Project Manager Data and Monitoring, Gujarat

About Central Square Foundation:

Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working on the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. We are driven by our mission to transform the school education system with a focus on improving children's learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.

Learn more about CSF on our website.

About the team:

Strategic Support States (SSS) team at Central Square Foundation assists the States in designing and implementing the respective state missions to ensure Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) learning outcomes for children. Spread across five states, the Project Management Units (PMUs) of the team work closely with the state bodies in co-ideating goals of the missions, identifying critical workstreams, setting indicators of success across the workstreams, and reviewing mission progress. Apart from these core activities, the SSS team also conducts action research projects and pilots context-specific programs to accelerate student learning.

Position Summary

CSF is recruiting for the position of a Project Manager based out of Gandhinagar to support the State FLN team in developing and rolling out a holistic foundational learning program. This role will cater specifically to strengthening states data systems to make decisions that impact the foundational learning outcomes for the children. The role will be critical to setting a culture of data-based decision-making in the government system and building stakeholder capacity to make plans and take actions using data.

Key Responsibilities

Strengthening the monitoring system(s) for the FLN program to enable the state government to track implementation fidelity/status and help make course corrections

Review the existing data systems of other Indian states

Coordinate between different teams within and outside of CSF to ensure the generation of high-quality monitoring data

Design and operationalize dashboards that can facilitate data use in decision-making

Support the design of program evaluation - frameworks, proposed sampling, tools, etc.

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities

A bachelors degree from a reputed university is required, and a Masters degree is preferred in

relevant fields, including economics, public/education policy, or any related field

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in the designing and implementation of monitoring and evaluation in development projects/contexts.

Experience in conducting evaluation/research studies, from designing the study to its implementation, analysis, and presentation of results and recommendations

Strong skills in measurement and data collection (quantitative and qualitative), including designing tools and strategies for data collection, data analysis, and reporting

Strong understanding of concepts like Logic Model/Logical Framework, Theory of Change, major evaluation methodologies (experimental and non-experimental), monitoring systems

Ability to understand complex research/data to draw actionable inferences

Excellent writing and presentation skills

Preferred Experience

Experience in conducting and/or managing large-scale surveys

Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems

Experience in conducting evaluation/research studies, from designing the study to its implementation, analysis, and presentation of results and recommendations

Experience in analyzing data using statistical tools and packages (Excel, SPSS, Stata, R, Python)

Additional Details

Start Date: As soon as possible

Compensation: Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidates experience levels.