Intern, Administrative/Project Management

INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Intern, Administrative/Project Management
Location: Kenya or South Africa
Duration: March 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023

This internship is open to applicants from Kenya or South Africa and must be legally eligible to work in that country. The work can be performed from the IAVI office in that country.

Internship Summary:

The internship is an opportunity to work with IAVI’s leadership team in Africa.

An ideal intern will be a motivated student who is interested in working closely with experts in the field of HIV vaccine R&D. The opportunity will provide learning and contributing to the development of tools to facilitate communication, information-sharing, and collaboration in Program strategic planning.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the IAVI Africa leadership team in

• Preparing reports through collecting and analysis of relevant information.
• Reading, researching, and sharing correspondence, drafting documents, and initiating communications as may be required.
• Monitoring and tracking IAVI Africa internal workflows from the different working groups.
• Taking minutes at meetings as requested, ensuring that minutes are prepared, distributed and follow-up on actions from the meeting on a timely basis.
• To support in preparing of power point presentations, and reports.

Education:

• Master’s degree in management or related discipline. Recent graduates preferred.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication
• Experience in Microsoft Office
• Interest in global health, infectious disease research