Mel Officer

**Starting Date**:July 2025

**Contract type**: Full-time and open-ended

**Salary**: 14,57,872 INR, commensurate with relevant experience and skills

**Location**: Delhi, India

**Application closing date**:21-05-2025

**About the Job**

As MEL Officer, you will play an important role in supporting the effort towards ensuring that suitable M&E tools and systems are in place to aid the implementation and improvement of programme activities in India. This will include supporting the expansion of field data digitalisation working closely with Programme Partners on the one hand, and with relevant internal teams on the other. In this role, you will also be responsible for implementing processes for data quality assurance as well as support the execution of MEL-related capacity strengthening for field staff.

**The Challenge**

Looking ahead to 2030, we are targeting reducing GHG emissions from cotton production by half, big cuts in synthetic pesticide use, improve soil health across our network, improve farm income and support women’s empowerment among farmers and farm workers.

**Areas that play to your strengths**

We are seeking a motivated **MEL Officer** to join our **Assurance and MEL Team**. In this role, you will be responsible for:
**1.Field-Level Data Digitalisation Support(40%)**:

- Act as a key liaison between Programme Partners, field staff, and internal teams to ensure the seamless integration of digital solutions for field data capturing and reporting.
- Assist with the design and development of digital tools for data collection, ensuring proper integration into existing systems.
- Facilitate interactive training sessions with field staff empowering them to effectively use digital platforms and tools while addressing technical issues and challenges raised by the Partners to ensure effective and smooth adoption of digital tools.
- Oversee and administer user access to digital data collection and reporting tools to ensure system integrity and data compliance.

**2.**Data Quality Assurance**(30%)**:
Perform regular data quality checks to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of field-level data.

Identify, report, and work with relevant teams to resolve data quality issues.

Collaborate with field teams to ensure adherence to data collection and reporting guidelines, and quality standards.

**3.GIS Mapping and Data Visualisation(15%)**:
Assist with the integration of Geographic Information System into Assurance and Capacity Strengthening functions to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Collaborate with field teams to ensure high quality spatial data visualisation to be used in quantifying outcomes and impact across geographies.
- Support the IT & Data team’s geospatial innovation pilots and initiatives.

**4.**Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Support(15%)**:
Assist in the collection, organisation and management of data for MEL processes, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s evidence framework and Results Indicators.

Contribute towards data analysis and development of actionable insights to enhance programmatic outcomes.

Support with designing and delivering MEL-related modules to Partners as part of capacity strengthening to foster a culture of continuous learning.

**We are looking for someone who has**

the following skills, knowledge, and experience:
**Essential**
- 1.Master’s degree, or equivalent higher education qualification, in a relevant field
- 2.Demonstrated interest in sustainability and international development
- 3.Skills in Excel, understanding of Power-Bi will be an added advantage, including strong ability to create data visualizations for a range of audiences
- 4.Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, and to assimilate and process information for wide-ranging audiences
- 5.Fluency in English and Hindi (spoken and written)
- 6.High proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook
- 7.Minimum 2 years of work experience in the development sector
- 8.Experience of large database management
- 9.Experience using digital data collection tools like ODK, CommCare, Kobo Toolbox etc.

**Desirable**

1.Experience working in agriculture sector in India; experience with cotton.

2.Experience in capacity strengthening activities with co-workers / partner staff

3.Familiarity with geospatial data tools such as QGIS

4.Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods

5Knowledge of Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu and Kannada will be added advantage

**What we offer**
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working - One week work from Delhi office in every 6 weeks
- The opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to one month per year
- Flexible working, with core hours from 10 am to 4 pm local time
- Continuous learning and development
- Profident Fund Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave, plus 8-9 Bank Holidays and a further 3 discretionary days off over fes