Greetings and Happy New Year!
Attached please find the Internship Application Packet for 2009 opportunities with the Department of Health and Nutrition at Save the Children. As in the past we have a good mix of program focus and location, and a range of experiences. Please share this application broadly with well-qualified and interested candidates.
Our application deadlines are rolling, however, the sooner we receive the completed application the sooner we can begin to find a possible match. We try to have final decisions made by the end of May and we understand that students often have earlier deadlines. We work very hard to honor these deadlines, but due to the nature of our work, this is not always possible. Throughout the year, we also have updates to this list with new opportunities being added and some not taking place due to circumstances beyond our control. When this occurs, I will send you updates. As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions that arise.
Best regards,
Sharon
Sharon Lake-Post/ Senior Specialist, Health Information and Documentation/Office of Health Save the Children USA 203.221.4059 slakepos@savechildren.org
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To: Internship Applicants
From: Sharon Lake-Post, Senior Specialist, Health Information and Documentation, slakepos@savechildren.org
Re: Internship Application, Department of Health and Nutrition
Date: January 28, 2009
Thank you for your interest in Save the Children! Throughout the year, we receive many inquiries for internships and we seek to match well-qualified students with meaningful action research projects to meet the needs of at least four stakeholders: the student, the project, the student’s institution, and the international health community at large. In other words, we expect that able students, carefully mentored by Save the Children technical staff and the student’s faculty, will advance the state-of-the-art and document findings for various audiences. As such, we work closely with the interns and their academic institution to develop a work plan that clearly details the intern’s scope of work, supervisory activities, monitoring and evaluation plans, and the documentation expected at the end of the internship.
If you would like to learn more about a particular internship, please let me know. If you are interested in applying for an internship with the Department of Health and Nutrition, please complete and submit the following to me electronically:
1. A brief cover letter discussing your applicable skills and personal motivation.
2. Your current résumé.
3. The attached questionnaire, completed.
Your application will be reviewed by home and country office staff. If there is a good match, a dialogue will begin between you, your faculty member, and the appropriate Save the Children staff. At this point, your references may be contacted. Once a decision is made, we will notify you. Please keep in mind that Save the Children staff travel schedules can be heavy, but we will do our best to keep you informed of the status of your application. If you are selected for an internship with us, we will strongly encourage you to visit our home offices either in Westport or in Washington, for a brief orientation prior to the start of the internship. All interns who participate in this program are required to complete a brief evaluation of their experience, and as possible, provide an informal debriefing for home office staff.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you again for your interest in Save the Children and good luck!
54 Wilton Road, Westport, CT 06880, USA, 203/221-4000, www.savethchildren.org
Department of Health and Nutrition Internship Application
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| Contact Information
(name, address, phone and email address) |
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| Back-Up Contact (someone who will always know how to reach you) | |
| Project
(select from the attached list) |
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| Resources Brought (airfare, self-finance, relevant experience, skills, language, etc.) | |
| Dates Available) | |
| Faculty Mentor
(name and contact information) |
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| Support Needed
(for example, in-country housing, translation, transportation) |
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| Objectives (skills, contacts, thesis, manuscript, etc.) | |
| Five-Year Vision
(What would you like to be doing in 5 years?) |
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| References (2)
(at your current institution) |
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| Anything Else? |
2009 Department of Health and Nutrition Internship Opportunities
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Africa | |||
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Keeping Girls in School-ARSH | Ethiopia | June-July 2009
(4-6 weeks) |
Guyer Funding Sought-Filled. The intern will document case studies of girls involved in the program through a range of interviews, focusing on the most significant changes that have occurred in their lives as a result of participating in SC’s programs. The intern must be passionate about improving access to RH services; familiar with ARSH and the basic theories and methods of qualitative research), have excellent writing and documentation skills, and currently pursuing an MPH degree or recently graduated. Limited funding may be available. |
