Multiple Internships Opportunities at Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice
Call for Interns: FemDigiNomics Project
Location: Nairobi, with possible community
engagement in informal settlements and partner sites
Duration: 3 to 6 months
Type: Internship
Reports to: FemDigiNomics Project Lead
About the Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender
Justice
The Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice is a
Pan-African social impact organisation advancing gender justice in health
systems through inclusive financing, community-led care, and feminist
leadership.
Our mission is to reimagine economic systems as catalysts
for health equity.
Our vision is an Africa where women, girls, and structurally
marginalised communities build economic power, leadership, and voice to shape
equitable and just health systems.
FemDigiNomics is a women-centred data and
intelligence platform being developed by the Africa Centre for Health Systems
and Gender Justice. Building on HerEconomics, the platform seeks to use
community-generated data, Swahili natural language processing (NLP), responsible
AI, and participatory research to strengthen women’s financial inclusion,
livelihood resilience, and health-informed economic empowerment.
FemDigiNomics aims to translate women’s lived experiences of
savings, debt, enterprise growth, care responsibilities, health-related
financial pressures, and digital access into practical tools, including a
Women’s Financial Inclusion and Lending Readiness Scorecard, community
insights, and decision-support systems that improve economic opportunities and
wellbeing for low-income women.
Available Internship Opportunities
1. Data and Research Intern
The Data and Research Intern will support the collection,
cleaning, organisation, and analysis of HerEconomics and FemDigiNomics data.
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 the 5,000-woman status and insights base.
- Support
analysis of women’s income patterns, savings behaviour, enterprise
barriers, digital access, care responsibilities, and health-related
financial pressures.
- Assist
in preparing research summaries, dashboards, learning briefs, and internal
reports.
- Support
ethical data handling, consent documentation, anonymisation, and secure
data storage.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in statistics, economics, public health, gender studies, data science,
development studies, or a related field.
- Comfortable
working with Excel, Google Sheets, Kobo, ODK, STATA, R, Python, Power BI,
or similar tools.
- Strong
attention to detail and interest in women’s economic opportunity and
health equity.
2. NLP and AI Intern
The NLP and AI Intern will support the development of
English and Swahili language resources and early AI/NLP workflows for
FemDigiNomics.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
the collection, cleaning, translation, and annotation of Swahili and
mixed-language narratives.
- Help
develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obligations,
business risk, care work, health shocks, and lending readiness.
- Assist
in testing simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers,
and support pathways.
- Support
documentation of language resources, annotation protocols, and
model/testing outputs.
- Contribute
to responsible AI discussions, including bias, explainability, privacy,
and ethical use of women’s data.
- Work
with community and research teams to ensure language tools reflect how
women actually describe their economic realities.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in computer science, data science, computational linguistics, AI, NLP,
information systems, or related fields.
- Interest
in African languages, especially Swahili and Sheng.
- Basic
knowledge of Python, NLP libraries, machine learning, data annotation, or
language data processing is an advantage.
- Strong
commitment to ethical, community-grounded AI.
3. Responsible AI and Data Governance Intern
The Responsible AI and Data Governance Intern will support
the development of ethical, safe, and community-centred data systems for
FemDigiNomics.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
the development of informed consent processes for data collection and
participation.
- Assist
in creating protocols for data privacy, security, anonymisation, and
responsible data use.
- Review
project activities through a gender, ethics, and safeguarding lens.
- Support
documentation of data governance policies and standard operating
procedures.
- Assist
in identifying and mitigating risks related to bias, exclusion,
discrimination, and misuse of AI systems.
- Contribute
to discussions on responsible AI, explainability, transparency, and
accountability.
- Support
compliance with applicable data protection and privacy frameworks.
- Assist
in community engagement processes related to ethical use of data.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in law, public policy, ethics, data governance, information management,
public health, gender studies, or related fields.
- Strong
interest in responsible AI, digital rights, privacy, and data protection.
- Understanding
research ethics and safeguarding principles is an advantage.
- Excellent
analytical, writing, and documentation skills.
- Commitment
to community-centered and rights-based approaches.
4. Financial Inclusion and Partnerships Intern
The Financial Inclusion and Partnerships Intern will support
the development of pathways that connect women participating in HerConomics and
FemDigiNomics to financial services, enterprise support, savings opportunities,
and livelihood strengthening initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Map
financial inclusion actors including SACCOs, microfinance institutions,
fintechs, women’s funds, banks, and savings groups.
- Conduct
landscape assessments on women’s financial inclusion ecosystems.
- Support
development of referral pathways linked to the Women’s Financial Inclusion
and Lending Readiness Scorecard.
- Assist
in documenting barriers women face when accessing formal and informal
financial services.
