M&E Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

• Provide responsive and tailored M&E technical assistance and capacity-building support to government counterparts to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and oversight, as required.  This may include, but is not limited to support for the establishment of well-designed MIS that facilitates convergence between Graduation and other government programs, supports household monitoring, and ensures program participants receive program components in the correct sequence

Support to UPGI’s country team

• Provide input and QA to the development of data collection tools (interview guides, stakeholder meeting facilitation guides, etc.)
• Maintain a thorough knowledge and understanding of the project activities and partnerships.
• Continuously monitor the changing political and operating dynamics in the context of National and State Governance structures.  Activities here might include, but are not limited to:
• regular stakeholder interviews, participant conversation and other data collection activities as required
• media tracking
• Maintaining regular communication with government agencies and other key stakeholders as appropriate and useful
• Identification, sharing and/ or reviewing documents and data related to the country's strategy
• Consolidation and sharing of data and analysis with UPGI country lead and wider India team on regular (monthly?) basis in order to document progress and wider changes, and inform decisions on strategic adaptations
• Co-lead any stakeholder reflection workshops carried out in collaboration with UPGI country lead and with the support of the UPGI MEL function
• Supports cross-country learning agendas under the guidance of UPGI’s Director - MEL
• Provide input into UPGI reporting as required
• Support on MEL plan for BRAC International grantees in India
• Assist the Partners in designing and development of National or State MIS

Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities)

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action. 
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so.

• Experience with M&E of adaptively managed programs.
• Experience with M&E of the policy cycle, and governance more broadly.
• Experience with indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing MEL and performance monitoring plans.
• Excellent writing skills – reports and proposals.
• Proactive leader with the ability to prioritize and effectively manage competing work streams
• Strong interpersonal skills and a high degree of political sensitivity 
• Strong English skills and fluency in Hindi are required.
• Exceptional communication and representational skills

About the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative

The Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (“UPGI”) is a global unit of BRAC that was founded in 2016 to build off of the success of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation program in Bangladesh. BRAC UPGI aims to position the Graduation approach as a key driver to eradicating extreme poverty worldwide. It does this by: 

Advocating for uptake of the Graduation approach by policymakers, national governments, multilateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations; and 

Effective adaptation and implementation of the Graduation approach in countries around the world, supported through technical assistance and capacity strengthening for external stakeholders.