Meet our team
You can read more about our values in our Code of Ethics and Our Approach pages.
Dr. Ali Farid
Data Scientist
Ali is a Turkey-based. Having knowledge in areas ranging through machine learning, time series analysis, and natural language processing (NLP). This, merged with the love of data and eagerness to help people, makes him a perfect fit at Arqaam.
He speaks Persian, English and Turkish.
Dr. Anna-Esther Younes
Researcher and Policy Writer
Anna is a Berlin-based independent researcher and academic focusing on critical theory, race critical theories, gender and sexuality, cultural theory, settler /colonial theories and psychoanalysis. She works as a lay-judge in Berlin and she still carries her dog Toni everywhere in hear heart. She strongly believes in not eating animals and believes that education and radical politics of emancipation are a way to improve this world.
She speaks German, English, French, and broken Arabic.
Ann-Katrina Bregović
Director/Founder
Katrina is the Lesotho-based M&E and Gender Expert. She founded Arqaam to make a difference in how businesses are run in an ethical way. She strongly believes in making informed decisions based on evidence and how we can harness technology and machine learning to create a positive impact in the world. Katrina strongly believes that we need to fight for a socially just world.
She speaks German and English.
Dr. Annika Schmeding
Researcher and Analyst
Annika is a cultural anthropologist and researcher based in Boston and Istanbul. She believes that social change can come through offering critical analysis and creating emancipatory political, social and cultural initiatives. Having worked in social circus projects from Afghanistan to Thailand, she believes that making knowledge accessible is a creative endeavor that necessitates understanding a multiplicity of perspectives.
She speaks German, Persian and English.
Atria Mier
Gender and M&E Expert
Atria is Madrid-based and strongly believes that feminism applied to development and humanitarian action is an urgent priority. She is thrilled to work for Arqaam, where people are passionate, professional and collaborative.
She speaks Spanish and English.
Barbra Giandinoto
Gender & Civil Society Expert
Barbra has been working for over 15 years in the nonprofit sector in Brazil. She lives between Italy, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro where she is a director at a local women-lead organization that fights systemic racism and violence through cultural and educational projects. Barbra is a storyteller, an artist, a designer, a trans-activist and a thinker and believes the future is queer.
She speaks English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Clara Hagedorn
Working Student
Eric Warui
Junior M&E Expert
Eric is a Monitoring and Evaluation enthusiast based in Kenya. He is passionate about working with community development projects because they possess the power to bring change. His skill-set includes:- designing digital data collection tools, data analysis & visualization, creating logframes and M&E systems.
He speaks Swahili and English.
Francesca Varrenti
Graphic Designer
Francesca is a Italy-based web and graphic designer. She loves to be part of projects that want to make the world a better and more ethical place.
She would like to use her graphic skills to make any complex information easy, attractive and interesting to visualise, helping more people to understand the world we live in.
She speaks Italian and English.
Frederike Engeland
M&E Expert and Researcher
Frederike is a Germany based evaluator excited about evidence informed decision making and – learning. She loves working with youth-led NGOs, CSOs and start ups, including in the fields of civic tech and digital peace building. She specialises in the hard to measure and is interested in further developing existing participatory evaluation techniques to help implementers and beneficiaries identify and report outcomes that they find significant.
She speaks English, French, Portuguese and German.
Germán Reyes Suarez
M&E Expert
Germán is from Seville (Spain), a city where he lives, too. He believes information is beautiful and knowing how to manage and share it is even better. Besides, he is truly convinced humanitarian and development organizations should evidence their work more using M&E tools. .
He speaks Arabic, English, Italian and Spanish.
Hadia Essazada
Operational Manager
Hadia is an Afghan national researcher and project manager based in Washington DC. Her objective is to contribute implementation of programmes with a positive social impact around the world. To do so, she uses management and communication to empower her team by ensuring they have ownership over programme & project outcomes.
She speaks Persian and English.
Heidi Kraak
Communications Coordinator
She speaks English and is learning Turkish.
Kinza Mishal
Independent Consultant
She speaks English, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi.
Micaela Sánchez
Working Student
Micaela is an Ecuadorian political scientist, living in Berlin. She is focused on researching social inequalities, especially those related with gender, climate justice and rural development in countries of the Global South. She is finishing a Masters in Latin American Studies, a region she is passionate about. Micaela believes that an intersectional-decolonial approach to development projects is crucial for sustainable social change.
She speaks Spanish, German, English and basic Portuguese.
Myriam Zekagh
Researcher & Project Manager
Myriam is a French social science researcher and project manager based in Germany. Her objective is to contribute to the design and implementation of programmes with a positive social impact, in and outside of Europe. To do so, she uses management and evaluation methods that empower the targeted populations, by ensuring they have ownership over programme & project outcomes.
She speaks French, English, and German.
Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi
Independent Researcher and Consultant
Paniz is a Leipzig-based independent feminist researcher and consultant in the field of gender, migration and labour (geo)politics. She is passionate about centre-staging marginalised knowledges through decolonising practices and learning transnationally from and with activists and communal stakeholders about sensible and sustainable ways to foster social transformation.
She speaks Farsi, German and English.
Purity Ngare
Health and M&E Expert
Purity is a Kenya-based Sociologist and Psychologist. She has conducted M&E in many African countries – making her a guru in the logframe world. She can accurately discern concepts and situations – either in an under-the-tree-meeting with an African Chief or wading through floods to visit project beneficiaries.
