Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is an international federation of member organizations working in development through volunteers to fight poverty and disadvantage.
VSO Jitolee is a member of the VSO federation based in Nairobi with an East African regional mandate to promote volunteerism and recruit skilled professionals from Kenya and Uganda to serve as volunteers in VSO programmes in 44 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.
In addition, VSO Jitolee contributes to Kenya’s national development through international volunteers who work with local partners across the country.
VSO Jitolee is an independent INGO registered in Kenya and governed by a local board.
We are looking for highly motivated young Kenyans eager to get hands-on learning experience in development work to come and participate in our internship programme.
1. Monitoring and Evaluation Intern
VSOJ will achieve this by ensuring that it has systems that create opportunities for partners and the poor people we work with to participate in planning and monitoring and evaluating the work that impact in their lives.
The M and E Intern will work under the direction of the Head of Programmes to:
- Mainstream and maintain M and E systems in all programs for information exchange across the Programme Areas
- Avail for use M and E tools for monitoring progress and reporting as well as generating information.
- Advise and implement effective and appropriate methodologies for strengthening VSOJ’s impact assessment processes
- Support the implementation of the VSO Jitolee M&E Framework by working closely with project staff, volunteers and partners to ensure M and E systems are in place and that reporting is focusing on significant change; outcomes and impact
- Analyse lessons from programme experiences to feed back into planning and contribute to the knowledge management resource.
- Participate in building the capacity of the staff, volunteers and partners on information gathering and documentation for wider sharing.
- Coordinate and support collection of research materials for programme learning and planning.
- Support through ensuring that appropriate M and E system is included in all proposals
- Work closely with the Knowledge management team to ensure relevant and up to date information is availed from programmes.
The person
This will ideally be a graduate student or have recently completed a graduate course in Development studies with emphasis on M&E. S/he will have some relevant experience working with development organizations especially in participatory M&E.
S/he will need to demonstrate understanding of strategies and approaches for learning, good analytical skills, familiarity with research and scientific data collection methods, very good documentation and communication skills; and good IT skills and ability to use databases; spreadsheets; statistical packages
S/he will have a good understanding of development issues and an appreciation of the role of volunteers in development issues, and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Strong writing and people skills with the ability to network, and influence key stakeholders are also key as is an awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
2. International Volunteer Recruitment Intern
VSOJ’s international volunteering programme works as part of a larger recruitment network in the VSO federation and seeks to work to the standards that are set internationally to meet quality recruitment targets.
VSOJ currently recruits volunteers mainly from Kenya and Uganda; and also provides resettlement support to Returned Volunteers (RV)
The International Volunteer recruitment Intern will work with the recruitment team to support:
Enquiries and preliminary interview
This will ideally be a graduate student or have recently completed a graduate course in Development studies with emphasis on M&E. S/he will have some relevant experience working with development organizations especially in participatory M&E.
S/he will need to demonstrate understanding of strategies and approaches for learning, good analytical skills, familiarity with research and scientific data collection methods, very good documentation and communication skills; and good IT skills and ability to use databases; spreadsheets; statistical packages
S/he will have a good understanding of development issues and an appreciation of the role of volunteers in development issues, and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Strong writing and people skills with the ability to network, and influence key stakeholders are also key as is an awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
2. International Volunteer Recruitment Intern
VSOJ’s international volunteering programme works as part of a larger recruitment network in the VSO federation and seeks to work to the standards that are set internationally to meet quality recruitment targets.
VSOJ currently recruits volunteers mainly from Kenya and Uganda; and also provides resettlement support to Returned Volunteers (RV)
The International Volunteer recruitment Intern will work with the recruitment team to support:
Enquiries and preliminary interview
- Sift through applications and CVs received for initial short listing.
- Do summaries of CVs for those invited for preliminary interviews
- Invite candidates for preliminary interviews
- Arrange the CVs received according to the skill area
- Respond to applications that do not meet the baselines
- Follow up on pending issues after volunteer assessment
Matching and Placement
- Follow-up on volunteer pending documentation (e.g certificates, police clearance, photos.)
- Send volunteer documentation to Programme Offices
Volunteer Training and Preparation
- Training logistics – invitations, follow-up, materials, transport (volunteers and trainers)
Resettlement
- Collate Returned Volunteers (RV) database
- Compile RVs responses on how they would like to be involved with VSO
- Organisation of logistics of RV events - RV forums and weekend
- Packaging of the resettlement packages
Documentation support
- Capture RV voices on video and audio
- Write scripts to be used for capturing RV voices
- Track and document volunteer journey for VSOJ volunteers based in Kenya
The person
The ideal person will be an undergraduate student or have recently completed a bachelor’s course in social studies and interested in obtaining relevant experience working with people especially in recruitment.
