Regional Monitoring, Evaluation & Research (MER) Specialist

Overview

The Regional MER Specialist will establish and implement the monitoring, evaluation, and research framework for a digital wellbeing project across 11 countries. The role provides technical leadership in MER system design, data coordination, quality assurance, and translating evidence into actionable insights.

Tasks Summary

• Design integrated monitoring, evaluation, and research systems.
• Coordinate baseline, midline, and endline assessments across 11 countries.
• Track outcomes separately for different target audiences, disaggregated by sex, age groups, disability status, and geographical areas.
• Consolidate findings into comprehensive impact reports and document lessons learned.
• Build MER capacity of country teams and partners.
• Translate continuation design into modular concept notes or project briefs.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of proven experience in monitoring, evaluation, and research for multi-country development programs.
• Experience with digital wellbeing, youth mental health, or education programs (preferred but not mandatory).
• Demonstrated experience developing MER frameworks, theories of change, logframes, and results measurement systems.
• Experience coordinating data collection across multiple countries or sites, managing data quality assurance processes.
• Experience with digital data collection platforms (KoBoToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or similar).
• Familiarity with gender-transformative programming.
• Experience with youth digital literacy, online safety, or mental health and wellbeing programs (desirable).
• Experience with participatory evaluation approaches and youth-led research methodologies (desirable).
• Familiarity with Google.org funding and reporting requirements (desirable).
• Experience working with research agencies and managing research partnerships (desirable).
• Knowledge of ASEAN regional context and youth development frameworks (desirable).
• Experience with real-time monitoring systems and adaptive management approaches (desirable).
• Experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications or conference presentations (desirable).

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, social sciences, public health, international development, or related fields.
• Master's degree or higher in statistics, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences, public health, or related fields (strongly preferred).

Other Details

Languages Required: • Proficiency in English (written and spoken) is mandatory.

Languages Preferred: • Proficiency in additional languages relevant to ASEAN region (Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Thai, etc.)

Contract Duration:

Work Modality: Based at Country Office Jakarta with 10-15% travel to implementing countries. Currently applies a mix of Working from Home and Working from Office arrangements.

Remuneration: