Monitoring and Evaluation Lead - STEP Bihar

About Mantra4Change

A decade ago, Mantra4Change stepped into the education ecosystem with a vision to transform public education in India. We believe that in a unique nation like India, our approach to quality education cannot be exclusive of systemic reforms. We work with stakeholders in the system especially in positions of leadership to enable school improvement across the states we work with. A key question that drives us is - how might we enable enriching experiences for children at scale, with speed, and sustainably? Committed to enabling education leaders to drive sustainable improvements across 150,000 schools by 2025, we aim to ensure that every child has the skills and knowledge to thrive in an ever-evolving world.

Our Programs are designed to improve and impact critical challenges:

• at ground level like teacher capacity building - Transform
• at system level like empowering leaders with administrative and academic tools - Enable
• at ecosystem level by inspiring thought leaders and entrepreneurs to build a collective of changemakers - Inspire

Read more -http://mantra4change.org/http://mantra4change.org

About the role

The M&E Lead role is aimed at developing impact strategy for the organization/programs, designing M&E frameworks, learning from research, and helping programs with their data needs.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Arrive at the impact measurement strategy collaborating with the leadership team.
• Proactively build evidence in Mantra’s programs/interventions by supporting with data wherever required and developing robust structures to document the impact.
• Engaging with the research and design team to design a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for the programs.
• Design, collaborate, and plan for data collection with the field teams or organizations.
• Design and package the M&E templates and resources to be disseminated with the solution packages.
• Plan and partner with organizations for impact analyses, data collection & research, etc.
• Consolidate and analyze the collected data to report insights about the programs.
• Present the reports and insights whenever required.
• Document the processes and create reports wherever required.
• Assist in developing org/program-specific data dashboards to showcase progress on outputs & outcomes.
• Support with building the capacity of the team to do research and design evidence-informed solutions.
• Close collaboration with program teams, and external technical and research partners.

Experience and Competencies Required

• Must have more than 3 years of experience in leading design efforts for education intervention.
• Must be a critical thinker and a problem solver.
• Must be able to develop and facilitate workshops and capacity-building programs, and have the ability to influence and motivate people to work towards a common goal.
• Must have the willingness to learn in uncertain situations. Strong planning and time management skills.
• Must have experience working on Python / R, Stata, and/or SQL.
• Must have a good command of English (Read and Write).

What we offer

• Opportunity to work closely with different education organizations globally and in India.
• Exposure to the field in different locations in India.
• Learning and development support to build capacity.
• 24 paid leave and 12 calendar holidays.
• Medical insurance - individual and dependents.
• One menstruation leave each month for women employees.
• L&D fun to pursue learning opportunities related to jobs.

Remuneration: Depending on competency and experience and last drawn CTC

Location: Patna, Bihar