Job Opportunity for Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Quest Alliance in Bengaluru

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 organisations 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 organisation 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 headquartered in Bangalore. You will be reporting to the Research and Impact Specialist and will be responsible for strengthening M&E systems with the goal of improving program efficiency and design, communicating impact and building a team culture that supports data driven decision making. 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 the Capacity Building program within the Youth ecosystem and developing recommendations to further improve results or program design. 

As an M&E Officer you will contribute to generating insights 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

The role will cover the following:

1.     Monitoring and Reporting

• Ensure Program teams 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.
• Develop reporting and monitoring tools of high quality to be administered by employees and Master Trainers to capture comprehensive narrative and quantitative data
• Provide technical assistance and training on monitoring and data collection and reporting to employees and program implementation partners
• Coordinate all aspects of project monitoring and reporting ensuring data is of high quality and produced on time.
• 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.
• Lead on the compilation of the quarterly, half yearly and annual reports.
• 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 synchronise the report
• Work with the Data team to ensure that the program’s monitoring data and its analysis is readily available to the team in the form of easy to use dashboards/ other visualisation formats

2.     Lead Evaluations, Sharing and Learning internally

• Support in the management of internal and external project based evaluations, such as baseline, endline surveys, including designing & planning for data collection, analysis and report writing in coordination with the Research team
• Managing qualitative data analysis that gets generated through various media in various channels like LMS, App, discussion forums etc.
• Work with the program implementation team to produce high quality documentation including case studies, evaluation reports, briefing notes based on FGDs, IDIs etc with the aim of improving and communicating program efficiency
• Organise and lead quarterly share outs with program team based on learning and insights from past quarters  

3.    Other duties as required.

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

Requirements

• Postgraduate degree/ qualifications in social sciences or related field
• At least 2 year of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation with a development organisation preferably with an organisation associated with training and capacity development
• Understanding of the current M&E trends especially in development organisations
• 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 speaking and writing in Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam would be an asset