Internship - Monitoring and Evaluation at Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

The M&E Intern will play an important role in assisting the M&E Unit reach its objectives in generation of quality reports, knowledge management and promoting evidence based programing. During all steps, the M&E intern will be closely supported by the M&E data analysis team. The M&E team is open to discuss specific focus areas for the internship within the above projects as well as outside to accommodate the intern’s specific qualifications and desired areas of capacity building and learning.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The M&E Intern will work under the guidance of the M&E Team to:

• Collect and file information/data coming from grantees and country teams.
• Critically analyze grantee reports and country reports and escalate identified discrepancies to the relevant M&E team.
• Enter data on Agra Management Information System (AMIS) and ensure its correctness and consistency.
• Generate quality reports and dashboards from the reports available and disseminate them to the team members.
• Conduct data quality assurance on the selected indicators for selected countries and grantees.
• Contribute to various M&E reports including Quarterly reports including but not limited to Annual reports, PIATA Reports, DQA reports, QMR reports.
• Active participation in the design and maintenance of contextualized data collection tools for ongoing and new projects and grantees.
• Contributing to AGRA led research papers, reports and blogs and other leaning products.

Academic, Professional Qualifications and Relevant experience:

• An undergraduate qualification in the field of social science, statistics, economics or any other relevant academic discipline.
• Experience in online data management and storage sites and/or agricultural. entrepreneurship will be an added advantage.
• Any technical certificate in a related discipline (desirable).
• A determined, agile, pragmatic and patient approach to problem solving.
• Good communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Willingness to continually improve technical and analytical competencies
• Desire to learn and grow professionally.
• Ability to embrace AGRA values.
• Ability to prioritize and execute with prudence to achieve AGRA goals.
• Able to work collaboratively within and across teams and to organize time accordingly.

Terms of Employment

This is an internship position based in Nairobi, Kenya. The initial contract will be for a period of three (3) months and the successful candidate shall receive a monthly stipend during this period.