Job Opportunity for Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Fortify Health in Aurangabad

About Fortify Health

Fortify Health has a vision for a healthier world where everyone has the micronutrients they need to survive and thrive. We work toward this by enabling access to micronutrient-rich wheat flour to reduce and prevent iron deficiency anaemia. We currently have operations in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Telangana, India, and plan to expand in other states in the next three years. We provide career development opportunities and a wide range of resources to support our team.

Fortify Health operates through three work streams:

• Open Market Support: We support millers to cost-neutrally fortify chakki atta in the open market
• Government Partnership Support: We work with governments in India to mainstream wheat flour fortification through social safety net programs
• Evidence Generation: We conduct monitoring and evaluation of activities to inform the public about the value of food fortification

Position overview

The M&E Officer will be based in Aurangabad, Maharashtra (with up to 50% of their time including travel to other locations, mostly in Maharashtra), ensuring quality of fortified atta and programs as per Fortify Health guidelines. This role will collaborate with partner mills and Fortify Heath’s Program team to ensure that they fortify their flour adequately and safely, by managing the quality assurance process of fortified atta. The M&E Officer will manage communications with quality assurance staff in partner mills. They will closely work with Program and Regulatory Affairs teams at Fortify Health.

The M&E Officer will be responsible for ensuring collaborative work takes place with our partner mills. They will also have a base of knowledge about data collection, analysis, and food technology to facilitate fortification successfully in mills. They have the exciting opportunity to bring their own unique experience into this role, and will be an essential part of Fortify Health’s growth. They will initially report to Fortify Health’s Senior M&E Officer at Maharashtra.

Responsibilities and activities

• Work with Fortify Health team, millers and labs to ensure fortified wheat flour is correctly fortified
• Follow and refine Fortify Health’s data collection protocols for the entire lifecycle of work with partner mills
• Collect data periodically, enter it, analyze it to give actionable insights to the program team to improve fortification operation in the mills
• Manage communication between all stakeholders involved in the quality assurance process
• Manage Fortify Health’s internal regulatory monitoring, with guidance from the line manager
• Support the M&E team to improve our long term M&E strategy and related research aims 
• Plan and conduct fieldwork to understand the uptake of fortified atta at all levels of the supply chain
• Consolidate monitoring data and prepare periodic reports for internal use, sharing with external stakeholders like mill partners and funders, ensuring an appropriate level of anonymity and data sharing ethics
• Innovate and design mechanisms for fortification data collection and representation
• Support exploration of future opportunities for study design and execution

Requirements

• Experience/background in food technology, fortification, and/or M&E (data collection from a reputed organisation)
• Bachelors or higher degree in food technology, milling engineering, public health, or related field
• Enthusiasm about our opportunity to improve people’s lives through fortification
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to oversee the quality assurance process from mill to lab
• Inclusive, clear and strong verbal and written communication skills, from managing relationships between various stakeholders to relaying important quality assurance findings in an accessible way
• 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
• Excellent attention to both detail and results
• Proven ability to lead professional interpersonal relationships with empathy
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of working days
• Willingness to relocate to the regions where Fortify Health is implementing its program
• Authorisation to work in India (Indian national, eligibility for OCI, etc.)
• Fluency in Hindi, professional fluency in English

Desirable attributes

• Experience working with remote team members
• Experience working independently
• Relevant experience in NGO field environment 
• Enthusiasm about our opportunity to improve people’s lives

Terms of employment: Contract for one year, renewal by mutual agreement

Salary and benefits: INR 70,787 per month