WORK CULTURE
Jack of all trades
Our researchers are closely involved at every stage of the study – we’re preparing study tools, creating field plans and conducting field work.
Endless opportunities to learn
We are ready to go where we’ve never been and believe in taking time to grow from past experiences
All for one, one for all
Trust, teamwork, and loyalty are our key words. We have each other’s back whether it comes to the 11th-hour deadline or finding that perfect birthday cake
No cookie cutters
We’ll never do it the same way twice - all of our projects are individually customized, right from the study design to the field workers we deploy.
WORK HARD HAVE FUN
Our team is young, charged and passionate about making our mark in the social sector. And we’re just as enthusiastic about kicking our feet up and knocking back some drinks on Friday evening.
Friend-leagues
We work together so well because we really, actually like each other a lot. We are more than colleagues, we are friends.
CURRENT OPENINGS
Background
Outline India is a research firm focusing on data collection and geared towards evidence-based decision making. We are committed to strengthening the design of programs and interventions by conducting needs assessments, formative research, and monitoring and evaluation studies. Outline India focuses on catalyzing the work of academics, think tanks, corporate social responsibility arms, not for profits, funders and the Indian Government. In the last six years, we have worked on over 100 evaluations in 26 states and union territories, over 8000+ villages, representing 4.5 million stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, settings, and sectors, with the aim to include their needs, opinions, and views to draft and inform the work of our partners and policymakers in a better way. We have recently commenced operations in Nepal.Outline India has recently launched a tech platform and application - Track your Metrics (TYM) that hopes to automate social assessments. TYM has a massive and evolving survey bank, with surveys linked to indicators.We are looking for someone who is interested in working with a young and growing social enterprise and is keen on contributing to its growth within the development/social sector space.
Opportunity:Full Time
Job Description
Reporting and
working closely with the team at Outline India, the quantitative researcher
will be engaging primarily in enforcing quantitative methodologies and
implementing survey tools on digital platforms, training field teams and
ensuring field surveys are planned and implemented in a structured manner.
Responsibility:
- Development and deployment of survey tools using CAPI programs like Survey CTO.
- Review of survey tools received from client and translation of the same.
- Assist the research team in developing training material for the field team.
- Management and monitoring of datasets on a regular basis.
- Data cleaning.
- Training field team on the usage of CAPI on tablets.
- Coordination with field team to ensure quality data checks.
- Quantitative analysis.
- Planning for field surveys.
- Budgeting for field surveys.
- Secondary research and sampling for proposals.
- Oversee daily data collection activities and ensure adherence to data quality protocols, including data quality audits and frequency checks provide logistical support to the team as and when required.
- Travel to field for the purpose of training and monitoring fieldwork.
- Assist in writing field reports.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Master's Degree in Economics or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of quantitative methods of data collection and the ability to analyze data.
- Fluency in English and Hindi (knowledge of any other regional language will be valuable).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in using digital data collection platforms.
- The experience of working with STATA is mandatory.
- Familiarity with Quantitative software packages (e.g. SPSS, R).
Desired:
- 1-2 years of experience in quantitative studies.
- Candidates having prior fieldwork experience will be given preference.
- Professional experience in M&E in project-based settings.
- Experience of working with National/ International NGOs/ UN Bodies/Government/start-ups will be valued.
Salary
Based on Experience
Location
C-2630, Sushant Lok -1, Gurgaon, 122009
(10 minutes from HUDA City Center Metro Station)
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs to hr@outlineindia.com with the following included:
Background
Outline India provides solutions for implementing high-quality, authentic field surveys across India. We have previously worked in 23 states for projects on WASH, education, health, gender etc. By following a rigorous methodology with quality checks at each stage of the data collection process, the Field Manager is required to ensure accuracy and smooth completion of all data collection activities.
Opportunity:Full Time
Job Description
1) Fieldwork and field planning.
2) Project Coordination with field staff and research team about logistics, bill filings, and payments.
3) Checking and approving transcription/translation and coordinating with external vendors.
4) Draft research protocol documents and guidelines.
5) Drafting project invoices, EOIs and proposals including formatting documents.
6) Assisting with data cleaning and analysis.
7) Work on field reports.
8) Conducting training for field enumerators and supervisors.
9) PR activities of the company – coordinating with the clients, attending seminars or workshops.
10) Writing blogs about projects and research.
11) Guiding and supervising Field Associates and managing field teams across the country.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:
1) Post-Graduate in Social Sciences or Graduate with extensive field experience.
2) Proficiency in Hindi.
Desired Qualifications:
1) Strong on-field experience in India.
2) Knowledge of the Indian development sector.
3) Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
4) Strong organizational, planning and time management skills.
5) Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
6) Proficiency in any regional Indian language.
7) Candidates with Masters in Social Work and fieldwork experience will be preferred.
Salary
Based on experience
Location
C-2630, Sushant Lok -1, Gurgaon, 122009
(10 minutes from HUDA City Center Metro Station)
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs to hr@outlineindia.com with the following included:
- Current Location
- Permanent Location
- Required Notice Period
- Current CTC
- Expected CTC
- Are you willing to relocate to Gurgram?
