Nutrition MERL Intern
- Career Category: Monitoring & Evaluation, Internship, Community Development, Social Work, Research / Development
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
PROJECT OR DIVISION TLTN Program
REPORTS TO MERL Officer
LOCATION Based in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap, based on need, with travel to the province/community where the project is operated.
PURPOSE
The Nutrition MERL Intern will support monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning efforts across Transforming Lives interventions, with an emphasis on improving data quality, organization, and decision-making. The overall goal of this internship is to strengthen evidence-based program management while building the intern’s applied MERL skills in data collection, analysis, and learning systems within an INGO context. Illustrative deliverables may include cleaned and validated datasets, updated indicator-tracking tools, simple data visualizations, learning notes, and structured inputs for donor and internal reports.
DURATION
We are open to offering a 1-year contract, as discussed.
COMPENSATION
The Intern will receive a monthly gross stipend of USD 300, inclusive of NSSF and private insurance coverage. In addition, iDE Cambodia will cover all authorized travel to the provinces in accordance with standard organizational rates and policies, provided that such travel aligns with approved project objectives and activities.
- The Nutrition MERL Intern will work closely with project MERL staff to support routine monitoring, data management, and learning activities.
- Support routine data collection, cleaning, validation, and entry into project databases.
- Maintain and update indicator tracking tools and monitoring dashboards.
- Assist with surveys, FGD, assessments, and research activities, including field support as needed.
- Support basic data analysis and visualization (tables, charts, simple dashboards).
- Compile MERL inputs for monthly, quarterly, and donor reports.
- Assist in documenting lessons learned, case studies, and learning notes.
- Support periodic field monitoring visits to verify data quality and implementation progress.
- Assist the MERL team in strengthening data organization and filing systems.
- Gain sustained, hands-on experience within active INGO programs across nutrition, evaluation, monitoring and learning, communications, and entrepreneurship, with meaningful exposure to both field and country-office operations
- Build market-relevant technical and professional competencies through structured assignments, applied learning, and real-world problem solving over a 12-month placement.
- Develop a strong portfolio of tangible outputs—such as analytical reports, cleaned datasets, learning products, human-interest stories, and event concepts—that demonstrate applied skills to future employers.
- Receive structured supervision, mentoring, and regular performance feedback to support professional growth and career development.
- Strengthen employability through direct exposure to donor standards, compliance requirements, and best practices in international development programming.
- Expand professional networks and obtain credible references through close collaboration with experienced development practitioners and technical leads.
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Applied Research, or other relevant areas
- Knowledge in the use of and support for mobile phone applications for data collection
- Knowledge of technology and software for data management
- Good understanding of research principles, practices, process, and implementation
- Assist in coordinating, compiling data, and preparing reports
- Ability to maintain accurate and up-to-date records
- Willing to work in a field setting and support diverse project activities.
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage with the community and team members.
- Passion for improving nutrition outcomes and contributing to the project outcome.
Nutrition Technical Intern
- Career Category: Health/Medical, Food Science, Internship
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
PROJECT OR DIVISION TLTN Project
REPORTS TO Project Manager
LOCATION Based in Siem Reap province, with travel to the province/community where the project is operated.
PURPOSE
The Nutrition Technical Intern will provide hands-on technical support to nutrition-sensitive interventions under iDE Cambodia’s TLTN program, with a particular focus on school feeding, community-based nutrition activities, and the integration of nutrition across agriculture, WASH, entrepreneurship, and social behavior change communication. The overall goal of the internship is to strengthen the quality and consistency of nutrition implementation while building the intern’s capacity to apply nutrition theory in real-world, multi-sectoral development programming. Illustrative deliverables may include summarized monitoring reports of school feeding activities, compiled datasets from nutrition spot checks, draft inputs for donor reports, and well-documented field observations highlighting lessons learned and implementation challenges.
DURATION
We are open to offering a 1-year contract, as discussed.
COMPENSATION
The Intern will receive a monthly gross stipend of USD 300, inclusive of NSSF and private insurance coverage. In addition, iDE Cambodia will cover all authorized travel to the provinces in accordance with standard organizational rates and policies, provided that such travel aligns with approved project objectives and activities.
- The Nutrition Technical Intern will support day-to-day nutrition-related programming through implementation support, monitoring, documentation, and coordination with field teams and partners.
- Support implementation of nutrition-sensitive activities, including school feeding, food safety in school, and community-based nutrition interventions.
- Assist in monitoring food preparation, hygiene practices, and meal quality against project standards.
