Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, South Asia Hub – Health Systems (Learning and Impact)

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About the project

PATH works with governments and partners to strengthen health systems and improve the availability, quality, and use of data for program planning, implementation, and decision-making. Across its health systems portfolio, PATH supports monitoring, evaluation, learning, assessments, digital data systems, analytics, and evidence generation to improve program performance and health outcomes.

The Monitoring & Evaluation function supports project teams to establish practical measurement systems, strengthen data quality, track progress against agreed indicators, generate actionable insights, and document learning. The M&E Officer will contribute to these efforts across assigned projects and work closely with program, technical, digital, research, and implementation teams.

1.     Strengthen routine monitoring systems, indicator tracking, and data quality across projects.

2.     Support assessments, analysis, visualization, reporting, and evidence generation for program improvement.

3.     Promote the use of data and learning for adaptive management and decision-making.

About the position

PATH is seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer to support monitoring, evaluation, learning, and data-use activities across health systems projects. Reporting to the Lead - Learning and Impact, the M&E Officer will support the design and implementation of M&E frameworks, data-collection systems, assessments, data-quality processes, analysis, visualization, reporting, and documentation of learning. The position will work closely with project teams and partners to ensure that timely, reliable, and actionable evidence is available for program management and decision-making.

Responsibilities

·        Support the Lead – Learning and Impact in developing and updating the project’s results framework, logframe, MEL plan, indicator reference sheets, data management plans, data dictionaries, and M&E standard operating procedures, with clear definitions, data sources, frequency, responsibilities, and quality standards.

·        Help set baselines and targets for key project indicators and track progress against them on a regular basis.

·        Design, test, and update data collection tools such as surveys, facility checklists, and interview guides, including digital forms on platforms such as KoBoToolbox or ODK.

·        Train state and city teams, field staff, and partners on data collection tools, sampling, informed consent, and data quality.

·        Coordinate routine monitoring and periodic assessments, including baseline, midline, and endline data collection across intervention geographies.

·        Carry out regular data quality checks, including spot checks, back-checks, and data verification visits; document errors found and corrections made.

·        Ensure project data is stored securely and handled in line with PATH’s data protection and research ethics standards; maintain structured, well-documented, and version-controlled datasets with appropriate metadata and access controls.

·        Clean, analyse, triangulate, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data; disaggregate findings as appropriate, conduct trend and gap analyses, and maintain progress trackers and dashboards in Excel, Power BI, or similar tools to generate actionable insights for programme teams.

·        Support government counterparts at state, district, and city level in analysing and using routine data from HMIS, AB-HWC, and other national portals for planning and review.

·        Draft monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports, donor reports, and data summaries, clearly separating observed data from estimates and stating data limitations.

·        Support the design and management of internal assessments and external evaluations, including development of protocols, sampling approaches, analysis plans, terms of reference, review of tools, ethics-related documentation where applicable, and quality assurance during fieldwork.

·        Coordinate with external data-collection, research, or evaluation agencies/consultants, as required, to ensure adherence to agreed methodology, data-quality standards, timelines, and deliverables.

·        Help organise review meetings and learning sessions; support the project learning agenda, document lessons learned, case studies, and good practices, and track agreed actions so that monitoring and evaluation findings are used for course correction and programme improvement.

·        Prepare technical reports, impactful presentations, and knowledge products for government, donor, and internal audiences.

·        Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor from time to time for the smooth functioning of the program and to achieve program goals.

·        Available to travel up to 30-40% of the time.

Required Experience and qualifications.

·       Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics, Population Studies, Health Informatics, Social Work, Economics, Development Studies, or a related field.

·       At least 3-5 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation of public health or development programmes.

·       Hands-on experience in designing data collection tools, managing field data collection, implementing data-quality assurance processes, managing datasets, and analysing programme data.

·       Working knowledge of at least one statistical package such as Stata, SPSS, or R, with a sound understanding of quantitative analysis; experience with qualitative data analysis is an added advantage.

·       Demonstrated understanding of results-based monitoring, indicator design, target setting, sampling, data-quality assessment, and interpretation of routine health information systems.

·       Experience with digital data collection platforms such as KoBoToolbox, ODK, or SurveyCTO.

·       Experience with INGOs in the health sector and/ or Ministries of Health, government is preferable.

·       Familiarity with Indian public health system, health data sources, and flagship initiatives such as NHM, NUHM, Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centers, PM-ABHIM, XV-FC, and HMIS.

Skills/ Abilities

• Self-starter and committed to performing their duties with a high degree of autonomy and independence in line with project goals and objectives.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data quality, accuracy, and research ethics.

• Ability to explain data and findings in simple language to non-technical audiences.

• Ability to translate monitoring, assessment, and evaluation findings into clear recommendations and follow-up actions for technical and programme teams.

• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills in English and Hindi.

• Direct experience of working with government health functionaries, district level administrators and other development partners on data and reporting.

• Advanced Excel skills; experience with dashboards such as Power BI or Tableau and GIS mapping is desirable. Familiarity with database management or automated data workflows would be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate in a matrix organizational structure.

• Ability to handle a variety of assignments under pressure of deadlines.