Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

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.

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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 mobilisation, behavioural change communication, deepening social safety nets, beneficiary feedback analysis, poverty assessment, and evidence-based monitoring.

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

MEL Strategy and Implementation

• Lead in the design and implementation of project's overall Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning strategy and framework.
• Review all project components and design appropriate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms; assess all reporting and performance frameworks for all key activities under each component of the project.
• Ensure that M&E activities, frameworks, and key indicators are designed in line with the results log frame.
• Lead in survey research design, sampling framework, survey implementation and data collection activities, manage a team of field researchers, investigators, and ensure data quality at the field level.
• Oversee, and lead the preparation of high quality monthly analytical reports based on the program monitoring data coming from the field.
• Manage large datasets coming from districts, clean field level data, run rigorous analytical tools and statistical tests, conduct advanced level statistical analysis (tests of significance, correlation and regression analysis, propensity score matching, principal component analysis, merging datasets, advance 4-layer crosstabulations, multiple response analysis, methods of sampling, etc.) using either SPSS or STATA.
• Based on evidence and insights from monitoring data, provide appropriate feedback and learning to the program implementation and monitoring team for possible improvements.
• Design research and evaluation studies using appropriate methods for demonstrating the impact of the program and attribution of change to key project activities; write research protocols, help in obtaining IRB (ethical clearance) as necessary.
• Help setting up a system of appropriate reporting structure from the grassroots to the donors and coordinate with block and district level staff on data gathering, data quality control, and reporting.
• Supervise and conduct project evaluation and prepare strategic documents/ reports, manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals and disseminate the learning through appropriate forums.

Management Information System (MIS)

• Help develop a technology-enabled project MIS; review the existing MIS for the availability and correctness of the required key performance indicators; and provide feedback.
• Provide technical inputs on the preparation of dashboards, visual representation of data, key performance indicators, and time-series analysis.

External Engagement

• Support in performance-based reporting as per stakeholder requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Advanced university degree in Economics, Statistics, Demography, Development Studies or other relevant disciplines.
• About 12 years of experience in an M&E role including large-scale qualitative and quantitative data processing and management; and designing evaluation and research studies.
• Strong skills in statistical methods, sampling design and methodology, evaluation methods, causal analysis, and designing research studies,
• An advance level skill in SPSS or STATA is non-negotiable. Excellent skills in data mining, running complex data query, merging datasets, advance data analysis in SPSS or STATA is necessary (the candidate must be able to take a test over Skype).
• Demonstrated experience of publication in peer reviewed journals as a first, or second author.
• Experience in leading and managing 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.
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Experience of working on large scale public health projects in India.
• Good understanding of maternal and child health and nutrition and rural development sectors and programmes.