ORGANIZATION
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) promotes sustainable and equitable urban transport worldwide. ITDP is a nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City with local presence in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States. ITDP’s programs focus on public transport, non-motorized transport, travel demand management, parking, transport policy, and urban development. More information about ITDP can be found at www.itdp.org.
POSITION
The Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is a full-time position in the Washington, D.C. office working on the M&E Program. This Program tracks the work of all of the organization’s offices and measures their impacts, following the goals set in our strategic plan. The M&E program 1) demonstrates ITDP’s value to current and potential funders, 2) supports internal strategic planning, and 3) shares ITDP’s impact with organizational partners and the public. The M&E Program is housed within the broader DC-based Research and Impact team.
The Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the systems that ITDP uses to track completed projects and calculate their impact. To track projects, the Associate will maintain and conduct quality control on databases, both spreadsheet-based and geospatial, and work with colleagues around the world to ensure that other offices provide timely submissions to those databases. To calculate impacts, the Associate will work with automated analytical programs using both Python and Google Sheets. They will be responsible for implementing improvements to these programs. Finally, the Associate will manage in-depth survey-based impact evaluations of particular ITDP projects, improving our ability to estimate the impacts of similar projects, and help design interactive impact-estimation tools for publication.
As the Associate gains a more complete understanding of the M&E systems and processes, they should start to identify ways to improve those systems and implement the improvements. In this way, the Associate can assume greater responsibility for the M&E program in the organization and grow in their career.
The Associate for Monitoring and Evaluation will report to the Director of Research and Impact and will work closely with other members of the Research and Impact team who work on M&E. In their duties, they will work with staff across all of ITDP’s offices. They will work especially closely with the New York City-based Development team, providing data-based evidence that will help secure continued funding for ITDP.
This role is based in ITDP’s Washington, D.C. office in a hybrid work model. The hybrid model is a combination of in office work and telework. Telework may be performed from the states of Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia only.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure that data in multiple databases (including a geospatial Project Map and a spreadsheet-based Publication / Event Tracker) is regularly updated and of high quality.
- Organize a 10-member M&E Working Group consisting of representatives from all regional offices.
- Run impact calculation tools with appropriate inputs, summarize results.
- Program automated scripts to improve existing or develop new impact calculation tools, following set specifications.
- Work with colleagues in other offices to conduct research, including development and deployment of surveys, to better understand the relationship between ITDP’s work and its impacts.
- Communicate the results of research and impact calculations internally, including in graphical format.
- Develop interactive tools (e.g. spreadsheet tools, python scripts) to predict the impacts of proposed work.
- Other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 1-3 years of relevant professional and/or educational experience.
- Ability to use context knowledge and critical thinking to identify the most important elements of a large amount of quantitative or qualitative information, and then to clearly communicate those elements to others.
- Comfort with quantitative work, knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets scripting.
- Some practical experience with computer programming, and willingness and ability to learn the use of Python in data analysis.
- Process-oriented approach, attention to detail, ability to work within and maintain existing systems.
- Organization and time-management skills, ability to plan and prioritize.
- Ability to communicate clearly and with emotional intelligence in English through emails and video calls.
- Ability to work in ITDP’s Washington, D.C. office in a hybrid work model.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Python and pandas for database analysis.
- Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Experience in a mid-size organization with geographically dispersed offices.
- Experience with geospatial information systems (GIS), especially relevant Python libraries (geopandas, shapely) and/or ArcGIS Online.
- Experience communicating with non-native speakers of English.
OTHER DETAILS
ITDP requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless a medical or religious exemption or an exemption required under state/local law is approved. Offers of employment are contingent upon proof that a candidate is fully vaccinated or qualifies for an exemption.
SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this position is $55K-$60K commensurate with experience.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@itdp.org with “Associate, M&E” in the subject line.