Job Opportunity for Senior Associate-MIS at Shantilal Muttha Foundation in Delhi

SMF is a non-profit organization established with an aim to strengthen the public education system and support schools to enrich their capacities for fostering the holistic development of children with emphasis on values-based learning environments and life-skills education. 

SMF interventions, which have been carried out in partnership with the state governments of Chattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Meghalaya, have benefitted over 44,00,000 students, 200,000 teachers and over 70,000 schools across the country so far.  SMF has been creating and implementing meaningful, impact-centric interventions and state-wide platforms for school systems. Various state governments have deeply engaged with us in the domains of School Assessment and Accreditation, Values-based Education and Life Skills, Civic Engagement, Early Childhood Education using the MLE approach and Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment. 

Currently, SMF has been entrusted by the Government of Maharashtra to partner for  improving the quality of education in the Adarsh Shala programme  in all 67,000 govt. schools in Maharashtra, with focussed approach in 488 schools in the first phase, aiming at transforming them into ‘Model Schools’. The Programme stages are visualized as below: 

• Model School visioning,   planning, design and development  and  governance (2021-22)
• Practice and Demonstration for 488 schools (2021-24)
• Scale-up plan and action for 5000 schools (2023- 25)
• Scale-up to all 67,000 government schools with sustainability plan and action (2026-30).

SMF will support the GoM by shouldering the responsibility of co-creating and anchoring the functioning of the Model School Transformation Cell (MSTC). MSTC will be formed within the SCERT by the GoM along with SMF officials with expertise in varied domains. Further, Model School District Quality Forums will be set up in each district which will serve as important arms of the MSTC to sustain and replicate the learnings of the Model School Programme.

Job Overview

The Senior Associate for MIS will work closely with the School Transformation Head, state government and district officials, Regional and District level functionaries, and school stakeholders for ensuring ongoing and regular collation, organization and analysis of accurate and updated program related data, and sharing them with various departments along with related analytical reports with the programme functionaries and the SMF H. O. 

Key Responsibilities

• Assume ownership of all MIS related processes, systems and assets within purview of the programme.
• Ensure proper design, implementation and operation of standardized MIS systems, processes and policies across all programme related applications.
• Collect, organize, consolidate, analyze and report programme related data in timely manner.
• Ensure up to date maintenance of records and data at all levels within the programme.
• Supervise and monitor the work of Regional MIS Coordinators.
• Leverage existing govt. MIS and work closely with MIS dept., School Education. 
• Develop and maintain system plan including operational requirements, budget requirements and schedules.
• Develop process improvements for increased efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Plan and manage licensing and use of tech tools for MIS.
• Monitor MIS performance regularly to avoid unplanned outages and down times.
• Conduct training on MIS activities to increase staff expertise.
• Make occasional field visits in programme area across all districts of Maharashtra. 

Qualifications and Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computers/Science/Technology or equivalent.
• 8-10 years of experience of working in the social/technology sector.
• Experience with data Science, data analytics, technology (hardware and software), BI tools.
• Experience of working with the education and social sector.
• Expert in systems for data collation, interpretation and analysis.
• Experience and expert in people capacity building, learning and development. 
• Experience of working with govt. education departments, government schools teachers, and officials at district and block level.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Good understanding of the functioning of the govt. school education system, institutions and functionaries.
• Ability to offer innovative and creative MIS related solutions.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills.
• Good communication skills in English and Marathi/Hindi.