Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

  Ghana

Cape Coast

Term: Throughout the year 
Durations of Program: 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks

Description: The successful volunteer or intern must have good writing, research and monitoring and evaluating skills. She/He will be in-charge of the monitoring and evaluation component of our new youth focused newspaper project - Youth Alive!

The intern/volunteer will help develop monitoring and evaluation tools to measure the success or otherwise of the project and help keep everyone on track.

Overall Project Objective:

To widen the political and social space in which Ghanaian youth are permitted to actively engage with social, cultural, environmental and governance issues in a manner that is characterized by diversity, independence and critical thinking.

Expected Outcomes:

We are ultimately trying to create an environment in which youth feel comfortable and safe expressing their independent ideas, criticisms and solutions. This is expected to directly counteract the disillusionment currently growing among the youth. It is also expected that in the long-term youth engagement will necessarily lead to greater government concern around youth issues.

In the interim, we expect to give youth the chance to develop valuable life skills, like critical thinking, leadership skills, and confidence in one's own voice. These skills, regardless of the newspaper, will then be available to youth to use within their own communities towards organizing and engaging others.

Highlights: The incumbent will travel through the six region (Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Eastern, Volta and Central Regions) which the project will take place. She/He will work with the project coordinator and other project staff to run the Youth Engagement Workshops which are key to the project.

Qualifications: Education: minimum diploma in Journalism, degree in mass communication or related field.

Minimum Education: Diploma/Certification

Cost in US$: 120US$ per week

Travel Information: We will help with letters and other information towards visa acquisition, but prospective volunteers bear all cost including air fare and insurance. Personal cost to prospective volunteers will amount to some 10$ a day depending on lifestyle.

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 17-30

This Program is open to World Wide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Ghana Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

Abusua Foundation's Mission Statement: Abusua Foundation exists to create opportunities for young people to learn, share and develop skills necessary for personal and communal wealth. Abusua Foundation is a youth led non-government organization that focuses on youth development as a means of securing equal rights across society. The foundation's mission is to work with and mold the individual who takes care of others without discrimination; and to learn through all good means available to us towards impacting, sharing and shedding knowledge in the empowerment enterprise.

Year Founded: 2003