Tata Steel Foundation Looking For Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, Full Time

WHO ARE WE: Tata Steel Foundation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel Limited and was instituted on August 16, 2016. With over 1000 members spread over ten units and six states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Punjab, the Foundation is a CSR implementing organization focused upon co-creating solutions, with tribal and excluded communities, to address their development challenges. The organization is committed to playing a larger role in India’s sustainable development by embedding wider economic, social, and environmental objectives through its programmes and underscored by a vision to create an enlightened and equitable society.

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract (Renewal on a yearly basis)

ABOUT DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR PROJECT:

A) Background: Two large assets of Tata Steel exist in Jamshedpur and Kalinganagar, which are joined by a 280-km road through 16 blocks and 5 districts of 2 states, Jharkhand and Odisha. The road passes scenic forests and well-vegetated landscapes which are home to about 3.66 lakh people living in 450 villages across 72 Gram Panchayats. The project aims to create a unique first-of-its-kind comprehensive corridor that demonstrates to the world that industry & and communities can jointly & and harmoniously prosper.

B) Objectives: A visible distinctive & vibrant Jamshedpur-Kalinganagar route with the human, social, economic & and natural progress of the panchayats through enlightened, engaged & empowered communities having the potential to positively impact the lives of the people not just in & and around the project & peripheral areas, but also serving as a model to replicate across the country.

Key Deliverables:

• Develop key indicators (process, outcome, and impact indicators) for assessing the progress of the project.
• Develop a digitized platform leveraging the DELTA platform of Tata Trusts for showing the progress of the project comprising process, outcome, and impact indicators based on SDG.
• Conduct periodic studies and evaluations for the project.
• Analyze the key gaps in the project and provide inputs to the government, Corridor Fellows, and Zonal Coordinators for modifications in strategies, project implementation, design, etc. if required.
• Establish linkages with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of other projects in the organization.
• Assist in developing annual, quarterly, and monthly reports.
• Oversee data collection, collation, storage, analysis, reporting and ensure data accuracy & and audit readiness.
• Document and develop reports and MIS for internal and external reporting.
• Coordination with TSF’s technical, funding, and knowledge partners, including Tata Trusts.
• Organize capacity building of elected representatives and employees on M&E platforms including DELTA.
• Give timely input and feedback to internal and external stakeholders regarding project progress.
• Be a part of the project’s financial reporting, including budgets.
• Support panchayats in enabling quality GPDP preparation, implementation, and monitoring by providing quality complementary/supplementary training to gram panchayat facilitating teams (GPPFT) / Ward Planning Facilitation Teams (WPFT) and support ERs for GPDP implementation.
• Perform any other tasks that may be assigned by TSF’s management to fulfill project objectives.

Minimum Qualification: Post Graduation/Masters in Statistics / Demographics / Operations Research / Public Health / Any other Master’s degree with a focus on research, from a premier institute.

Minimum No. of years of experience: Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience.

Behavioral Skills Required:

• Aligned to the TATA & TSF Values (Integrity, Responsibility, Excellence, Pioneering, Unity & Respect)
• Interact positively with the community, and team members
• Self-motivated & and should be result, detail-oriented, proactive, conflict management, perseverance
• Ability to engage across stakeholder groups, peers, and communities
• Sensitive to cultures & and diversity (genders, persons with disabilities, disadvantaged communities, etc.)

Technical Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Statistical analytical tools, SPSS used in the development and social sector.
• MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ability to work on large data sets & and dexterous with digital skills.
• Survey roll-out, Project Planning, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research Design.
• Financial Management, Good document/proposal drafting skills.
• Ability to design and operationalize M&E systems for projects.
• Good English communication (read, speak & write) skills.