Associate Manager, Impact Evaluation (Qualitative Assessments)

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