Job Opportunity for Head Evaluation & Research at Educate Girls in Mumbai

The Head of Evaluation & Research  will be responsible to lead the external evaluation, assess operational risks, review M&E frameworks for all programs and drive the research agenda for Educate Girls.

About the Organization: Established in 2007, Educate Girls’ is a non-profit that focusses on mobilizing communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas.

Strongly aligned with the ‘Right to Education Act’ or the ‘Samagra Siksha’, Educate Girls is committed to the Government’s vision to improve access to primary education for children, especially young girls.

Educate Girls (EG) currently operates successfully in over 20,000+ villages in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh with a strength of 2200+ employees & 13000+ volunteers (Team Balika). By leveraging the Government’s existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enroll and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). This helps deliver measurable results to a large number of children and avoids parallel delivery of services.

For more information on the organization log on to www.educategirls.ngo

Why is this role important?

Educate Girls is committed to deliver all its program with ‘Quality’. Hence this role, that directly reports to the Founder (Safeena Husain), and will have the strategic and tactical responsibility for supporting strategy implementation to exceed expectations for quality operational delivery, optimizing cost and supporting operational excellence.      

Key Responsibilities

External Evaluation: Strategically lead the planning and coordination of all external audits and evaluations. Be the primary point of liaison to external evaluation partners.  Guide & advise the Operations team on how to mitigate risks during evaluations. Continuously assess and review risks to data fidelity and to sustainable program outcomes.

Research: Consult key stakeholders and prepare the annual research plan for Educate Girls. Design and lead the research, including an annual signature report by Educate Girls. Build the capacity of the organization to conduct credible and timely research to inform its program delivery, and its advocacy and resource mobilization plans. Ensure high-quality M&E documentation in place to support donor, auditor and evaluator requests.

Who we are looking for?

• A strategic thinker & leader with 10+ years of experience that includes managing external evaluation and research in the development sector
• Demonstrated success in design and management of measurement & evaluation systems
• Disciplined, structured and data driven approach to decision making and problem solving with a sharp focus on metrics, outcomes and results
• Good interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate and effectively interact with external evaluators and to build partnerships around common interests and goals
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, lead projects, meet multiple concurrent deadlines, organize time and priorities, and work well as a member of a team
• High level of integrity, trust, accountability and superior judgment
• Experience within the education sector/ within or advising a foundation / public advocacy organization /high-impact non-profit / research firm or strategy consulting firm preferred 

Job Location: Mumbai (EG Head Office)

If the role excites and you think you will be an impactful contributor to Educate Girls, please proceed and share your details.

(In case you need any clarifications before sharing your candidature, please write to anushree.singh@educategirls.ngo with your queries)