Call for Interns at Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice

Key responsibilities

• Support data collection from women participants, community partners, and savings groups.
• Clean and organise quantitative and qualitative data from surveys, interviews, focus groups, and partner reports.
• Assist in building the 5,000-woman status and insights base.
• Support analysis of women’s income patterns, savings behaviour, enterprise barriers, digital access, care responsibilities, and health-related financial pressures.
• Assist in preparing research summaries, dashboards, learning briefs, and internal reports.
• Support ethical data handling, consent documentation, anonymisation, and secure data storage.

Ideal candidate

• Background in statistics, economics, public health, gender studies, data science, development studies, or a related field.
• Comfortable working with Excel, Google Sheets, Kobo, ODK, STATA, R, Python, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Strong attention to detail and interest in women’s economic opportunity and health equity. 

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Key responsibilities

• Support the collection, cleaning, translation, and annotation of Swahili and mixedlanguage narratives.
• Help develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obligations, business risk, care work, health shocks, and lending readiness.
• Assist in testing simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers, and support pathways.
• Support documentation of language resources, annotation protocols, and model/testing outputs.
• Contribute to responsible AI discussions, including bias, explainability, privacy, and ethical use of women’s data.
• Work with community and research teams to ensure language tools reflect how women actually describe their economic realities.

Ideal candidate

• Background in computer science, data science, computational linguistics, AI, NLP, information systems, or related fields.
• Interest in African languages, especially Swahili and Sheng.
• Basic knowledge of Python, NLP libraries, machine learning, data annotation, or language data processing is an advantage.
• Strong commitment to ethical, community-grounded AI. 

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Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of informed consent processes for data collection and participation.
• Assist in creating protocols for data privacy, security, anonymisation, and responsible data use.
• Review project activities through a gender, ethics, and safeguarding lens.
• Support documentation of data governance policies and standard operating procedures.
• Assist in identifying and mitigating risks related to bias, exclusion, discrimination, and misuse of AI systems.
• Contribute to discussions on responsible AI, explainability, transparency, and accountability.
• Support compliance with applicable data protection and privacy frameworks.
• Assist in community engagement processes related to ethical use of data.

Ideal Candidate

• Background in law, public policy, ethics, data governance, information management, public health, gender studies, or related fields.
• Strong interest in responsible AI, digital rights, privacy, and data protection.
• Understanding research ethics and safeguarding principles is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and documentation skills.
• Commitment to community-centered and rights-based approaches. 

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Key Responsibilities

• Map financial inclusion of actors including SACCOs, microfinance institutions, fintechs, women's funds, banks, and savings groups.
• Conduct landscape assessments on women's financial inclusion of ecosystems.
• Support development of referral pathways linked to the Women's Financial Inclusion and Lending Readiness Scorecard.
• Assist in documenting barriers women face when accessing formal and informal financial services.
• Support partnership development with financial institutions, investors, women's enterprise programmes, and livelihood initiatives.
• Assist in preparing partnership briefs, concept notes, and engagement materials.
• Support monitoring of women's access to financial inclusion opportunities arising from the project.

Ideal Candidate

• Background in economics, finance, business, development studies, public policy, or related fields.
• Strong interest in women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion.
• Understanding microfinance, community savings models, digital finance, or entrepreneurship ecosystems is an advantage.
• Strong research and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent communication and report writing abilities. 

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Key Responsibilities

• Support development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Assist in tracking programme outputs, outcomes, and impact indicators.
• Support baseline, follow-up, and learning assessments.
• Assist in maintaining programme databases and performance dashboards.
• Support analysis of programme trends and participant outcomes.
• Contribute to learning briefs, case studies, impact reports, and donor reporting.
• Support documentation of lessons learned and adaptive management processes.
• Assist in measuring uptake and usefulness of FemDigiNomics tools and scorecards.

Ideal Candidate

• Background in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, public health, development studies, social sciences, or related fields.
• Experience working with data collection and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Excel, Kobo, ODK, Power BI, SPSS, STATA, R, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills.
• Interest in evidence generation, learning, and impact measurement. 

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Key responsibilities:

• Support coordination with grassroots partners, peer leaders, and community mobilisers.
• Assist with participant mobilisation, training logistics, community conversations, and feedback sessions.
• Support documentation of women’s experiences, needs, and priorities.
• Help organise user testing sessions for the FemDigiNomics scorecard and related tools.
• Support partner reporting, meeting notes, attendance tracking, and follow-up.
• Ensure community feedback is captured and shared with the programme and technical teams.

Ideal candidate

• Background in community development, gender studies, public health, social work, psychology, sociology, development studies, or related fields.
• Experience working with women’s groups, informal settlements, youth, GBV survivors, or grassroots organisations is an advantage.
• Fluency in Swahili is required. Sheng or local community language skills are an added advantage.
• Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and respect for community knowledge

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Key responsibilities:

• Support development of user-friendly financial literacy and livelihood content.
• Assist in documenting stories, case studies, learning notes, and programme insights.
• Help translate technical concepts into accessible language for women, partners, donors, and community audiences.
• Support user feedback on the lending readiness scorecard and FemDigiNomics platform.
• Assist in preparing presentations, briefs, social media content, partner updates, and donor-facing materials.
• Support documentation of reusable learning resources emerging from the project.

Ideal candidate:

• Background in communications, journalism, design, development studies, gender studies, public policy, or related fields.
• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Interest in women’s economic opportunity, digital inclusion, African language technology, and social impact.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas simply and respectfully.