Position: Deputy Director/Senior manager–  Evaluation

Organization: Breakthrough 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the on-going development of monitoring and evaluation system and tools to enable all projects to collect, aggregate and support analysis of data, in order to meet all relevant reporting requirements
• Lead strategic collaboration activities with key stakeholders to learn from project data and adapt interventions as appropriate
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits during the project lifecycle. Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership.
• Support in defining and implementing the key evaluation indicators for projects and the organisation and its measurement at periodic levels
• Oversee the targeted impact evaluations, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Conduct process evaluation to understand the progress/outcome of the project and conduct data collation of field data on prescribed format as per project requirement
• Lead on design and implementation of qualitative and quantitative data collection such as needs assessments, KPC surveys. Work with staff to develop and standardize survey tools; pilot and mainstream new data collection methods and other data collection forms for evaluation purposes.
• Extract and update secondary information from different sources like NFHS, DLHS, and Census etc. and maintain separate database
• Collaborate with centres to Coordinate all M&E capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and facility staff. Provide training and capacity building on prepare and track progress of project activities and budgets; data analysis; global standards in evaluation measurements and data driven programming
• Support the team and relevant staff on development of effective evaluation tools and processes, innovative approaches in evaluation that meet the requirements of Breakthrough
• Maintain half-yearly, annual project progress, narrative, evaluation and other analytical reports for different programme/projects
• Cultivate strategic relationships and alliances with other stakeholders
• Carry out other tasks as required by the supervisor and team

Specific Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required

• At least 10 – 15 years of experience required in managing evaluation functions in national and/or international organisations
• Understanding of gender and norms change work
• In Depth understanding of evaluation of digital interventions and maintenance of digital platforms and data collection methods using online platforms like Survey CTO; GoSurvey; CommCare
• Advanced analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, using software such as Atlas TI, Nvivo; SPSS, Stata, R etc.
• Advanced knowledge and skill in data visualisation and creating dashboards
• In-depth understanding of evaluation methodologies (including Impact Evaluation) and standards and expertise in rolling out evaluation frameworks for complex projects
• Ability to work in a team environment.