Hi, I’m
Alen John
Monitoring & SDG Specialist
Summary
Self-motivated & outcome-oriented monitoring & SDG specialist with 9.5 years of work experience. Held leadership roles at state & federal governments, UN Resident Coordinator's Office & UNDP Country Office in India. Developed monitoring systems, reports & dashboards, led primary & secondary research & analysis, built partnerships & represented India at international platforms. Areas of expertise: monitoring systems, SDGs, coordination & partnerships. Seeking a leadership role in development sector, preferably in monitoring.
Work History
United Nations Development Programme [UNDP]New Delhi
SDG Officer
05.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Duty station-NITI Aayog, Government of India; reporting to Head, SDG Vertical.
- Leading 7-member SDG team, responsible for strategic planning, management & monitoring.
- Responsible for leveraging data for monitoring & reporting at national & subnational levels. Since 2019, leding data analysis & discussions on insights & gaps with 25 states.
- Developed SDG Urban Index & dashboard: led indicator selection, coordination with ministries, data analysis & report conceptualisation.
- Responsible for monitoring SDG Vertical’s initiatives, through its annual action plan & reporting results to NITI Aayog leadership periodically.
United Nations Resident Coordinator's OfficerNew Delhi
SDG Officer
05.2019 - 04.2021
Job overview
- Duty station-NITI Aayog; led 7-member SDG team; reporting to Head, SDG Vertical.
- Headed development of 3 key monitoring tools: (a) India’s VNR 2020 report: involved pan-India consultations with CSOs (b) SDG India Index & Dashboard: principal SDG monitoring tool at national & state levels (c) North Eastern Region District SDG Index & Dashboard: for all 118 districts in region. Led indicator selection, data collection & analysis, coordination with partners and report & dashboard development.
- Worked closely with ministry of statistics, on developing methodology of indices & secondary data collection
- Driving the project to develop National MPI, led efforts on candidate measures, reform action plan, dashboard & coordination with partners.
- Built successful partnerships (eg: OPHI, GIZ, states) & coordinated SDG costing exercise with IMF & COVID-19 response of Empowered Group 6 of Government of India.
Planning Department, Government of Andhra PradeshVijayawada
Senior Associate
05.2015 - 04.2019
Job overview
- Junior Research Fellow [2015 to 2017]; Senior Associate [2017 to 2019].
- Led five-member monitoring team, reporting to Secretary, Planning.
- Developed one of the first state-level KPI-based SDG monitoring frameworks in India. Led identification of indicators & data sources, drafting of annual SDG reports & development of dashboard. Co-led the project which adopted this model for performance monitoring of 30 departments & all 13 districts, which additionally involved developing reporting templates & analysing monthly progress.
- Headed first government-sanctioned Multidimensional Poverty Index estimation project in India. Involved a survey covering 13,000 households & working closely with statistics department. Responsibilities involved project design & monitoring, sampling, questionnaire design, training of enumerators, data analysis & communication of results and insights.
- Contributed to development of Vision 2024 & 2029 frameworks through chapters on happiness, inclusive growth & quality of life.
Larsen & Toubro InfotechBengaluru
Software Engineer
11.2010 - 03.2013
Job overview
- Responsible for making the code of current generation network processor (WinPath3) compatible with the next generation (WinPath4). This involved revision of code in C.
- Responsible for testing the new processor (WinPath4) for its functionalities through system test applications. This required revision of test applications and running of tests.
BioEnable TechnologiesPune
Technical Support Engineer
02.2010 - 09.2010
Job overview
- Responsible for customising software for biometric devices as per client requirements. This required revision of code in C++.
- Responsible for testing biometric devices for software and hardware issues. This involved running system and functional tests for software and stress tests for hardware.
Education
Tata Institute of Social SciencesHyderabad
Master of Arts from Public Policy And Governance
07.2013 - 05.2015
Mahatma Gandhi UniversityKottayam
Bachelor of Technology from Electronics And Communications Engineering
08.2005 - 05.2009
Major Representations
- Represented Government of India at 77th Session of UNESCAP: April 2021 [Online].
- Represented Government of India at Asia Pacific Workshop on Global Sustainable Development Report: November 2020 [Jakarta].
- Represented Government of India at Asia Pacific Workshop on Mainstreaming SDGs into Planning, Budgetary, Financing, and Investment Process: November 2019 [Bangkok].
- Member, Indian delegation to UNHLPF 2019: July 2019 [New York].
- Member, Indian delegation to UNHLPF 2017, representing Government of Andhra Pradesh: July 2017 [New York].
Key Reports Co-authored
North East Region District SDG Index: 2021-22 | SDG India Index: 2020-21, 2019-20
India Voluntary National Review: 2020 | Andhra Pradesh Vision: 2019-24, 2019
Andhra Pradesh SDG Report: 2018, 2017 | Andhra Pradesh MPI Report, 2017
Select Publications
- Andhra Pradesh becomes the first Indian state to adopt a Multidimensional Poverty Index: November 2018, Dimensions. [Article on process and key findings of Andhra Pradesh Multidimensional Poverty Index estimation project.]
- An Indian slum not redeveloped, but transformed: December 21, 2015, The Diplomat. [Brief on achievements and gaps of one of the slum transformation projects in Kerala, India.]
- Far from concrete: December 5, 2014, Himal Southasian. [An analysis of Indian Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.]
Overview
9
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education
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