Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer Intern

The Rice Council of Tanzania (RCT) is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer Intern to support the organization's monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and knowledge-management activities.

The intern will help RCT and its projects track programme performance, monitor indicators and KPIs, collect and manage data, analyse evidence, document lessons and good practices, and support evidence-based programme decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Support tracking of project and programme results, indicators, KPIs, milestones and targets against approved workplans and results frameworks.
• Assist with developing and maintaining performance trackers, indicator tracking tables and project databases.
• Support programme data collection, entry, cleaning, verification and organization.
• Help ensure programme data is complete, accurate, consistent and reliable.
• Participate in field monitoring visits and document implementation progress, achievements, challenges and emerging lessons.
• Assist in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual programme performance summaries.
• Support data analysis using relevant MEL and data-analysis tools.
• Assist with developing dashboards and data visualizations for programme performance monitoring and management decision-making.
• Participate in baseline surveys, assessments, outcome monitoring, end-line studies and other MEL activities.
• Document success stories, case studies, lessons learned, innovations and evidence of change.
• Work with programme teams to collect photographs, testimonies and other evidence for impact documentation.
• Support development and maintenance of RCT's MEL knowledge and evidence repository.
• Participate in stakeholder consultations and field activities involving farmers, farmer organizations, government institutions, development partners and other rice value-chain actors.
• Help identify and document good practices and potentially scalable models within Tanzania's rice value chain.
• Maintain the confidentiality, integrity and proper management of programme data.
• Perform other MEL, research, data-management and learning duties assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Project Planning and Management, Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture/Agribusiness, Data Science, Information Systems, or another relevant field.
• Training in results-based Monitoring & Evaluation and project management.
• Practical or field exposure to monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded agricultural projects.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Strong computer proficiency.
• Familiarity with word-processing applications, spreadsheets and databases.
• Familiarity with data-analysis and visualization tools such as Excel, KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO, TOLA Data, Power BI or SPSS.
• Ability to work independently.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to learn and undertake additional training.
• Experience in proposal writing is an added advantage.