Capacity Building Intern – Adamawa needed at iMMAP

Background

Country specific

• The humanitarian crisis in Northeast Nigeria was in the first instance caused and amplified by the non-international armed conflict now in its 15th year. There are few if any, signs that the conflict affecting millions of people will come to an end in the short term. Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure raise profound protection concerns and continue to impede the access of vulnerable people to assistance. The conflict has a massive negative impact on the people and infrastructure needed to deliver vital and basic services.
• More than two million internally displaced people have been displaced because of widespread insecurity.
• With support from the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, iMMAP Inc. continues to support the humanitarian sectors responding to the crisis in northeast Nigeria, by seconding and deploying standby personnel to the Sector Lead Agencies since November 2016. The support includes building the information management capacity of the partners through training. However, starting from January 2020, the capacity-building activities delivered by iMMAP Inc. were scaled up to include the internship program under which at least 16 interns are turned out every project cycle and has so far produced 124 graduated interns. 

Duties and Responsibilities

The iMMAP Inc. office in Maiduguri is conducting a series of innovative, multi-sectorial, and collective analyses and information management support to different initiatives and working groups and would like to engage interns to support agencies and sectors in achieving the analyses and build a network of information management experts. 

The regular activities that the interns would conduct during the internship period will not only increase their capacities and skills, but also establish a foundation to develop tools in data mining, data processing (data cleaning, consolidation, reconciliation, validation, classification), visualizations, mapping applications, and assessment to engage in data science and data analytics, and potentially to aid sectors and agencies in need of IM support. 

Major duties and responsibilities:

Output 1:

Working with the Capacity Development team, and the Humanitarian Information and Analysis Unit (HIAU) the Interns will:

Activities:

• Identify available data at different levels, including but not limited to surveys, MSNAs, rapid assessments, secondary data reviews, and other data that is collected by humanitarian actors and government MDAs in northeast Nigeria.
• Assist HIAU IMOs in information management tasks.
• Assist the Capacity Development team in preparing for training sessions and following up on training assessments.
• In collaboration with the Capacity Development team and the designated focal points from the HIAU, build a metadata catalog in relation to activity 1.1

Output 2:

Working with the sector’s/agency’s coordinators and in coordination with Capacity Building/HIAU teams, the Interns will:

Activities:

• Perform wide-ranging ad-hoc data and information management tasks, as necessary.

Requirements

To be considered for an internship at iMMAP Inc., applicants must meet the following requirements:

• be a graduate or post-graduate student in a field related to computer science, data engineering or data science, information management, social science, research, economics, or statistics and is not running any program (academic program, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), ad-hoc engagements with other organizations, etc) that could negatively affect his/her availability;
• be proficient in the English language;
• must be an indigene of Borno state;
• have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records;
• must graduate in not more than 4 years from the time of application;
• must have a laptop computer of at least CO i5 or above;

Additional assignment-specific qualifications:

• Basic understanding and interest in GIS, data analysis, or data for decision-making within humanitarian organizations.
• Experience understanding technical requirements to accomplish goals.
• Experience working with non-computer scientists to ensure that project development meets the needs of users.

Competencies

• Analytical rigor
• Tact, diplomacy, and political sensitivity.
• Maturity and ability to work and communicate effectively
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Flexibility in work planning based on changing needs

Benefits for interns: 

• Gain valuable work experience: The intern will gain valuable experience in information management at a big organization. 
• Develop new skills and refine others: Under the guidance of iMMAP Inc. senior staff, the incumbent will set learning objectives, receive feedback, and strengthen existing and develop new skill sets for effective planning exercises, and evaluating systems change initiatives. 
• Strengthen future employability: The internship will expose the intern to a professional work environment. This experience at iMMAP Inc. could strengthen his or her future employability.