- Total years of relevant experience.
Background
Outline India is a research firm focusing on data collection and geared towards evidence-based decision making. We are committed to strengthening the design of programs and interventions by conducting needs assessments, formative research, and monitoring and evaluation studies. Outline India focuses on catalyzing the work of academics, think tanks, corporate social responsibility arms, not for profits, funders and the Indian Government. In the last six years, we have worked on over 100 evaluations in 26 states and union territories, over 8000+ villages, representing 4.5 million stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, settings, and sectors, with the aim to include their needs, opinions, and views to draft and inform the work of our partners and policymakers in a better way. We have recently commenced operations in Nepal. Outline India has recently launched a tech platform and application - Track your Metrics (TYM) that hopes to automate social assessments. TYM has a massive and evolving survey bank, with surveys linked to indicators. We are looking for someone who is interested in working with a young and growing social enterprise and is keen on contributing to its growth within the development/social sector space.
Opportunity:Full Time
Job Description
The Research Manager is expected to manage a team of 10-15 researchers, lead research projects and ensure quality deliverables. We are looking for someone who is interested in working with a growing social enterprise and is keen on contributing to its growth.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Research, Business Development, Communications and Outreach, and HR teams.
- Work closely with the Founder in daily management development of strategic decision making for the company.
- Mentor and guide researchers.
- Manage and oversee research projects, especially in ensuring the high quality of all deliverables.
- Develop robust mixed-method study designs.
- Assign and follow-up on timely completion of all deliverables.
- Work towards building IP products and services.
- Develop skill and capacity building for all researchers and team members.
- Handle/lead client meetings, presentations, and queries.
- Attend conferences, talks, and workshops on behalf of the company.
- Coordinate with the business development team and the founder on potential client and project
strategy.
Qualifications
Eligibility Criteria:
- Strong academic qualifications in Social Sciences – Minimum Master’s degree; Ph.D. and M.Phil. Degrees preferred.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in the Indian development sector.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to put together presentations and infographics.
- Previous experience of undertaking fieldwork and field training.
- Strong management and leadership skills.
- Ability to multi-task and take responsibility for the timely completion of activities.
- Previous experience of writing proposals for the social and development sector.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills.
- Have a network to loop in experts, advisors, other consultants.
- Expertise in either quantitative or qualitative research knowledge and experience. Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of both.
In the case of quantitative expertise, the candidate should possess the following experience:
- Demonstrated experience of working on large scale surveys/projects, especially evaluations and RCT studies in India.
- Experience of developing a sampling strategy for projects and proposals.
- Demonstrated experience in using digital data collection platforms such as Survey CTO, M-water, etc.
- Knowledge of quantitative software packages are mandatory (e.g. STATA, SPSS, R).
- In the case of qualitative expertise, the candidate should possess the following experience:
- Demonstrated experience of working on large scale qualitative research assignments.
- Experience of conducting interviews and FGDs for fieldwork in India.
- Knowledge of Ethnographic methods, PRA techniques, etc. for projects in India.
- Experience in undertaking qualitative data analysis and report writing.
In the case of qualitative expertise, the candidate should possess the following experience:
- Demonstrated experience of working on large scale qualitative research assignments.
- Experience of conducting interviews and FGDs for fieldwork in India.
- Knowledge of Ethnographic methods, PRA techniques, etc. for projects in India.
- Experience of
undertaking qualitative data analysis and report writing.
Salary
Based on experience
Location
C-2630, Sushant Lok -1, Gurgaon, 122009
(10 minutes from HUDA City Center Metro Station)
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs to hr@outlineindia.com with the following included:
- Current Location
- Permanent
Location
- Required Notice
Period
- Current CTC
- Expected CTC
- Are you willing to relocate to Gurgaon?
- Total years of relevant
experience
Background
Outline India is a research firm focusing on data collection and geared towards evidence-based decision making. We are committed to strengthening the design of programs and interventions by conducting needs assessments, formative research, and monitoring and evaluation studies. Outline India focuses on catalyzing the work of academics, think tanks, corporate social responsibility arms, not for profits, funders and the Indian Government. In the last six years, we have worked on over 100 evaluations in 26 states and union territories, over 8000+ villages, representing 4.5 million stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, settings, and sectors, with the aim to include their needs, opinions, and views to draft and inform the work of our partners and policymakers in a better way. We have recently commenced operations in Nepal. Outline India has recently launched a tech platform and application - Track your Metrics (TYM) that hopes to automate social assessments. TYM has a massive and evolving survey bank, with surveys linked to indicators. We are looking for someone who is interested in working with a young and growing social enterprise and is keen on contributing to its growth within the development/social sector space.
Opportunity:Full Time
Job Description
The qualitative researcher
will closely work on research projects, developing study designs and survey
instruments, be conducting fieldwork and writing report. We are looking for
someone who has experience in conducting interviews and focus group discussions
and is willing to travel across the country for fieldwork.
Responsibilities:
- Preparing research
proposals (working on the method and sampling, both quantitative and
qualitative for monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment studies).
- Secondary research for projects and proposals.
- Literature review, design and pilot survey instruments and tools. Review of survey tools received from the client and translation of the same.
- Assist the research team in developing training material for the field team.
- Developing budgets for research projects.
- Field mapping, planning, training and execution.
- Travelling to field to
conduct trainings, fieldwork monitoring, interviews, focus group
discussions etc. as required.
- Collaborate and
contribute to company’s new research projects/ ideas.
- Qualitative data
analysis and report writing.
- Attending conferences,
talks, writing blogs, and papers.
- Liasoning with the
Company’s current and potential clients.
- Provide logistical support to the team as and when required.
Qualifications
Eligibility Criteria:
Essential:
- A Postgraduate/
M.Phil. Degree from a relevant discipline.
- At least two years of
professional/research work experience in a relevant field.
- Prior fieldwork
experience is necessary.
- Familiarity with one
or more Indian languages.
- Experience with
qualitative research including ethnographic methods, PRA techniques,
reflexive analysis and report writing, and other relevant methodologies.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
Desired:
- Professional
experience in M&E in project-based settings.
- Some familiarity with
quantitative research and mixed-method study design.
- Knowledge of the
development sector in India.
- Strong management
skills.
- Ability to multi-task
and take responsibility for the timely completion of activities.
- Innovative and
receptive to working on new ideas and proposals.
- Strong Microsoft
skills (Word and Excel).
- Experience of working with National/ International NGOs/ UN Bodies/Government/start-ups will be valued.
Salary
Based on experience
Location
10 minutes from
HUDA City Center Metro Station – Sushant Lok -1, Gurgaon
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs to hr@outlineindia.com with the position name in the subject line.
Also, share the below mentioned details:
- Current Location
- Preferred Location
- Required Notice Period
- Current CTC
- Expected CTC
- Total years of relevant experience
Background
About Outline IndiaOutline India is a data and research firm working out of Gurugram that focuses on extensive research and data collection at the ground level with the aim of catalyzing the work of policymakers, think tanks, not-for-profits, and the government.Our work represents the views and needs of 4.5 million Indians, and our research spans across a diverse range of sectors, namely, Water and Sanitation, Health, Child Rights, Education, and Gender, among others. In the last 5 years, we have interviewed thousands of stakeholders in over 4000 villages across 24 states and union territories of India.Our partners include academicians from the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Tokyo, as well as organizations such as WaterAid, British Council, Sesame Street, among others.About Track Your MetricsTrack Your Metrics (TYM) is a web-based platform and android application that will automate thinking for NGOs which lack funds and research capacity while building on resources available in the ecosystem.A simple technology-based solution, Track Your Metrics is a self-reporting tool that enables NGOs and funding agencies to collect data, build metrics, monitor projects and measure the concurrent impact of their work at ~ 0 unit cost. Track Your Metrics caters to the needs of small NGOs lacking research capacity, governments looking to monitor schemes and funding agencies, donors & CSR wings looking for a uniform way of inducting NGOs. Track Your Metrics offers its contributors and stakeholders, automated audits and assessments using an unskilled workforce i.e. volunteers at small not for profits and enables data-driven decision making.An intuitive web platform coupled with an android application, Track Your Metrics allows for survey formulation, data collection, data visualization, and report generation.
Opportunity:Full Time
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into functional architecture and software designs to solve customers' use cases.
- Sprint planning and efficient delivery of products as per timelines.
- Drive technical excellence in architecture, design, and API definition for internal and external use, using the latest Web/UI technologies.
- Lead implementation of engineering best practices, including Design and Code. Reviews, Unit Tests and identifies improvements on an on-going basis.
- Involved with recruitment, mentor team members, and work with 3rd party solution providers.
- Work with product management, designers, and fellow engineers on use cases, requirements, and new features.
Qualifications
Eligibility Criteria:
- Between 1 to 3 years of relevant industry experience.
- Bachelor, Masters or higher in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Experience in building SaaS applications and agile development.
- Prior experience in Microservices architecture will be preferred.
- Deep knowledge in a full stack development, including JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, front end frameworks (React, Redux, Angular, etc.), web frameworks (Laravel, Django, Spring, Nodejs, etc.) and Mobile App development.
- Extensive experience in the technical leadership of a full-stack development team.
- An understanding of cloud infrastructure, and previous experience with cloud & large scale platforms like AWS.
- An understanding of design consideration and design patterns in an adaptive and responsive user interface for Big Data & Analytics.
- Previous experience in web-based and mobile UI development.
- Expertise in database design principles, including hands-on knowledge of MySQL.
- Understanding of test-driven development.
Salary
4 LPA to 8 LPA
Location
10 minutes from HUDA City Center Metro Station – Sushant
Lok -1, Gurgaon
Interested candidates are required to send in their CVs
to tym.hr@outlineindia.com with the following included:
·
Current
Location
·
Preferred
Location
· Required Notice Period
· Current CTC
·
Expected
CTC
