Senior Executive – Monitoring & Evaluation

Key responsibilities

• Support the senior team in designing project-specific need assessments, baselines, monitoring plans, and evaluations
• Strengthen Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems and processes in alignment with project results frameworks
• Develop and refine M&E tools for effective data collection and analysis
• Conduct secondary literature reviews, household surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions
• Lead the design and implementation of robust Monitoring & Evaluation systems by leveraging technical and statistical expertise, including data management, analytics tools, and IT applications
• Apply quantitative and qualitative research methods and use software such as Excel, Power BI, SPSS, or other data visualization tools to enhance the teams analytical capabilities and reporting efficiency
• Train data collectors on M&E tools and ensure data quality through field monitoring
• Track project progress by visiting sites and assessing performance against defined indicators
• Conduct concurrent monitoring of project activities through regular site visits and data tracking
• Create and maintain accurate, project-specific beneficiary databases across organizational verticals
• Update and manage data management and MIS platforms with real-time monitoring data
• Perform periodic MIS reviews to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and relevance
• Consolidate data from various sources to enable comprehensive analysis and decision-making
• Generate and share evidence-based results with internal and external stakeholders to support strategic decision-making
• Prepare high-quality reports of assessments and monitoring visits
• Participate in periodic cadence meetings with the project execution team to ensure alignment and integration of M&E activities
• Collaborate closely with project execution teams across verticals to ensure alignment and integration of M&E activities

• Always ensure professionalism
• Ensure that the organization policies and protocols are adhered to at all levels
• Ensure strict adherence to data confidentiality and security
• Willingness to travel frequently to project sites, sometimes at short notice, including
• to rural and remote places as per need of project
• Be available for volunteering, disaster response and other emergency needs
• Take ownership of the assigned tasks in terms of quality and timely closure
• Undertake any other responsibilities as assigned by the organization

• Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Health Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology, Rural Development, or related disciplines
• Minimum one year of experience in the development/NGO sector with exposure to M&E systems and field assessments
• Strong technical and statistical proficiency, including knowledge of data management systems, analytics tools, and IT applications (e g , Kobo, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey)
• Hands-on experience with data analysis and visualization software such as Excel, Power BI, SPSS, R, Stata, Python, or Tableau
• Sound understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, data analysis, and report writing

Desirable

• Open to work with multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced environmentWillingness to travel and work in rural and tribal communities
• Basic understanding of social research methodology (qualitative and quantitative),
• data analysis and report writing
• Knowledge and experience in Canva

• Positive attitude, proactive and self-motivated and able to work under pressure
• Excellent ability in report writing, data interpretation, and presentation abilities, insights, ideas and content
• Strong command over written and spoken English, Kannada language proficiency is desirable
• Strong command over data visualization and statistical analysis for decision-making
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail