Head of Evidence and Evaluation

Role overview

Head of Evidence and Evaluation at Kheyti

Evidence Strategy: Assess what Kheyti measures today, what it needs to know, and where the gaps are.

Responsibilities

• Shape the evidence strategy — theories of change, impact pathways, learning agendas, and outcome indicators across farmer income, resilience, and adoption.
• Own the evidence budget and decide where to invest it.
• Data Infrastructure: Consolidate organisational data into a reliable repository.
• Standardise collection tools, quality assurance, and validation.
• Partner with Product and Technology to embed measurement into digital products and workflows.
• Evidence Generation: Design sampling and survey protocols.
• Lead internal studies.
• Commission and manage external evaluations with research partners, holding them to standard.
• Develop approaches ranging from monitoring and cost-effectiveness analysis to counterfactual and quasi-experimental designs, matching rigour to the decision at stake.
• Learning and Insights: Translate evidence into insights that shape programme, product, and organisational decisions.
• Produce learning briefs and board materials.
• Evidence for Policy: Generate the evidence state governments and central ministries need to adopt and fund the model.
• Represent that evidence in policy and technical discussions.
• Team and Partnerships: Grow and mentor a high-performing Evidence and Evaluation team.
• Develop relationships across India's research, evaluation, and funder ecosystem.
• Ideal Candidate You are an evidence leader who has established a function before, not inherited one.
• You are equally at ease with field teams, research design, and senior stakeholders, and you pair deep technical expertise with the judgement to know which questions are worth answering rigorously.
• Must-Haves 10+ years in monitoring, evaluation, or applied research, with a track record of setting up evidence and learning systems where none existed.
• You have been the most senior evidence person in an organisation and have owned the funder and board conversation directly.
• Sound judgement about when a full evaluation is warranted and when strong monitoring or a cost-effectiveness analysis is the better investment.
• Significant experience in the Indian development sector, ideally in agriculture, livelihoods, rural development, or climate adaptation.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills — survey design, sampling, field research, and statistical analysis.
• Experience with government and public systems, and the ability to translate findings into clear, actionable insights for policymakers and funders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Nice-to-Haves A track record of taking evidence into government programmes or policy at scale.
• Strong networks within India's research and evaluation ecosystem, including organisations such as J-PAL, IDinsight, universities, and similar institutions.
• Hiring Process Initial screening conversation (30 minutes) Call with leadership Case study, field immersion, and in-person interviews with the leadership team in Hyderabad (1–2 days) Reference checks Submit your application at: jobs.kheyti.com

Employment details

• Job Type: Full time
• Location: Hyderabad / Remote Level: Senior Leadership (Head)
• Location: Hyderabad, Remote [India]

About the employer

• Kheyti is looking for a leader to establish evidence as a core organisational capability.
• Kheyti is an agri-tech that helps farmers double incomes and be climate resilient and sustainable.
• We democratize access to high-tech agriculture solutions by making them farmer-centric, low-cost and by bundling end-to -end services.
• Our vision is to see every farmer climate-smart.
• The Opportunity As Kheyti's founding Head of Evidence and Evaluation, you will build the evidence function from scratch — defining what we measure and generating the evidence that guides how we learn, improve, and scale.
• This is a founder's role within an established organisation.
• You will have the mandate and resources to put the systems and team in place, and you will be a strategic partner to leadership as Kheyti moves from proving the model to making climate-smart agriculture part of India's public agricultural system.