Overview
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) Specialist will ensure the achievement of programme objectives by strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge management for accountability and measurable impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) functions for projects.
- Develop and implement MER frameworks, including indicators, targets, and data collection tools.
- Ensure data quality, accuracy, and integrity through regular monitoring, verification, and analysis.
- Oversee baseline, endline, and periodic assessments.
- Support implementing partners and stakeholders in strengthening data collection and reporting systems.
- Prepare high-quality narrative and quantitative reports.
- Generate insights and evidence to inform adaptive management, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Provide strategic monitoring and reporting support to units, ensuring meaningful participation data is captured, analyzed, and reflected in reports.
- Develop M&E framework / Theory of Change for proposal development.
- Responsible for development of the Indicator Tracking Table (ITT).
- Liaise and coordinate with Programme and Project Manager to ensure M&E Framework, ITT and quarterly as well as annual plan are in place.
- Leads the development of monitoring and evaluation plans as well as tools of YPII programmes and projects.
- Conducts and/or provides support to programmes/projects monitoring activities.
- Works under the technical supports from Program Support Unit Team Leader to provide oversight to programmes and projects research tools and analysis for M&E.
- Collects and coordinates data collection required for the timely submission of M&E reports.
- Maintain the quality of data collection and tools to capture change to monitor/track programme and project impacts.
- Supports and provides inputs for programme/projects and humanitarian response’s data collection and analysis for donor reporting.
- Conduct regular monitoring of project deliverables, facilitate discussion and coordination between stakeholders, partners, and project participants.
- Analyze data to assess program performance, trends, and areas for improvement.
- Prepare monitoring reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate progress.
- Ensures the utilization of PMERL or any IT-based platform for M&E is well developed and functional to generate a timely report.
- Develop or contribute to Terms of Reference (ToR) for internal or external evaluators.
- Collaborate with evaluation teams to integrate findings into program learning and decision-making.
- Ensure operationalization of the project M&E framework by translating indicators into data collection tools and protocols.
- Supervise and monitor the baseline and end-line reporting process to ensure the feedback loops.
- Oversee the development of comprehensive evaluation reports.
- Manage and facilitate capacity building, workshop and mentoring for YPII Staff and partners on MER related.
- Actively involves in Plan International Regional and Global Hub exercise to strengthen MER tools.
- Participates in M&E related events to present YPII.
- Ensure the mechanisms for feedback, learning, and adaptation into program design.
- Able to provide data-driven insights and lessons learned from previous or ongoing projects to inform planning.
- Support the project / program team to develop and implement project data-based advocacy messages and campaign planning.
- Support the development of quality knowledge products.
- Responsible for maintaining a database of program/project progress tracking and data achievements.
- Archive project document, lessons learnt, stories in the organization platform as knowledge management.
- Support the project team to seek innovation and put in place improved learning practices.
- Carrying out YPII Safeguarding and PSHEA principles and standards applied in each scope of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning.
- Carry out regular evaluations of safeguarding implementation within the scope of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning.
- Conduct behaviour that reflects commitment to building professionalism, a culture of protection, prevention of violence, and the attitude to have the courage to report any form of violence against children and program participants.
- Participate in regular evaluations through the Annual Appraisal related to safeguarding with supervisors.
- Completed face-to-face induction and/or Safeguarding training and refresher training through the Plan Academy platform and promptly recertified.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in project M&E, with practical knowledge of Results-Based Management and Theory of Change.
- Experience in working on M&E focusing on health is an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience and skills in project reporting, knowledge management, and learning process.
- Over 5 years of experience working on M&E (Desirable).
- Experience in M&E for development projects focusing on humanitarian response and/or public health, water and sanitation and gender equality (Desirable).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in social science, statistics, public health and any related field.
- Masters/postgraduate degree in statistics and/or social science or relevant field for MERL (Desirable).