- Support collection and compilation of nutrition-related monitoring data (e.g., attendance, meal coverage, basic indicators).
- Assist with nutrition assessments, surveys, and spot checks under supervision.
- Document nutrition activities, challenges, and lessons learned from field visits.
- Contribute nutrition-related inputs to monthly, quarterly, and donor reports.
- Support coordination with schools, teachers, community groups, and local stakeholders.
- Assist in reviewing and developing simple nutrition education or behavior change materials.
- Support the project team to conduct a community event on nutrition-related topics.
- Gain sustained, hands-on experience within active INGO programs across nutrition, evaluation, monitoring and learning, communications, and entrepreneurship, with meaningful exposure to both field and country-office operations
- Build market-relevant technical and professional competencies through structured assignments, applied learning, and real-world problem solving over a 12-month placement.
- Develop a strong portfolio of tangible outputs—such as analytical reports, cleaned datasets, learning products, human-interest stories, and event concepts—that demonstrate applied skills to future employers.
- Receive structured supervision, mentoring, and regular performance feedback to support professional growth and career development.
- Strengthen employability through direct exposure to donor standards, compliance requirements, and best practices in international development programming.
- Expand professional networks and obtain credible references through close collaboration with experienced development practitioners and technical leads.
- Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Science, or related fields.
- Knowledge of nutrition-sensitive issues: Understanding of how agriculture and WASH intersect with nutrition.
- Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret nutrition-related data.
- Willing to work in a field setting and support diverse project activities.
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage with the community and team members.
- Passion for improving nutrition outcomes and contributing to the project outcome.
Nutrition Communications and Knowledge Management Intern
- Career Category: Sales / Marketing, Communications, Media, Internship
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
PROJECT OR DIVISION Communications and Knowledge Management
REPORTS TO Senior Manager, Communications and Knowledge Management
LOCATION Based in Phnom Penh with trips to provinces where iDE operates
PURPOSE
The CKM Intern will enhance the quality, consistency, and visibility of project communications by supporting storytelling, documentation, and knowledge sharing related to nutrition programming among others. The overall goal of the internship is to strengthen donor and stakeholder engagement while building the intern’s professional skills in communication for development, knowledge management, and donor-focused reporting. Illustrative deliverables may include polished human-interest stories, photo essays, draft newsletter content, organized communications libraries, and presentation materials highlighting project impact and learning.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The CKM Intern is structured under the iDE Cambodia Communication and Knowledge Management Department and reports directly to CKM Senior Manager. The CKM Intern will also liaise with communication points of contact from nutrition focused projects.
DURATION
We are open to offering a 1-year contract, as discussed.
COMPENSATION
The Intern will receive a monthly gross stipend of USD 300, inclusive of NSSF and private insurance coverage. In addition, iDE Cambodia will cover all authorized travel to the provinces in accordance with standard organizational rates and policies, provided that such travel aligns with approved project objectives and activities.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Nutrition Communications and Knowledge Management Intern will support internal and external communications and systematic documentation of project results and learning.
- Knowledge generation, dissemination, and documentation
- Draft and edit project success stories, case studies, and field updates.
- Collect, organize, and curate photos, quotes, and success stories from field teams.
- Assist in preparing communication materials such as factsheets, briefs, and presentations.
- Support preparation of donor communications, newsletters, and reporting inputs.
- Support development of content for the website and social media platforms, where applicable.
- Maintain and organize a structured communications and knowledge management library.
- Undertake additional tasks as directed by the supervisor.
- Coordination, Collaboration and Networking
- Support documentation of cross-project learning related to nutrition interventions.
- Assist project managers to produce and summit timely donor reports on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis, as needed.
- Liaise with project focal points at provincial level to collect project activity updates, process the information collected, and disseminate information to increase coverage and better capture the results and learning.
- Work closely with the project teams to produce regular contents and materials for the social media platforms and internal sharing within iDE Cambodia and iDE Global.
- Gain sustained, hands-on experience within active INGO programs across nutrition, evaluation, monitoring and learning, communications, and entrepreneurship, with meaningful exposure to both field and country-office operations
- Build market-relevant technical and professional competencies through structured assignments, applied learning, and real-world problem solving over a 12-month placement.
- Develop a strong portfolio of tangible outputs—such as analytical reports, cleaned datasets, learning products, human-interest stories, and event concepts—that demonstrate applied skills to future employers.
- Receive structured supervision, mentoring, and regular performance feedback to support professional growth and career development.
- Strengthen employability through direct exposure to donor standards, compliance requirements, and best practices in international development programming.
- Expand professional networks and obtain credible references through close collaboration with experienced development practitioners and technical leads.
