Monitoring and Evaluation Intern position
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Intern
About organisation and role:
We aim to achieve collective action to address complex social challenges. We drive collective action by working with our community, where everyone has an equal voice. We share and leverage our collective experience, best practices, and resources.
We achieve this collective impact through the three pillars of professionalisation, capacity building and collaborative efforts. These pillars aim to create a resilient, robust, and well-equipped industry to achieve social transformation.
Monitoring and Evaluation form a vital part of the organisations operations and allow the organisation to measure the impact of their interventions, operations, programmes and grants, ensuring accountability to donors and stakeholders.
The key duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support the Social Impact office in developing, implementing, and managing robust monitoring and evaluation models for our organisations.
- Assist the Social Impact office with designing and implementing clear monitoring and evaluation strategies, policies, procedures and templates for the organisation.
- Assist the Monitoring and Evaluation officer in evidence and data gathering by designing and initiating baseline surveys to establish the impact of partners, clients and interventions for the organisation.
- Support the Monitoring and Evaluation officer in conducting regular, systematic, evidence-based reviews and site visits of partners, projects and interventions.
- Support the Social Impact office with compilation and population of data from reports and other sources with supporting evidence on partners, projects and interventions for the organisation.
- Support the Monitoring and Evaluation officer in providing content and research for developing funding proposals, including evidence of the impact of projects, stories, pictures, and future intervention implementation for the organisation.
- Support the Social Impact office’s online and in-person training, workshops, forums,and other engagement initiatives’ logistics.
Person specification:
- Excellent written and spoken English skills are required. Afrikaans and isiXhosa are advantageous.
- Excellent presentation and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation systems at a programme level and knowledge of Impact Measurement Management tools is an added advantage.
- Experience with CRM systems (Salesforce) is advantageous.
- Graduate or Post Graduate degrees in M&E or development.
- Experience within the NGO sector is an added advantage.
- Agreement with the organisation’s core values.
Employment conditions:
- Successful applicants will be stationed at the VUKA Social Impact Co-Working Space Office in Paarl, Western Cape.
- Applicant must be a South African citizen or have a valid South African work permit.
- Own vehicle and a valid South African driver’s licence are advantageous.
- Preference will be given to Employment Equity candidates.
Applications:
- Applications must include a letter of motivation and a CV with at least three references.
- This position is a 6-month contract, with the potential for a 6-month extension.
- Applications should be submitted to [email protected] with the title Monitoring and Evaluation Intern Application and your name by midnight Sunday, 7 January 2024.
- Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted for interviews.
- If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date of the screening test, your application has not been successful.