Monitoring & Evaluation Intern (focus on Qualitative analysis)
Background:
MSH is a nonprofit international health organization with nearly 2,500 people from over 74 nationalities working in over 40 countries. Our mission: Saving lives and improving the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest health impact.
MSH seeks an intern to support the monitoring and evaluation of the Leading and Managing for Results in Pandemics programs under the CDC-funded NPHI Project.
Group/Office: Program Delivery Group
Hours: 8 hours per week
Period of Performance: February 1 – May 31, 2023 (flexible)
Please note:
- Internship candidates must be full-time or part-time students earning academic credit for their internship.
- This is an unpaid internship and candidates are responsible for their own housing, transportation, and other related costs.
Global experience with COVID-19 and other pandemics has demonstrated the foundational need for a whole-of-society response built on broad community and private-sector mobilization and participation. A quick, flexible, and inclusive response demands effective leadership at all levels of society. Decision-makers must take into account profound social and personal disruptions, economic losses, and restrictions on personal freedom; work within constituted authority structures; and communicate effectively to build public trust, often the key determinant of a successful response. They must plan programs and actions inclusively and rationally, execute them efficiently, and coordinate consistently across institutions and sectors, with transparent oversight, governance, and reporting.
CDC seeks to continue developing the leadership and management capacities of health care leaders and the teams with whom they work on pandemic preparedness and response, so that they can successfully take on urgent challenges emerging from the global pandemic and contribute to effective national and local preparation, response, and recovery efforts. Increased leadership and management capacity will render individuals working in pandemic response better equipped to manage the epidemic response more effectively at their levels, enabling better stewardship of scarce resources, more transparent decision-making, evidence-informed prioritization of urgent activities, and collaborative learning and adaptation.
Intended LMRP results:
- Digital learning resources on health sector leadership and management and online learning and knowledge-exchange platforms are developed and/or adapted for relevance to COVID-19 preparedness, response, and recovery efforts
- Participants and their teams have improved access to digital learning resources to strengthen their capacity to lead and manage COVID-19 preparedness, response, and recovery
- Participants and their teams have improved access to opportunities for knowledge exchange to share common challenges and collaborate in developing strategies to improve their leadership and management of COVID-19 preparedness, response, and recovery.
- Participants and their teams engaged in project learning and knowledge exchange demonstrate improved understanding of effective leadership and management practices and their application in public health work related to COVID-19.
Initial Implementation Countries: Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, Peru, and Nigeria.
Responsibilities:
In collaboration with the MSH technical and monitoring and evaluation teams, assist with data coding, evaluation, and analysis for the LMRP programs:
- Work closely with the evaluation team and attend qualitative data analysis training
- Assist in the development of a codebook and coding system
- Upload transcripts and codes onto a qualitative analysis software
- Code qualitative data (interview transcripts) utilizing a qualitative analysis software
- Identify impactful quotes from transcripts and develop matrices to organize quotes by code and by theme
Qualifications:
- Interest in global public health, international development, or other related area.
- Bachelor’s degree minimum in monitoring and evaluation, development management, data science, international development, public health or another related field.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation, specifically in the analysis of survey data and identifying and codifying themes.
- Advanced writing skill that can successfully summarize large amounts of data into key, salient statements.
- Critical thinking ability to zoom in and out to grasp a holistic understanding of data.
- Experience in using qualitative analysis software such as Dedoose and NVivo is preferred.
- Proven ability to work with a team to analyze data and discuss and interpret findings.
What are the student takeaways:
- To apply monitoring and evaluation practices/skills to a real project.
- To learn or sharpen skills on how to use qualitative analysis software
- To enhance practice of interpretation of qualitative findings and major and minor themes
- To contribute to the development of a knowledge product that will be shared with the U.S. CDC and other key stakeholders around the world.
- To better understand the international development and public health landscape.
MSH is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, religion, creed, citizenship, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability unrelated to job requirements. MSH will take affirmative action to ensure that qualified applicants are employed and that employees are treated without regard to their race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran and disability status. In compliance with U.S. Department of Labor Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act, MSH has developed and maintains an affirmative action program and plan.