The ideal candidate will be someone who is committed to developing an impact culture and evidence-based decisions to help improve the impact we have on young people. You will be inquiring and focused, and confident with data analysis and measurement. You will have strong impact and evaluation skills, gained from conducting research or evaluation for education initiatives in India. You will have the ability to make sense of ambiguity and distil data into actionable insights. We want to be a leader in understanding and improving our impact, and you will share that drive.
Responsibilities
- Work with colleagues to establish simple, measurable reach and impact goals across our portfolio of educational products and programmes
- Work with colleagues to ensure we have reliable, accessible data that enables us to quickly and easily measure reach and impact and make decisions about our educational products and programmes
- Undertake field visits to our programmes in India in order to conduct interviews, focus groups, classroom observations and to meet with programme stakeholders
- Conduct analysis of collected data to understand the impact we are having and how we can improve our work
- Coach colleagues in data collection and analysis skills and tools
- Identify opportunities to improve the use of quantitative and qualitative data in management decision-making and reporting
- Communicate findings from impact analysis to product teams and senior management, identifying recommendations and influencing the direction of future work
- Work with colleagues to communicate our impact externally with our communities and the wider public in India
- Support and conduct impact evaluations and other projects as required
Experience and personal attributes
We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here.
- A degree or Masters-level qualification in a relevant field
- Experience measuring the impact of social or educational programmes, with schools or in teaching- and learning-related fields in India
- Good knowledge of education systems in India gained either through firsthand teaching experience or through extensive fieldwork and evaluation
- Excellent data management skills and a track record in using quantitative and qualitative data to understand the impact of activities or projects
- Outstanding analysis and statistical skills and the ability to derive clear insights from complex data
- Experience in taking a lead on projects and moving them through to completion
- Exceptional collaborative working skills, as well as the capacity to work across multiple teams and take into account different approaches and priorities
- Significant experience of using spreadsheets and other data analysis software
- Excellent writing and presentation skills, including experience of external communications (such as blogs or impact reports)
- Experience of using online tools such as Google Apps (Drive, Gmail, etc.)
