Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert

Pci India; Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Gaya; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS/JEEViKA) seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert for Bihar-based project work. The role focuses on evaluation design and data analysis for health and nutrition development programmes under BRTP, engaging with SHGs and other community structures.

The MEL Expert will contribute to designing robust evaluation frameworks, data collection tools, and timely reporting to improve programme outcomes for 1,000-day households and related

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health or Social Work.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in evaluation design and data analysis.
• Experience in health and nutrition development programmes.

Skills

Evaluation design

Data analysis

Health and nutrition

Education

Postgraduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health or Social Work

Job description

Job Summary

Position Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert.

Number of Position: 1

Reporting: Team Leader

Location: Bihar

Grade: D

Type: Project Based

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Statistics, Economics, Public Health or Social Work.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in evaluation design and data analysis for health and nutrition development programmes.

About the Project

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS/JEEViKA) is implementing the Bihar Rural Transformation Project (BRTP) with a strong focus on improving community resilience for health and nutrition, especially for 1,000-day households (pregnant women, lactating mothers and children 0-23 months). JEEViKA's Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Village Organisations (VOs) and Cluster Level Federations (CLFs) are the primary community platforms for mobilisation, peer support and convergence with government health nutrition services. Community Nutrition Resource Persons (CNRPs) and Master Resource Persons (MRPs - Nutrition) are critical cadres for behaviour change communication, household practices, convergence support and last-mile service linkage. JEEViKA also seeks to ensure that every 1,000-day household has simple, trusted, low-literacy-friendly sources of stage-specific information on maternal diet, IFA/calcium use, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, danger signs and WASH accessible at home and through community platforms. In BRTP, the focus shifts from a purely system-driven convergence of services to a Community Resilient Convergence approach, placing households and communities at the centre of change. Households play a critical role in adopting and sustaining desired health, nutrition practices. The approach is built on four pillars: Household Practices, Government Service Delivery, Community-Based Organisations, and Food Enterprises. Line departments will continue providing quality services to households and communities in accessing services and making better health, nutrition, choices. Community Resilient Convergence will, therefore, aim to:

• Make available of all required digital information, IEC and IPC services at the household to enable them to take appropriate decision to adopt appropriate behaviours.
• Strengthen community institutions (JEEViKA CLFs) to promote, support and monitor and anchor the project.
• Access the services from line departments during 1,000days period of time for better health and nutrition outcome.
• Develop Nutrition Enterprise at CLF for production and supply of nutri-product to the targeted households

In this approach, JEEViKA's community organisations and AI enabled digital tools, IEC and IPC will act as enablers. This household-centred framing of convergence is expected to create stronger, more sustainable improvements in children's dietary diversity, service uptake and overall nutrition outcomes in the 1,000-day window.