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
- Bachelor's Degree in media and communication, journalism, marketing, international studies, or young professionals currently enrolled
- Master's Degree in areas of Communication, Nutrition, or Public Health
- Basic graphic design skills and slide deck development.
- Familiarity with graphic design apps/programs such as Canva and Adobe.
- Photography and video editing skills would be an advantage.
- Experience working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- Strong English and Khmer language skills, both written and spoken.
- Creativity, impact orientation, and an entrepreneurial spirit in her/his attitude and approach.
- Curious and nurtures a culture of learning, including openness about failure and areas for improvement and growth.
- Enthusiastically embraces new ideas and thrives when exploring unfamiliar, forward-thinking ways of working.
- Excellent communication, presentation and problem-solving skills.
- Collaborative and thrives in a team environment where ideas build on one another.
- Willingness to take risks and manage time flexibly to meet evolving project needs.
- Able to work in a multicultural team.
- High level of empathy, care, respect and patience.
- Demonstrates honesty, integrity, and strong work ethic.
- Willingness to take on additional areas of responsibility relevant to the role.
- A high level of commitment to iDE’s values and objectives.
Nutrition Entrepreneurship Support Intern
- Career Category: Business Administration, Internship
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $300
PROJECT OR DIVISION iDE Innovation Lab and SHE
REPORTS TO To be determined
LOCATION Based in Phnom Penh with trips to provinces where iDE operates
DURATION
We are open to offering a 1-year contract, as discussed.
COMPENSATION
The Intern will receive a monthly gross stipend of USD 300, inclusive of NSSF and private insurance coverage. In addition, iDE Cambodia will cover all authorized travel to the provinces in accordance with standard organizational rates and policies, provided that such travel aligns with approved project objectives and activities.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This position will be responsible for supporting two teams within iDE: the Innovation Lab and SHE teams.(The scope and emphasis of responsibilities may evolve over time. New tasks may be added, and existing ones may be adjusted as needed.)
- SHE
- Support the team in conducting desk research, developing strategies, and shaping concepts to strengthen market actors and entrepreneurs within the TLTN intervention
- Assist in the ongoing assessment and adaptation of the SHE curriculum and approach to better align with TLTN objectives
- Support the planning and coordination of internal workshops, team reflections, and learning sessions throughout the intervention
- Contribute to field-level activities, including basic assessments, data collection, and documentation of learnings
- Innovation Lab
- Contribute to and support the implementation of nutrition-focused interventions.
- Support field research activities, including logistics preparation, participant recruitment, field data collection, data analysis and synthesis, and compilation of research findings.
- Collaborate with the team in presenting and disseminating findings and key learnings.
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Meaningful contributions to the development and refinement of intervention approaches through research, field insights, and testing
- Effective support in organizing workshops, engaging entrepreneurs, and facilitating cross-team communication
- Timely and clear documentation of activities, learnings, and recommendations
- Note
- The ideal candidate should be flexible and willing to travel across provinces to support field implementation and engagement activities
- Gain sustained, hands-on experience within active INGO programs across nutrition, evaluation, monitoring and learning, communications, and entrepreneurship, with meaningful exposure to both field and country-office operations
- Build market-relevant technical and professional competencies through structured assignments, applied learning, and real-world problem solving over a 12-month placement.
- Develop a strong portfolio of tangible outputs—such as analytical reports, cleaned datasets, learning products, human-interest stories, and event concepts—that demonstrate applied skills to future employers.
- Receive structured supervision, mentoring, and regular performance feedback to support professional growth and career development.
- Strengthen employability through direct exposure to donor standards, compliance requirements, and best practices in international development programming.
- Expand professional networks and obtain credible references through close collaboration with experienced development practitioners and technical leads.
- Bachelor's Degree
- Undergraduate Degree in Business Management, Commerce, event management, or related fields
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage with the community and team members.
- Willing to work in a field setting and support diverse project activities.
- Passion for improving nutrition outcomes and contributing to the project goal.
- Flexible and willing to travel across the project’s targeted provinces to support the project implementation and engagement activities.
- Is optimistic, passionate, dynamic, and curious
- Is a fast learner and very hands on
- Brings a positive attitude to the team and doesn’t take themselves too seriously
- Is driven by a social mission
- Has cultural sensitivity and respect towards unfamiliar contexts
- Has a flexible mindset, is agile and adaptive, and at the same time takes into account their capacity, deadlines and limitations
- Has excellent time management
- Can embrace uncertainty and manage stress
- Will challenge the status quo to create creative solutions
