Intern - People and Culture team

Kickstart your HR career with APHRC’s People and Culture team! As an intern, you’ll dive into recruitment, training, performance management, and more, gaining hands-on experience in a leading research institution. We are looking for a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management and you get bonus points for HRIS software familiarity.

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 20 – People and Culture – (1 intern)

Project Description

The People and Culture (P&C) team is looking to engage an intern to support the unit’s various functions. This role is designed to provide a learning opportunity while working closely with the team to assist with recruitment, training and development, leave and performance management. Additionally,  the intern will  support  various  other Human  Resource (HR) initiatives  currently underway.

Internship Activities

• Support various P&C functions such as recruitment and selection; training and development programs, leave management, performance management processes.
• Assist in the management of the Human Resource Information System (HRIS).
• Participate in the preparation of periodic reports on various HR activities.
• Provide administrative support to the HR unit as well as any other duties that may be assigned.

Preferred background and skills

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Resources Management.
• Familiarity with Human Resource Information System (HRIS) software is an added advantage.