Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Intern – Amref Health Africa Vacancy Announcement

POSITION: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Intern   

REPORTS TO:  Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager

LOCATION:  Addis Ababa, Amref Country Office

I.  JOB SUMMARY:

Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia is offering a paid internship opportunity to new graduate youth. The selected youth will be placed at country office for One year acquiring the key skills on areas of MEL to provide support for the USAID Integrated Youth Activity (IYA) that aims to empower youth to advance their own economic, civic and social development across 18 major urban cities of Ethiopia. Under the direction of MER Manager, the MEL Intern will support implementation of performance monitoring, reporting, and learning activities. The MEL Intern will provide support for the MEL team in field level MEL activities, including, but not limited to, tracking, reporting, planning, reviewing, capacity building, joint technical assistance and supportive supervision within the consortium partners and government and other stakeholders. S/He will work in close collaboration with other MEL team and program staff. 

II. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The MEL Intern will have the following duties and responsibilities

·       Work with Kefeta’s central MEL team to provide technical assistance to CSO MEL Assistants and Project Assistants on the MEL plan, performance monitoring, reporting, and data analysis and management;

·       Assist other MEL team and program staff in performance improvement and quality assurance activities across target cities;

·       Work with other MEL team at country office level to improve knowledge management and learning activities;

·       Work with the Database Administrator in database management and tracking performance against targets;

·       Assist in compiling monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual summary reports of Kefeta activities; collate, analyse and disseminate data to improve project performance and informed decisions;

·       Quickly and efficiently fill ad-hoc requests for project data from Kefeta’s SMT and Directors/thematic leads;

·       Support the MEL team to ensure that Amref’s Information Management System (AIMS) is regularly updated with respect to Kefeta’s contributions; and

·       Assist the MEL team in producing a monthly statistical bulletin that summarizes Kefeta’s performance on monthly basis.

• BSc/BA in Statistics, monitoring and evaluation, public health, demography or equivalent
• Willing to learn
• Demonstrates practical skills
• Demonstrates good interpersonal skills.