Job Description

Lend A Hand India is looking for an experienced Senior Manager (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) to lead the organization's MEL strategy and strengthen its evidence-based impact systems. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, this leadership role offers the opportunity to shape how impact is measured across large-scale skill education programs while driving innovation, research, technology integration, and policy influence as LAHI expands its reach to one million students annually by 2028.

Key Responsibilities

- Strategic Leadership: Develop and lead the organization's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning strategy while designing comprehensive M&E; frameworks for multi-state skill education programmes.

- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of 15+ MEL professionals across Quality Monitoring, MIS, Evaluation and Outcomes.

- Programme Oversight: Ensure data quality, ethical data use, impact assessments, evaluations and research initiatives while driving technology-enabled monitoring solutions.

- Stakeholder Engagement: Present impact insights to founders, board members, donors and government agencies while representing LAHI at national and international forums.

- Innovation: Lead AI integration, develop scalable MEL systems and pioneer innovative methodologies for measuring employability, income growth and systemic change.

Requirements

Requirements

- Education: Master's degree in Development Studies, Economics, Statistics,



Social Research or a related discipline.

- Experience: 10–12 years of experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, including at least 5 years in leadership roles.

- Technical Skills: Expertise in MIS management, data analytics tools (R, Python, SPSS) and visualization platforms such as Power BI or Tableau.

- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead diverse multi-location teams and translate strategic vision into operational excellence.

- Sector Knowledge: Solid understanding of skill education, vocational training, youth development and government systems.

- Communication: Excellent presentation and stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior leadership and external partners.

- Preferred: Experience in donor-funded programmes, evaluation design, research methodology, budget management and technology-enabled monitoring systems.

Benefits

Why Join Lend A Hand India?

- Lead the MEL function for an organisation targeting one million students annually by 2028.

- Direct reporting to the Executive Director with high visibility and strategic influence.

- Build thought leadership in India's skill education and development sector.

- Work alongside governments, research institutions and international partners.

- Access cutting-edge AI, technology and evaluation methodologies.

- Opportunity to create scalable solutions with nationwide impact.

- Continuous learning, innovation and leadership development opportunities.

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