Head of Evidence and Evaluation
Remote
INR 100k+ / year
About Us
Kheyti helps smallholder farmers battle climate change through the "Greenhouse-in-a-Box", a low-cost greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services. Designed for smallholders, our greenhouse fits in 2% of their land, costs 33% lower than regular greenhouses, protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7x more food with 50x water efficiency. Along with the greenhouse, we work with partners to offer farmers financing, input linkage, training and market linkage services, creating a seamless path towards steady additional incomes of upto ₹1,00,000/year, a 3x increase in farm incomes. See this 2.5 minute video for more.
Through a culture of farmer centric design, we've brought down the cost of the greenhouse significantly to 90% lower than mainstream greenhouses. We've created collaborations with >100 organisations to offer farmers services. We've proven the model with 300 farmers today and will be serving 2,000 farmers in 12 months. We've won various awards for our initial work and have been featured in NatGeo, Outlook Business, FastCo, and Forbes. We are supported by DRK Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Cartier Philanthropy and Acumen. Our vision is to serve a million farmers in 10 years.
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Kheyti is looking for a leader to establish evidence as a core organisational capability.
About Kheyti
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.
Job Type: Full time
Location: Hyderabad / Remote
Level: Senior Leadership (Head)
Key Responsibilities
- Evidence Strategy: Assess what Kheyti measures today, what it needs to know, and where the gaps are. 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.
- 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