Catalyse Impact Initiative Intern - Portuguese Translator

Join APHRC’s Catalyse Impact Initiative as an intern and play a vital role in empowering African researchers! You’ll translate course content, support learners, and help drive impactful research across the continent. If you’re fluent in Portuguese and English, with a background in project management, business, or a related field, we want to hear from you.

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier research-to-policy institution, generating evidence, strengthening research and related capacity in the African research and development ecosystem, and engaging policy to inform action on health and development.

The Center, through its Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division, seeks to strengthen individual and institutional research capacity to enable African researchers to fully participate in defining and implementing priority population and health programs on   the continent. As part of individual capacity strengthening efforts, APHRC has, over the years, been running a demand-driven research internship program whose objective seeks to nurture talented young Africans to become future scholars and research leaders.

For the 2026 period, the Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division has opened internship opportunities in the following projects for 3-6 months, starting May 2026.

Project 11 – Catalyse Impact Initiative– (1 intern)

Project Description

The Catalyze Impact Initiative responds to the critical need for increased African leadership in the continent’s research and development (R&D). Spearheaded by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and supported by the Gates Foundation, this Initiative aims to empower African researchers, institutions, policymakers, and the broader research ecosystem to shape impactful research agendas and policies. It also seeks to address several key challenges that have long hindered Africa’s research landscape by fostering African-led research and translating it into actionable policies and decision-making. The interns will support the Catalyze Impact Initiative Bridging Fund project by contributing to the successful delivery of the Portuguese component of the Good Grant Practice Virtual Academy courses.

Internship Activities

• Translating course content from English to Portuguese.
• Dry running of Portuguese self-paced courses after development.
• Supporting Portuguese and English learners as they take the courses.

Preferred Background & Skills

• Fluency of Portuguese and English Language.
• Degree in Project management, Business Administration, Communication, ICT or any other related.