Research Assistant Intern at African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

Our focus areas: Population Dynamics and Demographic Dividend, Health and Well-being, Transformative Education and Skills Development, the Environment and Climate Change, and Governance and Accountability.

AFIDEP seeks to recruit dynamic and competent professionals to develop and grow our work through the following positions. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

AFIDEP seeks a dynamic and experienced post-graduate researcher to join our project entitled HIGH-Res as an intern. The primary purpose of the internship will be to support the implementation of the HIGH-Res programme mid-term evaluation study data collection, analysis and report writing (a three-country study). The successful candidate will be based at AFIDEP’s office in Nairobi in Kenya. The internship will be for a period of three months effective from the start date.

 Qualifications And Experience 

• The intern must have a Master’s degree in public health, social sciences, population studies, development studies or equivalent
• One to two years of practical experience in project management
• Demonstrable experience planning and undertaking field work, qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and report writing
• Experience in working and interacting with government including high ranking government officials a plus.
• Experience writing policy briefs and other policy products and publishing in journalsa plus

Skills 

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage with collaborators from diverse cultures
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills
• Policy analysis and political economy analysis skills a plus
• Ability to work independently with an output-based mind-set

 Duties

• Under the supervision of the project M&E lead, the intern will support activities related to study population sampling, data collection, analysis and report writing and dissemination.