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

The Data and Research Intern will support the collec on, cleaning, organisa on, and analysis of HerEconomics and FemDigiNomics data.

Key responsibilties

• Support data collec on from women par cipants, community partners, and savings groups.
• Clean and organise quan ta ve and qualita ve 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 pa erns, savings behaviour, enterprise barriers, digital access, care responsibili es, and health-related financial pressures.
• Assist in preparing research summaries, dashboards, learning briefs, and internal reports.
• Support ethical data handling, consent documenta on, anonymisa on, and secure data storage.

Ideal candidate

• Background in sta s cs, 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 a en on to detail and interest in women’s economic opportunity and health equity.

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The NLP and AI Intern will support the development of English and Swahili language resources and early AI/NLP workflows for FemDigiNomics.

Key responsibilites

• Support the collec on, cleaning, transla on, and annota on of Swahili and mixed language narra ves.
• Help develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obliga ons, business risk, care work, health shocks, and lending readiness.
• Assist in tes ng simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers, and support pathways.
• Support documenta on of language resources, annota on protocols, and model/tes ng 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 reali es.

Ideal candidate

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

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The Responsible AI and Data Governance Intern will support the development of ethical, safe, and community-centred data systems for FemDigiNomics. The role will ensure that women's data is collected, stored, analysed, and used in ways that protect privacy, dignity, agency, and trust.

Key Responsibilites

• Support the development of informed consent processes for data collec on and par cipa on.
• Assist in crea ng protocols for data privacy, security, anonymisa on, and responsible data use.
• Review project ac vi es through a gender, ethics, and safeguarding lens.
• Support documenta on of data governance policies and standard opera ng procedures.
• Assist in iden fying and mi ga ng risks related to bias, exclusion, discrimina on, and misuse of AI systems.
• Contribute to discussions on responsible AI, explainability, transparency, and accountability.
• Support compliance with applicable data protec on and privacy frameworks.
• Assist in community engagement processes related to ethical use of data.

Ideal Candidate

• Background in law, public policy, ethics, data governance, informa on management, public health, gender studies, or related fields.
• Strong interest in responsible AI, digital rights, privacy, and data protec on.
• Understanding research ethics and safeguarding principles is an advantage.
• Excellent analy cal, wri ng, and documenta on skills.
• Commitment to community-centered and rights-based approaches.

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The Financial Inclusion and Partnerships Intern will support the development of pathways that connect women participating in HerConomics and FemDigiNomics to financial services, enterprise support, savings opportunities, and livelihood strengthening initatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Map financial inclusion of actors including SACCOs, microfinance 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 documen ng barriers women face when accessing formal and informal financial services.
• Support partnership development with financial ins tu ons, investors, women's enterprise programmes, and livelihood ini a ves.
• Assist in preparing partnership briefs, concept notes, and engagement materials.
• Support monitoring of women's access to financial inclusion opportuni es 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 communicatoon and report writing abilities.