Senior Program Associate - Outcome Measurement

CEGIS Foundation; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

CEGIS Foundation in Bengaluru, Karnataka invites applications for the Senior Program Associate – Outcome Measurement to strengthen governance and public service delivery through rigorous data use.

You will contribute to measuring outcomes, support budgeting decisions, and collaborate with teams on hiring and training to improve program performance.

Qualifications

• Experience in measuring outcomes using data and evidence to inform decisions.
• Experience with budgeting and resource allocation in programmes.

Skills

Outcome measurement

Data analysis

Budgeting

Hiring

Training

Stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Program Associate - Outcome Measurement

About the job Senior Program Associate - Outcome Measurement

About CEGIS

Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS - pronounced See-Jis) aims to improve lives by helping Indian state governments deliver better development outcomes. We believe that the most impactful lever for accelerating national development is to improve governance and state capacity to better deliver core public services at scale.

Informed by cutting-edge research and evidence as well as a practical orientation toward implementable ideas, CEGIS works with state governments in India to enable a transformative improvement in their functioning. CEGISs vision and Theory of Change (ToC) are an outcome of extensive research done by Prof. Karthik Muralidharan (CEGIS Co-Founder and Scientific Director) and outlined in his multiple award-winning, national bestselling book Accelerating India's Development, and enabled by strategic philanthropic support provided by Ashish Dhawan (CEGIS Co-Founder).

CEGIS Approach and Model of Functioning:

CEGISs solutions to enhance governance are co-created with state governments in a state-led way, where we focus on deep partnerships with states using an iterative cycle of think-demonstrate-document-transfer. We work closely with the top bureaucratic leadership, front-line workers and public officials in Finance, Planning, Human Resources and priority line departments like education, health, and women and child development. Many of our solutions reflect ideas outlined in the book Accelerating India's Development, and these solutions are constantly refined based on real-time feedback and are designed to both be customized to the contexts we are working in, and to create templates that can provide the starting point for replication across contexts.

Our focus areas reflect evidence that key characteristics of high-performing organisations include (a) measuring outcomes through reliable, high quality data that enables goal setting and progress monitoring; (b) strategic use of personnel - competency based hiring and training, skilling, and performance appraisals to determine job assignments, pay, and promotions - to achieve the goals above; (c) strategic budgeting where resource allocation and revenue collection are based on evidence and cost-effect