Position: Assistant Manager

Organization: IDL

Location: Gurgaon, India

Your key responsibilities would be: Advisory M&E Services

• Internal expert for the India team on IDH M&E processes, frameworks, deliverables, and impact areas.

• Lead or support the design, undertake, and oversee evaluations for India programs and projects for program scoping, planning and evaluation purposes. Be able to articulate key assumptions and learning questions.

• Support the management of external service providers to ensure M&E assignments meeting the needs of project/program/organization.

• Summarize and present program results and evaluation findings to internal and external partners.

• Provide technical support and respond to ad-hoc program request for development and implementation of M&E framework of Business Units, activities include but not limited to proposal development, reconstruction of Theory of Change (ToC), M&E framework and indicator guidance, target-setting, articulation of key assumptions and learning questions.

Standardization of Data Collection and Management

• Support the roll-out of the IDH organizational Result Measurement Framework across programs, including impact level indicators, ensure adherence of indicator definition and measurement guidance.

• Support organizational impact management by ensuring individual data collection activities (field level and sector level, quantitative and qualitative) are designed and implemented against a coherent learning trajectory and organizational evaluation plan.

• Ensure deliverables of data collection activities (such as Primary Data Collection) fit the purpose of project, program and organization and meeting quality standard.

• Support IDH India in building capacity to implement M&E frameworks, interpret M&E data and support IDH programs to make use of insights to steer the quality of projects and programs.

• Cultivate an M&E culture and promote data-driven decision making.

• Being the safeguard/checkpoint for data privacy and confidential norms and processes across M&E processes that involve vulnerable groups (farmers, workers, other groups).

Knowledge management

• Responsible for IDH India’s knowledge repository management for efficient cross sharing of key resources across teams, particularly in M&E

What you bring:

• Working and thinking at Master’s level

• Minimum 5 years working experience in M&E or impact evaluation, preferably also with international organizations

• Excellent communication skills to be able to improve M&E practice and communicate program results and evaluation findings to broad audiences

• Experience in designing and managing the implementation of independent evaluations

• Experience designing and implementing M&E frameworks

• Experience in managing and working with international teams (remotely)

• Strong data management and analytical skills

• Great interpersonal skills

• Able to work independently and show initiative to influence changes

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially a very good working knowledge of Salesforce, Excel and PowerPoint

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with statistical analysis and software and software such as SAS, SPSS, R or Python is desired

• Experience with geodata management and GIS software is an advantage.

• Affinity with sustainability, landscapes and international trade and development is an advantage but not an exclusion criterion.

• Knowledge and skill on social and environmental impact assessment would be an advantage

Apply:

For more information about IDH, please visit www.idhtrade.org.

For questions about this position, please write to contact Jasmer Dhingra, xxxx@idhtrade.org; with your CV.

Please note:

• Questions shared without an updated CV, will not be entertained.

• Owing to a high number of expected applications, only pre-screened or shortlisted candidates will hear back from us