Pollinate Group - Senior Impact Executive

Location: India (Bangalore preferred; travel as required)

Experience: 45 years

Reporting to: Director of Impact / CEO (as appropriate)

Working Days: Monday to Friday

The Senior Executive Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) will independently drive Pollinate Groups M&E function, ensuring rigorous, credible, and timely measurement of impact across programs in India.

This role goes beyond data collection. It requires analytical judgment, methodological clarity, and a sharp eye for impact quality, trends, and gapsworking closely with field teams and leadership, but owning the M&E agenda end-to-end.

• Lead the design, refinement, and implementation of Pollinates M&E framework across programs.
• Review and strengthen indicators, tools, and data collection methods in line with evolving best practices.
• Ensure consistency, rigor, and relevance in all monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Act as the internal authority on M&E methods, while staying open to innovation and learning.

• Take full ownership of impact calculations, dashboards, and core metrics.
• Move beyond reporting to generate insights, trends, and red flags for leadership.
• Identify priority impact questions and areas that require deeper evaluation or learning.
• Ensure impact data meaningfully reflects womens outcomes, livelihoods, clean energy adoption, and empowerment.

• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete data collection from field teams.

• Set and manage the impact calendar, ensuring readiness for reports, audits, and donor needs.
• Maintain clean, well-governed data systems and repositories.
• Lead written M&E and impact inputs for:
• Annual impact reports
• Donor reports
• Internal reviews and learning documents

• Work closely with field teams to ensure tools are practical, understood, and implemented well.
• Train and support teams on M&E processes, tools, and data quality expectations.
• Partner with Philanthropy and Communications teams to ensure impact data is credible, consistent, and well-used.
• Facilitate impact-related workshops, reviews, and learning sessions.

• Introduce learning loopsusing M&E findings to inform program and strategy improvements.
• Stay updated on evolving M&E approaches, especially in livelihoods, womens empowerment, and clean energy.
• Recommend refinements to tools, surveys, or methodologies as programs evolve.

• Not a junior data collection role
• Not a purely academic or research-only role
• Not dependent on constant supervision

This role requires independent thinking, ownership, and judgment, with collaborationnot micromanagement.

• 45 years of experience in:
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Impact measurement
• Program evaluation

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• Hands-on experience working with field-based programs is essential.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Experience with:
• M&E frameworks and indicators
• Data analysis and visualisation tools
• Statistical or analytical software (e.g., Excel, SPSS, R, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Strong report-writing and synthesis skills

• Ability to see patterns, gaps, and risks in data
• Comfort asking hard questions about impact quality
• Strong attention to detail without losing the bigger picture
• Ability to work independently and manage priorities

• High integrity and respect for data and evidence
• Curious, reflective, and learning-oriented
• Confident but collaborative
• Deep alignment with Pollinate Groups mission of womens empowerment and clean energy access

• Your work will directly shape how Pollinate understands and improves its impact
• You will influence leadership decisions with evidence, not assumptions
• You will help ensure that growth never compromises impact quality

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Shortlisted candidates will go through interviews and a field immersion as part of the process.