Head Impact – Magic Bus

Magic Bus is one of India’s most innovative organizations that has been working on creating a lasting solution to end poverty since 1999 by working with children and youth from childhood to livelihood. Through our Youth Development programme we nurture young people to grow up into self-reliant, confident individuals, ready for jobs or higher education. Magic Bus has 1600 plus employees. We operate in cities, towns and villages in 23 states including our regional Head Quarters based in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi and Karnataka.

Magic Bus offers a dynamic work environment for committed professionals interested in learning and growing with the organization. Get a real view of life at Magic Bus.

Responsibilities
Desired Competencies

• A background in Social Sciences with at least 12 to 14 years’ experience in MEL, with a strong and demonstrated interest in evaluations
• Commitment to rigour and accuracy
• Proven ability in conducting and facilitating quantitative and qualitative work
• Proven ability to mentor and facilitate learning among team members
• Proven ability in handling challenging partnerships
• Proven ability to manage complex internal and external relationships

Key responsibilities

• Lead on design, execution and leveraging of evaluations of key Magic Bus programmes
• Develop innovative and rigorous MEL frameworks to capture accurately the change that Magic Bus enables
• Supporting the Fundraising and Communications team in the use of credible data (both primary and secondary)
• Manage projects and partnerships both internal and external
• Develop and facilitate the development of concept notes/ papers for internal and external audiences

Reporting : To the Director – Impact

Requirements

Qualification & Work experience

• Post-graduation in any social science from reputed institution / university
• 12-14 years’ experience in MEL, with a strong and demonstrated interest in evaluations, with minimum 05 years in planning, managing MEL
• Demonstrated experience in performance measurement, indicator selection and monitoring, and data collection/analysis
• Database management experience

Team coordination

• Programme Operations team – An ongoing collaboration within the team and create a conducive environment for sharing of information constructive criticism and suggestion alongside the regular progress of programmes.
• Sustainability /Fundraising team – Extend support to the Fundraising teams in creating descriptive as well as narrative reports among other things.
• Communications Team – To develop effective channel for internal as well as external communications, milestones
• achieved, success stories etc.
• Other support functions – to ensure adequate manpower, fund allocation & accuracy, technology enablement are in place.

Mobility requirements:
The role would be based in Magic Bus Head office located in Mumbai and would be required to travel in line with the requirements of the project(s) , various external stakeholders like government agencies, funders etc. as well as for representing Magic Bus on outside for a if required from time to time.

To Apply : If you think you might be suitable or know someone who is, please get in touch with us at careers@magicbusindia.org