Senior Executive- Monitoring & Evaluation

• *Brief about the Organization**

The Lighthouse Communities Foundation is on a mission to build empowered communities through life skills, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities for a million disadvantaged youth across India.

The organisation has been working since 2015 for large\-scale city\-wide transformation through a unique Public Private Partnership where Government provides capex and infrastructure, and the private sector contributes towards Opex as well as the implementation of the program. 114,500\+ citizens have been impacted till date.

Pune city was recognised as one of the 5 cities globally through the Wellbeing Award for the ‘Lighthouse’ project under the ‘Economy and Opportunity’ category. The program has also been recognized as the best social sector initiative across Smart Cities. Pune City Connect, the Pune division, was selected by Aspen Institute, Washington DC as one of the anchor partners for a large\-scale place\- based initiative in Pune in 2019\.

Lighthouse Communities Foundation currently implements three types of programme under the sustainable livelihoods vertical:

1\. The Lighthouse program is highly personalized with a deep focus on nurturing the agency of youth to envision and realize sustained livelihoods. In order to ensure scalability, the Lighthouse program champions a pioneering public\-private partnership model, with training facilities and capital expenditure being funded by local and state governments, while large corporations support operational costs (manpower, training costs). To ensure best in class livelihood services for youth, the city’s ecosystem is leveraged by forging partnerships with value\-aligned skill training institutions (100\+) and employers (7500\+). Since inception, we have impacted the lives of over 2 lakh individuals across five states in India, namely, Maharashtra, Delhi, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.

2\. The Global Opportunity Youth Network is a multi\-stakeholder initiative committed to creating place\-based systems shifts for youth economic opportunity. Working with Anchor Partners situated in communities around the world, GOYN works to create economic mobility for “Opportunity Youth” (OY) \-young people aged 15\-29 who are not in school, unemployed, or working in informal, precarious jobs. The approach focuses on multi\-sector collaboration and participatory solution design with an emphasis on equity, systems\-level change, and amplifying the voices of youth. The Global Opportunity Youth Network aim is to unlock the economic potential for “opportunity youth” in Pune \& Bhubaneswar. Working on the principle of “Collective Impact”, GOYN facilitates a deeper level of ecosystem collaboration and coordinated action to transform livelihood opportunities for Opportunity Youth at the city level.

The program is directed towards fulfilling the vision of access to dignified, productive, and sustainable livelihoods for every Opportunity youth in Pune \& Bhubaneswar, with LCF as its anchor partner.

3\. Education: Lighthouse Kiran program is being implemented to support social\-emotional learning among adolescents between 14\-18, covering aspects such as life skills and career coaching. The curriculum focuses on the SEL core competencies \- Self Awareness, Self Regulation and Responsible Decision Making. Additional focus is on Basic Digital, Self Visioning and Self Learning. It enables adolescents to discover who they are, what drives them and understand who they want to be in the world.

In addition to these, a large\-scale Digital Empowerment program in slum/low\-income communities is operational to enable internet literacy, with an aim to reduce the digital divide in low\-income communities. Through the initiative, approximately 70,000 people have been trained since 2016\.

Core Values that drive us: Empathy \| Inclusion \| Integrity \| Courage

The Program

The Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) is a global initiative catalysing system shifts for youth opportunity in communities around the world through the creation of sustainable training, employment, and income\-earning pathways. GOYN works with “Opportunity Youth” — young people aged 15\-29 who are out of school, unemployed, or working in informal jobs.

The Global Opportunity Youth Network, Pune is aimed at unlocking the economic potential for “opportunity youth” in Pune. Working on the principle of “Collective Impact”, GOYN Pune facilitates a deeper level of ecosystem collaboration and coordinated action to transform livelihood opportunities for Opportunity Youth at the city level. The program is directed towards fulfilling the vision of access to dignified, productive, and sustainable livelihood for every Opportunity youth in Pune, with LCF as its anchor partner.

Click to know more: https://goyn.org/

GOYN Learning Report: https://goyn.org/resource/goyn\-learning\-report\-2edition/

The Project

GOYN program for Opportunity Youth aims to unlock economic opportunities for youth by leveraging the power of collective action, breaking silos among key stakeholders in a city, and building livelihood literacy among youth. Empowerment by extending and expanding access to information and opportunities for Opportunity Youth. The program aims to bring together the ecosystem of youth, skilling organizations, placement agencies, employers, industry experts, and other OY\-facing organizations. This will facilitate collaboration, and experience sharing among the various ecosystem partners, and multiply the impact made by these individual organizations. GOYN program is now being expanded to Odisha in the city of Bhubaneswar and will be supporting 4 Lighthouses to take the work forward. The program shall build a collaboration of multiple stakeholders in the city for breaking silos

and building collective action for sustainable livelihoods for young people.

• *Position Overview:**

The Senior Executive \- Monitoring \& Evaluation will play a pivotal role in supporting the program monitoring, and learning processes that drive the success of youth\-centric urban initiatives. Additionally, they will support in producing high\-quality reports, policy briefs, checks programmatic data quality issues, assists in data extracting, documents lessons learned, and devises strategies for rigorous data collection, management, and analysis. This multifaceted role requires strong analytical abilities, strategic thinking, great communication and collaboration skills to support effective program implementation and continuous learning.

• *Key Responsibilities**

1\. MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation \& Learning)

● Ensure data\-driven planning and adaptive management by synthesizing MEL insights

into actionable recommendations.

● Build capacity of government and partner staff in MEL methodologies relevant to urban

and youth development.

● Pathway design \& Theory of Change (ToC) development \- Actively participating in the design of pathways and the planning of their implementation.

2\. Data, Reporting \& Knowledge Sharing

● Prepare high\-quality reports, policy briefs, and presentations for diverse audiences,

including government and donors.

● Document and disseminate lessons learned, best practices, and case studies to inform

ongoing and future investments.

● Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and

legitimacy of data.

● Devise and implement efficient and secure procedures for data handling and analysis

with attention to all technical aspects.

● Conduct regular audits and assessments of data management systems to identify gaps

and recommend improvements.

● Assist with reports and data extraction when needed.

3\. Overall Program Delivery \& Stakeholders Coordination

● Support in coordinating project activities from substantive, administrative, and financial

perspectives, applying strategic planning to ensure effective implementation.

● Support in programme implementation, project performance and budget tracking of

grants to ensure that GOYN is responsive to the needs of youth, compliant with

organisation requirements and with a strong commitment to quality.

● Identify gaps across operations and define project scopes in collaboration with internal

and external stakeholders.

4\. Stakeholder Engagement \& Capacity Building

● Build and maintain strong relationships with government officials, NGOs, private sector,

and community organizations to foster collaborative action.

● Support \& facilitate participatory meetings, workshops, and training on data, monitoring

and evaluation and build capacity among stakeholders.

• *Preferred Skill Sets:**

● Master’s degree in Development Studies, Social Work, Social Sciences, Data Science or a related field, with 2\+ years of experience preferably in Non\-profit or Consulting space.

● Ability to work independently and collaboratively in multicultural environments.

● Excellent communication, facilitation, and negotiation abilities.

● Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and project management skills.

● Strong orientation towards relationship building and problem\-solving.

● Excellent Proficiency in Google docs, Google Sheets, Canva and MS Office mandatory.

● Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills in English, Hindi and Marathi.

● Deep understanding of youth development challenges and opportunities in urban settings.

● Familiarity with government planning processes, public policy etc.

● Proficiency in data analysis (STATA, SPSS, R) and PowerBI will be an added advantage

Pay: ₹30,000\.00 \- ₹45,000\.00 per month

Benefits

• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person