MIS Officer - Project Annapurna

ACCESS Development Services; New Delhi; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

ACCESS Development Services seeks an MIS Officer to own the project MIS as the single source of truth. The role covers MIS design, data quality, de-duplication, dashboards and analysis for baseline, midline and endline studies.

Responsibilities include system design, validation, user management, and data reporting. Travel to project locations is periodic, and the role requires strong Excel, SQL and KoBoToolbox experience.

Qualifications

• Graduate or postgraduate in Computer Applications, Statistics, Economics or IT (BCA/MCA, BSc/MSc IT or Statistics)
• 4-6 years managing MIS for a development, CSR or government programme, with large-scale exposure (10,000+ participants or 10+ field locations)
• Advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, Power Query) essential; Power BI or Tableau strongly preferred
• Hands-on with mobile data collection platforms - KoBoToolbox, ODK, CommCare, SurveyCTO or equivalent
• SQL and relational data structures; scripting in Python, R or VBA is an advantage; awareness of data protection

Responsibilities

• System Design and Administration: configure MIS and mobile data capture forms, manage user accounts and offline sync across 15 blocks
• Data Quality and De-duplication: run de-duplication, validation, data minimisation and review flagged matches
• Analysis and Reporting: produce dashboards, data annexes for donor reporting, support baseline/midline/endline studies

Skills

English

Marathi

Hindi

Data quality

Training staff

Data analysis

Education

Graduate or postgraduate in Computer Applications/Statistics/Economics/IT

4-6 years MIS management in development CSR/government programme

Tools

Excel

Power BI/Tableau

KoBoToolbox/ODK/CommCare/SurveyCTO

SQL

Python/R/VBA

Job description

Project Summary

Annapurna - Catalysing Women Entrepreneurship in Food Processing is a 36+3-month initiative supported by Bajaj Holdings & Investment Limited, administered by the Bajaj Finserv CSR team, running from to . It works with 12,000 women from 1,200 Self Help Groups across 15 blocks of Thane, Pune and Raigad districts of Maharashtra - 4,000 women, 400 SHGs and 5 Annapurna Resource Centres (ARCs) per district, each ARC serving about 80 SHGs through centralised (at-ARC) and decentralised (home-based) support. Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (UMED) is proposed as a facilitation partner.

Position Summary

The MIS Officer owns the project s single source of truth. Every outcome Annapurna reports - women reached, training delivered, SHGs financially linked, entitlements accessed, enterprises formalised - will be defended from this system. The role covers MIS design and administration, data quality, de-duplication, dashboards and analytical support to the baseline, midline and endline.

Responsibilities

1. System Design and Administration

• Configure and administer the project MIS and mobile data capture forms - participant master, consent, baseline, enterprise ledger, training, ARC operations, finance, schemes, market, formalisation and attrition
• Build and enforce validation at the point of entry, including a hard gate that prevents any training record being saved against a woman with no baseline
• Manage user accounts, roles, device rollout, offline sync and version control across 15 blocks, and maintain code lists, indicator definitions and a data dictionary so every indicator has one agreed meaning

2. Data Quality and De-duplication

• Run the de-duplication routine on name, father s or husband s name, village, SHG code and last four digits of phone. Flagged matches are reviewed by hand and never auto-merged.
• Run scheduled completeness, range, logic, duplicate and outlier checks and issue correction lists to Coordinators with deadlines
• Conduct back-checks and field verification on a sample of records each quarter, and enforce data minimisation - no Aadhaar numbers and no identity document scans are to be held in the system

3. Analysis and Reporting

• Produce the weekly, fortnightly, monthly and quarterly dashboards and the data annexes for donor reporting
• Provide sampling frames, clean extracts and analytical support to the baseline, midline and endline studies
• Maintain access controls, backups and an audit trail, and support external evaluation or audit

Education & Experience:

• Graduate or postgraduate in Computer Applications, Statistics, Economics or IT (BCA/MCA, B.Sc./M.Sc. IT or Statistics)
• 4-6 years managing MIS for a development, CSR or government programme, including one project of comparable scale - 10,000+ participants or 10+ field locations
• Advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, Power Query) essential; Power BI or Tableau strongly preferred
• Hands-on with a mobile data collection platform - KoBoToolbox, ODK, CommCare, SurveyCTO or equivalent
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational data structures; scripting in Python, R or VBA an advantage. Awareness of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and of consent-based data handling.

Skills and Competencies:

• English essential; Marathi and Hindi needed to work directly with field staff
• Precision and stubbornness about data quality, including the confidence to reject bad data
• Able to train non-technical field staff patiently, and to train them again
• Documents the system so that it survives a handover

Travel Requirement:

Periodic travel to project locations for verification, training and troubleshooting; bi- monthly.