Associate - M&E
Pune, IndiaFull-timeEntry · 1-3 years
About this role
Background
Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as Leadership for Equity, LFE) is a non-profit organisation based in Pune, Maharashtra, working to strengthen India’s public education system so that every child learns and thrives. We envision public education systems that refuse to let children down.
LFE partners with state and district governments across multiple states—including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Haryana—to improve teaching practices and build sustained academic support structures within the public system. Our work is anchored in the belief that public education systems are the gatekeepers of social equity, and strengthening them is essential to ensuring that every child has access to strong foundational and future-ready learning.
Approach
LFE’s systems-change approach focuses on improving classroom practice and enabling government ownership through three core levers:
- Co-creating high-quality curricular resources and building teacher capacity
- Developing academic leadership to coach and mentor teachers
- Providing data-driven advisory support and policy implementation guidance
Our model empowers teachers as instructional leaders and embeds long-term support through government-run mentor cadres, continuous classroom observation cycles, and in-system academic structures. Technology plays a critical role, including an in-house Classroom Observation App for real-time monitoring and a WhatsApp-based teacher support chatbot for contextual resource delivery.
The approach is iterative and context-responsive, grounded in classroom realities and tailored to state and district needs. Implementation varies across geographies—whether working directly with teachers or through government-appointed mentors—ensuring relevance and feasibility within existing structures. A continuous feedback loop of training, observation, and coaching moves beyond one-time interventions toward sustained practice change. All programs are co-designed and co-implemented with government partners to ensure scale, sustainability, and systemic ownership, ultimately leading to improved student learning outcomes in foundational and future literacy.
Roles and Responsibilities
The M&E Associate will work closely with Program Managers, Project Managers, and cross-functional teams to support monitoring, evaluation, data collection, analysis, and reporting across projects. The role will involve working with program teams and government stakeholders to ensure timely data availability, strong measurement systems, and actionable insights for decision making.
The key responsibilities are as follows:
- Form a thorough context of program delivery by shadowing the program team and studying training plans, Theory of Change (TOCs), LFAs, and other project documentation
- Support the Program Leads/ Project Managers/ Program Managers in developing, digitizing and validating necessary tools for measuring the effectiveness of ongoing projects
- Research evidence-based data collection and tool design techniques
- Create contextualized, validated and evidence based standardised M&E/ testing tools on the basis of training progression and M&E plan
- Oversee and coordinate with program team for timely collection of data from across teams and jurisdictions
- Quarterly field travel upto 10-15 days across project locations and interaction with government stakeholders to conduct/facilitate data collection
- Analyse and interpret the data to provide ongoing insights to various project teams
- Prepare dashboards for internal and existing stakeholders to enable informed decision-making by organization leadership and government leadership
- Compile project status and other reports and documentation as required
- Participate in all the organisational team spaces and structures
- Support onboarding of data management systems and ensure routine maintenance across teams
- Compile Project level Impact Report from impact data on a consistent basis
- Support the internal research team in design and implementation of various research projects.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- Degree in education/ statistics / policy evaluation / social science / management discipline. Masters’ degree preferred.
- 1-3 Years of experience working with data collection, data management & data analysis
Important: Given the nature of the project please apply only if you qualify based on above requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities
- Strong ability to work with various survey tools, Advanced Excel, Google sheets, Macros/Google script. Experience with SQL and BI tools like Looker/ Power BI/Tableau would be an added advantage.
- Ability to create high quality presentations.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and a functional knowledge (oral and written) of Marathi/Hindi/Telugu would be desirable.
- Being able to take initiative and work in an autonomous, semi-structured environment
- Belief in the potential of the public sector and that government systems can and will change towards overcoming systemic inequities and ensuring improved outcomes for all citizens
- Working experience or knowledge of public policy implementation would be highly preferred
- A basic understanding of social equity, development discourse and education policy in India
- Adaptability to changing responsibilities and resourcefulness to respond to them
- High openness to learning
- Ability to influence people, taking initiatives, build and sustain relationships with multiple stakeholders & partners across public and private spaces
- Patience and resilience to stick it out in the face of setbacks and uncertainties
Location and Compensation
Location: Pune, Maharashtra. Occasional travel to rural areas across multiple states.
Compensation: Apart from being a part of a young and dynamic learning team, the individual will receive a healthy compensation at par with the non-profit sector benchmark for this position, commensurate with the individual’s prior experience and qualifications. The current compensation band offered, based on fit and experience is 5 to 7 lakh INR per annum CTC.
Leadership For Equity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of any kind. We do not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.