Uganda Chimpanzee Monitoring and Evaluation Intern

Salary Range: £22,310 per annum

Start Date: late August or early September

Duration of Contract: 3 months

Location: Fauna & Flora, Cambridge.

Current policy offers partial remote working with the UK

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established
international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the
planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this
through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions
that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a
trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

Impact monitoring plays a key role in conservation management – to ensure effective delivery of
projects – and is something that donors are increasingly interested in seeing. This internship
will provide an opportunity for someone at the start of their conservation career to gain
experience in the design, development and implementation of robust project Monitoring
Evaluation and Learning (MEL) processes, developing skills in data handling and management
essential for assessing impact of project activities.

This internship will support current work to design and deliver MEL at the project level and
across the Africa programme portfolio, by helping to support establishing systems and processes
that enable the analysis and presentation of data gathered as part of Fauna & Flora’s work
in Uganda.

As part of our work in Uganda, members of the community have been collecting data on chimpanzee
sightings, threats and human-wildlife conflict. However, the systems and methods used to
collect this data have changed over time, making comparing data between years and identifying
conservation impact achieved challenging. This inconsistency in data management is a challenge
faced across Fauna & Flora that we are seeking to address.

During this internship, you will work with the Uganda team, who have been working alongside
partners to conserve chimpanzees in a human-dominated landscape since 2014, and the
Conservation Design & Impact (CDI) team, who aim to support and increase biodiversity
conservation impact across Fauna & Flora’s global portfolio and the communities and
partners with whom we work. Working with both teams, you will help ensure that
community-gathered chimpanzee datasets are utilised to their full potential to maximise impact
of the project. You will focus on cleaning, analysing and presenting existing data, as well as
ensuring that future data collection systems allow for updated analysis to be conducted quickly
and easily. You will work closely with the Uganda Team to ensure that anything developed fits
their current and future needs but learnings from your work will also be applied to other Fauna
& Flora projects.

You will learn about the importance of impact monitoring to conservation projects, as well as
specific technical skills in data analysis and presentation, in particular, geographic
information system (GIS) skills. You will learn about chimpanzee conservation, particularly the
issues facing the species in a subsistence farming-dominated landscape. Finally, you will learn
how a busy international NGO works, and have the opportunity to build networks in the sector.

Note that this internship has been designed to create a professional development opportunity
for people who are new to the conservation sector. Therefore, applicants should have less than
two years paid or unpaid experience in the conservation sector (not including academic work).

This role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.

The closing date for applications is 28 June 2024. Interviews are likely to
take place during the week commencing 15 July 2024.