Job Opportunity for Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Fortify Health in Multiple Locations

About Fortify Health

Fortify Health is an NGO with a team of dedicated entrepreneurs working to improve nutritional status at a population scale through fortification, a recognised, effective public health intervention. We work to tackle anaemia and birth defects by supporting the fortification of wheat flour with iron, vitamin B12, and folic acid. We support millers willing to adopt fortification by making it cost-neutral to them, and we work with state governments to expand fortification in social safety net programs and on the open market. Complementing our entrepreneurial model, we provide nutrition training, career development opportunities and a wide range of resources to guide the team. 

Fortify Health’s model addresses micronutrient deficiencies through work with industry partners, NGOs and state governments. Maintaining collaborative relationships with our partner mills and ensuring smooth implementation of fortification in mills is essential to successfully achieving Fortify Health’s goals. The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager will manage the M&E team across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Hyderabad. They will co-create SOPs across quality assurance and control, premix procurement and delivery, and data collection and analysis. They will also identify and address technical and managerial gaps in Fortify Health’s M&E systems and support the M&E team to address them.

Position overview

The M&E Manager will be based in Pune, Indore or Bhopal (with up to 30% of their time including travel to other locations in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Hyderabad). This role will involve a combination of technical, managerial and strategy work around Fortify Health’s M&E systems. The M&E Manager will need to have a deep understanding of quality assurance and control in the food manufacturing sector, the ability to think both at the systems as well as the granular level and excellent people management skills. The M&E Manager will streamline technical processes followed by the M&E team to ensure the quality of fortification in our partner mills. They will also help set up coordination and communication systems to ensure smooth coordination between the Program and the M&E teams. 

They have the exciting opportunity to bring their own unique experience into this role, as they will be the first manager in the M&E team and will be an essential part of Fortify Health’s growth. They will report to Fortify Health’s Director of Growth. Depending on performance and organizational needs, the M&E Manager will have the potential to grow into a senior leadership role in the future. 

Responsibilities and activities

• Manage the M&E team, which includes a total of six M&E Officers
• Streamline existing workflows and SOPs or support the Director of Research and M&E to develop new ones to ensure smooth implementation of  quality assurance systems in our partner mills
• Streamline existing workflows and SOPs or support the Director of Research and M&E to develop new ones to ensure smooth data collection, analysis and sharing of data from partner mills across the organization
• Collaborate effectively with the Program Manager(s) and Regulatory Affairs team to ensure smooth implementation of Fortify Health’s processes
• Support and lead selected R&D and innovation across quality assurance and control, and digitization of data management and analysis
• Support in funder reporting
• Innovate new technical processes to optimize Fortify Health’s quality assurance and impact measurement work
• Support the Director of Research and M&E in the exploration of future opportunities for study design and execution

Requirements

• Experience in quality assurance in the food manufacturing/nutrition sector
• Experience and interest in building monitoring and evaluation systems at scale
• Bachelors or higher degree in related field (food technology, milling engineering, biotechnology, nutrition sciences, chemistry, microbiology, public health or another related field)
• Excellent people management and judgment
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, from managing relationships between various stakeholders to relaying important quality assurance and impact findings in an accessible way
• Prior experience managing teams in a growing organization
• Enthusiasm about our opportunity to improve people’s lives through fortification
• Strong organisational and prioritization skills
• Strong creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to efficiently learn and execute best practices where they exist and to innovate where they do not
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Confidence, humility, and diligence
• Dedication to the long-term progress and sustainability of the charity, and perseverance throughout its intermediate hurdles
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of working days
• Fluency in English and Hindi (written and spoken) 
• Willingness to relocate to any of Pune, Indore or Bhopal 
• Authorisation to work in India (Indian national, eligibility for OCI, etc.)

Desirable attributes

• Experience working with remote team members
• Experience working independently
• Relevant experience in public health or research
• Relevant experience in NGO field environment 
• Scientific literacy to understand the finer points on fortification through the academic literature

Terms of employment: Two year contract, renewal by mutual agreement

Salary and benefits: INR 94,500 per month (including taxes)

Due to the nature of this role we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and the role might be filled and closed before the closing date. Early applications are encouraged.