Manager Impact, India and Southeast Asia

ImpactAlpha Inc.; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet seeks a Manager, Impact for India and Southeast Asia to lead MEL efforts in a dynamic startup environment. You will establish and manage robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems across the India/SEA portfolio and contribute to global impact measurement for Grids of the Future.

The role requires senior-level expertise, collaboration with program teams, country offices, and external partners.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Advanced degree in relevant subjects with strong training in evaluation, monitoring, and learning.
• Experience developing best-in-class MEL approaches from scratch.
• Experience in climate/energy programs or systems change environments.
• Experience with India and Southeast Asia regions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide backend impact data quality assurance for India and SEA transactions.
• Onboard and train program teams on results monitoring sheets.
• Lead impact measurement for the Grids of the Future pillar globally.
• Design evaluations of utility-level outcomes like reliability and losses.
• Manage independent evaluation partners in collaboration with leadership.

Skills

MEL leadership

Data analysis

Excel

Power BI

STATA

R

Project management

Stakeholder comms

Independent work

Education

Advanced degree in economics/public policy

Tools

STATA

R

Power BI

Excel

Job description

About Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) LLC

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet is an international coalition dedicated to ending energy poverty and accelerating green economic opportunity worldwide. Founded in 2021 through a transformative partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund, the organization represents a unified commitment to advancing clean energy access globally. The Alliance operates with the ambitious goal of reaching 1 billion people with clean electricity, preventing 4 billion tons of carbon emissions, and creating or improving 150 million jobs across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The organization’s approach centers on building transformative public, private, and philanthropic partnerships that address the complex challenge of energy poverty. Rather than working in isolation, the Global Energy Alliance brings together diverse stakeholders across the entire energy value chain, from households to heads of state, to drive systemic change in energy markets. The Alliance recognizes that the path to a just energy transition is complex and non-linear, requiring innovation, resilience, and deep engagement with communities most affected by energy poverty. Operating across more than 30 countries, the Global Energy Alliance designs innovative projects and programs, unlocks critical climate finance, strengthens institutions, and transforms markets. The organization employs a strategic framework that emphasizes continuous learning, adaptation, and community engagement to ensure that clean energy solutions are not only technically sound but also equitable and sustainable. The Alliance’s work encompasses multiple pillars, including grid modernization through the Grids of the Future initiative, distributed energy resources, and utility partnerships aimed at improving reliability and reducing losses while benefiting consumers. The organization is structured as a start-up environment that combines agility with strategic vision, enabling rapid response to emerging opportunities while maintaining focus on long-term systemic impact. The Global Energy Alliance is committed to principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion, recognizing that lasting impact requires diverse perspectives and experiences from team members and partners working across different cultural, economic, and political contexts.

About this Role

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet is seeking a Manager, Impact for India and Southeast Asia to play a critical leadership role in measuring and understanding the organization’s contribution to impact across one of its most important regional portfolios. This position represents an opportunity to join a growing organization at a pivotal moment in the clean energy transition, where rigorous measurement, evaluation, and learning systems are essential to understanding progress and informing strategic decisions. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is embedded within the organization’s operating model to ensure the team remains responsive and opportunistic while generating insights that support continuous improvement. The Manager, Impact, India and Southeast Asia will step into a start-up environment and lead the MEL function for the India and Southeast Asia portfolio while also taking responsibility for impact measurement across the Grids of the Future pillar globally. This role requires establishing and managing routine and long-term work components, ensuring efficient execution while maintaining the highest standards of impact measurement rigor. The position involves developing and implementing best-in-class monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches tailored to complex energy and climate programs. The Manager will work collaboratively with program teams, country offices, and external partners to establish robust systems for tracking progress, validating assumptions, and extracting lessons that inform strategic decisions. This role demands both technical expertise in impact measurement and the ability to communicate findings to diverse stakeholders, from field teams to senior leadership and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide backend impact data quality assurance for all India and Southeast Asia transactions and ensure data integrity throughout the monitoring process
• Provide technical advice on target setting, indicators, theory of change mechanisms, and causality links for the India and Southeast Asia portfolio
• Onboard and train program teams on results monitoring sheets and ensure compliance with impact measurement standards
• Support the monitoring function across the global portfolio, including data compilation, quality checks, and analytics for quarterly impact reporting
• Lead impact measurement for the Grids of the Future pillar across all regions
• Develop and maintain expected-impact estimates for utility partnerships, grid digitalization, battery energy storage, and distributed energy resource programs
• Work with program teams and external modelling partners to track realized impact against expected impact as programs move through the pipeline
• Design evaluations of utility-level outcomes such as reliability, losses, and effects on consumers
• Source and manage independent evaluation partners in close collaboration with the Director of Evaluation
• Establish priorities for what needs evaluation and when by working closely with India and Southeast Asia and Grids of the Future teams
• Select fit-for-purpose evaluation approaches and tools and sense-check their design and functionality
• Support the team in designing and managing ongoing reflection, sense-making, and learning from the work
• Use data and evidence to rationalize potential strategic shifts when necessary
• Conduct onboarding, training, and operationalization of Impact functions in country teams and solution teams
• Hire and manage monitoring, evaluation, and learning consultants
• Ensure all requirements per the Impact framework are met in the investment cycle for all India and Southeast Asia programs
• Ensure internal Global Energy Alliance systems tracking program implementation, financial execution, and impact measurement are integrated
• Collaborate with the IT systems manager, management teams for country programs, and the Investment team on systems integration
• Provide advisory functions to global Impact colleagues and external technical providers by ground-truthing India and Southeast Asia portfolio realities

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning
• Advanced degree in relevant subjects such as economics, public policy, or similar areas with strong training in evaluation, monitoring, and learning
• Experience in developing best-in-class monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches including designing and establishing these systems from scratch
• Experience gained in a complex organizational environment
• Substantial experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the context of climate and energy programs or programs driving systems change
• Experience with contribution analysis (preferred)
• Experience measuring the impact of grid infrastructure, utility performance, or battery energy storage programs, including modelling expected impacts and validating them against realized results
• Experience working in India and Southeast Asia with familiarity with the region’s energy sector, utilities, and government programs
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working with contractors and consultants to ensure value for money and quality actionable outcomes
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong writing skills
• Expertise in STATA, R, or similar software packages and MS Excel
• Experience with Power BI or other dashboard tools, data engineering, and applied use of AI tools for analysis (preferred)
• Working in Partnership: Learning with, learning from, and learning for partners, particularly those closest to the work on the ground
• Balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and working in partnership wherever possible
• Strategic orientation with ability to generate information that informs decision-making and improves impact
• Providing direction and removing obstacles to accomplish work
• Ability to make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively
• Recognizing the value of different perspectives and commitment to inclusion, equity, and diversity
• Intellectual humility and comfort discussing both challenges and successes
• Listening to the voices of those being served
• Innovation and entrepreneurial spirit with self-starter mentality
• Taking initiative to identify areas of improvement
• Using an energetic, pragmatic, and creative approach to optimize practice
• Embodying start-up philosophy

Benefits

• No specific benefits information provided in the job description