with more state governments on these existing programs, as well as supporting new public health, water, & nutrition programming.
EAII invites applications for the position of Deputy Director – Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation (DD-MLE) in New Delhi.
About Evidence Action
Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs, including in India. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source. These serve as just two examples of the work Evidence Action is undertaking.
In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, intending to double our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator.
Evidence Action has a presence across 9 countries, with major offices and/or technical partners in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.
About India Safe Water Now
Evidence Action’s Safe Water Now program provides safe drinking water to over 10 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya. Recent evidence highlights that water treatment may be among the most cost-effective interventions available to save young children's lives, reducing all-cause child mortality by about 25%. The Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) program, based on research by a Nobel-winning economist, utilizes an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source in rural settings, achieving usage rates which are 5x that of comparable interventions. Evidence Action recently launched a next generation technology, In-Line Chlorination (ILC) in Uganda and Malawi, targeting rural, peri-urban, and urban communities, which has the potential to be even more cost-effective. Over the past year, we’ve more than doubled our footprint in East Africa and are actively exploring opportunities for expansion into new countries.
In addition to its longstanding work in East Africa, Evidence Action, through its technical partner in India, EAII Advisors, is launching a major technical assistance program to help the government of India reach 17.5 million people across multiple states with safe water. This complements the Indian government’s effort to bring water access to every household in the country.
About the Position:
The DD-MLE will report to the Director- Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation. The DD-MLE is management level position of Evidence Action India program. DD-MLE is responsible for a range of organizational learning and development efforts, including advancing and strengthening the organization’s research, monitoring and evaluation work to inform program strategy. DD- MLE role is integral to increasing the priority of and capacity for research, monitoring and evaluation within organization. DD-MLE ensures designing new area of research, its implementation, higher level of analytics and documentation for program decision making and improvement.DD-MLE will manage a skilled team and collaborate closely with other teams to achieve quality MLE outcomes. DD-MLE must possess a sense of collaboration and mutual understanding and a willingness to assist colleagues.
Responsibilities:
Technical Delivery
- Oversee and guide the monitoring, learning and evaluation initiatives of the organisation and work towards delivery of high quality, timely data/information for decision making.
- Lead the development of result based MLE strategy, framework, key program performance indicators, oversee execution and recommend data driven corrective action.
- Provide technical capabilities, skills and data related resources across the programs in a matrixed structure.
- Identify and recommend new areas for research and operations research in line with Evidence Action global priorities and India program needs.
- Coordinate with global Evidence Action team to ensure M&E strategies are consistent and aligned with global and cross-country priorities.
- Spearhead scientific publications in peer reviewed journal and reports for information dissemination.
- Set and maintain minimum standards of rigour, data quality and related best practices within the India program.
- Stay current on technical knowledge, including Jal Jeevan Mission guidelines for rural drinking water supply and latest research and publications, and share latest developments with others team/s.
Program Management
- Ensure the leadership team and other teams have access to timely, useful and accurate data for ongoing program and performance management and assessments.
- Ensure that donors, partner and management queries are addressed in accurate and timely manner.
- Support India program outreach and learning efforts by prioritizing and tracking critical information.
- Support the country program to use data and evidences /information for strategic engagement with policymakers in governments and donors, including collaboration with global team.
- Guide MLE team in annual program planning and budgeting process and support and collaborate with other teams as necessary.
- Support program goals on institutionalisation of India Safe Water Now program and partnership with governments at state and national level through effective information, data sharing and technical expertise.
- Provide inputs and oversee development of technological platforms of the organization
- Actively promote the synthesis and sharing data/information across programs, and generate readily available information for reporting to donors and governments and other stakeholders as required.
- Develop and manage partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Attend meetings with donors, national level partners including Government of India and other technical agencies and represent organisation in meeting, conferences and other events.
- Should be willing to travel at least 20% of the time.
Personnel and Team management
- Identify human resource needs of the team and support HR team in recruitment of staffs and consultants as necessary.
- Identify MLE related learning and training opportunities for staffs.
- Mentor and coach the MLE team members through timely and quality input, supervision and support for enhanced team performance.
Organizational Culture
- Upholds the values of Evidence Action.
- Actively contributes to making an equitable workplace through inclusive practice and openness to different perspectives, cultures and ideas.
- Maintains behaviour and conduct that uphold the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.
- Advance degree in statistics /biostatistics /population studies/economics /public health or related field.
- Must have 10+ years of work experience in monitoring and evaluation with a reputed organization with a minimum of five years at managerial capacity.
- Excellent quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills
- Experience of handling large scale datasets with strong command on quantitative software like Stata or SPSS.
- Prior experience in qualitative data analysis and skills in the use of qualitative software like AtlasTi, NVivo or others.
- Prior experience with mobile or CAPI based surveys are highly preferred;
- Strong analytical skills having experience in using advanced level of MS-Excel is required;
- Experience in working with senior level government partners with project management experience working with state governments to implement large projects.
- Strong project management skills and prior experience in completing projects on tight deadlines.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to work in teams, result oriented and culturally diverse environment.
- Ability to successfully manage and mentor/develop staff as demonstrated by past experience.
- Excellent team player with ability to work in collaboration with colleagues at all levels across departments and external stakeholders.
Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time.
Compensation: Competitive and commensurate with the individual's credentials, experience, and previous pay scale.
All contracting arrangements will be made through EAII Advisors Private Limited. EAII is an equal opportunity employer. Employment at EAII is based solely on an individual's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. EAII does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, caste, creed, colour, religion, gender, origin, disability, marital status, or any other basis protected by law.
All candidates applying for the position should upload a resume along with cover letter mentioning current and expected salary.
We may end this search process earlier than the specified close date in case of exceptional candidates. Due to resource constraints, we will only be able to contact shortlisted candidates.
