Analyst- Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL)

About the Company

IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Social and Economic Empowerment, Education and Skill Development, Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.

Over the last 26 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 1,200 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with five international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Philippines and Bangladesh. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth. We strive to create an enabling environment for path-breaking social and policy reforms that contribute to sustainable development.

IPE Global is ISO 9001:2015 certified and has a multi-disciplinary team of 1100+ professionals, bringing together the right skills and technical expertise for enriching lives in poor and developing countries. Our experts work closely with programme stakeholders and clients to co-design solutions for complex socio-economic issues.

About the team

IPE Global’s Social and Economic Empowerment (SEE) practice works towards building girl capital, empowering women and nurturing resilient communities. It focuses on creating inclusive and sustainable solutions including but not limited to policy development, capacity building, adaptive management, community mobilization, behavioral change communication, deepening social safety nets, beneficiary feedback analysis, poverty assessment, and evidence-based monitoring.

Position Summary

IPE Global invites applications from eligible candidates for the position of Analyst - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL).

As the Analyst - MEL, s/he will primarily be responsible for overseeing and executing the monitoring, evaluation and learning framework on ground for the project related to maternal and child health. S/he will be required to develop necessary tools, oversee field execution of survey and data collection efforts, database management, data cleaning, data analysis, and prepare technical reports. Based on insights from the monitoring data, s/he will also provide feedback and guidance to the program team both on data collection and program improvements.

Key Responsibilities

In close collaboration with MEL Manager, the MEL Analyst would:

• Help designing state specific MEL framework and appropriate mechanisms to ensure that project M&E activities, and key indicators are captured in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with block and district level staff on data gathering, data quality control, and reporting.
• Assist in the formative/ need based studies. This will include developing study protocols, tools, collecting/supervising data, ensuring training and data quality.
• Assist in the survey implementation, data collection activities, manage a team of field researchers, investigators, and ensure data quality at the field level.
• Manage a large database, clean field level data, run appropriate analytical tools and statistical tests, conduct advanced level statistical analysis.
• Prepare monthly analytical progress reports based on field data and plot/chart progress of key project indicators for reporting to the donor or externally.
• Help in conducting project evaluation and contribute to preparing strategic documents/ reports, manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals and disseminate the learning through appropriate forums.
• Support in performance-based reporting as per client requirements.

As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, MEL Analyst may be required to undertake other duties as determined by the reporting manager that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.

Qualification & Experience

Essential

• Advanced university degree in Economics, Statistics, Demography, Development Studies or other relevant disciplines.
• 2-4 years of experience in an M&E role including large-scale quantitative data processing and management; and contributing to evaluation and research studies.
• Experience in large scale data collection, management and analysis in donor funded projects, preferably in health/nutrition/gender-related programmes.
• In-depth knowledge and proven expertise in developing M&E systems, methods & tools, knowledge products using high quality data analytics. Operational experience in health/nutrition sector highly preferred;

• An advanced level skill in SPSS or STATA is non-negotiable.

  Data mining, data cleaning, merging datasets, running complex query and data analysis in SPSS or STATA is necessary (the candidate must be able to take a test over Skype).
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
• Good understanding of maternal and child health and nutrition and rural development sectors and programmes.
• Fluency in local language (Both reading and writing)

Desirable

• Experience of working on programs related to maternal child health and nutrition.
• Preference will be given to those having previous experience of working with demanding clients, private foundations and corporates; and
• Experience in implementing projects with components of Social and Behaviour Change Communication.

Compensation

Compensation package will be commensurate with qualification, experience and last salary drawn.