Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 20, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Global Health Corps
Global Health Corps (GHC) mobilizes a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC believes young leaders with diverse backgrounds and a deep commitment to collaboration, innovation, and social justice are going to revolutionize how the world tackles its toughest health challenges.

Through a competitive recruitment process, we identify daring and innovative university graduates and early- to mid-career professionals from around the world and pair them with amazing partner organizations and government agencies in the US, East Africa, and Southern Africa. Our fellows spend a year in their placement devoting their unstoppable energy to making the world a healthier place for all people, everywhere.

Fellows convene throughout the year for additional training, community building, leadership development, and mentorship in order to become audacious, resilient, and highly-networked change makers. Since its founding in 2009, GHC has supported over 1000 fellows working at various levels of the health system, across issue areas and across continents.
For more information, visit our website or find us on Facebook and Twitter.

The Internship
We seek a detail-oriented, creative problem-solver with strong program management and analytical skills who will work closely with GHC staff to assist with a range of projects supporting our post-fellowship alumni programming. The intern will provide cross-team support to ensure that our programs are implemented efficiently and internal systems and databases function optimally. The intern will learn about GHC programs and operations through participation in regular team and staff meetings. The role of the Program Impact intern will be mainly centered on Alumni program support, assisting with program implementation, documentation of knowledge management and lessons learned and data management.

Responsibilities
• Please note: Actual responsibilities may change based on the team’s needs
Programmatic Responsibilities
• Support the development of program materials such as graphics, Google Forms, participation rosters, training modules, workshops, webinars, and speaker series in collaboration with the Community Impact Team and Country Teams
• Support the coordination of quarterly calls with chapter members and Country Team staff in GHC’s alumni chapter countries of operation, to facilitate exchange of best practices and experiences of alumni in other countries.
• Research best practices and tools for communication and information sharing platforms for our alumni community
• Support the development and implementation of a strategy for conducting a mapping of the GHC alumni community including their experiences, skills, needs, participation, and networks to drive programming and engagement.
• Coordinate with the Country Teams and support the development and implementation of professional development opportunities aligned with their National Strategy for Community Impact and support alumni engagement, community building and collaboration to ensure strong participation in and positive experiences from events and programs
• Research global health and leadership development programming, partnerships and opportunities to support in the design and development of our alumni strategy
Data Management And Knowledge Management
• Maintain and update the resources, announcements and program content on GHC’s online portal for community members and draft new promotional content, as needed
• Support the Implementation of a knowledge management system for our evolving internal alumni team
• Support the development and execution of community program activity surveys for GHC community members
• Work with GHC’s global teams to develop best practice documentation, process maps, work plans, etc. for implementing our alumni programming
• Maintain and update the engagement tracker and ensure that all alumni participation is documented
• Ensure that all master documents for alumni programs are up to date

Qualifications
• Strong program management and support skills
• Strong communication skills (written and oral); particularly experience distilling and communicating processes or systems for learning
• Experience leading meetings, groups, volunteer committees, team projects, etc. particularly in developing agendas and session content and/or executing events
• Flexibility and enthusiasm for problem solving; willing to do tedious work at times to ensure project success
• Curious and observant to the connections between projects and workflows
• Interest in global health, leadership development, and health workforce development
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong work ethic; ability to prioritize tasks and deliver high-quality products
• Strong analytical and organizational skills; proficiency with Microsoft Excel is desired
• Ability to use Google apps such as Google drive, Google forms, Google sheets
• Graphic design skills such as Canva is a plus but not required
Internship timeline: January-July 2022 with the possibility for a different timeline for the right candidate

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Our Philosophy and Benefits
Global Health Corps is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or other characteristics or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

We embrace and value diverse skill sets and backgrounds. We are a community of leaders who are proud to represent many different national, racial, ethnic, socio-economic, religious, gender, and other identities. We represent varied professional backgrounds, collaborating across fields and sectors to form a powerful, close-knit network of changemakers. Our diversity as a community is our strength, driving our ability to be empathetic, visionary, and effective leaders in the health equity movement, and engage with the world with dignity and respect.

Due to the high volume of applications received, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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