MERL & Baseline Measurement Specialist – Forced Labor

Ijm; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

IJM is seeking a Program Measurement Specialist, Forced Labor Slavery, in the Philippines to provide technical monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning support for PH FLS Baseline and long-term measurement systems. You will work with the Research Steering Committee and Regional Program Measurement Team to ensure rigorous, ethical baseline studies and actionable insights for program design.

The role requires strong MERL and research skills, attention to data quality, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 to 6 years of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, data management, survey implementation, program measurement, or related development programming.
• Ability to support indicator development, data source mapping, measurement framework refinement, and program learning.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of the Research Steering Committee and support the RSC Chair and the RSC in overseeing the management and implementation of the PH FLS baseline studies.
• Support the RSC, Research Lead/RSC Chair, Program Manager, and Regional Program Measurement Team in coordinating the baseline studies from start-up through close-out.
• Provide technical review of study objectives, research questions, learning questions, indicators, data sources, analytical frameworks, sampling approaches, and implementation plans.
• Support the development and refinement of the PH FLS MERL system, including the theory of change, results framework, monitoring framework, indicators, targets, PIRS, learning agenda, data systems, reporting tools, and related MERL processes.
• Support implementation of data quality assurance procedures for quantitative, qualitative, administrative, and secondary data used in the baseline studies and PH FLS program measurement.
• Support preparation and review of baseline reports, evidence briefs, slide decks, learning products, data summaries, and program-facing materials.
• Support review of ethics, safeguarding, informed consent, confidentiality, referral pathway, adverse event, and data protection protocols for the baseline studies and related MERL activities.
• Support the Program Manager in maintaining baseline and MERL workplans, deliverables trackers, risk registers, issue logs, action trackers, and documentation systems.

Skills

MERL

Monitoring & Evaluation

Data quality assurance

Research design

Data management

Learning systems

Ethics & safeguarding

Tools

Data systems

Job description

IJM is seeking a Program Measurement Specialist, Forced Labor Slavery, in the Philippines to provide technical monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning support for PH FLS Baseline and long-term measurement systems. You will work with the Research Steering Committee and Regional Program Measurement Team to ensure rigorous, ethical baseline studies and actionable insights for program design.

The role requires strong MERL and research skills, attention to data quality, and the ability to