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Titre du stage / Internship
Position Title:
MONITORING & EVALUATION DATABASE INTERN
Pays / Country:
Lesotho
Ville / City:
Leribe
Secteur prioritaire / Sector: Securing the future of children and youth
Description du stage /
Position Description:
Project Description:
Help Lesotho is seeking a keen, talented database intern to help
implement a new program measurement and evaluation database in
rural Lesotho.
Help Lesotho is mid-size international development charity that works
exclusively in Lesotho (southern Africa). Our programs help 10,000
vulnerable children, youth and grandmothers annually develop resilience
and strategies to move beyond the trauma they experience due to
HIV/AIDS, gender inequity and poverty.
Our programs are changing lives daily as children and youth gain
knowledge and share what they learn with others. In order to effectively
measure and communicate our impact, quantitative and qualitative data is
collected using multiple modalities and instruments. To date we have not
had a centralized database that is easy enough to harvest, aggregate and
report in detail both annually and longitudinally. This project will build the
technical capacity of the organization and local staff and oversee the
implementation of a new database. The intern will work closely with
program staff both at the office and in the field and in consultation with the
staff in Canada to ensure the accuracy of data, staff capacity and usage of
the new database.
Help Lesotho’s partners such as UNFPA, USAID, EU, MSH, World Food
Program, Skillshare, Canadian High Commission to southern Africa, etc.
all require rigorous data management, accountability and impact
evaluation. Measuring impact is a key component to gaining funds from
donors of all kinds.
Help Lesotho intends to operationalize its new Measurement & Evaluation
(M&E) database to:
 measure and report on the impact of its life-transformative
programs for program improvement and accountability in a timely
fashion;
 increase overall efficiency;
 Provide real-time data for program improvement and decision
making;
 track beneficiaries and programs so we best understand the
progress and best practices;
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standardize input and minimize human error; and
increase ability to access and maintain funding and meet donor
expectations.
Position Description:
The intern will travel to Lesotho for 8-10 months (the first 6 months as an
IYIP intern, the remaining months as a Help Lesotho intern) to manage
the initial data entry, implementation and staff training on the database.
The intern will live at Help Lesotho’s Seotlong Centre in Hlotse with
occasional travel to more rural locations to support staff in program
delivery while also having meaningful interactions with the Basotho
people.
The intern will:
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Familiarize him/herself with Help Lesotho’s M&E requirements;
Correspond with Help Lesotho’s database developer consultants;
Gather data and enter historical data in the database;
Train local staff on database protocol and best-practices;
Assist staff as they input data from their programs;
Act as quality controller throughout the process;
Build M&E reports based on requested data; and
Act as a professional team member of the Lesotho office.
Qualifications:
 Thorough understanding of the methodologies and practical
elements of program-based monitoring and evaluation gained
through education and/or experience;
 Technical capacity to understand, use and manage a cloud-based
database (and to devote the required time to learn Help Lesotho’s
new system);
 Strong computer skills (Microsoft platform and experience with
databases is preferred);
 Experience living in rural settings and working with disadvantaged
populations;
 Previous travel or experience in a developing country;
 Desire to teach and train people a database protocol related to
data collection and entry; and
 Experience inputting data, managing duplicate records, and
building reports; and
 Ability to be self-sufficient, confident, and happy while spending
long periods of time alone (work days are always very busy,
however evenings and weekends can be very quiet!)
Eligibility Criteria:
To be eligible for the International Youth Internship Program, you must:
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be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident
be a post-secondary graduate—graduate of a degree or diploma
program from a university, college, post-secondary school of
technology, post-secondary institute or a CEGEP (collège
d'enseignement général et professionnel)
be between the ages of 19 and 30
have not previously participated in an internship within DFATD's
IYIP initiative
be legally entitled to work in Canada
Application Deadline: October 31, 2015
Please send CV and cover letter to :
Kate Lambert, Senior Project Officer
[email protected]
Date de début du stage /
Start Date of Internship:
January 2016
Date de fin du stage /
End Date of Internship:
July 2016
Organisation d’accueil /
Host Organization:
Host Organization: Help Lesotho
Canadian Partner: Help Lesotho
Détails au sujet de
l’organisation d’accueil /
Host Organization Details:
Help Lesotho is mid-size international development charity that works
exclusively in Lesotho (southern Africa). Our programs help 10,000
vulnerable children, youth and grandmothers annually develop resilience
and strategies to move beyond the trauma they experience due to
HIV/AIDS, gender inequity and poverty