MEARL Intern

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Save the Children’s Programme Development and Quality (PDQ), team leads the development of high quality, innovative programmes that deliver immediate and lasting change for children and provides technical support to monitoring the quality of the implementation of those programmes. The PDQ team is comprised of the following thematic areas: Nutrition, Health, Education, Child Protection, Child Poverty and Child Rights Governance in addition to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Research and Learning (MEARL) Unit. 

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: MEAL Coordinator

Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programs delivered both directly and through local partners. Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH. In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programs of SC UK, SC Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya. In Feb 2014, we completed a second transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their health and nutrition programs with our own. Save the Children now has an operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the country. In 2016, Save the Children established a new project office in Madagascar whose operations the Kenya CO manages. In total, we employ around 250 staff in both countries and had an operating annual budget in 2021 of approximately US$17.5million. 

Number of staff directly reporting to this post: None 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Under the Internship programme, the role will be facilitated to provide support to the MEARL and PDQ department to learn and develop skills to facilitate the following key functions both to the MEARL team and extension to the Programme Quality and Development (PDQ) department.

Monitoring and Accountability

• The role holder will be the focal point for the information management system- PRIME and will support MEARL Team to ensure that data is entered into the workbooks and regularly updated, 
• Manage the country office humanitarian output tracker and ensure there is regular- monthly analysis of data from the output tracker to be shared with programme staff. 
• Accountability- ensure that the accountability database is regularly updated and that regular analysis of data is conducted to inform programming decisions and senior management team. The intern will also provide monthly analysis of accountability data.

Research, Learning and Knowledge management

• Knowledge management- Work with MEARL Lead and team leads to update and disseminating an online repository of updated capability statements, communication materials and reference materials on the country office share point platform and Microsoft teams as well as on shared drives.
• Coordinate with field offices to ensure the development of best practices for dissemination. 
• Work with communications department and MEARL Lead to develop learning briefs- summaries from evaluation reports and ensure that these are disseminated.  

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Problem solving and Decision Making 

• Undertakes operations in a complex environment through technical competence, anticipating challenges, and developing appropriate mitigation measures. 
• Responds promptly to emerging problems and takes appropriate decisions. 
• Explores and analyses data trends, as well as their potential impact on strategic choices.

Developing self and others 

• Identifies clear development needs and development plans through regular constructive reviews of their own performance. 
• Gives regular positive and constructive feedback to others. 
• Creates space for others to learn and provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments when people are ready for them. 
• Coaches others to learn from their experiences on the job and to use the resources available to them.

Accountability

• Holds self-accountable in making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• An undergraduate degree in Statistics, Demography, Population Studies, Development Studies from a recognised university.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive literature reviews and secondary data reviews.
• Excellent organising, facilitating, presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively to elicit information from a variety of stakeholders and to adapt this into concise materials to support and promote the work of Save the Children’s programmes
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• The capacity and willingness to work well on their own initiative and respond to challenges.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
• Willingness to sign and abide by the Save the Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Excellent and proven communicator able to communicate to a wide range of audiences.
• Competent IT skills.