Desired contract start date: 15.11.2024

Contract end date:   15.04.2025

Duty station: Jigjiga, Somali region 

Brief Description of the project:

GIZ supports the Ethiopian Government in various areas, increasingly also in the Ethiopian lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia's land area. They are inhabited by more than 18 million (agro-)pastoralists, and people who create their livelihood from related professions. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this livelihood system is increasingly put at risk and the people, their livestock and the harvests have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. The result are dry valleys, in which rainwater flows quickly out of the area before being able to infiltrate into the soil. This further exacerbates desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue, the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Bureaus of Agriculture (BoA) in Afar and Somali regions. 

The Capacity Development for Strengthening Drought Resilience (CDSDR) Project has started its third phase. It promotes the DVRPU approach with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals while ensuring environmental stability. Besides upscaling of the approach in other weredas of Somali and Afar regions, it will further expand its application to selected lowland areas of Oromia and SNNPR regions.

Against this background, GIZ CDSDR III is recruiting one intern as outlined below:

Duties & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities and Main task (Monitoring and Evaluation)

• Support to prepare and implement tracer studies 

• Support to improve M&E system: Usage of Kobo toolbox for preparation of quarterly M&E workshops 

• Contributions to M&E master table (main internal data base) 

• Contributions to Monitoring briefs (summary of status and monitoring data for wider internal usage; development of a template) 

• Contributions to development of dashboards (with Alex) in MS Excel 

• Development of inputs for communication products  

• Support in preparing annual reports  

• Preparation of master table for application of Power BI once approved by GIZ  

• Feedback on M&E system - and adjustments 

Additional Responsibility

• Organizing and updating federal and regional partners list with full information including addresses. 

• Contributing to project’s event organization 

• Actively contributing for internal communication channels or activities aiming to improve information exchange. 

• Distributing key information and materials to programme/project staff 

• Taking Minutes of meetings if necessary 

Job Requirements

Qualifications

Academic background: University degree (Bachelors, or Masters) in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Rural Development or relevant fields.

Graduated within the last six months.

Knowledge in:

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel 

• Advanced knowledge of MS Power BI 

• Knowledge in application of online survey tools, e.g. KoboToolbox, is appreciated

Required additional abilities. 

• Ability and openness to learn how to apply defined tools independently

• interest in M and E tasks 

• High degree of initiative 

• Solution-oriented way of working 

• Team skills

How to Apply

Application procedure:

Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their recent CV via Email: hreth@giz.de

Please make sure you mention the vacancy number and position title Intern (Monitoring and Evaluation Support) #121/2024 in the subject line of your email application. Applications without vacancy numbers in subject lines might be disqualified.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Please refer to our brochure to learn more about GIZ’s attractive benefits package.