Position: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Organization: Fortify Health

Location: Nagpur

Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffNQm5mOMFRTf8qtthL1PEa9S2zZdJlWZguWqXHmJOhklRiQ/viewform

Responsibilities and activities:

• Work with the Fortify Health team, millers and labs to ensure fortified wheat flour is correctly fortified

• Develop and maintain systems of quality assurance process, regularly update them, train M&E team members, Program team members and mill staff

• Lead developing the scale up of M&E work in mills in 2 states 

• Set up a premix quality assurance process

• Lead the M&E work in mills for any govt program

• Set up and maintain quarterly reporting structure to all mills

• Support in RnD of fortification in key potential partner mills

• Mentor and train and M&E team members we hire

• Support in funder reporting

• Lead training FDA officials in compliance of fortification, when needed

• Manage communication between all stakeholders involved in quality assurance process

• Manage Fortify Health’s internal regulatory monitoring, with guidance from line manager

• Outsource lab tests and oversee communication of external monitoring results

• Work with the Fortify Health team to improve monitoring and evaluation strategy and related research aims 

• Plan and conduct fieldwork to understand take up of fortified atta all levels of supply chain

• Consolidate monitoring data and prepare monthly reports

• Innovate and design mechanisms for fortification data collection and representation

• Support exploration of future opportunities for study design and execution

Requirements:

• Experience / background in food technology, fortification, and/or monitoring and evaluation

• Bachelors or higher degree in food technology, milling engineering, public health, economics,or related field

• Enthusiasm about our opportunity to improve people’s lives through fortification

• Strong organisational skills, with ability oversee the quality assurance process from mill to lab

• Strong written and oral communication skills, from managing relationships between various stakeholders to relaying important quality assurance findings in an accessible way

• Strong creative problem solving skills, with ability to efficiently learn and execute best practices where they exist and to innovate where they do not

• Excellent teamwork skills

• Confidence, humility, and diligence

• Excellent attention to both detail and results

• Proven ability to manage professional relationships and to work under pressure

• Dedication to the long-term progress and sustainability of the charity, and perseverance throughout its intermediate hurdles

• Willingness to travel up to 50% of working days

• Willingness to relocate to Nagpur 

• Authorisation to work in India (Indian national, eligibility for OCI, etc.)

Desirable attributes:

• Experience working with remote team members

• Experience working independently

• Relevant experience in NGO field environment 

• Scientific literacy to understand the finer points on fortification through the academic literature

Terms of employment: One year contract, renewal by mutual agreement

Salary and benefits: INR 73,500 per month