Assistant Lead

VisionSpring
is looking for
Assistant Lead - Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL)

Job Description / Responsibility

ABOUT US:

• VisionSpring increases lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty. We believe in the wonder of clear vision for everybody.
• We sell and deliver radically affordable optical products and services and develop markets for eyeglasses—a 700-year-old technology that has failed to reach 1 billion people in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.
• We serve low-income consumers, not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect quality, affordable products and eyecare services, and will spend limited discretionary income for the immediate and tangible benefits of vision correction.
• As a social enterprise, we are purpose first. We blend philanthropic and earned revenue, draw on non-profit and business practices, and use sales and efficiency metrics and social impact measures to bring vision correction to ever more people.
• We catalyze collaborative action in an expansive, multisector partner network and use our evidence and experience to influence systems change and close the global clear vision gap.
• We believe in scaling our impact, not our organization. We are a lean team of doers.
• Our big goal: Everyone who needs eyeglasses will have them by 2050.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Lead on operationalizing specific aspects of MERL strategy by:

Supporting the implementation of skill training activities, maintaining training logs, research collaborations to enhance program quality and build the evidence base of the RGIL program.

Working closely with the operations team (such as area managers, field coach, implementing partners) to ensure regular checks on the effectiveness of our data flow processes & systems and review them as necessary with the MERL and the programming team.

Ensuring daily sales data flow in a live system, identify the data gaps, and guide the near vision specialists (NVS).

Ensuring monthly performance reports, analyzing the data, providing data driven messages to the stakeholders for improvement, visualizing data in different formats using Excel tables, charts, and other platforms.

Keeping coordination with other stakeholders and giving the data clarity.

Regularly field visit to assess training effectives during the training and after the training.

Conducting data quality assessment or data audit and guiding the team.

Taking care of financial records in collaboration with program team and finance team.

Strengthening the culture of improvement across the organization through effective cross-functional collaboration:

Work closely with program/operations vertically to support internal teams by building capacity and providing easy to understand insights from their monitoring data and the qualitative studies to inform programmatic decisions, including case studies, data visuals, and other materials.

Work closely with Lead, MERL to generate learnings that are easy and clear to communicate with and actionable to improve our internal approach and external positioning.

Work relentlessly in the data trenches as part of the MERL team.

Dig deep into our CRM to check, validate, and clean data. This supports MERL work towards program review, evaluations, research studies etc.

Actively work to gain mastery of new skills, as required for the MERL vertical to produce the highest quality of output.

Educational Requirements

• Masters
• Bachelor/Honors
• Bachelor of Public Health
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Applied Mathematics
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Population Science
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Applied Statistics
• A course in Data Analytics and a thorough understanding of statistical analysis in a public health setting is preferred.
• Skills Required: Research, Learning and Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Flexibility and Adaptability

Experience Requirements

• 5 to 7 year(s)
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO,Multinational Companies,Research Organization

Additional Requirements

• About You
• The Assistant Lead, MERL reports to the Lead, MERL, Bangladesh and works with the RGIL program team, donors, program partners, and program beneficiaries to help in designing, planning and implementation in Bangladesh.
• S/he supports completeness and timeliness of data flowing in from our Programs, provides support to internal and external requests for data reports, contributes to funding proposals, supports research projects and conducts learning, monitoring, and evaluation activities to improve programmatic activities.
• You are highly organized, result-oriented, and skilled at creating systems that drive efficiency, transparency, and continuous improvement
• You are analytical, can think creatively to solve complex technical research problems and possess good report writing skills.
• Expertise in working collaboratively across multiple geographies with people from diverse contexts and backgrounds and effectively managing resources and driving multi-functional teams
• The ability to be flexible and manage change and competing priorities.
• Result oriented and self-motivated person who can work under minimal supervision.

Job Location

Dhaka