Internship For A Documentalist at African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

The successful candidate will work under the guidance of AFIDEP’s Communications Officer and other team members.

Specific tasks to be undertaken are below.

Responsibilities (Objectives and Tasks)

1. Organise AFIDEP’s information collection

• Weed out unnecessary information materials and propose a disposal mechanism.
• Establish a simple but useful documentation system that allows the coherent storage, access and retrieval of information materials.

2. Facilitate the operationalisation of the library / resource centre as an access point for present and future print information resources.    

• Organise the information collection using the documentation system developed.
• Provide documentation on the logic followed in organisation of the collection for future use.
• Contribute to story writing for AFIDEP website, newsletter and other communication platforms.

3. Support other communication functions (if time allows)

• Support organisation of AFIDEP events as may be necessary.
• Support social media engagement.
• Support other communication functions as may be assigned.

Qualifications / Expertise

• A Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Library Science, Records Management.
• An understanding of information management and the value addition in organisational knowledge management functions.
• Previous relevant internships where candidate has undertaken similar or related tasks.
• Good writing skills.

Desirable Characteristics

• A team player with good communication skills and able to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Good leadership skills and self-initiative in undertaking tasks.

Engagement terms: The engagement will be an internship for a period of six months, with a monthly transport and subsistence allowance of Kshs. 40,000.