Communication and M & E Intern

“Communication and M & E Intern”

GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement ‘# vacancy number 039/2025’

“CDSDR III”

Brief Description of the project/ unit

GIZ supports the Ethiopian Government in various areas, increasingly also in the Ethiopian lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia’s land area. They are inhabited by more than 18 million (agro-) pastoralists, and people who create their livelihood from related professions. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this livelihood system is increasingly put at risk and the people, their livestock and harvests have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. The result are dry valleys, in which rainwater flows quickly out of the area before being able to infiltrate into the soil. This further exacerbates desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue, the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Bureaus of Agriculture (BoA) in Afar and Somali regions.

The Capacity Development for Strengthening Drought Resilience (CDSDR) Project has started its third phase. It promotes the DVRPU approach with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals while ensuring environmental stability. Besides upscaling of the approach in other weredas of Somali and Afar regions, it will further expand its application to selected lowland areas of Oromia and SNNPR regions.

Against this background, GIZ CDSDR III is recruiting one intern as outlined below:

Duration of contract: Until November 15, 2025,

Application deadline: 19 April 2025

Required Candidates: 1

Place of Work: Addis Ababa

Responsibilities and Duties

Job Description

Responsibilities and Main task (Monitoring and Evaluation)

• Support to prepare and implement tracer studies
• Support to use Kobo toolbox
• Support to M&E master table (main internal database)
• Support to check data quality and clean databases
• Contributions to monitoring briefs (summary of status and monitoring data for wider internal usage; development of a template)
• Contributions to development of dashboards in MS Excel and Power BI
• Support in preparing annual reports
• Support to prepare and implement M&E workshops

Responsibility and Main task (Communication and PR)

• Supporting the project communication specialist in implementing communication and knowledge management road map
• Following the guidelines and toolkits provided by Communications Unit. Adhering to the country-wide communication strategy
• Participating in and contributing to the Communication Network (Best practices, knowledge and information exchange, part of editorial team for country-providing information for internal media, etc)
• Preparing and organizing photos and communication materials for the country and climate change cluster photo archives and project folders. Actively contributing to the project communications DMS folder on MS Teams
• Organizing project’s photo archive with full description for each photograph. Filtering old SDR Photo and uploading only necessary photos to CDSDR III Teams communication subchannel
• Organizing and updating federal and regional partners list with full information including addresses.
• Supporting design development and proofreading of communication and knowledge products
• Conducting communication and knowledge product inventory and keep records.
• Contributing to project’s event organization
• Actively contributing for internal communication channels or activities aiming to improve information exchange.
• Actively supporting information exchange and dialogue between different staff groups
• Distributing key information and materials to programme/project staff
• Taking Minutes of meetings when necessary

Qualifications

Academic background: University degree (Master or equivalent) in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Rural Development or relevant fields and or Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism or fine art and related field with zero years of work experience.

• Excellent English language skills as working language is English
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• Advanced knowledge of MS Power BI
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge in application of online survey tools, e.g. KoboToolbox, is appreciated

Required additional abilities.

• Ability and openness to learn how to apply defined tools independently
• interest in communication tasks and basic knowledge on writing, editing and design
• High degree of initiative
• Solution-oriented way of working
• Team skills

Formal requirements:

• The candidate must be fresh graduate with the graduation less than 6 months in the past.
• The candidate must hand in at least an application letter and CV in neat layout and professional writing including correct addressee and document naming.