Intern, Data Analyst
Project Overview and Role:
Funded under the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through a cooperative agreement with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Palladium Development and Consultancy Kenya Ltd (Palladium Kenya) is implementing 5-year funding to support the Kenya Ministry of Health, county governments, and healthcare service delivery partners to implement technological innovations in health information systems.
Position Summary: Intern, Data Analyst
The Intern will work closely with our existing data analysts to provide valuable support in various data-related tasks.
Location:
The position is based in Palladium’s KeHMIS office, Nairobi.
Reporting and Supervision:
The data analyst intern will report to the Data Demand and Information Use Lead.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assisting in the preparation of information products, reports, and presentations.
- Collaborating with team members on specific data projects.
- Learning from and contributing to the professional growth of our existing data analysts.
- Support data analysis during evaluations and studies using data from different sources including the DWH.
- Support data mapping (including accurate mapping of facilities and partners), data quality assessments and feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the documentation of data management practices for the DWH indicators.
- Support the development of dashboards including visualization.
- Support product management team to disseminate data and program improvement information products.
- Work closely with Data Analyst & Information Use team members to develop and disseminate information products.
Required Qualifications:
- University education in computing, statistics, or science would be highly regarded.
- A minimum of 1 years’ experience in the same or similar position
- Programming Languages (R/STATA/Python) – Proficient and working knowledge in one or more of these programming languages (R, Python, or STATA) for data gathering, data cleaning, statistical analysis, and data visualization.
- Creative and Analytical Thinking – Excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to analyze and resolve complex problems.
- Excellent communication and comprehension skills: confident communicating with people of differing levels of seniority, analytical understanding and from a wide variety of backgrounds.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI
- Strong SQL (especially Teradata) can extract data from large databases using SQL to develop data queries.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel – Efficient with spreadsheet tools such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
- Fluent in English both spoken and written.
Company Overview:
About Palladium –
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value.
We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion –
Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice.
We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding –
We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
