Company Description

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centred health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa's health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.

Job Description

Job Purpose

Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD) project is looking for a self-motivated, intern with a passion for community health. The intern will actively work with the IPHCSD project team and support the execution of project activities as per the plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in organizing workshops, trainings and meetings

• Facilitate financial and administrative procedures (including logistic arrangement) for trainings, meetings, workshops

• Support the IPHCSD project team in documentation of key elements of a training, meeting and workshop reports

• Work with IPHCSD project team in compiling and tracking training online data base

• Participate on IPHCSD project team meeting and document minutes

• Prepare and submit procurement plans to procurement units

• Closely follow up procurement status of submitted procurement plans

• Assist the IPHCSD project team in different project implementation process

• Undertake other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Job Requirements:

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in health discipline

• Zero years of work experience

• Wants to serve for the whole Internship program

• Good Communication and English Writing skill

• Good interpersonal skills

• Strong analytical, problem solving and networking skills.

• Be a team player and communicator

• Detail oriented and Responsible

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for these positions!

How to Apply:

Additional Information

Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience using THIS LINK. Closing date will be on Thursday, 20 March 2025.

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.