Data and Research Intern

About the role

The Africa Center for Health Systems and Gender Justice seeks a Data and Research Intern to support its mission of advancing gender equity in health systems. The role involves hands‑on data work, analysis, and preparation of research outputs.

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.
• Support analysis of 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.
• 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.