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NGO & UN interviews
For project and programme officers, M&E officers, community mobilisers, protection and WASH staff and field assistants applying to national and international NGOs and UN agencies. You will learn how competency-based panels score, the words and principles they listen for, how the written test works, and how to answer the community, monitoring and safeguarding questions that come up every time.
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Lessons
- 1What NGO and UN panels look forUp nextCompetency scoring against the vacancy notice, humanitarian principles, safeguarding, donor words, field realities, the written test, and why you never pay for a job.6 min
- 2A community that did not trust you, or elders pressing to change a listThe community engagement question: understand the groups, make the criteria public, hold the line politely when pressed, report it, and close the loop with numbers.6 min
- 3How would you monitor this project's results?Outputs versus outcomes, indicators with a baseline and target, how data is collected and checked in the field, and how to report a shortfall honestly.6 min
- 4You suspect a colleague of exploitation or of taking money from beneficiariesThe safeguarding question: make the person safe, report the same day through the PSEA channel, do not investigate or confront, keep it confidential, and prevent it every day.6 min
Role guides
Pick the role closest to the job you want: its questions, technical topics and practical tasks.
- Project officerProject assistant, project officer, project associate, national programme officer at NGOs and UN agencies7 questions · 10 topics
- M&E / MEALM&E officer, MEAL assistant, MEAL officer, data collection assistant, information management assistant7 questions · 12 topics
- Programme coordinatorProgramme coordinator, project manager, programme manager, area coordinator, base or field coordinator7 questions · 11 topics
- Field officerField officer, field assistant, community mobiliser, enumerator, protection monitor, field monitor7 questions · 11 topics
Module quiz
10 questions drawn from these lessons. You see why each answer is right straight away. Your best score stays on this device.