Tetra Tech ARD New Internship Announcement

Tetra Tech ARD New Internship Announcement

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning Intern

Job Description

• Report to: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist
• Location: Accra, Ghana with frequent travels to Volta, Central and Western regions.

BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT:

Tetra Tech ARD is implementing the USAID-funded Feed the Future Ghana Fisheries Recovery Activity (GFRA). GFRA aims to mitigate the near collapse of Ghana’s small pelagic fisheries sector and establish a durable basis for its ecological recovery.

To fulfill this purpose, a balanced and strategic approach will be implemented that reduces fishing overcapacity and increases controlled access over Ghana’s small pelagic fisheries sector to encourage ecological sustainability while also enhancing socio-economic well-being and local resilience of artisanal fisherfolk and their communities. GFRA’s five interdependent strategic approaches, as follows:

• Strategic Approach 1: Align fisheries capacity with ecological carrying capacity of the small pelagic fisheries while enhancing the socio-economic well-being and resilience of artisanal fisherfolk.
• Strategic Approach 2: Increase the quality and value of artisanal fish products to maintain household income and enhance availability of nutritious foods for local and regional markets.
• Strategic Approach 3: Strengthen transparency, accountability, and co-management in governance practices for fisheries policymaking, regulation, and enforcement.
• Strategic Approach 4: Strengthen constituencies to promote and implement sustainable fisheries management.
• Strategic Approach 5: Improve use of science and research for policy and management decisions

JOB SUMMARY

The MEL Intern will assist the MEL Unit of GFRA to organize and manage the archiving system and ensure MEL data collected from all project activities are appropriately entered, labeled, stored in a structural manner, and maintained up to date on physical and electronic data storage system.

Other responsibilities will include providing support and oversight to subcontractors and grantees responsible for data collection to ensure compliance with the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan including GFRA technical staff.

This includes preparation of data collection forms for field activities, entering data into the appropriate database software or platform, conducting analysis, developing, and maintaining procedures for data collection, data management and data quality control and developing reports.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

The responsibilities of the MEL Intern shall include but not be limited to the following:

• Firstly, Assist the MEL team in the developing and update of tools and forms for collecting, analyzing, and reporting MEL data for performance indicators and results.
• Secondly, Ensure the correct use of data collection tools and forms developed by GFRA and provide training where needed
• Thirdly, Provide MEL support to field-level activities conducted by GFRA technical staff
• Moreover, Proactively ensure regular gathering of data and supporting documents from the project staff, grantees, sub-contractors, and partners and ensure that all data collected from activities are entered in the MEL Database system in a timely manner.
• Additionally, Undertake physical and electronic archiving of all supporting documents in compliant with USAID and Tetra Tech ARD filing requirements.
• Furthermore, Conduct regular data review and cross-check physical archiving and electronic system to ensure consistency and maintain overall data integrity
• More so, Contribute to the data quality and integrity by conducting remote spot-checks, investigate any data deficiencies, and provide timely feedback to the staff on data quality issues such as accuracy and completeness so it will be corrected on time.
• Then, Support the MEL team to undertake periodic internal Data Quality Assessments (DQA) for the project including, grantees, sub-contractors and other partners and support USAID and Home Office team during external data quality assessment by USAID and HO respectively
• Also, Contribute to all GFRA progress and annual report and participate in in the annual work planning process.
• Afterwards, Create a ready package of all data collection tools
• Last but not least, Ensure use of data collection tools and management of data collected
• Finally, Entering of data into database management system

Required Skills or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, development management, computer science, project management, geography and environmental science, fisheries science, or relevant qualifications.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, program design, data collection and management.
• Experience working on monitoring and evaluation with USAID or international non-governmental organizations.
• Experience in the design or management of monitoring database.
• Good knowledge of filing and archiving of MEL supporting documents.
• Strong knowledge in the use of Microsoft Excel and relational database software (Microsoft Access, Airtable, etc) and statistical software (SPSS).
• Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative research and in data analysis and visualization.

Language: Advanced level in English. Ability to speak Fanti, Twi or Eve is a plus.

How To Apply for this Tetra Tech ARD New Internship

Kindly apply though GFRA.Applications@tetratech.com with a cover letter describing how your experience and skills set fit in the position and a current curriculum (CV) in reverse chronological order format. Subject of email should be Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Intern.

Closing Date: 9 September, 2022

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