Programme Quality and Research Intern job at Restless Development

About Restless Development:

Restless Development Uganda is an agency for youth-led change; we support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilize action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realize their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

Our approach to safeguarding:

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognize that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the Role:

The Programme Quality & research Intern will support the Programme Quality Manager and programme teams to strengthen programme quality, monitoring, learning, documentation, and reporting. The intern will provide day-to-day technical and administrative support to ensure that programme information is well organized, basic quality checks are conducted, learning is documented, and routine programme quality tasks are completed on time.

This is a support role intended for a person who is learning and growing in programme quality, monitoring, evaluation, research, and documentation. The intern will not carry overall strategic, supervisory, or final accountability responsibilities, but will contribute to the efficiency and quality of programme operations.

Job Title: Programme Quality & Research Intern

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Monthly Stipend: UGX.510,000

Preferred start date: August 2026

Duration: 6 Months

Expected travel: Fairly regular domestic travel

Key responsibilities

1. Support to Programme Quality and Monitoring

• Support the Programme Quality Manager to organize programme quality documents, tools, trackers, and reporting templates.
• Assist in reviewing routine programme data for completeness, consistency, and accuracy before submission.
• Support the compilation of monthly, quarterly, and activity-based programme updates from different teams.
• Help update monitoring trackers, indicator performance sheets, action trackers, and other programme quality tools.
• Support follow-up with programme teams on missing information, overdue reports, and incomplete data.
• Assist in preparing materials for programme review meetings, learning sessions, and reflection workshops.
• Participate in basic data cleaning, data entry checks, and filing of monitoring documents.

1. Support to Reporting and Documentation

• Support drafting routine internal reports, meeting notes, activity summaries, and simple donor reporting inputs.
• Assist in compiling success stories, lessons learned, case studies, and other documentation products.
• Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy files for reports, tools, assessments, and supporting documents.
• Support the preparation of presentations, summaries, and briefing notes required by the Programme Quality Manager.
• Help ensure programme documents are properly named, stored, and easy to retrieve.

1. Support to Research and Learning

• Support the coordination of programme learning and youth-led research activities where required.
• Assist with literature reviews, transcription follow-up, data organisation, and documentation of findings.
• Support preparation of research tools, consent forms, attendance sheets, and workshop materials.
• Help compile research notes, stakeholder feedback, and workshop outputs into clear summaries.
• Assist in documenting learning from programme implementation to inform continuous improvement.

1. Support to Programme Implementation Follow-up

• Support tracking of implementation plans, activity schedules, and action points related to programme quality.
• Assist in preparing for field visits, supervision visits, and partner follow-up meetings.
• Join selected field visits where necessary to support note-taking, documentation, and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Support verification of basic programme records such as attendance lists, training reports, and monitoring forms.
• Help ensure that programme teams are using approved templates and tools.

1. Support to Knowledge Management and Coordination

• Support the maintenance of programme databases, contact lists, and knowledge repositories.
• Assist with organizing shared folders and learning materials for easy access by teams.
• Support communication and coordination between programme, research, and reporting functions where needed.
• Perform other reasonable support duties assigned by the Programme Quality Manager in line with the internship purpose.

1. Others responsibilities

• Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.

Deliverables

The Programme Quality & Research Intern will be expected to deliver the following:

• Updated programme quality trackers on a routine basis.
• Organized filing system for programme quality documents and reports.
• Compiled monthly and quarterly reporting inputs from programme teams.
• Meeting notes and action trackers for programme quality meetings.
• Clean and well-organized datasets or monitoring records assigned to them.
• Simple summaries of field visits, learning sessions, and review meetings.
• Draft documentation products such as success stories, lessons learned, and activity briefs.
• Timely follow-up on missing data, incomplete reports, and pending documentation.
• Administrative and technical support to research, monitoring, and reporting processes.

Expected Results

By the end of the internship, the Programme Quality & Research Intern should have contributed to:

• Better organisation of programme quality documents and reporting files.
• More timely submission of routine programme & research information.
• Improved completeness and consistency of monitoring data.
• Better documentation of learning, field activities, and programme results.
• Stronger support to the Programme Quality Manager in day-to-day programme quality functions.

