Monitoring And Evaluation Officer

Arthan is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Uttar Pradesh, India, to enhance sustainable impact through inclusive supply chains. Responsibilities include leading M&E processes, overseeing evaluations, supporting data collection, and promoting a culture of learning. The role involves collaboration with internal teams and external partners to ensure effective program management and adherence to quality standards, ultimately supporting smallholder farmers and responsible business practices.
We are looking for a M&E Officer for one of our partner organizations who is dedicated to driving sustainable impact by fostering inclusive and resilient supply chains. Through strategic partnerships, innovative programs, and data-driven insights, they work to improve livelihoods, enhance environmental sustainability, and promote responsible business practices. Their initiatives support smallholder farmers, workers, and businesses by strengthening market access, implementing sustainable production practices, and ensuring long-term economic and environmental resilience.

Your key responsibilities would be:

MEL Counsellor and safeguard at India programs level:
• Internal expert for the team on M&E processes, frameworks, deliverables, and impact areas, risk assessments (ESG Assessments)
• Become the internal expert for team by staying linked, educated and aware of internal transitions on the organization level TOC, M&E processes and the capacity building needs they bring for the local India team.
• Lead or support the design, undertake, and oversee evaluations for India programs and projects for program scoping, planning and evaluation purposes. Be able to articulate key assumptions and learning questions.
• Support the management of external service providers to ensure M&E assignments meeting the needs of project/program/organization.
• Summarize and present program results and evaluation findings to internal and external partners, focused on key learning questions that corelate to what and how of each program.
• Provide technical support and respond to ad-hoc program request for development and implementation of M&E framework of Business Units, activities include but not limited to proposal development, reconstruction of Theory of Change (ToC), M&E framework and indicator guidance, target-setting, articulation of key assumptions and learning questions.

Standardization of Data Collection and Management
• Support the roll-out of the organizational Result Measurement Framework across programs, including impact level indicators, ensure adherence of indicator definition and measurement guidance.
• Support organizational impact management by ensuring individual data collection activities (field level and sector level, quantitative and qualitative) are designed and implemented against a coherent learning trajectory and organizational evaluation plan.
• Ensure deliverables of data collection activities (such as Primary Data Collection) fit the purpose of project, program and organization and meeting quality standard.
• Support the team in building capacity to implement M&E frameworks, interpret M&E data and support organization's programs to make use of insights to steer the quality of projects and programs.
• Being the safeguard/checkpoint for data privacy and confidential norms and processes across M&E processes that involve vulnerable groups (farmers, workers, other groups).

Driving a culture of learning:
• Cultivate an M&E culture and promote data-driven decision making.
• Support cross-learning with global impact and M&E colleagues with the India team, through calendarized trainings.

Managing and building M&E service level agreements
• Empaneling a pool of organizations with M&E expertise across components and functions into a framework agreement, benchmarked against organization's global standards.
• Training and building the understanding of company's expectations of quality, transparency and process across commissioned assignments.
• Leading the selection and review processes (pre- and post- ) assignments with the M&E service provider and program team for 360-degree feedback.

Knowledge management
• Responsible for company's knowledge repository management for efficient cross
• sharing of key resources across teams, particularly in M&E.

Who you are:

An experienced professional who can bring their M&E experience into program management and has a practical approach using M&E to strengthen action and maximize impact. A positive and committed professional who can help the organization keep on track towards its ambitions. Vital to have attention to detail while remaining focused and continue having a bird-eye view.

What you bring:
• Working and thinking at master's level
• Minimum 5 years working experience in M&E or impact evaluation, preferably also with international organizations
• Excellent communication skills to be able to improve M&E practice and communicate program results and evaluation findings to broad audiences
• Experience in designing and managing the implementation of independent evaluations
• Experience designing and implementing M&E frameworks
• Experience in managing and working with international teams (remotely)
• Strong data management and analytical skills
• Great interpersonal skills
• Able to work independently and show initiative to influence changes
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially a very good working knowledge of Salesforce, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications:
• Experience with statistical analysis and software and software such as SAS, SPSS, R or Python is desired.
• Experience with geodata management and GIS software is an advantage.
• Affinity with sustainability, landscapes and international trade and development is an advantage but not an exclusion criterion.
• Knowledge and skill on social and environmental impact assessment would be an advantage