MEL LEAD

 Monitoring Evaluation, Learning and Research Lead

About the Organization

This is a 10-year-old non-profit and leading digital public health partner in India. Our flagship solution, the Community Health Integrated Platform, has been used by 70K+ community health workers to track the health of over 46 million beneficiaries, identifying over 6.5 million beneficiaries at increased health risk, supported by $20M in MoHFW investment. Our work spans across all primary health care verticals and empowers state-level immunization drives, TB-finding campaigns, and child malnutrition management programs. Our work has led to India's first state with a village-level multidimensional poverty index map and climate health vulnerability index.

Role: MERL Lead

Mode: Full-time

Location: Delhi / Jaipur

Requirements

- PhD-level training (or equivalent) in public health, economics, operational research, implementation research, or biostatistics

- Proficiency in systematic reviews, evidence gap-map analysis, evidence-based theory of change design, qualitative study design and analysis, retrospective and prospective cohort study design and analysis, randomized controlled trial design (simple, cluster, interrupted, digital twin) and analysis, quasi-experimental study design and analysis, spatial and spatiotemporal analysis, cost benefit and effectiveness study design and analysis, technical grant writing, IRB protocol management

- Experience in evidence-based public health intervention design for a state in India for any health program

- Experience in performing analysis of a public health program with more than 100,000 individual-level observations

- Experience in disseminating findings from the analysis of a public health program with state or central-level government stakeholders

- At least 10 years of working in the public health domain in India

Responsibilities

- Driving evidence-based updates to the organizations and project-specific theories of change

- Defining and updating specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound impact KPIs linked to the ToC inputs and activities, in coordination with health program directors

- Ensuring appropriate steps for regulatory approval for research-related activities

- Establishing baseline levels for impact KPIs through secondary data collection from policy-makers and through the design and validation of primary survey instruments

- Establishing protocols for real-time monitoring of impact KPIs and feedback towards relevant internal teams and external stakeholders (including development agencies and government officials)

- Linking evidence to recommendations for changes in intervention design and/or deployment

- Demonstrating, disseminating, and advocating for scale-up for areas where our inputs, activities, and interventions have improved impact KPIs

- Linking impact to pay-for-performance funding opportunities for sustainable organization growth

- Recruiting and developing internal capacity for essential M&E skills for cross-functional teams

- Serving as a nodal point for research collaborations

- Conducting regular field visits for evidence generation

Benefits

- Supportive workplace environment

- Health insurance

- Free medical second opinions with CEO

- Flexible leave policy