World Change Starts with Educated Children IMPORTANT: All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located. Room to Read is not able to provide sponsorship. Position Overview :

The Associate, Data and Evaluation primary responsibilities will include providing support and assistance to the Literacy Program for the tasks below. The position will report directly to the Officer, Data and Evaluation and will be based in Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand. The Associates primary responsibilities will include establishing and providing guidance and expertise to the team on designing, implementing, and managing the monitoring and evaluation systems across the district.

Responsibilities :

- In collaboration with the District Lead, the Officer, Data and Evaluation and program team, the associate will design, implement, and analyze monthly monitoring data for the program. Support in designing Project Dashboard and manage dashboard and inform the management about the key changes observed on monthly basis.
- Collaborate with Program team to design different monitoring forms, digitize them and maintain monitoring and evaluation efforts in program.
- Update and discussion with INCO RME team on data related challenges and reflection.
- Implement and analyze periodic data based on agreed upon geographic and timing needs.
- Train and mentor staff to help them develop the necessary knowledge and skill sets to run methodologically strong evaluations in their projects and programs and ensure adherence to ME standard practices, policies, and specifications.
- Synthesize and analyze data and write summary reports by program based on the ME results.




- Identify key issues around program quality and links between monitoring and evaluation and quality assurance and improvement.
- Recommend improvements to District Lead, State Manager and Senior Program Manager to more efficiently and effectively manage each program based on ME findings.
- Work with program staff and RME team to codify best practices for Room to Read s programs so that they can be shared across existing states of operation and rolled out in new ones.
- Innovate new ME systems and projects to continuously improve our work in the field.
- Travel regularly throughout the year in urban and rural areas to oversee the implementation of ME work, train staff and maintain understanding of current state of development of ME practice in the organization, and identify where and how ME practice requires improvement and investment.
- Stay informed trends in the area of monitoring and evaluation and recommend improvements to our systems accordingly.

Qualifications :

Required:

- Master s degree in a related field, i.e., education, development, social sciences
- Around Five (05) years of professional experience
- Strong analytical skills including data cleaning, analysis and interpretation
- Experience in creating dashboards in PowerBI and Excel.
- Experience in designing forms in SurveyCTO.
- Proven previous experience in monitoring and evaluation methods
- Robust operational management ability: a clear focus on results, set goals, plan and prioritize effectively, and monitor quality and progress of work against plans
- Ability to travel frequently to project sites and other
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Hindi
- Knowledge and understanding of education issues, gender issues, including community involvement in schools.
- Experience in successful implementation of a wide range of tasks.

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