Africa Board Fellowship Intern – Accion International – Cambridge, MA

The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion has launched a new fellowship program, the Africa Board Fellowship Program (ABF), that connects board members and CEOs through peer learning and exchange to strengthen the governance of financial institutions serving low-income clients in sub-Saharan Africa. This regional fellowship focuses on strengthening governance, improving risk management practices, and building strategic leadership abilities.

The Africa Board Fellowship Intern will support the coordination of the upcoming in-person seminars which will take place in Spring 2016. He/she will work on the monitoring and evaluation (MEL) data collection and analysis of our online platform. In addition he/she will work on improving our online/virtual engagement strategy.

We are looking for a part-time intern to work 10-12 hours per week, from March through May 2016. We are looking to hire immediately so apply today!

Responsibilities:
Provide overall support to the coordination of the fellowship program in the areas of communications and monitoring and evaluation (MEL) of the virtual platform and virtual dialogues (webinars). Duties include, but are not limited to, providing website and webinar support, managing our virtual engagement strategy, and various other day-to-day duties.

Support event planning and management.

Support the web platform, its content, and promote the tool through page backstopping, event facilitation, and data monitoring.

Monitor and track page traffic, RSS feed, discussion forums, and status updates to identify trending topics and new content; as well as track and respond to questions, queries and comments.

Assist in scoping, planning and publicizing events (e.g. webinars) in coordination with the Program Coordinator and technical support team (TCB).

Support all IT issues related to webinars, file sharing and document management, etc.

Organize database and contact (salesforce) management.

Support data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or minimum of 1-3 years of office experience required.

Demonstrated event planning and project management skills.

Proficient in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PPT and Outlook) .

Experience with learning and management systems (Blackboard, etc.)

Experience with web platforms strongly preferred

Proven attention to detail.

Proven ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Proven ability to multitask and prioritize as needed.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Demonstrated knowledge in the area of financial inclusion, investment vehicles and funds, governance, and risk preferred.

Ability to work in a constantly changing environment.

Excellent at multi-tasking with a positive, can-do attitude.

Interested in our mission and working globally.

Willingness to embody our values of excellence, respect and passion for social change.