Head, Programme Performance & Impact

Location: India (Preferably Delhi) 
Time Commitment: Contract Role (up to 1 year, renewable) 
Reports to: Deputy Executive Director, Shared Impact Philanthropy

About the Organisation

Asia Community Foundation (ACF) is the first Asia-wide platform for collaborative and strategic giving. ACF enables donors to pool resources, co-create solutions, and drive positive social and environmental impact across the region. Through donor-advised funds, impact funds, and bespoke giving vehicles, ACF helps philanthropists give with confidence, transparency, and impact.

ACF has recently launched Shared Impact Philanthropy (ShIP), a regional offering that makes it easier for funders and nonprofits to work together, providing shared systems, hosting, and operational support so partners can focus on what really matters: driving impact across Asia.

This is the work of putting good intention into action; Incubating transformative solutions and turn ideas into results. It's about building what doesn't yet exist: new systems, new partnerships, and new ways of enabling philanthropy to flourish.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Deputy Executive Director, this India-based mid-senior level role provides programme monitoring & evaluation (M&E) leadership for a multi-intervention philanthropic strategy spanning Scholarships, Digital Education, and Vocational Education programmes, delivered through NGO and social enterprise implementation partners. The role is the anchor for performance, learning, and adaptive management across the entire portfolio, ensuring coherence, quality, and strategic use of evidence.

Given the scale, diversity of interventions, and learning ambition of the portfolio, this role requires a senior practitioner with systems thinking, comfort engaging with funders, sector experts, evaluators, and partner leadership, and the authority to balance rigor with practicality. The position is central to shaping how evidence influences strategy, scale, and ecosystem conversations, treating insights as a strategic lever, not just a backend function.

Key Responsibilities: 

Portfolio-level M&E Design & Stewardship

  • Develop and manage the overall M&E framework, theory of change and results framework with key assumptions, and define indicators linked across each ToC level.
  • Track and monitor progress against key indicators in line with given priorities.
  • Translate the portfolio framework into intervention-specific M&E plans with partners, maintaining comparability while institutionalising learning questions alongside performance metrics.

Learning & Assessment Partner Management

  • Lead the onboarding and management of an external M&E / learning agency as the portfolio's learning and assessment partner, aligned with funder priorities.
  • Clarify roles across partners such as implementation and routine monitoring, evaluations, deep dives, and synthesis.
  • Ensure learning outputs are timely, actionable and decision-oriented.

Data Quality Assurance

  • Establish data quality standards, checks, and review mechanisms across interventions, and support implementation partners to strengthen systems for data collection, verification, and documentation of good practices.
  • Act as the final assurance layer before portfolio-level reporting and external use of data.

Performance Reporting & Sense-making

  • Lead monthly and quarterly reporting to funders and sector audiences, covering progress against key indicators, early signals from activity to outcome level, and early sense-making on deviations from plan, their drivers, and key alternatives.
  • Build a data- and insight-rich dashboard that interprets; what the data is telling us and why it matters.

Adaptive Management, Risk & Ecosystem Influence

  • Use M&E insights to inform strategic course correction at intervention and portfolio levels.
  • Track and flag implementation, outcome, and contextual risks alongside mitigations.
  • Synthesize cross-cutting learnings to inform future investment design and influence ecosystem actors where relevant.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as the single point of accountability for M&E quality and coherence, engaging credibly with funders, sector experts, evaluators, and partner leadership.
  • Build trust-based relationships that strengthen the credibility of outcomes and learning emerging from the investment and position the strategy as a learning-led and adaptive initiative.

Financial Management & Cost Optimisation

  • Align financial performance with strategic objectives, ensuring resourcing decisions reflect both delivery realities and the portfolio's broader impact ambitions.
  • Develop and integrate cost benchmarks and target cost metrics to assess efficiency and strengthen value-for-money analysis, enabling consistent comparison across diverse interventions and implementation partners.
  •  Analyse cost structures and identify opportunities for optimisation across the programme portfolio, balancing financial discipline with delivery on the ground.
    Identify areas to strengthen data and financial systems, including reporting mechanisms, to ensure accuracy, transparency, and actionable performance insights that support credible reporting to funders and sound strategic decision-making.

Experience / Attributes

  • Over 15 years of relevant M&E experience, with demonstrated ability to build M&E systems, manage them in live, multi-stakeholder initiatives
  • Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design portfolio-level frameworks while remaining grounded in intervention-level realities across diverse implementation partners
  • Demonstrated experience working in collaborative or pooled-fund contexts, with ability to engage senior funders, sector experts, evaluators, and partner leadership
  • Deep working knowledge of theories of change, results frameworks, indicator design, evaluation methodologies, and adaptive management approaches
  • Proven track record of translating data into decision-oriented insights, including dashboards and sense-making products that move beyond reporting into interpretation
  • Experience across one or more of the following sectors is strongly preferred: girls' education, scholarships, digital education, or vocational education and skills
  • Understanding of India's social, political, and development landscape
  • Relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent professional experience in development, public policy, social sciences, statistics, economics, or a related field
  • Proficiency in English is required; working knowledge of Hindi or other Indian languages will be considered an advantage
  • Valid work visa in India

ACF is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are an equal opportunity employer, selecting on merit regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, or any other characteristic unrelated to the role.

The CTC for this role starts from USD 55,000 and includes a competitive and market aligned benefits.

To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to ship-hr@asiacf.org. All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence.


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