Impact Associate

**Key Position Information**:
Job Title

Impact Associate

Department

Impact

Position Location

District

Type of Agreement

Renewable fixed-term contract

Position Reporting

District Impact Specialist

Position Reportees

Position Level

Junior

**Educate Girls - An Overview**:
**Vision**:

- We aim to achieve behavioural, social and economic transformation for all girls towards an India where all children have equal opportunities to access quality education.

**Background**:

- Educate Girls (a project of 'Foundation to Educate Girls Globally’) is a non-profit organization that focuses on mobilizing communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas. Strongly aligned with ‘Right to Education Act’ or the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ the organization is committed to the Government’s vision to improve access to primary education for children, especially young girls. Educate Girls currently operates successfully in over 20,000+ villages in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. By leveraging the Government’s existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). This helps deliver measurable results to a large number of children and avoids parallel delivery of Services.

**Position Overview**:
This position reports to District Impact Specialist. The Impact Associate has to collect and analyze the data required for monitoring and evaluation purpose, support the District Impact Specialist for implementation of the program monitoring activities in the district and liaison with Field staff, Block officer, district program team, Govt. school body and other stakeholders. The incumbent will also be responsible for reporting & field visits which requires intense travel based on programmatic requirement.

**Position in the Organogram**:
**Position Key Responsibilities**:
**Planning and review**
- Support and develop in district/block plan as well as impact function plan and plan for regular review on define indicators
- Plan and develop impact functional calendar and regular track and review
- Plan and ensure course correction as found in verification/validation
- Manage planning to track and review the program plan activities, regular data collection.

**Monitoring and implementation of M & E and Program activities**
- Ensure and manage timely data collection of all program activities and track as per plan
- Cross verifying the data or spot check collected by field staff (on sample basis) in the above-mentioned categories for validation for their allocated area.
- Approval of data submitted by Block Officer on MIS system through trace verification and manual matching.
- Monitor the data entry done by data entry operator on online/offline MIS.
- Process validation and checking of program activities like-E/R/L as per plan in their allocated area through Spot Checks
- Support and handhold with track of finding and insights in block and district level review meetings
- Support to roll out and monitor digital data collection
- Data monitor, data entry finalised and data approval and preparation done in time for internal/donor/govt reporting

**Quality Assurance and Course correction**
- Uphold the quality assurance with data and program delivery for respective district/block/village/school and ensure timely and quick course corrections in data and activities through sharing feedback and insights to program/ops.
- Updates available from start of activity and contain timely red flags and actionable insights to FC/Block/District
- Regular quality monitoring updates, including QA done and insights cascaded from FC to block to district
- Ensure quality on collected data and process verification by timely Cross verification and spot observation as well as timely data entry
- Ensure data review and activities web/PMS approval with high standard quality with timely and course correction

**Documentation**
- Manage all documentation and ensure all forms are filed timely with up to date as followed standard practice (Filing system).
- Manage and maintain hardcopies-In ward and out ward as reported

**Training and people development**
- Participation in training programs organized by Program team/impact function
- Train the field staff on data collection process/tools guidelines etc.
- Ensure handhold and support to build functional skills of new joiner, support to IO for induction of new joiners as required
- Ensure and support to field staff on efficiency of data collection and process at field and at other available platforms

**Desired Incumbent Profile**:
**Personality**: Self-driven, result-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high quality output. Excellent conceptual and analytical skills. Demonstrable ability to think strategically, innovatively and practically