Spring Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Intern (Unpaid, Globally Remote)

Position description

GHA is a private, nonprofit organization with a proven history of designing and conducting leadership and management training, community-based health promotion programs, and developing local and regional community health networks worldwide. GHA’s mission is to engage with communities around the world to drive transformational change for the health and well-being of all by focusing on women, children, and adolescents.

GHA has trained more than 10,000 health professionals and community leaders from 97 countries around the globe. These efforts have stimulated the creation of thousands of sustainable health and development programs addressing the world’s most pressing health problems. GHA continues to incorporate into all core programs participatory health training and collaboration with global and community-based non-governmental organizations, government agencies on all levels, faith-based organizations, universities, and other communities.

About the role

GHA’s team seeks an intern who can work a minimum of 20 hours per week to support the program’s direct monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) efforts,as well as provide assistance in cleaning and analyzing data from the Community Health Assessments conducted by our implementing partners. The intern will have the opportunity to become exposed to pressing ethical issues in global health, become familiar with working with coalitions and collaborative concepts, and work with a supervisor who is interested in mentoring. The timeframe for the internship is a minimum of 10 weeks (February 9 – April 17, 2026) for 20 hrs per week. Mandatory Schedule: Thurs 10am – 2pm EST; Five Orientation days 10am-2pm EST with the possibility of an extension. The position is remote from anywhere in the world with the option to be hybrid. Click here to listen to what our prior interns have to say.

What you’ll do

Program Support
● Provide support to GHA staff in advising regional program teams on monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts. Under the guidance of GHA staff, this may include:

• Reviewing or developing data collection tools, such as sign-in sheets,
  pre-/post-tests, or surveys,
• Developing or updating data management tools, including developing
  dashboards and data sheets to organize and compile indicator data in Excel or
  Google Sheets,
• Assisting in reviewing or cleaning of program performance data,
• Following up with teams on check-in action items.

● Support GHA staff in the development of theory of change frameworks, logical
frameworks and results frameworks both at the proposal development and
project implementation phases.
● Support the visualization and analysis of program data, public opinion or survey
research data.

Database Support
● Work with the relevant program teams to collect and populate the database with realistic,
reliable, and timely historical data.
● Work to continuously check quality of data in the database for
completeness, relevance, timeliness, and other standards in accordance to the
specifications of indicators described in the performance indicators reference sheets
(PIRS).
● Provide timely support to relevant program teams in addressing database issues or
requests to allow smooth maintenance of the database.
● Attend all database training opportunities to understand skills of data entry,the including data
quality standards, disaggregation requirements, reporting period, running reports and
maintaining the database with up to date data.
● Provide attention to details to achieve thoroughness and accuracy in data entry in the
database.

Qualifications

• Must be currently in an undergraduate or graduate program or be a recent graduate
  ● Can produce results in fast fast-paced work environment within deadlines
  ● Experience with Excel, Asana, or other project management software
  ● Interest in monitoring and evaluation, databases, data collection, and management
  processes, international development, democracy and governance, or related fields.
  ● Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation is preferred, but not required
  ● Familiarity with databases is preferred, but not required
  ● Familiarity with international development is preferred, but not required

Application instructions

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