Senior Officer – Monitoring and Evaluation

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic Indian nationals for “Senior Officer” for its Technology Adoption and Impact Analysis Cluster under the Global Research Program – Enabling Systems Transformation (EST). This position is based at ICRISAT’s Headquarters in Patancheru, Hyderabad, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org

Duties and Responsibilities:

 ·         Facilitate the design of a project monitoring dashboard

·         Develop and share M&E tools with team members for data collection and monitoring

·         Design performance management plans for the project and monitors the implementation processes to track milestones and report on key performance indicators and outputs

·         Identify, recommend, and establish digital tools and platforms with digital team for documenting, tracking, recording, and reporting project impacts

·         Develop, coordinate, and manage databases for monitoring of Initiative progress against indicators

·         Coordinate and supervise project M&E field agents for all data collections and work closely with external backstopping consulting teams for effective M&E delivery

·         Timely and transparent access to databases

·         Facilitate timely uploading/updating of the Initiative’s information (such as the Theories of Change, indicators, targets, etc.)

·         Facilitate timely collection and reporting of the Initiative’s progress on outputs and outcomes to the M&E system

·         Cascade work plans and expectations of quality on various M&E tasks to teams. Spearhead detailed execution of tasks as guided by the Project PI’s

·         Planning meetings/workshops for delivering M&E tasks, outputs

·         Support the planning and preparation of annual work plans and other technical reports as required by the Project PI’s

·         Quality assure submitted information or outputs of work package teams as required

·         Participate actively in monthly/annual project review and planning meetings

·         Perform other job-related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Competencies:

·         At least 3-5 years of relevant work experience

·         Experience in monitoring and evaluation responsibility of international/national projects and demonstrated skills in team building and creation of synergies between project partners and stakeholders

·         Experience in working with a wide range of partners – local and international, development actors, farmers, and youth organizations

·         Familiarity with NRM implementation, Agricultural Development programs

·         Proficiency in the use of project Impact Monitoring and Evaluation software, databases, internet-based tools, and other electronic communication tools

·         Fluency in oral and written English

·         Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Requirements:

 ·         The candidate should have a master’s degree in statistics, agricultural economics, development studies, business administration or other relevant discipline from a recognized university.
·         Certification in project management is an advantage

 General:

 This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years).

 How to apply:

 Applicants should apply on or before 05 October 2023, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer