Job Opportunity for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead at Gramhal

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Position: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead
Location: Remote with extensive field work
Remuneration:  INR 30-36 LPA
Duration: Full-time
Last date to apply:  25/10/2023
Start Date: Immediate

Role Overview:

Gramhal is looking for a MEL Lead, who will be responsible for setting up and leading all impact-related activities at Gramhal. Out impact thesis is that access to hyperlocal, contextual, and actionable information helps farmers make better decisions and earn more income. We develop multiple products to provide farmers right information at the right time. MEL Lead will work across projects to design and run rapid and lean evaluations. We are a fast-paced organization that quickly learns and iterates. Hence, collecting evidence rapidly becomes paramount. This creates a feedback loop that also helps in developing the product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:

Broadly, the MEL Lead will be responsible for two broad components – first is managing external research partnerships, which involves working closely with third parties who are doing research on our product. And second is conducting internal studies and developing MEL processes and systems.

Supporting External Research 

• Manage ongoing external research on our product, including all stakeholder communication, coordination, and reporting.
• Contribute to the design and refinement of methodologies developed by external research bodies.
• Oversee the collection of high-quality data.
• Ensuring timely completion of the external studies.
• Sharing learnings with a broader audience by authoring reports, op-eds, blogs, policy papers, or other communications mediums.
• Identify reputable third parties research bodies and establish partnerships with them to conduct research on our work. 

Building Internal MEL Vertical 

• Synthesizing learnings from the existing relevant academic and scientific literature.
• Develop strategies for continuous monitoring and evaluation of all our interventions.
• Designing, conducting, and managing research activities.
• Set up effective data collection and quality processes to ensure high-fidelity records.
• Identifying and using suitable data sources to inform our scaling strategy.
• Supporting product team in measuring the effectiveness of new ideas/features.
• Recruit, manage and upskill teams who can perform advanced and reliable statistical analytics and conduct large-scale quick turnaround studies.
• Lead the impact-related institutional knowledge documentation and management.

Requirements

• Solid theoretical foundation in statistical modelling, analysis, evaluation methodologies and economic research through Postgraduate/Doctoral course work.
• Extensive hands-on professional experience in data analysis using tools such as R/Stata/Python.
• Experience in managing large-scale data collection efforts and/or impact evaluations.
• Ability to succinctly present the impact story of the work to the internal team and external stakeholders. You know how to tailor communication for different audiences with wide-ranging technical and cultural backgrounds.
• Experienced in developing policy papers and reports, and should have demonstrated strong written communication skills in past work.
• This is a leadership role, and we are looking for a team member with significant MEL experience in developing countries and someone who has the ability to build a team.
• We are looking for an intrapreneur who loves working independently and has a bias for action to get things done.
• You are highly organized and find joy in keeping track of many disparate moving pieces and helping others to do the same.
• Experience in or awareness of best practices in the evaluation of digital interventions.
• Eager to travel to project sites and conduct fieldwork.

Benefits

About Gramhal

Gramhal is a tech non-profit on a mission to end information asymmetry and improve the livelihoods of 50 million rural households in India by 2030. We have built a suite of digital products – including a chatbot, IVRS, web app, KaiOS, and Android app – to enable farmers to make better decisions. Currently, Gramhal’s product is used by over a quarter of a million farmers.