- Support
partnership development with financial institutions, investors, women’s
enterprise programmes, and livelihood initiatives.
- Assist
in preparing partnership briefs, concept notes, and engagement materials.
- Support
monitoring of women’s access to financial inclusion opportunities arising
from the project.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in economics, finance, business, development studies, public policy, or
related fields.
- Strong
interest in women’s economic empowerment and financial inclusion.
- Understanding
microfinance, community savings models, digital finance, or
entrepreneurship ecosystems is an advantage.
- Strong
research and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent
communication and report writing abilities.
5. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Intern
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Intern will support
the design and implementation of systems that track outcomes, generate
learning, and measure the impact of HerConomics and FemDigiNomics on women’s
financial inclusion, livelihoods, wellbeing, and digital participation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
- Assist
in tracking programme outputs, outcomes, and impact indicators.
- Support
baseline, follow-up, and learning assessments.
- Assist
in maintaining programme databases and performance dashboards.
- Support
analysis of programme trends and participant outcomes.
- Contribute
to learning briefs, case studies, impact reports, and donor reporting.
- Support
documentation of lessons learned and adaptive management processes.
- Assist
in measuring uptake and usefulness of FemDigiNomics tools and scorecards.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, public health,
development studies, social sciences, or related fields.
- Experience
working with data collection and reporting tools is an advantage.
- Familiarity
with Excel, Kobo, ODK, Power BI, SPSS, STATA, R, or similar tools.
- Strong
analytical and organisational skills.
- Interest
in evidence generation, learning, and impact measurement.
6. Community Engagement and Programme Intern
The Community Engagement and Programme Intern will support
implementation with HerEconomics partners, women’s groups, chamas, and
community networks.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
coordination with grassroots partners, peer leaders, and community
mobilisers.
- Assist
with participant mobilisation, training logistics, community
conversations, and feedback sessions.
- Support
documentation of women’s experiences, needs, and priorities.
- Help
organise user testing sessions for the FemDigiNomics scorecard and related
tools.
- Support
partner reporting, meeting notes, attendance tracking, and follow-up.
- Ensure
community feedback is captured and shared with the programme and technical
teams.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in community development, gender studies, public health, social work,
psychology, sociology, development studies, or related fields.
- Experience
working with women’s groups, informal settlements, youth, GBV survivors,
or grassroots organisations is an advantage.
- Fluency
in Swahili is required.
- Sheng
or local community language skills are an added advantage.
- Strong
interpersonal skills, empathy, and respect for community knowledge.
7. Product, Communications and Learning Intern
The Product, Communications and Learning Intern will support
documentation, storytelling, product feedback, and communication of
FemDigiNomics learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
development of user-friendly financial literacy and livelihood content.
- Assist
in documenting stories, case studies, learning notes, and programme
insights.
- Help
translate technical concepts into accessible language for women, partners,
donors, and community audiences.
- Support
user feedback on the lending readiness scorecard and FemDigiNomics
platform.
- Assist
in preparing presentations, briefs, social media content, partner updates,
and donor-facing materials.
- Support
documentation of reusable learning resources emerging from the project.
Ideal Candidate
- Background
in communications, journalism, design, development studies, gender
studies, public policy, or related fields.
- Strong
writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
- Interest
in women’s economic opportunity, digital inclusion, African language
technology, and social impact.
- Ability
to communicate complex ideas simply and respectfully.
Cross-Cutting Requirements for All Interns
All applicants should demonstrate:
- Strong
interest in women’s economic opportunity, gender justice, financial
inclusion, and health equity.
- Respect
for community knowledge, lived experience, and ethical data practices.
- Ability
to work with low-income women and grassroots partners with dignity and
sensitivity.
- Good
writing, documentation, and communication skills.
- Fluency
in English and Swahili.
- Ability
to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Willingness
to learn and work across research, programme implementation, technology,
and community engagement.
What Interns Will Gain
Interns will gain practical experience in:
- Community-rooted
AI and NLP for African languages.
- Women’s
financial inclusion and lending readiness.
- Participatory
research and data collection.
- Responsible
AI, data governance, and ethical use of community data.
- Programme
implementation with grassroots women’s organisations.
- Translating
research and data into practical tools for low-income women.
- Working
at the intersection of gender justice, economic opportunity, health, and
technology.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit:
- A
short cover letter indicating the internship role they are applying for.
- A
current CV.
- A
short writing sample, data sample, coding sample, or portfolio, where
relevant.
- Availability
and preferred internship duration.
Applications should be sent to: vacancies@healthsystemsgenderjustice.org CC: info@healthsystemsgenderjustice.org
Subject Line: FemDigiNomics Internship
Application – [Role Applied For]
Application Deadline: 31st July 2026