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IT/Data Research Intern Job Vacancy in Kenya
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 / Research
- Supporting research work in entry, analysis, coding and visualization
- Support in website development and management
- Exploration and development of mobile apps
- Visualization through mapping
Others
- Support enhancement of systems for monitoring and evaluation
- Media monitoring
- Data mining, analysis and development of write-ups
- Other tasks as may be assigned
Required qualifications and Competencies:
- Minimum Degree level of education in a technical discipline dealing with data and ICT and research
- Competence in elementary research tools; SPSS and/or STATA
- 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
Others
- Demonstrable experience in tinkering and developing IT solutions
- Ability to transform end-user needs to applications
- Strong social awareness
- Excellent research and web skills
- 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 by 16th December 2012.
Brief 1-2 pager write-ups on suitability or samples of work/ projects done would help.
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