BACKGROUND

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organizations. It harnesses the experience, resources, and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organizations and the input of more than 18,000 experts. IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

Effective communication is critical to IUCN’s mission of influencing, encouraging, and assisting societies in conserving nature's integrity and diversity. Donor engagement, visibility, and the delivery of high-quality publications and multimedia products are key to the success of our conservation efforts.

The IUCN Rwanda Country Office seeks an M&E Intern to support the MEL department in areas of data collection, entry, cleaning and production of dashboards. This will support the development of a national MEL system by integrating project data from implementing partners and beneficiary organizations, strengthening accountability through feedback, reviews, and data-driven insights.

This position appeals to young graduates with a background in data science from statistics/conservation agriculture and/or environmental studies who seek to enhance their skills through practical and real-world experience contributing to both the organization's needs and their own professional development.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the development and refinement of data collection templates and tools to ensure standardization across project components: data collection templates design, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Contribute to data cleaning and entry processes, ensuring that all data is complete and meets quality standards for analysis and reporting.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of power BI dashboards that provide real-time insights into project indicators, performance metrics, and overall progress toward project objectives.
• From available data, produce engaging and informative data visualizations, including charts, graphs, and infographics, to effectively communicate project findings and trends to various stakeholders.
• Support the development of survey tools and protocols, fieldwork coordination when required, and contribute to the analysis and interpretation of survey results.
• Continuously review the functionality and usability of existing project dashboards. Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or opportunities for enhancement, and propose practical solutions to improve user experience, data accessibility, and analytical capabilities.
• Maintain consistent and proactive communication with Implementing Partners to share updates on data-related activities, clarify data needs, and address any concerns or challenges.
• Continuously issue feedback on improving data collection tools’ utilization by field teams to reflect the situation on the ground
• Any other assigned tasks assigned to support program implementation

SPECIFIC DUTIES:

The intern will be expected to contribute to the production of

Cleaned and Organized Data Sets

Automated Power BI portfolio and project Dashboards

Standardized Data Collection Templates

Survey Tools and Summary Reports

Final internship report

Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, Conservation Agriculture, or Environmental studies, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

Certificate of practical training and hands on skills in digital data collection & analysis and visualization tools

Work Experience

Strong Power BI skills to align and link Excel files to create dashboards that can be used for tracking and reporting

Experience in using Kobo Toolbox, ODK Collect or any other survey tools

Language Proficiency

Good reporting and communication skills in Kinyarwanda and English

Competencies

9.4.1 Core Competencies

Transparency: Able to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making by carrying out the work of IUCN in a transparent manner; provides clear guidance to ensure that objectives and desired measurable results are understood by members of the team.

Inclusiveness: Understands and accepts cultural diversity, and provides a tolerant, positive and supportive working environment that fosters respect for diversity, demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

Professionalism: Promote the organization’s interests, objectives and values in a diligent and professional manner.

Accountability: Takes responsibility of individual and collective actions, promotes the IUCN One Programme approach.

9.4.2 Functional competencies

Competence in data collection, analysis and visualization tools

Excellent attention to details with the ability to undertake repetitive tasks accurately and consistently

Committed to continuous learning and proactive and mature attitude towards self- development

Demonstrated organizational skills and a strong track record in meeting deliverables and deadlines

• Support the development and refinement of data collection templates and tools to ensure standardization across project components: data collection templates design, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Contribute to data cleaning and entry processes, ensuring that all data is complete and meets quality standards for analysis and reporting.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of power BI dashboards that provide real-time insights into project indicators, performance metrics, and overall progress toward project objectives.
• From available data, produce engaging and informative data visualizations, including charts, graphs, and infographics, to effectively communicate project findings and trends to various stakeholders.
• Support the development of survey tools and protocols, fieldwork coordination when required, and contribute to the analysis and interpretation of survey results.
• Continuously review the functionality and usability of existing project dashboards. Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or opportunities for enhancement, and propose practical solutions to improve user experience, data accessibility, and analytical capabilities.
• Maintain consistent and proactive communication with Implementing Partners to share updates on data-related activities, clarify data needs, and address any concerns or challenges.
• Continuously issue feedback on improving data collection tools’ utilization by field teams to reflect the situation on the ground
• Any other assigned tasks assigned to support program implementation
• Contribute to the production of Cleaned and Organized Data Sets
• Contribute to the production of Automated Power BI portfolio and project Dashboards
• Contribute to the production of Standardized Data Collection Templates
• Contribute to the production of Survey Tools and Summary Reports
• Contribute to the production of Final internship report
• Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

• Strong Power BI skills
• Experience in using Kobo Toolbox, ODK Collect or any other survey tools
• Good reporting and communication skills in Kinyarwanda and English
• Competence in data collection, analysis and visualization tools
• Excellent attention to details
• Ability to undertake repetitive tasks accurately and consistently
• Committed to continuous learning
• Proactive and mature attitude towards self- development
• Demonstrated organizational skills
• Strong track record in meeting deliverables and deadlines

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, Conservation Agriculture, or Environmental studies, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Certificate of practical training and hands on skills in digital data collection & analysis and visualization tools