She speaks Kikuyu, Luo, Sesotho, Swahili and English.
Rami Ouanes
Data & Analytics Consultant
Rami is a Tunis-Based Data & Analytics enthusiast with a passion for using data for good causes.
A firm dreamer that a better world is possible through human creativity and capability to use the tools available to improve lives for everyone.
Data & Analytics are amongst those very powerful tools that can concretely help. That’s why he is both excited to be part of the Arqaam team and passionate about Data being used for the right causes.
He speaks French, English and Arabic.
Nour
Critical thinker, social media teacher, VJ
Nour is a critical thinker, social media teacher and video jokey for Arqaam. They are best known for their media work in the “Decolonise This!”-Series, where they host short video essays around colonialism and decolonisation. Nour enjoys presenting their favourite thinkers around issues of race, gender, philosophy and ethics for Arqaam and hopes to contribute to global conversations around current “state of affairs” in the international humanitarian and development world.
Silly the cat
Inspector General
He speaks Arabic, German, English and Italian.
Friends & Alumni
Ali Kolai
Fullstack Developer
Alicia Mietus
M&E/Gender Intern
Basheera Shaik
M&E Intern
Bernadette Geyer
Copy Editor
Daniel Prynne
Communications Coordinator
Dotun Kola-Olaleye
Fullstack Developer
Hiba Karam
M&E Intern
Leila Ruiz
Data Scientist
Linda Ntsiful
M&E Intern
Mariana Santos
Fullstack Developer
Matthew Palmisano
Fullstack Developer
Niloofar Moghaddam Tabrizi
SCRUM Intern
Osheena Dadoo
Fullstack Developer
Philipp Marbach
M&E Expert
Sabina Baltruschat
Data Scientist
Dr. Sara Ghaisari
Data Scientist
Sara Alkeilani
Data Scientist
Sarah Redeligx
M&E Expert
Stephen Braimah
Fullstack Developer
Vanessa Chan
Fullstack Developer
Opportunities
M&E Consultant
We are always looking for expanding our team of consultants we work with. No matter where in the world you are based, as long as you have a strong affinity for Monitoring and Evaluation, paired with a willingness to travel when needed or completely work from home.
Please reach out and send us your latest CV and a short cover letter answering the below questions:
- If anyone (dead or alive) could mentor you for one year, who would it be, and why?
- Why would you like to work with Arqaam?
- What does M&E mean to you?
Intern
No matter in which phase of life you are, still doing your university degree, changing careers, interesting in learning something new (no matter your educational background) we have various options to take interns on board. This can be in the fields of data science, programming and monitoring and evaluation for NGOs.
Please reach out and send us your latest CV and a short cover letter answering the below questions:
- If anyone (dead or alive) could mentor you for one year, who would it be, and why?
- Why would you like to work with Arqaam?
- What does M&E mean to you?
Doing good
In addition to the paid posts we have, we are always looking for like-minded people who are willing to dedicated some of their time to our pro bono work. This can directly helping small or grassroot organisations through our pro bono scheme, or helping us developing new monitoring and evaluation tools for NGOs (to be used free of charge).
Please reach out and send us your latest CV and a short cover letter answering the below questions:
- If anyone (dead or alive) could mentor you for one year, who would it be, and why?
- Why would you like to work with Arqaam?
- What does M&E mean to you?
Working student - monitoring and evaluation
We are looking for a student to support our team in the following tasks (which can be further refined or adjusted with the interests and profile of the chosen person):
Proposal Development
- Learn and support the review of potential future projects
- Learn how to and support/write consultancy proposals
- Support the progress of Logframe Lab
- Learn about indicators and improve the database behind the application
Projects
- Learn about monitoring and evaluations and support ongoing projects where required
Your profile*
- Enrolled in a German university (also “Fachhochschule”) for the entire time of the contract
- Bachelor/Master or any other degree form
- Any field of study
- Have an interest in Monitoring and Evaluation and/or Data Science
- Access to stable internet and a laptop/computer
- Fluent in English (any other language skills are very welcome)
- You do not need to have any prior experience
Our offer
- Working from home/anywhere
- Flexible working hours
- Renumeration
- 14 hours per week (ideally 2 days of 7 hours)
- 850 EUR per month net (ca. 15 EUR/h net)
- 6-months contract with the possibility of extension.
- Part of an international team dedicated to a feminist/decolonial approach and running a business differently
Application process
Pleas send your application to jobs@arqaam.io by 18 September 2022, 23:59 Berlin time, with the subject line: Werksstudent:in – Application.
Your application should comprise of your recent CV and a cover letter answering the following questions:
- Why are you interested in this position (needing to earn money is as good a reason as any)?
- If anyone (dead or alive) could mentor you for one year, who would it be, and why this person?
- Why do you think a feminist/decolonial approach is important in the non-profit sector?
We will respond to every complete application (including text in the email body).
*Arqaam welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. Arqaam does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, colour, ethnicity, culture, national origin, social and economic class, educational level, immigration status, sex, age, size, disability, family status, political belief, or religion.
*We further know that women and people of colour often do not apply when they do not feel they fit the desired profile. Thus, if you are belonging to these group and are interested in this job please dare and apply anyway!