S/he will be able to write and communicate well, document experiences through video and audio, and have good IT skills and ability to use databases.
S/he will have a good understanding of development issues and an appreciation of the role of volunteers in development issues and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Also important is awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
3. Executive Director’s Intern
VSOJ’s Executive Director is the leader of business and will normally interact at a high level with a wide variety of current and potential stakeholders in Kenya and internationally while at the same time staying in touch with the internal infrastructure of delivering on-going work in VSOJ.
The Executive director’s Intern will work under the direction of the Executive director and provide support as needed in:
The ideal person will be an undergraduate student or have recently completed a bachelor’s course in social studies and interested in obtaining relevant experience working with people especially in recruitment.
S/he will be able to write and communicate well, document experiences through video and audio, and have good IT skills and ability to use databases.
S/he will have a good understanding of development issues and an appreciation of the role of volunteers in development issues and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Also important is awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
3. Executive Director’s Intern
VSOJ’s Executive Director is the leader of business and will normally interact at a high level with a wide variety of current and potential stakeholders in Kenya and internationally while at the same time staying in touch with the internal infrastructure of delivering on-going work in VSOJ.
The Executive director’s Intern will work under the direction of the Executive director and provide support as needed in:
- Effective scheduling of the director’s appointments
- Responding to communications on behalf of the director
- Carrying out directors information search
- Preparing director’s presentations and reports
- Carrying out administrative tasks assigned
The person
The ideal person will be an undergraduate student or have recently completed a bachelor’s course in social studies and interested in obtaining relevant experience working in development.
S/he will be able to write and communicate well, with an ability to grasp quickly VSO J work and infrastructure – internally and externally and more specifically, a working knowledge of the director’s duties.
S/he will have excellent organizational and interpersonal skills and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Also important is awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
Terms of Reference
We treat internships in VSOJ as unpaid job opportunities that provide the ideal candidate with career entry learning experience.
You will be supported with a daily allowance to cater for transport and lunch.
You will be expected to abide in the VSOJ policies and code of conduct while working with VSOJ.
Internship periods may vary between two to six months but will not exceed six months.
Applications
If you find this a worthy career challenge, send your application - composed of a CV and a statement (of not more than two pages combined) explaining why you meet the person specifications, and are the ideal candidate for the job.
Please include a professional reference, telephone and email contact. Applications should be sent to: The Human Resources Manager, VSO Jitolee, P.O. Box 49843, 00100 Nairobi or Recruitment.Kenya@vsoint.org
***Please Quote the Job reference number VSOJINTERNS/07/10 on the envelope or the email subject line.
Due to anticipated interest in this post, only short-listed candidates will receive a response.
VSO, an equal opportunity employer, values inclusion and seeks to have a diverse workforce and therefore welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
Application deadline: 23rd July 2010 Interviews: 4th week of July 2010 Expected Start Date: 1st week of August 2010
The ideal person will be an undergraduate student or have recently completed a bachelor’s course in social studies and interested in obtaining relevant experience working in development.
S/he will be able to write and communicate well, with an ability to grasp quickly VSO J work and infrastructure – internally and externally and more specifically, a working knowledge of the director’s duties.
S/he will have excellent organizational and interpersonal skills and be a good team player with a high degree of personal commitment and integrity, enthusiasm and the ability to give and receive feedback.
Also important is awareness of diversity issues, self drive and ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
Terms of Reference
We treat internships in VSOJ as unpaid job opportunities that provide the ideal candidate with career entry learning experience.
You will be supported with a daily allowance to cater for transport and lunch.
You will be expected to abide in the VSOJ policies and code of conduct while working with VSOJ.
Internship periods may vary between two to six months but will not exceed six months.
Applications
If you find this a worthy career challenge, send your application - composed of a CV and a statement (of not more than two pages combined) explaining why you meet the person specifications, and are the ideal candidate for the job.
Please include a professional reference, telephone and email contact. Applications should be sent to: The Human Resources Manager, VSO Jitolee, P.O. Box 49843, 00100 Nairobi or Recruitment.Kenya@vsoint.org
***Please Quote the Job reference number VSOJINTERNS/07/10 on the envelope or the email subject line.
Due to anticipated interest in this post, only short-listed candidates will receive a response.
VSO, an equal opportunity employer, values inclusion and seeks to have a diverse workforce and therefore welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
Application deadline: 23rd July 2010 Interviews: 4th week of July 2010 Expected Start Date: 1st week of August 2010
