Global Programs Internship

Reports to: Senior Advisor Programs Strategy and Excellence.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya or Kampala, Uganda.

Introduction:

Are you a fresh graduate eager to kick-start your career with a humanitarian organization that makes a real impact? We’re looking for you!

At Living Goods, we support networks of trusted government community health workers (CHWs) to transform health outcomes for women and children and work to advance systems change by partnering with governments to sustainably lead.  We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who are digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated, and we harness community-level data to transform health systems. We focus on treating some of the deadliest but most easily treatable childhood diseases, supporting women of reproductive age with family planning and safe pregnancy care, and ensuring every child is fully vaccinated.

At Living Goods, you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity to work every day!

The position:

Living Goods is seeking an intern to join the Global Programs Strategy and Excellence team to support various program and operational improvement initiatives. The intern will provide administrative assistance and conduct document reviews for key initiatives, including the development of a new knowledge management framework, the rollout of a project management approach, and the creation or revision of operational manuals and guidelines, among others.

Responsibilities:

• Meeting support
  • Schedule meetings: Reviewing calendars of meeting attendees and collaborating with support staff to schedule meetings.
  • Support in meetings by ensuring effective note taking.
  • Follow up on meeting action items to ensure follow-through on staff commitments.
  • Support in the development of presentations and pre-reads for meetings.
• Reports and Documentation
  • Support document development, compiling key resources and summarizing inputs.
  • Serve as an and editor for new documents that are created including formatting and copy editing as needed.
  • Support with the coordination of document review comes on providing advanced notice to reviewers and following up to help ensure the review is completed.
• Knowledge Management
  • Support the administration of the knowledge management governance structure, ensuring they have the resources and information to carry out their roles and conduct check-ins to gauge their progress and support needs.
  • Review new documents, summaries created by other colleagues for completeness and working links.
  • Coordinate content updates with other LG teams and update the content tracker. Follow up with colleagues as needed to ensure timely sharing of new resources.
  • Support in the development of new knowledge resources, documenting and sharing learnings across the organization. This may include in-depth review of existing documentation, interviews, and collaboration with colleagues to ensure appropriate review and promotion of resources.
• Coordination
  • Support in tracking key actions for the team and check-in to ensure timeline are followed.
• Other tasks as needed.

Skills and Competencies:

• Great attention to detail.
• Proactive – can an assignment and run with it.
• Document editing skills.
• Effective note taking skills that ensure key points, agreements, and follow up actions are captured with relevant detail.
• Proficient on Microsoft suite including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at once.
• Strong organization skill, including organizing resources in an intuitive structure.

Education and Experience:

• A holder of a bachelors degree in a relevant field.
• At least six (6) months experience or course work related policy, health, writing/communication or related topic.
• Experience using Microsoft Sharepoint and/or OneDrive.

Compensation:
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.