Job Opportunity for Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Deoghar in Jharkhand

At Quest Alliance we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators.

We are a not-for-profit trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of teaching and learning. We engage with educators, civil society, government institutions and corporate organizations to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training

At Quest you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. The organization gives you the space to learn and grow in a fun and engaging environment.  We have an eclectic group of people working at Quest drawn from diverse disciplines including Education, Technology, Design, Youth Development and Business.

About the role:

You will be part of the Knowledge Hub team and be based in Deogarh, Jharkhand You will be reporting to the M&E Manager with a dotted line to the Jharkhand State lead and will be responsible for compiling, reviewing, producing and sharing reports to internal/external audiences. You will be involved in developing the reporting tools to capture qualitative and quantitative data and change stories. Your responsibilities will include tracking changes and evidence based results against targets and indicators of each program and developing recommendations to further improve results or program design.

As an M&E Officer you will contribute to generating insights (backed by data) to ensure high standards of program implementation.

Responsibilities 

Monitoring and reporting

• Support Evaluations, Sharing and Learning internally
• Provide technical support in Program Strategy development informed by Evidence based learning
• Engage with funders, evaluation organization and collaborative members on aspects of Monitoring and Evaluation

The role will cover the following:

1.     Monitoring and Reporting

• Provide technical assistance and training on monitoring and data collection and reporting to employees and program implementation partners
• Develop reporting tools of high quality to be administered by employees and Master Trainers to capture comprehensive narrative and quantitative data
• Coordinate all aspects of project monitoring and reporting ensuring data is of high quality and produced on time.
• Ensure program teams in Jharkhand have appropriate monitoring and reporting indicators and tools in place, in line with Quest Alliance Strategy and donor grant management requirements.
• Monitor all project activities and progress towards achieving the program outputs and outcomes.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites to carry out process monitoring as well as gather feedback from the beneficiaries about the implemented projects and submit detailed reports.
• Support the State lead in conducting monthly review meetings with team members.
• Lead on the compilation of the quarterly, half yearly and annual reports.
• Develop Evidence Based Decision Making systems and train the program team on the technique.
• Ensure that monitoring and reporting systems, including fieldwork, collection of reports and data entry, are correctly implemented by staff
• Work closely with the grant management team to synchronize the report

2.     Support Evaluations, Sharing and Learning internally

• Support in the management of independent and external project based evaluations, such as baseline, endline surveys, including designing & planning for data collection, analysis and report writing in coordination with the Evaluation and Research lead.
• Managing qualitative data analysis that gets generated through various media in various channels like LMS, App, discussion forums etc.
• Support with necessary data to produce documents including case studies, study briefs, impact briefs for use by the team

3.       Provide technical support in Program Strategy development informed by Evidence Based Learning

4.      Engage with funders, evaluation organizations and collaborative members on aspects of Monitoring and Evaluation

5.         Other duties as required.

You maybe occasionally required to work on weekends and/or public holidays, for which compensatory leave will be granted

Requirements

Eligibility:

• Postgraduate degree/ qualifications in social sciences or related field
• At least 2 year of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation with a development organization
• Understanding of the current M&E trends especially in development organizations
• Strong data analysis skills (quantitative and qualitative)
• Knowledge and experience in use of computer-based data analysis packages such as SPSS and Strata preferred;
• Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data
• Excellent computer knowledge and understanding of various statistical tools and software.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel to other locations, as per need
• An interest to look for newer ways of capturing program impact and learnings
• Proficiency in reading, writing and speaking in English and Hindi is a must