World Resources Institute invites applications for MEL Coordinator; Apply by October 02, 2023

MEL Coordinator World Resources Institute 2023

Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment

Deadline: Oct 02, 2023
Qualification (Education): Graduate
Experience Required: 3-6 Year

About Job Profile

Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment

The Energy Access team at WRI India is seeking a coordinator for its Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) to support donor MEL reporting. You will work closely with the MEL lead, project leads as well as the project teams to streamline MIS and data processes.

A key part of the role is to support coordination of MEL activities for grants across India and East Africa. This role plays a pivotal part in the team towards understanding commitments of the team towards grants as well as the teams internal strategy towards measuring impact. This will also include learning from peer organizations, trainings and disseminating knowledge, to build a broad cohort of expertise across the Program.

A key part of the role is to facilitate continuous learning within the ongoing work of the Energy Access programme to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks and approaches are adopted to understand the outcomes and impacts of our work, and that there are iterative feedback loops to incorporate learning into the program’s strategy.

In addition to coordination for the program, you will also work directly with the project team to support integration of PMEL into projects, with the aim of improving the robustness of our research, and assessing how our efforts are achieving desired impact. In this role, you will also contribute to topical workshops, team retreats, and learning events.

Primary Responsibilities include

MEL Support (70%)

Support MEL lead in building MEL frameworks for various projects in the programme.
Coordinate and support the integration of MEL into new projects and workstreams centering focus on equity and provide guidance on M&E reporting and indicators to subgrantees and partners, as needed with teams in India and East Africa
Support teams towards research and M&E design of various projects
Support team leads with data collection modules (qualitative and quantitative) and data analysis in various MEL process
Travel to field areas to manage and lead research activities on ground with teams/ partner organisation within India only.
Support in developing capacity building initiatives with implementing partners
Ensure lessons learned through PMEL are captured and shared to advance the application of best practices throughout the team.

Research Coordination (30%)

Coordinate with institutional human subject review boards for approval of research tools.
Coordinate research proposals and ideas on energy access and transitions for all MEL activities.
Apply multi-disciplinary approaches with current and future research needs for MEL.
Coordinate with teams for research planning, implementation and activities of MEL processes and systems
Coordinate communication products such as blogs, articles, events and podcasts based on research products.
Conduct and support data collection, data analysis and present analysis to relevant internal and external stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Familiarity with Theory of Change (TOC) and it’s development.
Familiarity with PowerBI, Miro Boards, Asana and Dev Results.
Sector-specific knowledge and experience related to energy access, community focussed interventions, energy systems and action research.
Extensive experience utilizing good practices in identifying the rationale for the research methodology, developing protocols and safeguards for data collection and management, communicating results transparently, etc.
Demonstrated experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Ability to work across multiple teams in various geographical locations, cultural contexts and time zones.
Experience in using data analysis tools like Excel, SPSS, AtlasTI, Nvivo etc is necessary.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written in English. Proficiency in one or more vernacular languages.
Attention to detail
Demonstrated ability to work both independently as well as part of a team. Self-starter with ability to juggle multiple assignments at one time.

Other Information:

Job Functions

Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment

Salary Range: NA LPA
Employment Type: Full Time
Work Mode: Work from Office

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