CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.  These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world.  Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe.  Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Objective

The female-only internship program is a one-year program with the primary objectives of empowering young female graduates and impacting the organization's gender parity that provides emerging female talents an opportunity to apply knowledge and enhance skills through

Mentoring and coaching, expanding their professional network, working on value-added projects, gaining hands-experience, and getting acquainted with the oriental difference.

I.  Job Summary 

The program Quality and Learning Unit works to ensure the quality and delivery of CARE Ethiopia’s programming. In line with this, the Financial Inclusion-intern will be responsible to assist in all financial inclusion components of CARE programming toward quality design and implementation of initiatives that address women empowerment in CARE Ethiopia. This internship role is mainly aimed at supporting MIS and digitalization of financial inclusion approaches in CARE projects’ programming.

II.  RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

The Financial Inclusion intern will be: 

• Assist CARE Country Office to integrate all its VSLA portfolio to CARE Global VSLA Dash system
• Under the supervision of the Sr. Financial Inclusion Advisor - deliver technical support to all CARE projects on VSLA data collection to VSLA Dash.
• Support project field staff/MEL/ for VSLA Dash data quality check, validation, and submission to the VSLA Dash system
• In collaboration with L4R MEL staff, assist in project VESA data entry to the VSLA Dash system
• Assist in delivering technical support to projects on data collection using KOBO toolkit
• Support in monitoring and reporting projects’ status on their data entry status into the VSLA Dash system
• Participate in reinforcing the digitalization of projects’ financial inclusion activities and provide support when needed
• Support projects on data collection and organization on project learnings and best practices related to financial inclusion
• Attends internal and external meetings whenever it is necessary
• Assist in the filling and documentation of financial inclusion across projects
• Perform other responsibilities as deemed necessary by the direct supervisor and the PQL team.

A) EDUCATION

Required: 

• BA/MA in IT, Management, Accounting, Economics, and related fields with good IT knowledge  

B) WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 0-1 Year Maximum

C) TECHNICAL and PERSONAL SKILLS

Required:

• Good written and verbal language skills in Amharic and English 
• Ability to work in a stressful situation, can do multitask, excellent analytical/ statistical skill, very good writing skill, team player and problem solver
• Team player, flexible and ability to work under multi cultural working setting
• Quick learning ability, communication, and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to meet deadlines

D) COMPETENCIES

• Courage, accountability, respect, excellence, planning and organizing, initiating action, innovation, interpersonal skill, stress tolerance.

E) LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED

• This internship position is in Addis Ababa with limited travel to project intervention areas. 

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.