Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, & Learning Internships and Fellowships – June 2027 Field Office Deployment
About The Position
This is an in-person, year-long deployment to a field office in Accra, Ghana; Bucharest, Romania; Lima, Peru; Guatemala City, Guatemala; San Salvador, El Salvador; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bangkok, Thailand; or Manila, Philippines. Not every role will be available in every office. The program runs for 12 months, from June 2027 through May 2028. The role supports field office leadership in designing, monitoring, and/or evaluating projects. The specific emphasis on design, monitoring, and evaluation depends largely on the project life cycle in the assigned field office and the candidate’s experience. Duties may include supporting program design and proposal development, developing project data monitoring systems, coordinating data collection and analysis, and contributing to program reviews and revisions of monitoring and evaluation plans. Other relevant duties may be assigned by the Field Office Director or Supervisor. Interns and fellows are volunteers and receive a monthly stipend to help defray expenses related to participating in the program. The stipend is not an hourly wage or wages paid for services. Candidates must submit a resume, cover letter, and statement of faith in one PDF. Selection includes assessment of technical competence and value congruence, as well as background, police clearance, and reference checks. IJM requires candidates to practice a mature orthodox Christian faith, as defined by the Apostles’ Creed.
Requirements
- Internship candidates must have a bachelor’s degree.
- Internship candidates must have at least one prior professional internship experience or significant leadership experience in extracurricular, campus, volunteer, or community-based organizations.
- Internship candidates must have organizational and administrative skills and attention to detail.
- Fellowship candidates must have a master’s degree in international development, evaluation, research, program management, or another related field.
- Fellowship candidates must have at least three years of project design, monitoring, and evaluation experience.
- Fellowship candidates must have excellent interpersonal skills and excellent written communication skills.
- Fluency in Spanish is required for Latin America offices.
- Candidates must practice a mature orthodox Christian faith, as defined by the Apostles’ Creed.
- Candidates are subject to background checks, police clearance, and reference checks.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of Microsoft software and Windows is strongly preferred for internship candidates.
- Experience in culturally diverse settings and on complex projects is ideal for fellowship candidates.
- Experience writing proposals and/or managing complex program data is preferred for fellowship candidates.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the program design team, including setting the design process and scheduling, organizing, and following up on workshops and meetings.
- Participate in program design by conducting desk research, meeting stakeholders, defining program scope and focus, and contributing to design workshops and meetings.
- Coordinate proposal drafting, write specific sections, collate and edit contributions, and draft logframes and other supporting components.
- Coordinate proposal submission in line with submission schedules and agreed deadlines.
- Develop new or revised data monitoring systems to gather and analyze project data on key program indicators.
- Coordinate collection, analysis, and communication of project data, including data quality audits or quality assurance assessments and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data.
- Present project data results effectively to internal managers and external stakeholders.
- Oversee, lead, or develop the structure for quarterly program reviews, including attendance, process, inputs to IJM’s change control system, and updates to program plans.
- Oversee management and revision of the Monitoring & Evaluation Plan, including methods for identifying trends in monitoring data that could affect project outcomes and updating the plan based on project changes or lessons learned.
- Prepare relevant monitoring data for internal quarterly program review sessions.
Benefits
- Monthly stipend to help defray expenses related to participating in the program; it is not an hourly wage or wages paid for services.
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