Data and Research Intern

About the role

The Africa Center for Health Systems and Gender Justice is seeking a Data and Research Intern to support its mission of advancing gender‑equitable health systems. This short‑term position will give you hands‑on experience with data collection, cleaning, and analysis in a real‑world development context.

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 a 5,000‑woman status and insights database.
• Analyse women’s income patterns, savings behaviour, enterprise barriers, digital access, care responsibilities, and health‑related financial pressures.
• Prepare research summaries, dashboards, learning briefs, and internal reports.
• Ensure ethical data handling, consent documentation, anonymisation, and secure data storage.

Required profile

• Background in statistics, economics, public health, gender studies, data science, development studies, or a related field.
• Diploma or Associate's degree.
• Strong attention to detail and interest in women’s economic opportunity and health equity.

Required skills

• Excel
• Google Sheets
• Kobo
• ODK
• STATA
• R
• Python
• Power BI
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data analysis
• Data collection