Navanti Group Recruitment for Intern

Navanti provides timely and insightful data and analysis that shapes programming and empowers local voices, bringing their concerns, ideas, and knowledge to a broader audience. Its systems inform high quality interventions in rapidly evolving, conflict affected environments, employing an approach to contextual, nuanced data that uncovers and engages local actors and opportunities in need of support, resources and training – to create sustainable and transformative solutions that impact their communities. Navanti offers near-real time understanding of local dynamics, enabling an anticipatory programmatic capacity that takes advantage of near horizon change.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Intern

Job Location: Abuja (FCT)
Slots: 2 Openings
Duration: 12 months
Department: Programs
Project/Team: USAID/Nigeria MEL Support Activity

Background

• Navanti has an exciting opportunity for interns to join our USAID/Nigeria Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation Support Activity (MELSA) team in Abuja, Nigeria.
• MELSA provides a broad range of specialized technical assistance, training, data gathering and analysis, field-based monitoring, evaluations and assessments, facilitation of organizational learning and adaptation initiatives, and short-term technical assistance.
• We work with five technical areas: Economic Development and Growth (EGE), Education (EDU), HIV, AIDs and Tuberculosis (HAT), Health, Population, Nutrition (HPN), and Peace and Democratic Governance (PDG).

Role Purpose

• MELSA would like to offer graduates a practical learning opportunity to gain real world experience through an internship.
• The practical experience interns will gain is expected to add to the theoretical knowledge gained during their studies.
• Interns will contribute to the work that MELSA does to monitor, evaluate, and learn from USAID/Nigeria’s development activities.
• The opportunity is aimed at increasing interns’ employable skills as they learn from and contribute to the workplace for the duration of the internship.
• The internship will give interns experience in a variety of fields and roles and so may help to shape their future career interests.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Support our MEL Specialists with field-based monitoring (FBM) and Data Quality Assessments (DQA).
• Learn about and work on large scale evaluations or USAID activities – from planning stages to final reporting.
• Help with the planning and facilitation of learning events for USAID and Implementing Partners.

Job Qualifications and Skills

• Applicants should have a Degree with background in any of the following areas: Health, Agriculture, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Nutrition, Education and Governance or any related field.
• Be computer literate with proficiency in the use of MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Have strong written and oral communication skills in English.
• Have an interest in monitoring, evaluation and learning of development projects.
• Be a recent graduate that has completed NYSC.
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• Must be based in Abuja.

Benefits

• Interns  will be joining a great team, with highly qualified and motivated members who will be interesting and fun to work with. 
• Monthly stipend.
• Monthly call and data airtime allowance for MELSA-related communications.

Application Process
Please include a cover letter telling us about yourself and why you would like to be considered for the internship.  The letter should:

• Be addressed to MELSA HR.
• Give your contact details - email and phone number.
• Say what degree you studied.
• Tell us about yourself and why you would like to join us: What skills do you bring? What do you want to learn?
• Be not more than one page.