World Vision Somalia Intern (SomRep) Career Opportunity

World Vision is an International Christian Relief and Development organization, whose goal is to achieve long-lasting benefits in the quality of life for vulnerable children and their families, displaced persons and communities. 

The Somalia program wishes to invite applications from highly competent dynamic, self-driven and results oriented candidate to fill the below mentioned position.

Intern - SomRep

To learn and grow in World Vision Somalia’s internship program by providing multi-disciplinary support for the Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) Technical Unit team in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Major Responsibilities

• Assisting the GIS officer in development of databases and data collection tools for a variety of purposes.
• Assist in collection, evaluation and dissemination of programmatic information on a regular basis for analysis and reporting purposes.
• Assist in planning, organizing and servicing conferences, seminars and training workshops- preparing presentations and facilitating ICT needs as required.
• Assist in the planning, organizing and servicing conferences, seminars and training workshops.
• Provide research assistance in identifying suitable research institutions for SomReP to partner with.
• Conduct donor research via the Internet and other means to assist SomReP team in identifying and targeting donors and funding opportunities.
• Update SomReP donor map and fundraising strategy documents as key milestones are met.
• Create diagrams, charts and simple visuals for donor presentations, proposals and other communications.
• Help schedule and organize quarterly SomReP donor coffees and other key presentations.
• Assist in maintain register of equipment and other assets financed from each SomReP donor.
• Assist the administrative Assistant on office administrative issues, particularly pertaining to records, payments and other key issues.
• Take notes at SomReP technical and steering committee meetings.
• Help confirm and arrange future meeting times.
• Assist Consortium member agencies in retrieving and confirming key information for the smooth running of SomReP programs.
• Assist M&E team in ensuring partners submit timely internal monitoring reports
• Help maintain reporting schedules for SomReP grants, staying in contact with SOs and implementing partners to ensure deadlines are clear and met by all.
• Format and proofread sub-recipient quarterly and bi-annual narrative reports and consolidated SomReP reports to donors.
• Assisting in preparing monthly and quarterly M&E reports in time for team reflection meetings

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences/Communications/Accounting/ Commerce/Finance /Economics/Statistics/Administration or other areas of study.
• Recent graduate with at least one year of professional experience.
• Should be Computer Literate, work well with MS Word and MS Excel and Internet research methods
• Highly motivated to learn and work in a high-performance environment.
• Willingness to tackle challenges and seek creative solutions in everyday assignments.
• Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must be able to meet urgent and last-minute deadlines, work with grace under pressure, and function well in a high-performance team.

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their detailed CV’s together with names and addresses of three referees to the address below clearly indicating ‘Intern - SomRep’ on the email subject. 

All applications should be received by June 13, 2014. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

People and Culture Manager
World Vision International – Somalia Program
P.O. Box 56527 – 00200
Nairobi, Kenya

Email: recruitsomo@wvi.org