PATH recruits 01 IT internship, Market Dynamics
- Title: IT Intern, Market Dynamics
- Location(s) of internship: Dakar, Senegal
- Global Program: Market Dynamics
- Project Name: TIMCI project
- Start Date: Avril 2022
- Duration: Tree (3) months
- Estimated number of hours per week: 40 hours
- Will the intern be receiving a stipend? *: Yes
- Will the intern travel? (Local or international): Yes
Description of internship project:
Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) is a global effort led by PATH to accelerate availability, adoption and scale-up of tools to identify severe illness and decrease mortality in children under five years of age. PATH and its primary partner, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), will implement a four-year project funded by Unitaid. TIMCI has two major goals that both seek to improve detection of severe disease in children under five: 1) to improve healthcare workers’ ability to diagnose severe disease by equipping them with pulse oximeters (POX) and electronic decision support tools; and 2) to accelerate the development and market entry of non-invasive devices that augment the features of a standard POX with one or more additional vital sign measurements. This high profile and potentially high impact project began in July 2019 and will take place in five countries: Kenya, Myanmar, Senegal, Tanzania, and the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
PATH is looking for an IT intern to support TIMCI project in Senegal.
As the TIMCI intervention is just started, the TIMCI team is particularly overloaded by multiple requests from providers specifically related to IT issues. This increases the volume of on-time support provided by the team. Therefore, the intern will reinforce the team by the time providers will be familiar with tools utilization.
Description of the learning objectives and goals of the internship
During this internship, the selected candidate will:
- Learn about the requested IT support on the TIMCI project in Senegal
- Could develop his/her skills in terms of processing on specifics IT request related to the algorithm used in this project
- Be able to increase his/her capabilities in the algorithm development, configuration…
Proposed activities:
- Support IT team on responding to providers requests
- Conduct a daily follow up of database
- Other IT specifics request
Benefit to intern
- Gain new competencies
- Have experience on digitalized environment
- Practice gained skills
Description of skills and experience the intern should have
The intern
- Should have at least a bachelor on Computer science
- Has skills on IT configuration
- Be able to work under pressure
- Has interpersonal communication skills
How will performance be evaluated?
The intern will be evaluated based on:
- Ongoing performance review
- Feedback from colleagues