Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist

Schoolnet India Limited

The MEL Specialist will design, implement, and manage monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems to track program performance, outcomes, and impact. This role will provide data-driven insights to inform program decisions, improve effectiveness, and ensure accountability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design monitoring and evaluation frameworks, logic models, theory of change and result based matrix for existing and proposed products and services across the organisation portfolio
• Develop research designs for impact assessment studies using appropriate methods
• Design needs assessment, baseline, midline and endline surveys and sub-studies to document progress on key project outcomes
• Coordinate and conduct on-site project monitoring visits when required
• Recruit and train field investigators for research, data collection, and ethics when required
• Analyse data and draw inferences for periodic project/ research/ evaluation reports
• Draft detailed research and evaluation reports
• Disseminate findings from monitoring/evaluation data/ primary and secondary research to project management and social media teams
• Collect, analyse and summarize external research, identifying relevance and applicability to specific education solutions and projects
• Assist in compilation of learning documents/ SOPs for existing and upcoming initiatives to create and manage a repository
• Manage all research and evaluation activities including sampling, development of quantitative and qualitative tools for data collection, tool translation, data cleaning, processing, and visualization, designing and creation of dashboards, creative design and layouts of research and evaluation reports
• Any other assigned tasks

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master's Degree in Economics/Statistics/Population Studies/Social Sciences/ Education
• At least 3 years of experience
• Experience in the design and implementation of M&E in development projects preferably in K-12 education, skilling, and entrepreneurship development
• Experience in creating Logical Frameworks and Theory of Change for projects
• Experience in quantitative research and evaluation methods including propensity score matching and Difference-in-Difference methods
• Expertise in analysing data using Excel and SPSS/STATA
• Ability to work with digital data collection and visualization platforms
• Excellent writing and documentation skills
• Excellent knowledge and skills to work on MS Excel, MS PowerPoint etc.
• Basic knowledge of qualitative research