Personal Qualities

The ideal candidate should be:

• Eager to learn and open to feedback.
• Organised and dependable.
• Proactive in following up tasks.
• Professional in communication and conduct.
• Able to work well with others.
• Committed to safeguarding and organisational values.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Project Planning and Management, or a related field; or final-year student/recent graduate in a relevant discipline.
• Interest in programme quality, monitoring and evaluation, research, and learning.
• Basic understanding of data collection, documentation, and reporting processes.
• Good writing, organisation, and communication skills.
• Good attention to detail and ability to follow instructions.
• Basic skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and email communication.
• Willingness to learn and work in a youthful, fast-paced development environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle information responsibly.

Desirable

• Volunteer, or academic experience in NGO or development work.
• Basic experience with data tools such as Kobo, Excel trackers, or simple databases.
• Experience in report writing, note-taking, or documentation.
• Interest in youth-led programming and learning processes.

Values and Culture

At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognized by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognizing and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.

Work-life Balance

It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognize the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:

• 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
• Birthday Leave
• Access to flexible working.
• Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.

Professional Development

Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognizes potential and invests in the development of its staff. We are committed to the professional development of our staff through:

• Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff allowing them to develop on-the-job.
• Regular performance management.
• Training and development opportunities, including supporting our staff to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
• Quarterly Staff Workshops for all staff to give and receive agency updates, receive training, and socialize.

Travel and Medical Insurance

When travelling abroad with work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development’s travel and medical insurance.

• Support the Programme Quality Manager to organize programme quality documents, tools, trackers, and reporting templates.
• Assist in reviewing routine programme data for completeness, consistency, and accuracy before submission.
• Support the compilation of monthly, quarterly, and activity-based programme updates from different teams.
• Help update monitoring trackers, indicator performance sheets, action trackers, and other programme quality tools.
• Support follow-up with programme teams on missing information, overdue reports, and incomplete data.
• Assist in preparing materials for programme review meetings, learning sessions, and reflection workshops.
• Participate in basic data cleaning, data entry checks, and filing of monitoring documents.
• Support drafting routine internal reports, meeting notes, activity summaries, and simple donor reporting inputs.
• Assist in compiling success stories, lessons learned, case studies, and other documentation products.
• Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy files for reports, tools, assessments, and supporting documents.
• Support the preparation of presentations, summaries, and briefing notes required by the Programme Quality Manager.
• Help ensure programme documents are properly named, stored, and easy to retrieve.
• Support the coordination of programme learning and youth-led research activities where required.
• Assist with literature reviews, transcription follow-up, data organisation, and documentation of findings.
• Support preparation of research tools, consent forms, attendance sheets, and workshop materials.
• Help compile research notes, stakeholder feedback, and workshop outputs into clear summaries.
• Assist in documenting learning from programme implementation to inform continuous improvement.
• Support tracking of implementation plans, activity schedules, and action points related to programme quality.
• Assist in preparing for field visits, supervision visits, and partner follow-up meetings.
• Join selected field visits where necessary to support note-taking, documentation, and follow-up of agreed actions.
• Support verification of basic programme records such as attendance lists, training reports, and monitoring forms.
• Help ensure that programme teams are using approved templates and tools.
• Support the maintenance of programme databases, contact lists, and knowledge repositories.
• Assist with organizing shared folders and learning materials for easy access by teams.
• Support communication and coordination between programme, research, and reporting functions where needed.
• Perform other reasonable support duties assigned by the Programme Quality Manager in line with the internship purpose.
• Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.

• Good writing, organisation, and communication skills.
• Good attention to detail and ability to follow instructions.
• Basic skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and email communication.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle information responsibly.
• Basic understanding of data collection, documentation, and reporting processes.
• Interest in programme quality, monitoring and evaluation, research, and learning.
• Willingness to learn and work in a youthful, fast-paced development environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Project Planning and Management, or a related field; or final-year student/recent graduate in a relevant discipline.
• Volunteer, or academic experience in NGO or development work.
• Basic experience with data tools such as Kobo, Excel trackers, or simple databases.
• Experience in report writing, note-taking, or documentation.
• Interest in youth-led programming and learning processes.