Website Fortify Health

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 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 important goals. The M&E Officer will assist in managing a range of partnerships over quality assurance and control of fortification in our partner mills during and after implementation.

Position overview

The M&E Officer will be based in Hyderabad or Kolkata (with up to 50% of their time including intra and inter-city travel). They will ensure the quality of atta fortification and monitor the volume of fortified atta produced by Fortify Health’s partner mills. The M&E Officer will manage a range of external relationships with mill staff, premix vendors, labs and R&D partners. They will work collaboratively with the Program team to ensure fortification is done to a high standard of quality and meets our scale up targets.

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, as they will be the first M&E team member in Hyderabad or West Bengal. They will initially report to Fortify Health’s Director of Growth.

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
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 quality assurance and control in food manufacturing/nutrition
Bachelors or higher degree in food technology, milling engineering, biotechnology, nutrition sciences, chemistry, microbiology or public health
Enthusiasm about our opportunity to improve people’s lives through fortification
Strong ability to collect, analyze and present data
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 Hyderabad or Kolkata
Authorisation to work in India (Indian national, eligibility for OCI, etc.)
Fluency in Hindi, professional fluency in English
Ability to verbally communicate in Telugu (for Hyderabad base location) or Bengali (for Kolkata base location)