Duration: 6 months with an option to extend for an additional 6 months based on performance. The max duration of the fellowship is 12 months. 

Location: Remote, home-based work.

Position Requirements: Applicants must be recent graduates, under the age of 35, from an East African country with experience and/or training in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL).

Compensation: This position includes a financial stipend.

Role Focus

Maliasili’s Fellows program offers a unique opportunity for early career professionals to develop experience and skills in delivering monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) work at a professional not-for-profit. The MEL Fellow will play a key role in supporting the growth and delivery of Maliasili’s MEL systems. This includes supporting the quality of monitoring processes, ensuring data is well cleaned, stored, and analyzed, as well as participating in using data for learning, accountability, and communications. This position is well suited for anyone who is passionate about demonstrating impact and ensuring accountability within the conservation space. 

Key Responsibilities

The Maliasili MEL Fellow is a dynamic position that provides training and exposure to many areas of Maliasili’s MEL work. The following activities will shape the responsibilities for the fellow during their fellowship. 

1. Participate in delivering Maliasili’s MEL System 

   • Support in reviewing collected data for accuracy and completeness

   • Assist in data analysis and highlight key trends across partners.

   • Support the development of internal reports that present findings from the evaluation process.

2. Support Salesforce Data Management and Quality Check

   • Learn how to navigate and use Salesforce software

   • Assist in ensuring our portfolio Salesforce database has complete and accurate data, focusing on data quality checks.

   • Provide support for entering our leadership and portfolio data into the Salesforce database. 

3. Evaluation Projects: During the fellowship, the fellow will be given specific projects to lead. Projects will entail working with existing datasets at Maliasili to answer emerging and important questions about our work. Possible projects include:

   • Understanding individual partner data from surveys and the year-end MEL process, as well as partners' annual data, and assisting in creating reports for various Maliasili departments.

4. Fostering Learning from Maliasili’s MEL

   • Support the creation of data visualisations

   • Assist in presenting the findings to the team in a clear and engaging manner.

   • Participate in internal capacity building and learning sessions with the MEL team.

5. Support the MEL team in delivering MEL organizational development support to partners. This may include:

   • Developing and delivering workshop sessions on MEL basics to our partner organisations

   • Understanding Partners MEL work and assisting in providing ongoing technical assistance to partners on designing and implementing their own MEL systems include strengthening their impact indicators, data collection tools etc.

6. Additional activities or opportunities that may emerge during the fellowship.

Learning Benefits for the Fellow:

• Gain hands-on experience with MEL systems in a conservation context.

• Learn how to assess the quality and relevance of indicators from partners context

• Build technical skills in Salesforce, data analysis, and visualization tools.

• Exposure to partner engagement, feedback, and capacity strengthening processes.

• Contribute to sector-wide learning on effective MEL practices.

Application Requirements, Skills, and Experience

• Citizen of an East African country, under the age of 35.

• Interest and training in data management, analysis, and reporting.

• Passion for working with data and helping non-experts engage with data to understand what it means.

• Highly detail-oriented, diligent, and focused on ensuring high-quality management of data

• Analytical mindset. Well organized, self-motivated, and able to work independently in a remote working environment. 

• Eagerness to learn. Open mind and willingness to spend time learning new systems and ways of working. 

• Passion for the environment. Interest in learning more about community conservation and the organization Maliasili supports.

What we Offer

• A fun, dynamic, and collaborative work environment where you work with colleagues across many different countries with many different partners. 

• Opportunity for professional development in conducting monitoring, evaluation, and learning practices in the not-for-profit sector.

• Flexible working patterns: We work full-time hours but you can adapt those hours to best suit you and the work. 

• We work remotely.

• We will provide a computer and access to all the software, technology, and training you need to do your job.

• There is a financial stipend to support this fellowship.