About Udhyam:
At Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam), our vision is to “Co-create a caring world, where people fearlessly pursue their potential.” We believe that building entrepreneurial mindsets and fostering entrepreneurship are powerful means to harness an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.
Our programs:
• Udhyam Shiksha: works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets amongst the youth through a combination of experiential learning and enabling ‘Real World Experience’ based projects. This approach enables them to fulfil their potential, and has till date impacted 37 Lakh learners across 12 states.
• Udhyam Vyapaar: focuses on nano businesses, and helps solve foundational problems faced by them, at scale. Thus far, Udhyam Vyapaar has already enabled a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.
The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.
About Shiksha M&E:
The Shiksha M&E team assesses the efficacy of program delivery and evaluates participant movement on mindsets and skills to enable data based decision making for programs
About the role:
The Specialist in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) will be on ground to lead the on-ground design, implementation and management of M&E frameworks and evaluate on-ground program efficacy and outcomes and will involve being in classrooms for qualitative evaluation of our Program. The detailed Role is as below:
MnE Framework and Tools: Building comprehensive understanding of MnE Frameworks, tools and metrics to effectively measure outcomes of Shiksha programs on learners including measuring shift in mindsets and 21st century skills
Qualitative Data Collection: Spend extensive time in schools and classrooms to engage with Teachers and Students to understand program delivery, conduct interviews and FGDs and qualitative evaluation of the Program.
Data Documentation: Document data related to program implementation including validating fidelity of data for accuracy.
Operational Data Analysis: Analyse operational data at regular frequencies and communicate the same to internal and external stakeholders.
Support Data Based Decision Making: Support in discussions and initiatives focused on data-based decision making. Support the team to prioritise insights and learnings from data collected and build a road-map to action on those insights for programme improvement.
Data Presentation and Communication : Communicate data effectively to government and internal stakeholders through the medium of data reports and presentations at defined intervals in a timely manner. Also proactive communication of operational flags to internal teams found from data analysis and observations.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
3+ years of experience in monitoring & evaluation with extensive field experience (preferably in education)
Strong technical competence in monitoring and evaluation methods.
Strong operational management ability: a clear focus on results - sets goals, plans and prioritizes effectively, monitors quality and progress of work against plans.
Strong sense of collaboration and working with cross functional teams across Operations and Curriculum
Extensive Field Experience to be able to observe Teacher and Students and conduct Interviews and FGDs
Comfortable with survey administration technological applications and data analysis tools like MS Excel, Google Sheets at a minimum.
Strong orientation towards a student-first mindset; keeping students first in all processes including tool design and development, data collection, and presentation.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills with Fluency in Hindi to communicate with teachers and students