Manager, Consulting
Job Category: Consulting
Job Type: Full Time Hybrid
Salary Range: 480000 - 600000 per annum (the salary range includes 10% variable pay)
Position Title: Manager
Reporting to: CEO
Role: Hybrid
Benefits: 5000 INR towards health insurance, accident cover of 25 lakhs, free telehealth services, and an L&D budget.
About the Role: This is a
full-time, hybrid role focused on MEL and Strategy development, but not limited only to it. This role will involve development, implementation, and management of projects pertaining to monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.
Joining date: Rolling (latest, March 2026)
Key Requirements
We are looking for individuals who can fulfil the following criteria.
- A bachelor's degree in development studies or equivalent certification in monitoring and evaluation, strategic development, statistics, and impact studies.
- At least 3 years of relevant full-time work experience, especially in the context of designing and managing MEL frameworks and tools. A master's in a relevant field may be considered as work experience.
- Strong qualitative research and facilitation skills; comfort working with quantitative data is an advantage.
- Experience facilitating learning, reflection, or sense-making processes combined with strong analytical, writing, and synthesis skills.
- Knowledge of MEL practices and experience in executing MEL-related projects
- Demonstrated experience in entrepreneurial roles, with an ability to showcase high accountability and ownership, and an ability to inspire confidence and motivation amongst other stakeholders.
- Is able to work collaboratively with a remote team and external stakeholders, is able to problem-solve creatively and ability to provide and receive constructive feedback effectively.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills along with the ability to share information with clarity.
- Demonstrates a learning mindset and a commitment to continuous learning, development, and improvement.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Execution of MEL Design and Learning Consulting Projects
- Contribute to the design of MEL frameworks, theories of change, results frameworks, and learning agendas across consulting engagements.
- Ensure MEL approaches are participatory, context-sensitive, and aligned with justice, equity, and inclusion principles.
- Integrate qualitative and quantitative methods, including reflective and sense-making approaches.
- Ensure MEL approaches respond to core strategic questions (what is working, for whom, why, and what needs to change) rather than only reporting requirements.
- Execution of Strategic Learning and Sense-Making Consulting Projects
- Design and facilitate learning, reflection, and sense-making spaces (workshops, learning reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions).
- Synthesise qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear strategic insights, briefs, and decision-support products.
- Support clients and internal teams to strengthen their ability to use evidence for strategy, not just accountability.
- Completing all allied activities about the execution of consulting agreements and being responsible for the delivery of all consultancy-related deliverables.
- Allied consulting project execution and responsibilities
- Execution of high-quality consulting engagements as per the allocation on the team, which relate to broader social impact consulting, beyond MEL and Strategy.
- Maintenance of timely and professional communication with the clients and project management to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
- Business Development and Partnerships
- Contribute to and co-lead MEL and strategy-related consulting applications, contributing to the growth of the consulting vertical.
- Research, drafting, and development of suitable proposals/applications to be submitted for potential consulting opportunities, particularly for MEL-related opportunities and others as need arises.
- Relationship building and maintenance with current and new, potential partners.
Additional Notes
Please note that all deliverables under this vertical are varied and require a high amount of willingness and capacity to innovate. This role requires the candidate to be comfortable with picking up streams of research and information that they may not have engaged with extensively in the past.
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