Remote Job Opportunity as an External Evaluator at Internews

Internews offers a remote job opportunity as a Mid-Term External Evaluator. Journalists and independent media outlets based in Southeastern and Central Europe work in challenging environments characterized by media ownership concentration, job insecurity, and hostility from state and non-state actors in the form of digital targeting and espionage. Many of these journalists, particularly freelancers, do not have support to address such threats, and as a result, are often ill-equipped to respond to increasingly complex online attacks. Internews has launched a new initiative designed to support local journalists (with a focus on freelance journalists) and small independent media outlets in Southeastern and Central Europe by helping them prevent, mitigate, and respond to online attacks by combining proven digital safety training methods with state-of-the-art, innovative scenario-based trainings.  

You will be responsible for:

• Consolidate results by synthesizing past reports as well as collecting new data through a survey, interviews with key staff, partners, and fellows.
• Capture lessons learned and the effectiveness of the project. In addition to reporting what the project delivered, it is also important to learn how it operated and whether it is on track to meet all objectives. By interviewing project staff and partners about how the work unfolded, the evaluation will seek to understand operational challenges (including adaptations related to the COVID-19 pandemic) and identify where things could have been handled better or differently.
• Formulate recommendations. The evaluation should gather lessons from experience in light of emerging trends and issues in journalist security in Central and Southeastern Europe, capturing and consolidating these as recommendations. Recommendations will be prepared in collaboration with Internews staff to ensure they are relevant and useful.
• The evaluation will comprise an estimated 12-15 days of work, and involve the following elements:
• Desk Review (2-3 days). This will involve reviewing quarterlies and other documentation that the project produced to track the evolution of the project as a whole.
• Data Collection and Analysis (3-5 days). In order to gather feedback from a wide range of project participants, formulate a survey or questionnaire to be disseminated to project partners, key communities, and key project stakeholders. Additionally, conduct a series of in-depth interviews or focus group discussions with project staff, subgrantees, fellows, and/or beneficiaries. Internews will provide introductions as necessary.
• Writing the Report (5-7 days). Outside of the work to analyze interviews and compile information from documentation, approximately 5-7 days will be needed to draft the report.
• The final product will be a 10-12-page report (not including appendices). The body of the report will provide a narrative description of results achieved, operational lessons, and recommendations. Where appropriate, it will also include illustrative graphs and charts that provide useful summaries of project data. Appendices will provide detail such as cross-tabulations from reviewing quarterly reports and interviews, as well as a list of people interviewed, and survey results (if any), so readers can clearly see the data that supports the findings and conclusions.

You must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, graduate degree preferred.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English.
• Demonstrated experience conducting evaluations of advocacy and human rights programs, particularly for US donors.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, writing, and communication skills.
• Experience in the field of digital rights and internet freedom is preferred.

About Internews:

Internews, an international nonprofit organization, operates with administrative centers in California, Washington DC, London, and Paris, as well as regional hubs in Bangkok and Nairobi. Formed in 1982, Internews has worked in more than 100 countries and currently has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.

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