REALM (Research, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning and Monitoring) Specialist

The REALM Specialist supports Save the Children Indonesia's Country Strategic Plan by developing and implementing a National MEAL strategy and systems, focusing on accountability, learning, and research/evaluation. The role emphasizes humanitarian programme portfolio including emergency response, recovery, and anticipatory action, ensuring quality and innovation in monitoring, evaluation, and learning methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Coordinate REALM activities across projects and programs ensuring effective design, planning, and implementation
• Contribute to facilitate collaboration across departments and partners to achieve program KPIs, Member Shared KPIs, and Global Results Frameworks
• Ensure compliance with MEAL in Emergency standards and consistent application of Quality Benchmarks at every phase of humanitarian intervention
• Support project kick-off processes by embedding REALM requirements from the outset of humanitarian portfolio
• Maintain and further develop the Anticipatory Action programme approach and support activation mechanism
• Lead and conduct Rapid Needs Assessments at the onset of emergencies to inform response design
• Provide technical support and mentoring to project teams and implementing partners on REALM practices
• Lead and coordinate project-level research and evaluations ensuring quality standards and use of results for decision-making
• Develop data collection and information management systems tailored to the needs of the Humanitarian Programme
• Promote organizational learning through peer assists, after-action reviews, and retrospects
• Ensure accountability in emergency is applied across distribution and non-distribution processes including complaint and feedback handling
• Serve as the REALM focal point for designated humanitarian and resilience programs
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and professional growth
• Provide support to additional tasks as mutually agreed with the line manager

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in social science or a related field (such as international development, program evaluation, research methods, statistics, communication, or other relevant social science)
• More than 4 years working experiences in the NGO with significant experience in knowledge management and learning related activities in development project
• Strong qualitative analytical skills, including experience using analytical software packages such as SPSS, NVivo etc
• Strong understanding of web-based content management technologies, communication channel, and database management systems
• Knowledge of project management cycle and experience in project design and proposal development
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in written and spoken Indonesian, strong English written and spoken skills
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
• Strong capacity in MEAL in Emergency
• Experience implementing the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and SPHERE standards
• Experience in Emergency Response, Recovery, Anticipatory Action, or Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programmes
• Strong capacity-building skills, with experience working through partnership and localisation
• Have basic technical understanding working across sectors: Health, Education, Child Protection, and Livelihood/Resilience

Skills

• Knowledge Management
• Learning Activities
• Qualitative Analysis
• SPSS
• NVIVO
• Web Content Management
• Communication Channels
• Database Management
• Project Management Cycle
• Project Design
• Proposal Development
• MEAL in Emergency
• Core Humanitarian Standards
• SPHERE standards
• Emergency Response
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Capacity Building
• Partnership Development
• Localization
• Health Sector Knowledge
• Education Sector Knowledge
• Child Protection
• Livelihood Resilience

Languages

Indonesian, English