Internship: Initiative Inc. Looking for a skilled writer!
Internship to Support Global Projects Initiatives Inc. 264 Beacon Street, Boston, MA www.initiativesinc.com
Are you interested in Global Health? Good at research and writing? Able to work 15 hours/week?
If so, Initiatives Inc. is looking for someone like you to support our work.
Our work spans organizational development, human resources for health, quality improvement, community involvement and operations research. Our current projects are in DRC, Tanzania, Zambia, Bangladesh and Uganda. In each, we strive to strengthen management systems to make organizations more sustainable and transparent, advocate for the needs of communities and vulnerable populations, and develop, test and implement new strategies for improving health systems. Initiatives also supports community health workers (CHWs) and CHW programs through CHW Central.org.
We seek a motivated intern with an interest in developing skills in global health programming, capacity assessments, research, training and literature reviews.
“Researching and promoting resources and guidelines for successful implementation of community health projects have provided me with knowledge on best practices for managing human resources for health and health systems strengthening. I will definitely use the knowledge and skills from my time at Initiatives in my global health career.”
–Paola Peynetti, Spring 2016 intern and MPH candidate at Boston University
Our intern will:
- Have strong writing and organizational skills
- Conduct literature reviews to widen knowledge on areas, such as mental health, mHealth in community health, supervision strategies, and capacity building
- Contribute to development of training curricula and job aids
- Have strong social media skills, especially in Twitter/Tweetdeck and Facebook
- Review and revise Organizational Capacity Assessment reports
- Contribute to the growth of the CHW Central website by promoting content among the public health community using online platforms
- Regularly update CHW Central website and social media platforms with news, events, and webinars on community health and global health topics and networks
Initiatives Inc., a small women-owned business founded in 1987, is dedicated to improving the health and services provided to communities in the developing world.
To Apply: Email your CV, cover letter and a writing sample to Jackie McCarthy jmccarthy@initiativesinc.com.
