Job Description
- Regional Manager
- Zonal Manager
About us
Sambodhi Research and Communications helps create high-impact knowledge and catalyze accountability in the public domain through its project management and monitoring and evaluation solutions. At Sambodhi, we offer objective, evidence-based support to implementers, government, donors, and corporates. Over the past decade, we have emerged as a pioneer for developing cutting-edge methodologies for evaluation of large-scale development interventions. With a close-knit team of 100 professionals, we work across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub- Saharan Africa. Headquartered at Noida (Delhi National Capital Region), India, we have full service regional offices in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Dar-e-Salam (Tanzania).
Sambodhi provides services to federal agencies, donors, foundations, and corporates, in areas of public health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, water and sanitation, environment, and renewable energy. We have made valuable contribution in monitoring, learning and evaluation programs and have influenced development policies and improved implementation efficiency.
Why Sambodhi
Sambodhi offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to contribute to high quality multi-input development programs and to work closely with government, and with key development actors like the World Bank, UN and Bilateral agencies, philanthropies like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation etc. Being one of the leading and largest M&E service- provider in South Asia, Sambodhi offers an extraordinary platform to learn, mentor and innovate in a perceptive environment. Driven by deep rooted wisdom of “Equity in Knowledge,” learning is integral to our work; be it investing in peer driven intensive professional development within Sambodhi or field building on M&E globally. In line with it, it offers an enabled environment for professionals to write, publish and network; to locate themselves in the contemporary discourse on M&E and be a part of the global think-tank.
Job description
Job Title :
Regional Manager
Zonal Manager
Type : Contractual Position (Duration: 4 months, with option to extend)
Project Titled
Enhancing the Accuracy of Measurement of Tamil Nadu’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)
Essential Functions
Regional Manager
Key responsibilities:
- District-level supervision: Each supervisor will be responsible for overseeing field activities across approximately four districts during the study.
- Field monitoring: Conduct regular field visits, spot checks, and back checks to assess the quality of data collection and verify adherence to survey protocols.
- Enumerator support: Provide day-to-day guidance and targeted troubleshooting support to enumerators, addressing field-level challenges and clarifying survey-related issues.
- Quality assurance: Monitor compliance with survey procedures, identify potential errors or deviations, and provide timely feedback to the field teams for corrective action.
- Progress and timeline monitoring: Ensure that field activities are progressing as per the agreed timelines and targets.
- Dashboard-based monitoring: Use concurrent dashboard-based monitoring to track field progress, data quality indicators, and emerging error patterns across districts, enabling timely corrective action and targeted supervision.
- Feedback and escalation: Maintain regular communication with field teams and escalate recurring or critical issues to the appropriate project team for resolution.
Zonal Manager
Key responsibilities:
- Quality control case assignment: Oversee the assignment and tracking of cases selected for quality control checks, ensuring appropriate coverage and timely completion.
- Dashboard monitoring: Monitor quality control and fieldwork dashboards to track progress, identify emerging data quality issues, and flag cases requiring attention.
- Coordination with DoES supervisors: Maintain regular coordination with DoES supervisors to communicate field-level observations, quality concerns, and required corrective actions.
- Issue resolution and follow-up: Facilitate timely follow-up on identified quality issues and ensure that corrective actions are communicated to the relevant field teams
- The above essential functions are representative of major duties of positions in this job. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary. Other duties may be assigned similar to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the job.
Desired profile
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in managing primary survey fieldwork
- Experience of working with projects in TN for a minimum of three years
- Experience of working on surveys in Tamil Nadu in at least one project as a Field Manager
- Experience of working with Central/State Government officials in relevant projects is preferred
The TN-GSDP project is spread across all 38 districts. All 5 regions, North, West, Central, Southern and North-west regions needs to be captured.
Personal Competencies
- Basic understanding of the social and development domain.
- Tamil language knowledge is mandatory.
- Flexibility to work beyond working hours, when required.
- Functional use of Microsoft Office software especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize.