Humanitarian Emergency Affairs Intern NGO Job World Vision Nairobi, Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

The purpose of this role is to provide an opportunity to a young graduate to gain hands-on work experience with the Regional Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA) team. The young graduate will work with the HEA Staff keeping tabs of critical support requirements in emergency preparedness planning, response management, and knowledge management.

This internship is a 12 months’ talent incubation programme aiming to give young Christian graduates real work experience, personal, spiritual and professional development through on- job mentorship and coaching.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Preparedness and Information Management 

• Contribute to the definition of information requirements and the development of data flows, data quality assurance & quality control, and   information management standard operating procedures and guidelines
• Support with the design, development and testing of data collection tools using platforms like ArcGIS, Power BI, ODK, Kobo, etc., for use in disaster management, community risk assessments, impact-based early warning monitoring, and preparedness tracking.
• Consolidate humanitarian response data from 9 field offices and coordinate the development and dissemination of information products such as situation reports, maps, sector infographics, and dashboards.
• Support the collection, cleaning, and analysis of primary and secondary humanitarian and preparedness data from field offices for evidence-informed regional planning, anticipatory action triggers, and community-level risk reduction strategies.
• Support the documentation of all HEA products including lessons learned, best practices, Real Time Learning etc., and maintain internal data management systems (e.g., Box, Teams, SharePoint).
• Maintain an updated humanitarian response register and action points running sheet. improve data quality in the region/countries through field support, monitoring and feedback.
• Work closely with humanitarian advisors and Anticipatory Action Coordinator to ensure the data is fit for the purpose.

Administrative Support

• Support in preparation of key events organized by HEA e.g trainings etc
• Support in capturing notes and minutes for meetings and any other as assigned.

Interdepartmental Support

• Actively participate and support resource mobilisation efforts for humanitarian and disaster risk reduction interventions.
• Working with HEA, Advocacy and Communications department in amplifying the voices of children and evidence-based impact through identifying potential stories and content that can be multi-purposed.
• Support and coordinate with the Regional Office and FOs in development of regional blogs and opinion pieces that can be published externally (View, wvi.org) internally (Ignite).
• Work closely with RAM as per request to provide any necessary support

External Engagements:

• Participate in critical meetings with key stakeholders when delegated to ensure WV is well represented.
• Consolidate write-ups of external meetings for internal sharing.

Other Duties

• Perform any other related duties as required.
• Attend and participate in devotional meetings

Qualifications

Required Professional Experience

• Graduates with an interest in Disaster Management and passionate about data analytics, having graduated within two years of application.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Degree in any of the following: Data Analytics/Data Science/ Statistics/ Information Management/ Statistics or a related field.
• Graduated within the last 2 years

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• High interest and good understanding of humanitarian industry; Sphere Standards; Core Humanitarian Standards.

How to Apply

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