IntraHealth
International
Internship Opportunities
For 35 years, in 100 countries, IntraHealth
International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in
need.
IntraHealth fosters local solutions to
healthcare challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening
health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships
To achieve this result, the mechanism
focuses on three sub-purpose areas:
1) Improve quality of training and increase
the number of graduating health workforce;
2) Improve management and leadership of
health workforce at the county level and,
3) Optimize data use for effective HRH
decision making at national and county level.
This is an invaluable opportunity for
students or recent graduates interested in human resources for health or
related field to grow their skills and educational experience on this most
exciting, promising and fulfilling field.
Our internship program seeks to achieve the
following objectives:
·
Provide
opportunity for students/graduates of Human Resource Management (HRM) - related
courses from local universities and institutions in the following counties:
Mombasa, Muranga, Turkana, Homa Bay, Nairobi, Kisumu, Siaya, Migori, Uasin
Gishu and Busia to learn from the HR project support and participate in the
implementation of intended activities in HRM including HR data management.
·
Provide
an opportunity to students / graduates from regions with high disease-burden to
relate academic work to real HRM practice in the health sector
·
Introduce
interns to 'industry best practices' in organizational culture, work ethics,
problem solving, decision making, so as to positively impact productivity,
leadership and career development.
Requirements
·
Internship
period will be for a minimum of 3 months, with a further 3 months extension
upon successful performance evaluation.
·
All
interns must have personal accident /medical insurance cover during the entire
period of the internship
·
Interns
will be required to bring a laptop during the internship period
Eligibility
·
Masters
and Bachelors students from universities already pursuing careers that are
relevant to wide range of IntraHealth programs and operations e.g. Human
Resources (HR), Medical Education, Public health, Community Health Development,
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Research and publication, Communications,
Economics, Anthropology, Health Information Systems and Information
Communication Technology (ICT), Finance & Operations.
·
Undergraduate
students should be in their third or fourth/last year of study in any of the
above fields
·
Masters
or Bachelor degree graduates should be either awaiting graduation or have
graduated within the last 1 year
·
Candidates
who demonstrate good character, creativity, honesty, positive attitude and
ability to learn.
How to Apply
Kindly CLICK HERE to download and complete our application form and forward the duly completed form together with your academic transcripts to kenyajobs@intrahealth.org on or before December 22, 2017