MERLI Associate

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About the Organization

Wadhwani AI is a nonprofit institute building and deploying applied AI solutions to solve critical issues in public health, agriculture, education, and urban development in underserved communities in the global south. We collaborate with governments, social sector organizations, academic and research institutions, and domain experts to identify real-world problems, and develop practical AI solutions to tackle these issues with the aim of making a substantial positive impact.

Job Description

We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Associate to design and implement research studies, develop MEL plans, and oversee field activities. The role involves data processing, analysis, dashboard creation, and reporting while ensuring data confidentiality and ethical compliance. Proficiency in tools like SurveyCTO or KoboCollect and the ability to support decision-making through actionable insights are essential.

Job Responsibilities

• Prepare survey instruments, protocols, analysis plans, training material(s) for implementation of various research studies
• Lead, conduct and be responsible for field visits to oversee implementation of project activities (including scoping) and support for course correction
• Lead data processing, cleaning, analysis, visualization and presentation.
• Experience working with, managing and coding on web-based data collection applications such as SurveyCTO Or KoboCollect
• Dashboard creation for said indicators and its daily maintenance to ensure display of correct statistics to assist senior team members to take key decisions on progress of project implementation activities
• Support lead MEL in developing the overall MEL plan, log-frameworks, work plan etc. for various projects with guidance from the program management team.
• Support lead MEL in developing research protocols and ensure approval from required Research Ethics Committee and local IRB (as required) ensuring protection of human subjects if applicable
• Development of reports, presentations and templates for effective internal use and dissemination of reports at state & national levels
• Function with utmost sensitivity towards data confidentiality and privacy
• Perform duties as assigned by the supervisor from time to time.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Master’s Degree in development studies, demography, statistics, Agriculture stastistics or related subjects. Masters in Epidemiology or Statistics are preferred
• A minimum of two years of post qualification M&E/Quantitative research experience and demonstrated history of practical skills in monitoring and evaluation of donor funded programs in Agriculture or social sector
• At least two years of post qualification experience in supporting operations research protocols and conducting surveys and data collection.
• Demonstrated experience in the data management including data cleaning, standardization, maintenance, collation, analysis and reporting
• Experience in managing web based applications for data collection, seamless display of indicators on dashboard for real time monitoring
• Experience in report writing and development of proposals for business development with a variety of domestic and international donors would be an asset.
• High proficiency and experience with statistical software for analysis of large datasets (such as SPSS, STATA, R, Python or SAS). Knowledge of handling web based dashboarding applications like Tableau and GIS applications is desirable.
• Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Special note - if the candidate applying for this position has no/ less prior experience in Agriculture, he/she has to convince the assessors about his/her learning ability and grasping power to prove suitability.

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