Project Lead (Consultant) - RMEAL
Central Square foundation · Delhi · onsite · Posted 28d ago
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About this role
Project Lead (Consultant Position) – Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessments & Learning (RMEAL)
Location
Delhi
About Central Square Foundation
Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working to ensure quality school education for all children in India. We believe strong foundational learning outcomes are critical for lifelong learning and equity. CSF focuses on four core areas: Foundational Literacy & Numeracy (FLN), EdTech, Early Childhood Education (ECE), and School Governance.
About RMEAL At CSF
The Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment & Learning (RMEAL) function at CSF serves as the organization's central evidence and learning spine. RMEAL partners closely with program verticals—including EdTech—to design, execute, quality-assure, and translate rigorous evidence into actionable insights for decision-making at scale.
Position Summary
As Project Lead (Consultant) – RMEAL, you will drive the design, quality assurance, and learning agenda for evidence generation across CSF's EdTech and AI-enabled initiatives. You will work in close partnership with the EdTech vertical to ensure evaluations are methodologically robust, decision-relevant, and embedded into program and ecosystem strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Evidence Design & Methodological Execution:
Compensation will be competitive with Indian philanthropy and social-impact sector benchmarks.
Location
Delhi
About Central Square Foundation
Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working to ensure quality school education for all children in India. We believe strong foundational learning outcomes are critical for lifelong learning and equity. CSF focuses on four core areas: Foundational Literacy & Numeracy (FLN), EdTech, Early Childhood Education (ECE), and School Governance.
About RMEAL At CSF
The Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment & Learning (RMEAL) function at CSF serves as the organization's central evidence and learning spine. RMEAL partners closely with program verticals—including EdTech—to design, execute, quality-assure, and translate rigorous evidence into actionable insights for decision-making at scale.
Position Summary
As Project Lead (Consultant) – RMEAL, you will drive the design, quality assurance, and learning agenda for evidence generation across CSF's EdTech and AI-enabled initiatives. You will work in close partnership with the EdTech vertical to ensure evaluations are methodologically robust, decision-relevant, and embedded into program and ecosystem strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Evidence Design & Methodological Execution:
- Design and review rigorous evaluation approaches (RCTs, quasi-experimental, mixed-methods).
- Review SAPs, tools, and analytical outputs.
- Guide end-to-end evaluation processes.
- Use structured QA tools and templates.
- Translate findings into actionable insights and learning products.
- Support funder, government, and partner engagements.
- Mentor junior team members and support onboarding.
- Manage timelines, budgets, and reporting.
- Master's degree in Economics, Public Policy, Education, Statistics, or related field.
- 7–10 years of experience in research, evaluation, or evidence-informed program design.
- Experience with quantitative and mixed-methods evaluations.
- Ability to translate research into decision-oriented insights.
- Strong command of statistical analysis using tools such as Stata, R, or Python.
- Ability to develop and review study plans and Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs) for experimental and quasi-experimental study designs.
- Ability to work with complex survey data, sampling designs, and weighting.
- Experience working with dashboards or data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Data Studio) is desirable.
- Familiarity with qualitative analysis tools and mixed-methods research workflows is an added bonus.
- Strong documentation skills (methods notes, technical briefs, learning memos).
- Commitment to rigorous, ethical evidence.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills.
- Comfort working across ambiguity and multiple workstreams.
- High learning agility.
Compensation will be competitive with Indian philanthropy and social-impact sector benchmarks.
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Skills
Documentation skills (methods notesExperimental and quasi-experimental study designslearning memos)technical briefsSTATArStatistical Analysis PlansPythonMixed-methods research workflowsQualitative analysis toolsComplex survey data sampling designs and weighting
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Central Square Foundation is a non-profit organization working with the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. Since 2012, we have been partnering with the government, and ecosystem stakeholders to improve the learning outcomes of children, especially from low-income communities. We are driven by our mission to enable the school education system to adopt solutions that are scalable, sustainable and effective, so that all children get equal access to opportunities needed for leading a better life.
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