Tuesday, 20 November 2012

IT/Data Research/Intern

Required for a growing Civil Society Organization based in Ongata Rongai an enterprising, innovative, imaginative and results oriented young professional willing to contribute and learn for a short stint.

IT/ Data Research/ Intern
Job Purpose
To support research, data crunching, mining of data from different portals, visualization of data, programming and write-ups for online content.

He/She will work closely with the project team to ensure delivery of high quality projects that are backed by hard data.

Main Responsibilities:
Project support
  • Supporting and developing capacity of project team in data and ICT
  • Troubleshooting and maintenance of Office systems

Data / IT / ResearchDevelopment and coding of research materials
  • Support enhancement of systems for monitoring and evaluation
  • Media monitoring
  • Data management and visualization through various maps
  • Data mining, analysis and development of write-ups
  • Advisory and/ or development of digital apps especially mobile apps
  • Management of web content
  • Other tasks as may be assigned
Required qualifications and Competencies:
  • Minimum Degree level of education in a technical discipline dealing with data and ICT
  • Demonstrable experience in tinkering and developing IT solutions
  • Thorough knowledge of programming languages like java, php and python and a good understanding of CSS and JavaScript
  • Familiarity and expertise in use of mapping tools
  • Ability to transform end-user needs to applications
  • Strong social awareness
  • Excellent research and web skills
  • Knowledge of statistical packages (SAS, STATA, SPSS)
  • Extremely professional, personable and of reasonably high values and integrity
  • A good understanding of how Civil Society Organizations operate is an advantage
  • Be able to operate most of the time in Rongai and environs 
If you meet these specifications, send your application and CV, with details of three Referees to hr.wlrn@gmail.com before 25th November 2012.


Brief 1-2 pager write-ups on suitability or samples of work/ projects done would help.

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