Manager - Monitoring and Evaluation

About the organisation:

It is an open source, not for profit organization that engages in field-based R&D and ecosystem building for deployment of clean energy solutions that alleviate poverty in tribal, rural and urban poor areas. The organization works in collaboration with practitioners in the social sector, energy entrepreneurs, NGOs from various developmental sectors and educational institutions to link the benefits of sustainable energy to poverty eradication. The organization works across verticals such as energy access, health, livelihoods with practitioners in the social sector, energy entrepreneurs and partners from various developmental sectors.

About the role:

As the Program Manager, one should have a good sectoral understanding, as well as proven experience in strategic planning, managing a cross-cultural team, coordinating between multiple crucial stakeholders; who is able to adapt to diverse situations and organizational requirements.

Who can apply:

• Minimum 8 years of work experience in planning, developing and executing M&E for high scale interventions, supporting management and leadership.
• Work experience in the Healthcare sector is preferred.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/or performance monitoring plans.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g.qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
• Proven success in designing, implementing and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Understanding of the local communities, overall public healthcare ecosystem in the different districts is preferred.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting.
• Demonstrating proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision making capability and ability to work in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Willingness to learn, grow and develop at personal and professional front, at a rapid pace with a steep learning curve.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and multicultural environment.
• Willingness to travel extensively in difficult terrains within and outside the State as and when required

Functional Details:

Key responsibilities for the position:

• Managing end to end direction to the team for developing the M&E strategy for 25000 health facilities across selected geographies.
• Building a complete understanding of the public health delivery system and mapping nodal points to ensure successful M&E of the implemented health and energy programs. Develop and strengthen monitoring, inspection and evaluation processes as well as develop impact indicators for the overall program.
• Lead the role in overseeing data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting, ensuring that data is of high quality and audit worthy.
• Monitor all program activities, budgets and overall progress and provide strategic feedback to other operations, research teams to improve implementation efficiency.
• Suggest strategies for improving the efficiency and effectiveness by identifying bottlenecks in completing different activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks
• Assist the project personnel with M&E tools and support them in their use.
• Ensuring adequate documentation of the entire process of M&E in the form of videos and narrative reports and other collateral.
• Preparing and managing budgets and cash flows for various M&E programs and ensuring timely submission of all the bills on the expenses related to M&E.
• Effectively tracking, analyzing and evaluating the performance of the team and sharing reports on a weekly / monthly / quarterly basis, the status of M&E by capturing key risks, learnings and challenges.
• Updating the team's progress to the core team and supporting all documentation required for reporting to funders and stakeholders.
• Organize and conduct training on M&E/MIS for other program teams under Energy For Health.
• Ensuring organizational, operational and assessment processes and guidelines are adhered to and escalating in cases where required.