Impact Associate

**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.

Specific Job Skills & Values:

- Sound contextual knowledge of local issues, organizational relationships, social and cultural constraints and realities, and environmental conditions, Right to Education, Child Psychology, and Community Motivation
- Able to run data management tool or modules or software
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships, collaborate with individuals in a culturally diverse setting and build consensus;
- Ability to multitask and perform under stress situation
- Ability to treat people equally irrespective of gender
- Integrity towards the work and ability to “know & do” what is right
- Striving to lead by performance excellence
- Working effectively and inclusively with a range of people both within and outside of the organization
- Empathy

Adherence to Code of Conduct & EG Policies:
All existing & new employees shall ensure that they at all times act in compliance with EG’s laid down Code of Conduct & adhere to all Policies of EG, including but not limited to Workplace Harassment Policy, Sexual Harassment Prevention and Redressal Policy, Child Protection Policy, Code of Conduct Policy, Whistleblower Policy, Work from Home Policy, Diversity and Inclusion Policy etc. EG has a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of discrimination.

Preferred Education Background:

- Fluent in Hindi and local dialect and basic knowledge of English

Preferred Work Experience:

- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in relevant field

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 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 a