Capacity Building Intern (Maiduguri)

Organization

iMMAP Inc. is an international nongovernmental organisation that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations. Through information management, we help our partners target assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Our core philosophy is that better data leads to better decisions and that better decisions lead to better outcomes. iMMAP Inc.’s critical support to information value chains helps to solve operational and strategic challenges of our partners in both emergency and development contexts by enabling evidence-based decision-making for better outcomes.

Background

Country specific

The humanitarian crisis in Northeast Nigeria was in the first instance caused and amplified by the non-international armed conflict now in its 15th year. There are few if any, signs that the conflict affecting millions of people will come to an end in the short term. Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure raise profound protection concerns and continue to impede the access of vulnerable people to assistance. The conflict has a massive negative impact on the people and infrastructure needed to deliver vital and basic services.

More than two million internally displaced people have been displaced because of widespread insecurity.

With support from the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, iMMAP Inc. continues to support the humanitarian sectors responding to the crisis in northeast Nigeria, by seconding and deploying standby personnel to the Sector Lead Agencies since November 2016. The support includes building the information management capacity of the partners through training. However, starting from January 2020, the capacity-building activities delivered by iMMAP Inc. were scaled up to include the internship program under which at least 16 interns are turned out every project cycle and has so far produced 124 graduated interns. 

Duties and Responsibilities

The iMMAP Inc. office in Maiduguri is conducting a series of innovative, multi-sectorial, and collective analyses and information management support to different initiatives and working groups and would like to engage interns to support agencies and sectors in achieving the analyses and build a network of information management experts. 

The regular activities that the interns would conduct during the internship period will not only increase their capacities and skills, but also establish a foundation to develop tools in data mining, data processing (data cleaning, consolidation, reconciliation, validation, classification), visualizations, mapping applications, and assessment to engage in data science and data analytics, and potentially to aid sectors and agencies in need of IM support. 

Major duties and responsibilities:

Output 1:

Working with the Capacity Development team, and the Humanitarian Information and Analysis Unit (HIAU) the Interns will:

Activities:

Output 2:

Working with the sector’s/agency’s coordinators and in coordination with Capacity Building/HIAU teams, the Interns will:

Activities:

Requirements

To be considered for an internship at iMMAP Inc., applicants must meet the following requirements:

Additional assignment-specific qualifications:

Competencies

Female candidates are STRONGLY encouraged to apply!

Benefits

Benefits for interns:  

Working conditions:

Office-based internship. The schedule is to be agreed upon with the supervisors.

Guiding Principles

Personnel is expected to conduct itself in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and iMMAP Inc.’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all Countries.

iMMAP Inc. has zero-tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, child abuse and exploitation. Any violations of these principles and policies will be treated as serious misconduct.

iMMAP Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background.