Intern (Addis Ababa)

Maternity Foundation (MF) is a Danish based International NGO that works to ensure a safer childbirth for women and newborns, everywhere. Through our Safe Delivery Program, we use digital training- and learning tools to support and train skilled birth attendants, and we work with partners in more than 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the MENA region. We work from a shared vision that it should never cost life to give life.

Maternity Foundation has been operating in Ethiopia since 2006 through offices in Addis Ababa, Oromia Gambella, Somali and Afar regions. MF has operational partnerships with Ministry of Health, regional health authorities as well as development partners. Maternity Foundation is going to implement a Partnership project in Amhara and Sidama regions to strengthen maternal, newborn and reproductive health services. The overall goal of the project is to improve universal access to reproductive health services in Amhara and Sidama regions. It is expected that the project intervention will contribute to the achievement of HSTP and Sustainable Development Goal 3.

The key activities that are going to be implemented in the intervention areas include building the capacity of health professionals working in the intervention area in the management of Basic and Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn care, onsite mentoring & Coaching and supportive supervision. In addition, it will include strengthening linkage between the health centres and health posts, and use of innovative technology /digital health tools such as the Safe Delivery Apps to improve the competency of health care providers.

For the successful implementation of its program Maternity Foundation is seeking for an Intern,

Reports to: Head of Clinical & Program

Number of positions: one

We are currently looking for one or several interns to support our organization. As an intern with Maternity Foundation, you will become part of the team and together we will define tasks that match our needs with your and skills. We are looking for interns within program management, communications, data analysis and research, or fundraising.

As an intern you can be tasked with:

• Collecting and synthesizing country information
• Literature reviews in the field of public health and clinical learning
• Supporting the program team, assist and take part in program implementation, training, supervision, etc…
• Developing content for social media
• Writing and distribution of a bi-annual newsletter
• Supporting press work and story writing
• Mapping fundraising opportunities
• Developing fundraising applications and status reports
• Designing infographics to disseminate project results
• Designing and developing data collection tools, performing data analysis and disseminating findings
• Applying data science tools to the App usage data and generate insights
• Conducting spatial analysis of App data and other available data
• Writing SQL queries and developing PowerBI and Qlik dashboards
• Ad hoc tasks related to project implementation

As an intern at the Maternity Foundation, we offer you the opportunity to

• Gain experience from working in digital health solutions
• Work independently and receive lots of responsibility
• Be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic team
• Gain knowledge of the most pertinent maternal and newborn health topics and projects

As an intern at the Maternity foundation, we expect you to

• Commit to the values and Code of Conduct of the Maternity Foundation
• Be able to work independently and handle challenges in a constructive and positive way
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Be proactive and ready to face new challenges
• Be open-minded and flexible towards the different tasks assigned to you

Qualifications

• Field of study within public health, global health, global development, midwifery, data science, social sciences, health economics, communication, business, and fundraising or the like.
• In addition, we expect the candidates applying for the internship to have some experience within project management, writing, data analysis, research, communication etc. This could either be from your field of study or from experience gained from previous employments.

To apply for the internship, you must meet the following requirements:

• Have an interest in public health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, maternal newborn and child health, humanitarian & development work, research, adult learning, communication
• Be fluent in spoken and written English; other language skills would be an asset