Internship Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

CARE Vision for Climate Justice

CARE International is a global confederation working together in over 100 countries to overcome poverty and social justice. Climate Justice is one of the 6 impact areas of CARE’s 2030 Vision. For CARE, climate justice means a future where the poorest and most marginalized have improved their wellbeing significantly. Where women and men can enjoy their human rights due to increased resilience to climate change, increased equality and a global temperature rise that is limited to 1.5°C. CARE’s global goal for Climate Justice is to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacities of 25 million poor and marginalized people, particularly women and girls to the effects of climate change by 2030. To reach this goal, CARE is building on 20 years of experience.

The Climate Justice Center
The CARE Climate Justice Center (CJC), hosted by CARE Nederland, is CARE International’s Global Team working on climate justice. The CJC’s main goal is to coordinate and enable the integration of climate justice and resilience across CARE’s development and humanitarian work. We achieve this by sharing tools and fostering knowledge exchange between our 100+ global offices and local partners, validating and analysing internal impact data on climate justice, facilitating learning through the CARE Climate & Resilience Academy, and undertaking and supporting advocacy efforts at global, regional and national level. The CARE Climate & Resilience Academy offers learning resources for CARE staff and external partners and builds on CARE’s 20+ years of experience in resilience, community-based adaptation, climate advocacy, and our own efforts to become a climate-smart organization. The Academy aims to give humanitarian and development practitioners the necessary knowledge to understand climate change and provide them with skills and tools so that they are better able to address climate change in their programs and tackle its causes and consequences. The Academy offers 4 types of content: on-line learning journeys, free self-paced online courses, free trainer packs, and customised trainings.

Internship Responsibilities and Activities

Join the CARE CJC and members of the team to contribute to CJC’s goal to lead and coordinate the integration of climate justice and resilience across CARE’s development and humanitarian work.

CJC MEL Intern

The main objective of the MEL internship is to provide you with quality learning experiences around data preparation, validation, analysis, interpretation and communication, and knowledge management. In turn, you will lend your expertise to contribute to CARE's Climate Justice Vision 2030 goal. As a MEL intern at the CARE Climate Justice Centre, you will:

• Design and Implement Innovative Approaches: Lead the development of strategies to enhance the capture of CARE’s global impact of Climate Justice Impact Area.
• Create Engaging Knowledge Products: Learn to develop and share impactful knowledge products, such as case studies and brief inspirational content, drawn from key evaluations and advocacy reports.
• Support MEL for Climate Adaptation Programs: Provide MEL support for critical climate adaptation programs and projects, ensuring quality and impactful outcomes.
• Develop Training Resources: Gain expertise in creating training materials and support staff in improving the quality of Climate and Environment Policy (CEP) data reporting, including tracking CARE’s carbon footprint.
• Review and Update Reporting Guidance: Conduct a thorough review and revision of the CEP Program/Project Information and Impact Reporting System (PIIRS) reporting guidance note to ensure clarity and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and Improve Training Program: Analyze feedback from participants in the MEL for Adaptation course and provide recommendations for course improvement.
• Synthesize Global Survey Insights: Analyze results from CARE International’s global survey and offer recommendations to improve the Climate Justice Center (CJC) team’s operations.

The internship will take place under the guidance and leadership of the CARE Climate Justice Center MEAL Specialist, based at CARE Uganda, with whom the intern will collaborate closely on all the above tasks.

What do you bring to the table?

Education & Qualifications: Masters students in the fields of Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Geography, Environment, International Development Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Data Analytics, Statistics.

Essential for all intern positions:

• Currently enrolled in a Masters program at a Dutch University
• Excellent proficiency in English (other languages preferred)
• Enthusiastic about climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate justice and gender justice
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and writing skills
• Good eye for detail, collaborative, proactive, and creative
• High interest in adult learning, (online) training design and knowledge management
• Comfortable with, and able to quickly learn new technologies.
• Ability to work with a diverse range of technical colleagues (remotely) and to work independently with limited supervision.
• Open-minded and flexible attitude towards responsibilities and ad-hoc requests for support

MEL-intern specific:

• Quantitative data analysis skills (Excel skills specifically)
• Power-BI skills (preferred)

Desired for all interns:

• Good understanding of main climate change issues
• Experience in facilitation of online trainings and/or participatory meetings
• Experience with online learning systems such as Moodle, Curatr, Rise
• Proficiency in other languages (pref. Spanish, French, Arabic)

CARE maintains a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse and takes all concerns and complaints about sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse involving CARE staff and related personnel seriously.

What does CARE Nederland offer?

• The CJC team is a global and dynamic team that gives insight into CARE’s development and humanitarian work worldwide, and wonderful opportunity to build a network within the climate space.
• Internship opportunity starting 1 March 2025 for a duration of 6 months, for 4-5 days a week (to be discussed).
• A workplace in the office in The Hague, with the possibility to work from home (50% of time)
• The internship reimbursement will be EUR 330 per month when interning full time. Travel costs to the office will be reimbursed on top of that according to company policy.
• CARE Nederland will provide you with a laptop (on loan) for the duration of your internship.
• The intern will have a dedicated supervisor from CARE Nederland and they’ll have bilateral meetings together to discuss progress etc
• Space to learn about the work of an international NGO and the work of CJC

Ready to apply?

Are you interested in this position, and do you meet the profile sought? Please send your application using the button below. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is 1 Dec 2024.

https://cvselectie.net/care-nederland/7839/

The selected candidate will engage in an internship contract with CARE Nederland in which the guidance by both CARE as well as the University will be detailed.

For more information, please contact Diana Kaekebeke, CARE Climate & Resilience Academy Coordinator, (kaekebeke@carenederland.org).

• For this position, it is important that you have a residency in The Netherlands and that you’re enrolled in a master’s degree at a Dutch University.
• As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible.

Acquisition in response to this advertisement is not appreciated.