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Our team is looking to welcome a mature, motivated, mission-driven MEL country lead to join Khushi Baby’s M&E Unit to develop MEL frameworks and design interventions for Khushi Baby’s CHIP platform.

Responsibilities:

• Driving evidence-based updates to Khushi Baby’s organizational and project-specific theories of change

• Defining and updating specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timebound  impact KPIs linked to the ToC inputs and activities, in coordination with health program director

• Ensuring appropriate steps for regulatory approval for research-related activities

• Establishing baseline levels for impact KPIs through secondary data collection from policy-makers and through design and validation of primary survey instruments

• Establishing protocols for real-time monitoring of impact KPIs and feedback towards relevant internal teams and external stakeholders (including development agencies and government officials)

• Linking evidence to recommendations for changes in intervention design and/or deployment

• Demonstrating, disseminating, and advocating for scale-up for areas where our inputs, activities, and interventions have improved impact KPIs

• Linking impact to pay-for-performance funding opportunities for sustainable organization growth
• Recruiting and developing internal capacity for essential M&E skills for cross-functional teams within KB
• Serving as a nodal point for KB research collaborations
• Conducting regular field visits for evidence-generation

Requirements:

• PhD-level training (or equivalent) in public health, economics, operational research, implementation research, or biostatistics

• Proficiency in systematic reviews, evidence gap-map analysis, evidence-based theory of change design, qualitative study design and analysis, retrospective and prospective cohort study design and analysis, randomized controlled trial design (simple, cluster, interrupted, digital twin) and analysis, quasi-experimental study design and analysis, spatial and spatiotemporal analysis, cost benefit and effectiveness study design and analysis, technical grant writing, IRB protocol management

• Experience in evidence-based public health intervention design for a state in India for any health program

• Experience in performing analysis of a public health program with more than 100,000 individual-level observations

• Experience in disseminating findings from analysis of a public health program with state or central level government stakeholders

• At least 10 years of working in the public health domain in India

You’ll stand out with

• Prior experience working with government officials and NHM data sets
• Publications with mixed-methods research
• Prior experience working with mHealth / digital health projects
• Excellence in English writing and communication
• Demonstrated work / experimentation in prompt-engineering for tools like ChatGPT

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Flexible work policies for those menstruating, needing time for grievance of a loved one, religious fasting, etc
• Monthly field visits, annual retreat
• Learning opportunities with world-class research institutions (Yale, Harvard)
• Learning Stipend Policy
• Sponsored Workshops and Seminars