Program assistant Jobs in Spruce Grove, AB

Online placement (E-Volunteer)

Partner Location: Peru

Start Date: July/August 2026

Placement Length: 5 Months

Language Requirements: Spanish Level 4-Advanced

Please submit a Spanish Resume and Statement of Interest

Eligibility: Open to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada only

The E-Volunteer’s Role

As a Knowledge Management and Learning Advisor, you will support Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in reviewing and organizing documentation from four projects completed in 2025. Working remotely with the partner team, you will help identify key achievements, lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities for improvement. Your support will contribute to stronger program learning, better documentation of results, and more effective future interventions with underserved groups in Peru.

As an e-volunteer, you will support the organization through the following activities:

• Review project implementation documents from four projects completed in 2025, including final reports, activity reports, success stories, and related materials.
• Organize and synthesize information to identify key achievements, results, challenges, lessons learned, and promising practices.
• Support the partner team in developing a clear systematization approach that captures what worked well, what could be improved, and why.
• Help prepare a concise learning summary or systematization report that can inform future project design, implementation, and partner decision-making.
• Provide practical recommendations to strengthen documentation, knowledge management, and learning processes for future interventions.
• Collaborate remotely with partner staff to clarify information needs, validate findings, and ensure the final outputs are useful and accessible.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, political science, social sciences, international development, public policy, or a related field.
• Advanced Spanish skills, including the ability to review technical documents and provide clear written feedback.

Essential Background:

• Experience with social projects, community development, program documentation, knowledge management, or monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Knowledge of NGO programming, project reporting, or results-based learning processes.
• Ability to synthesize information, identify lessons learned, and communicate findings in a clear and practical way.
• Comfort working remotely and collaboratively with partners across cultures and time zones.

About E-Volunteering

Make a global impact right from your home! With Cuso International's e-volunteering program, you can collaborate with diverse partners and local volunteers, contribute to meaningful projects, and enhance your professional skills, all while maintaining a flexible schedule. E-volunteers should have basic home office equipment, a reliable internet connection, and moderate computer skills. If you're volunteering with partners in remote areas where internet access is limited, it's important to demonstrate flexibility and patience.

Broaden your horizons and make a difference by joining Cuso International's e-volunteering program today!

About Us, the Project and the Partner

Cuso International (Cuso) is an international cooperation and development organization based in Canada that works to create social and economic opportunities for equity-deserving groups. Building on over sixty years of impactful work, we address global challenges by tackling the root causes of inequality. Working alongside our partners, we are focused on efforts to improve economic resilience, advance equity and inclusion for all, and deliver progress on climate action. We believe that by sharing skills, we can build better futures. Guided by our values of courage, inclusion, sustainability and accountability, Cuso combines innovative strategies and enduring partnerships to create lasting, meaningful change in communities across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.

Project: Sharing Canadian Expertise for Inclusive Development and Gender Equality (SHARE)

Partner: Centro Bartolome de las Casas