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We value individuals who are dynamic, proactive, flexible, and responsive. Integrity, fairness, and honesty are the values we hold dear. If you embody these qualities, we invite you to explore a career with us.

CYSD is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We strongly encourage women candidates to join our mission and contribute to creating lasting change.

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At CYSD, we take pride in fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment that enables our team members to thrive.

Inclusive Environment: We provide the space and resources for individuals to perform at their best.
Supportive Leadership: Our leaders nurture talent, encourage innovation, and foster collaboration.
Transparency and Synchronization: Cross-functional task forces and committees meet regularly to ensure alignment and clarity in our work.
Recognition and Motivation: We celebrate achievements through formal and informal channels, keeping our team motivated and inspired.

Joining CYSD means being part of a culture that values people, drives change, and builds a better future together.

The current vacancies are shared below:

PMEAL lead (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning)

Job Title: PMEAL lead (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning)

Bhubaneswar

Role: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

Position Summary

The Program Manager – PMEAL will provide strategic and technical leadership in strengthening CYSD’s Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (PMEAL) systems. The role will ensure that evidence, learning, innovations and community experiences generated across programmes are systematically captured, analysed, documented and used to improve programme quality, strengthen accountability and enhance organisational learning. The position will provide analytical leadership, tools, facilitation and quality assurance, while programme and thematic leads remain accountable for implementation, results and corrective action.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Programme Quality

Develop, implement and periodically review CYSD’s organisational PMEAL strategy, framework and systems in alignment with its strategic priorities and programme portfolio.
Establish common standards, tools and processes for programme planning, results measurement, evidence generation, documentation and learning across projects and thematic areas.
Analyse programme performance across projects and geographies to identify trends, implementation gaps, opportunities for convergence and areas requiring strategic attention.
Provide evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership for programme adaptation, resource prioritisation and organisational decision-making.
Promote a culture of learning, reflection and evidence-based decision-making across the organisation.

Planning and Monitoring

Support programme teams in developing robust monitoring plans, indicators, baselines, targets and data-collection methodologies.
Establish systems to track programme outputs, outcomes and longer-term changes at individual, household, community, institutional and landscape levels, as appropriate.
Strengthen routine monitoring, field verification, data-quality assessments and periodic outcome reviews.
Develop and maintain organisational dashboards and performance-tracking systems to support timely review of programme progress and results.
Promote participatory monitoring approaches that enable communities and local institutions to assess progress, identify gaps and influence programme implementation.
Support timely donor and organisational reporting requirements.

Evaluation and Research

Coordinate baseline, mid-term, end-line and impact evaluations across programmes.
Design appropriate evaluation methodologies and prepare terms of reference for evaluations and research studies.
Facilitate external evaluations and research studies, ensuring quality, relevance and use of findings.
Support programme teams in interpreting evaluation findings and identifying practical recommendations for programme improvement.

Accountability and Community Feedback

Develop and manage feedback, grievance-redressal and community-response systems.
Promote transparency, ethical data management and responsible use of information.
Support social-accountability initiatives and citizen-engagement processes.
Ensure that community feedback and learning inform programme reviews and improvement processes.

Learning and Knowledge Management

Facilitate periodic reflection and learning exercises at programme and organisational levels.
Conduct After Action Reviews, learning workshops and programme reviews.
Synthesize learning across projects and thematic areas and promote peer learning among programmes and teams.
Develop systems to capture grassroots innovations, field experiences, good practices and lessons and translate them into institutional knowledge, publications and policy insights.
Coordinate the development of case studies, learning papers, field diaries, policy briefs and other knowledge products.

Data Management and Digital Systems

Develop and maintain organisational databases, dashboards and performance-monitoring systems.
Ensure data integrity, security and compliance with applicable data-protection standards.
Promote the use of digital tools for monitoring, learning, analysis and knowledge management.
Strengthen data-quality assurance and support teams in using data for programme review and decision-making.

Capacity Building and Technical Support

Train programme teams on PMEAL frameworks, tools, processes and reporting requirements.
Build staff capacity in data management, evidence generation, documentation and learning.
Develop and update guidelines, templates and standard operating procedures for PMEAL processes.
Mentor staff and provide ongoing technical support to strengthen the quality and use of programme evidence.

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Rural Management, Public Policy, Statistics, Development Communication or a related discipline.
Minimum 3–5 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, research or programme implementation in the development sector.
Experience in designing PMEAL systems and managing donor-reporting requirements.

Technical Competencies

Programme planning, results frameworks and indicator development.
Monitoring, evaluation, research design and data analysis.
Data visualisation, dashboards and digital data-management platforms.
Documentation, report writing, evidence synthesis and knowledge-product development.
Accountability systems, community feedback and participatory approaches.

Behavioural Competencies

Strategic thinking and analytical ability.
Strong documentation, communication and presentation skills.
Facilitation, training and mentoring skills.
Stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
Commitment to social justice, inclusion and community-centred development.

Expected Deliverables

An integrated organisational PMEAL framework aligned with CYSD’s strategic priorities and adopted across relevant programmes.
Regular programme-quality and performance reviews identifying progress, implementation gaps, emerging outcomes and recommended corrective actions.
An accessible digital knowledge repository and systematic processes for capturing and sharing organisational learning.
An annual plan for producing quality case studies, learning papers, field diaries, policy briefs and other evidence-based knowledge products.
Functional dashboards, data-quality processes, and feedback and grievance-redressal mechanisms that support programme accountability and learning.

The role will place particular emphasis on documenting grassroots innovations, social-accountability processes, empathetic governance initiatives, livelihoods, climate resilience and last-mile development experiences to strengthen organisational learning and policy influence.

Application Process:

Last date to apply 5 November 2026.
Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview. We strongly encourage women candidates to apply.

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