Posted: 2026-06-24 19:06:06  Deadline: July 31, 2026   3 - 6 Months Internship   Salary: Confidential

The Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice (ACHGJ) is inviting applications for a Community Engagement and Programme Intern under the FemDigiNomics Project. The internship offers an opportunity to support programme implementation with HerEconomics partners, women’s groups, chamas, and community networks while contributing to women-centred economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and participatory engagement initiatives.

Location: Nairobi, with possible community engagement in informal settlements and partner sites
Duration: 3 to 6 Months
Type: Internship
Reports To: FemDigiNomics Project Lead

Key Responsibilities

Support coordination and engagement with grassroots partners, peer leaders, community mobilisers, and women’s groups.
Assist with participant mobilisation, training logistics, community conversations, and feedback sessions.
Support documentation of women’s experiences, needs, priorities, and emerging community insights.
Help organise user testing sessions for the FemDigiNomics Financial Inclusion and Lending Readiness Scorecard and related tools.
Support partner reporting, meeting documentation, attendance tracking, and follow-up activities.
Ensure community feedback is effectively captured, documented, and shared with programme and technical teams to support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Background in Community Development, Gender Studies, Public Health, Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Development Studies, or a related field.
Experience working with women’s groups, informal settlements, youth, gender-based violence (GBV) survivors, or grassroots organisations will be an added advantage.
Fluency in Swahili is required.
Knowledge of Sheng or other local community languages will be an added advantage.
Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and respect for community knowledge and lived experience.

Cross-Cutting Requirements

Strong interest in women’s economic opportunity, gender justice, financial inclusion, and health equity.
Respect for community knowledge, lived experience, and ethical data practices.
Ability to work with low-income women and grassroots partners with dignity, sensitivity, and professionalism.
Strong writing, documentation, and communication skills.
Fluency in English and Swahili.
Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Willingness to learn and work across research, programme implementation, technology, and community engagement.

What the Intern Will Gain

Practical experience in community-rooted AI and NLP for African languages.
Exposure to women’s financial inclusion and lending readiness initiatives.
Experience in participatory research and community-based data collection.
Hands-on exposure to responsible AI, data governance, and ethical use of community data.
Experience supporting programme implementation with grassroots women’s organisations.
Opportunities to translate research findings and data into practical tools for low-income women.
Exposure to interdisciplinary work at the intersection of gender justice, economic opportunity, health, and technology.

About FemDigiNomics

FemDigiNomics is a women-centred data and intelligence platform being developed by the Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice. Building on HerEconomics, the platform uses community-generated data, Swahili natural language processing (NLP), responsible AI, and participatory research to strengthen women’s financial inclusion, livelihood resilience, and health-informed economic empowerment. The initiative translates women’s lived experiences related to savings, debt, enterprise growth, care responsibilities, health-related financial pressures, and digital access into practical tools such as financial inclusion scorecards, community insights, and decision-support systems that improve economic opportunities and wellbeing for low-income women.

Application Process

Interested applicants should submit the following:

A short cover letter indicating the internship role being applied for.
A current CV.
A short writing sample, data sample, coding sample, or portfolio (where relevant).
Availability and preferred internship duration.

Applications should be sent to: vacancies@healthsystemsgenderjustice.org and copied to: info@healthsystemsgenderjustice.org.

Subject Line: FemDigiNomics Internship Application – Community Engagement and Programme Intern
Application Deadline: 31st July 2026

For more opportunities at The Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice (ACHGJ), visit: ACHGJ Careers and Opportunities Page

Download the official Community Engagement and Programme Internship description here:
Call for Interns – FemDigiNomics Project (PDF)