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Documentation of the Nutrition Program | Nampula, Mozambique | Flexible, 2-3 months to be completed before the end of August. | Open. The intern will write technical documentation of best practices, lessons learned and/or technical innovations of nutrition program in Nampula. The intern will also assist the project to document human interest stories. A writing sample is required. A three-month business visa is required as well as a number of immunizations -please consult http://www.cdc.gov/travel/destinationMozambique.aspx for specific information. Safe housing is available to rent. |
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Asia/ME | |||
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Health and Nutrition Intern | Vietnam | At least 8 months possibly starting in February 2009 | Open. The intern will participate in the Health and Nutrition Program activities including assisting the Health Program staff in the documentation of program activities, designing and developing research and evaluation tools, assist the country office staff in editing and branding documents for publishing, and working with program staff to help improve their daily work in English. Travel to field sites with program staff as needed. This is currently an unfunded position; however we are exploring possible Guyer Funding to help cover some costs. A multiple entry visa is needed, but no specific immunizations are required. |
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Latin America/ Caribbean | |||
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Support Health and Nutrition Education in Class in Primary Schools | 1) City of Oruro
2) City of El Alto (can live in La Paz) 3) City of Cochabamba |
May to mid-June OR
Mid-July to end of August 2009 Note: No classes take place between mid-June to mid-July |
Open-Please apply directly to Seung Lee, SHN Advisor, slee@savechildren.org . The intern will become familiar with teachers and schools, and will assist SC facilitators in training and monitoring the activities of “child leaders”, assist teachers in distribution of micronutrients, observe classroom activities, report observations to SC facilitators, and write a report with suggested edits to the second edition of the guidebooks. The intern must be fluent in Spanish, have experience in a classroom setting, have training in health and nutrition, and (for Oruro and El Alto) have endurance of rough living conditions including high altitude, very cold weather and no heating). For American citizens a visa is required and can be purchased (US$100) at the airport upon arrival; yellow fever vaccine is required and malaria prophylaxis is necessary if the volunteer wants to travel within tropical areas of Bolivia. Furnished and safe rooms are available to rent. In Oruro, SC can provide a $25/week stipend. |
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Writing Articles for Peer Reviewed Journals | La Paz, Bolivia | May-August
Minimum of 6 weeks |
Open. SC has had technical and financial participation in five community research projects addressing neonatal, school health and nutrition. These research projects have been documented with final reports but not published. The intern will focus on two studies and will write an English draft based on final reports available in Spanish, in some cases, databases are also available, and select and submit the papers to an appropriate journal. The intern must have experience in research, excellent writing skills, experience in article writing, fluent Spanish reading skills, and SPSS computing skills. For American citizens a visa is required and can be purchased (US$100) at the airport upon arrival; yellow fever vaccine is required and malaria prophylaxis is necessary if the volunteer wants to travel within tropical areas of Bolivia. Furnished and safe rooms are available to rent. |
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Support Surveys on Child Rights and Women’s Empowerment | Calamarca, Bolivia | Spring and fall 2009 | Open. This is an internship with Save the Children/Spain. Within the context of a program on early child development and women’s empowerment in the Bolivian Andes, Save the Children is completing two small quantitative studies (Baseline and Evaluation). The intern will draft questionnaires, supervise pretesting questions, train surveyors, plan logistics, supervise data collection, design database, supervise data entry and analyze data and write report in Spanish. The intern must be fluent in Spanish, have experience in the classroom and training in health and nutrition. Living conditions are rough (high altitude, very cold weather and no heating). For American citizens a visa is required and can be purchased (US$100) at the airport upon arrival; yellow fever vaccine is required and malaria prophylaxis is necessary if the volunteer wants to travel within tropical areas of Bolivia. Furnished and safe rooms are available to rent (no shower). |
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Washington/Westport | |||
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Education and Health Research Assistant Internship-SHN | Washington, DC | As soon as possible | Open. Please send cover letter and resume to Awilley@savechildren.org. The intern will assist the School Health and Nutrition team on various tasks related to ongoing SHN programs throughout the world. The tasks will focus on research and documentation. The intern must have strong research and writing skills, some technical knowledge of child health and nutrition preferred, field experience in developing countries preferred, and the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision. |
