Own and manageImpact Evaluation projects:
- Take end-to-end ownership of at 1 - 2 projects, and meticulously breakdown workstreams, to ensure high outcome orientation.
- Develop a deep understanding of project requirements, and the programme(s) being evaluated.
- Lead the design of processes and procedures to achieve the required outputs, including but not limited to program design, analysis requirements, and stakeholder dependencies.
- Coordinate with internal teams as well as externalpartners (State Governments, Assessment Vendors, Experts and NGOs) to deliver the required project outputs.
- Develop strategic roadmaps, implementation plans, and risk mitigation plans.
- Lead the production of high-quality outputs as required for projects, such as research design, data collection tools, analysis frameworks, reports, and other collaterals.
- Set up and maintainproject management processesand guidelines, includingsending weekly update emails to internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain strongworking relationships with clients, to ensure the required buy-in,and obtain the requiredinputs, permissions, and resources.
- Maintain thorough documentation of the project,including but not limited to processes, collaterals, and reflections.
Mixed-methods and Qualitative Research Design, Data Collection and Analysis:
- Design qualitative and mixed-methods research studies, including developing research questions, research methodologies, sampling approaches and data collection and analysis tools.
- Co-lead the data collection with the operations team, including leadingspecific aspects of researcher hiring, training, data audits, and data storage.
- Design and implement data-quality audit processes for qualitative data collection.
- Take end-to-end ownership of qualitative data analysis and insight generation workstreams.
- Create accurate and reproducible analysis while adheringto timelines.
- Develop analysis templates, and test / implement tools and processes to automate repetitive / frequently required analysis.
- Ensure the use of simple, intuitive, and accurate data visualizations and representations for qualitative data across all projects and deliverables.
Organizational Development:
- Ensure capacity building and training of the team through regularlearning and development.
- Lead activities to buildand strengthen internalexpertise around qualitative data collection, analysis and visualization / representation.
- Expand the scope of projects throughthe dissemination of high-quality insightsand learnings in the form of articles, blogs, and research paper summaries.
- Travel for projectneeds, and documenttrip reports of the same appropriately.
Must Have Skills
- Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience in project management, with at least 2 years successfully leading large-scale qualitative or mixed-methods research (preferably in education)
- Strong understanding of the Indian education system, particularly government school classrooms, students, and teachers
- Stakeholder expectation management and negotiation skills
- Strong analytical, prioritization, multi-tasking and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,with the abilityto work effectively with diverse stakeholders
Good to have Skills
- Experience in quantitative researchand analysis
- Proficiency in developing comprehensive reports and documents
- Experience in organizing and conducting large-scale training programs
