Job Description: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL)
Mode of Engagement: Consultant - Full-time
Location: New Delhi
Date of Joining: Immediately
Reporting to: COO/ ED
Background about Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT)
Feminist Approach to Technology, established in 2008, is a not for profit organization with a strong belief that women’s participation is equally important as men’s, not just in use of technology, but also in the creation of and decision-making around technology.
Two key themes guide all our programs, advocacy and thinking at FAT:
- Feminist Leadership of Girls and Women: We believe that a holistic, feminist framework of leadership building for marginalized girls and young women, is needed to bring equity in voices within the women’s movement
- Democratisation of Technology and STEM: We believe that women’s social rights, economic independence as well as leadership opportunities can increase if they have access to technical tools, formal and informal STEM education, and livelihoods in STEM fields.
Over the first 10 years of our work, FAT has inspired and supported more than 200 young women across 4 states of India to take collective action within their communities for gender justice. We are committed to create space and leadership opportunities for marginalised girls and young women within our team alongside supporting their leadership through our programs. Today, we are proud to call ourselves a ‘community led organization’, with young women in leadership positions and driving results for the organization.
With our community’s leadership in the forefront, FAT is now transforming into a network of community collectives led by young women, working together for sustainable development, equality and equity in their communities, through a feminist approach to technology.
Job Description
PMEL Consultant is one of the critical roles in the organization, as she/he will be responsible to set up the entire portfolio and define the structure, systems from ground zero. Designing and implementing simple, efficient, sustainable, technology enabled systems and processes that will enable the organization to steer towards its organizational goals would be key responsibilities of this role holder. FAT as an organization is community led and 95% of the staff positions are occupied by young women from the community. The ability to break down complex monitoring and evaluation systems into small, bite sized chunks to help build capacity of these young women will be of paramount importance. Continuous learnings and insights would need to be documented and integrated into the program design to make the outcomes more effective.
This position is pegged as a ‘consultant’ and is time bound as our vision is for the young women to take full accountability and ownership for the program and deliverables. As a consultant, the key deliverable will be to build capacity, show direction, guide, facilitate, help and support, resolve conflicts, role model and create an enabling environment for the young women to flourish.
We are looking for someone who will be highly energised by working with young women from the community and love a challenging, yet rewarding environment to work in.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Develop program planning, monitoring and evaluation framework as a standard operating procedure for all the programs implemented at FAT
- Design and implement assessment templates like baseline, mid-term, end line assessments etc. in collaboration with the program teams of YWLP and Girls in STEM Program
- Conduct and document program audits and impact assessments with the help of internal program teams and independent external M&E experts
- Ensure accuracy, authenticity and quality of program data collected and reported at all levels across all programs
- Build capacity of the program teams and provide technical assistance on monitoring and data gathering of the programs
- Analyse and discuss program findings on a regular basis to implement learnings into the program design
- Collect articles, case studies, best practices across programs so they can be used for reporting and impact assessment reports
- Help the team put together processes for work allocation within the team, set up daily/ weekly check ins to evaluate progress; review process for the team and resolve conflicts/ roadblocks that they may experience
- Support the ED and COO in documenting the program objectives and outcomes, theory of change, log framework, monitoring, evaluation and learning, program assessment, capacity building of implementation partners are all a part of the standard operating procedure.
Note: FAT will be building a PMEL team for the first time in 2020 and the Consultant is expected to support the formation of this team. Once the team is formed and trained, these responsibilities will be core to the team of young women and men who are a part of the PMEL team. The Consultant is expected to be their mentor and ensure they deliver to these responsibilities, while helping them build their skills in each of these areas. In areas that are out of bounds from an ability perspective of the team, the Consultant may have to step in to ‘demonstrate’ how things are done and allow for the team to then demonstrate learning of the same.
Selection Criteria:
Experience
- At least 8 years of work experience in the social sector
- At least 4 years of experience in Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL)
Timeframe
- Commitment of a minimum of 3 years full time engagement
Expertise
- Program Design (Log Framework; Theory of Change)
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Program planning and review
- MIS tools and database creation
Languages needed
- English and Hindi
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Effective Communication
- Facilitation and decision making
- Critical thinking
- Collaboration and partnership
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Technology savvy with ability to use technology/ AI to simplify and automate reports
How to apply:
Please send the following documents to jobs@fat-net.org by or before 18th July 2020, mentioning “FAT-Lead-PMEL” in the subject line.
- A covering Letter
- An updated CV with three references, your last drawn salary (annual) and expected salary
- A short note on your achievements